Georgia advances to No. 5 in BCS standings
In a weekend that saw them move closer to the SEC Championship game, the Georgia Bulldogs also inched up in the Bowl Championship Series standings.
Georgia climbed one spot to No. 5 in the latest BCS standings, released Sunday night, becoming the highest ranked one-loss team and the second highest ranked SEC team.
Alabama remained No. 1 after Saturday’s last-minute 21-17 victory at LSU. Kansas State stayed No. 2, while last week’s Nos. 3 and 4 teams swapped positions – Oregon climbing to No. 3 and Notre Dame dipping to No. 4.
Georgia replaced LSU at No. 5 after staying on track for the SEC Championship game by beating Ole Miss.
Georgia will represent the SEC East in the Dec. 1 game at the Georgia Dome if it wins at Auburn on Saturday. Alabama will represent the Western Division in the Dome if it wins either of its two remaining league games: Saturday vs. Texas A&M and Nov. 24 vs. Auburn.
The top two teams in the final BCS standings will play for the national title Jan. 7 in Miami. Georgia’s climb in the standings from a starting point of No. 11 on Oct. 14 has some fans wondering about a possible — albeit unlikely — route to the top two for the Bulldogs.
While there are no assurances in a system based on polls and computers, this is what probably would have to happen: The Bulldogs would have to win their three remaining regular-season games, would have to beat an undefeated Alabama in the SEC title game and would need two of the other three undefeated teams ranked ahead of them to lose a game.
The BCS standings include three components that count one-third each: the USA Today poll of current coaches; the Harris Interactive poll of former coaches, administrators and players and current and former media members; and an average of six computer polls.
Georgia is ranked No. 5 in the USA Today and Harris polls and No. 6 in the computers. In the Associated Press poll — not part of the BCS formula — Georgia is tied for fifth with unbeaten Ohio State, which is ineligible for the BCS because of NCAA sanctions.
The Bulldogs would have climbed one more notch in the BCS standings if Pittsburgh had pulled off an upset of Notre Dame on Saturday. But the Irish rallied from a 20-6 fourth-quarter deficit and won 29-26 in triple overtime to stay in the BCS top four. Five SEC teams are in the top eight.
Georgia (8-1, 6-1 SEC) vows to keep its focus on Saturday’s game at Auburn (2-7, 0-6).
“We’ve got to win that game,” UGA center David Andrews said, “or all those other victories don’t matter.”
While a win would put Georgia in the SEC title game for the second consecutive year, a loss would send Florida to the Dome.
“I’m very excited about the opportunity we have,” UGA receiver Tavarres King said. “To have an opportunity to go back to the Dome and win an SEC championship, it’s right there at the tips of our fingers. We’ve just got to go get it.”
– Tim Tucker
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DawgFaithful
November 5th, 2012
4:37 pm
“dwagnole………It would be nice to see UGa actually put a team away early like REAL top 10 teams do to bad teams so you can rest starters and play back ups.
Murray has great stats cause they never take him out and he has to keep playing against crappy teams so UGa will not lose.
WHY hasn’t Lemay played more this year?
Why isn’t he getting LIVE game experience……Looks like another Joe Cox situation on the horizon.
LeMay is losing a year of playing time but he isn’t getting any experience.
That is bad coaching and playing down to the bad teams early in games.
Top 5 teams don’t do that for the entire season.”
Dude, are you retarded? Do you even watch UGA play? What crappy teams have we played where we “left Aaron Murray in” so we could win? The kid is approaching Danny Woerfuel’s NCAA TD record. He’s already broken Georgia’s. We’re playing the same teams UGA always plays. As a matter of fact were playing the same teams the Woerfeull played against at Florida. It’s the SEC East. Hello. We playthe same teams every year. How was our schedule weak? We played South Carolina who was ranked 6 at the time and we beat the #2 Florida team that beat Sout Carolina, Texas A&M and LSU who was leading the #1 team in the country with under 2 minutes to play.
You havn’t seen Christian Lemay because he sucks. Hutson Mason is our backup QB anyway dbag. Don’t worry about the future at QB. Brice Ramsey is committed to UGA and will be early enrolling. He will sit behind Murray and Mason next year and redshirt. He will probably beat Hutson Mason out for the job the following year. You should check him out on rivals or 247. You do know what rivals is right?
It doesn’t matter who plays QB for UGA late in games when we have a lead because Bobo and Richt go ultra conservative and run the ball. So to say that A Murray got most of his 80 TD passes in mop up duty is ridiculous. You’re obviously a clown who doesn’t know shit about football.
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 5th, 2012
4:46 pm
DawgFaithful
No Mason is not the back up….this year it is LeMay…..Mason will play and lose his Redshirt ONLY IF Murray were hurt.
LeMay is the back up in games when Murray should come out because the Dwags are winning. Murray has made a career off putting up a lot of Stats against bad teams.
Sorry but there is no way in my mind that Murray is better than Greene or Zier.
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 5th, 2012
4:51 pm
Try Tennessee and Kentucky and Mizzou and Ole Miss.
DeezNutz
November 5th, 2012
5:09 pm
Put… – You can say what you want about UGA this year and clearly you will, but the fact is what you did last week doesn’t put points on the board this week. When you have 18-22 year-olds on the field you never know what’s gonna happen. As much as you wish all your talk had any effect on anything, it doesn’t. All it takes is one game to change everything and UGA has the talent to beat Bama. You’re right, UGA does have a tendancy to go flat and play down to the competition, but if we’re firing on all cylinders then we can beat anybody. You just never till they play the game. It’s all a moot point if we lay an egg against Auburn or Bama chokes against A&M. I’m out.
DawgFaithful
November 5th, 2012
5:23 pm
What games should Murray have come out dumbass?
By the way, the definition of the QB that comes in when the starter is hurt is called the backup jackass. If Lemay were the true backup then ot would be him and not Mason. I follow the program closely. I know what the QB situation is.
DawgFaithful
November 5th, 2012
5:26 pm
What teams were Greene and Zier playing against. Didn’t we play the same teams back then? I think you’re a bit confused.
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 5th, 2012
5:44 pm
DawgFaithful……Buffalo, Mizzou, Tennessee, Kentucky & Ole Miss…………Murray should not have been playing in the 4th quarter or any of these games.
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 5th, 2012
5:52 pm
DawgFaithful
November 5th, 2012
5:23 pm
What games should Murray have come out dumbass?
By the way, the definition of the QB that comes in when the starter is hurt is called the backup jackass. If Lemay were the true backup then ot would be him and not Mason. I follow the program closely. I know what the QB situation is.
==================================You don’t know the situation…………….It was stated at the beginning of the year and it has not changed YOU fool………….HUSTON is red shirting and will not play this year…….LeMay is the Back-up…………the ONLY way MASON plays is IF MURRAY is injured and cannot play. You really need to learn what the teams plan for this season is before you call somebody out.
Put in Timeout by Ken Suguira,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned once by Bill King & Chip Towers but only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
November 5th, 2012
5:56 pm
DawgFaithful
November 5th, 2012
5:23 pm
Even If LeMay has moved down the depth chart then the other BACK-UP should have had a chance to get game experience…..This is how the COX situation happened.
DawgGrad85
November 5th, 2012
6:05 pm
Yeah – I agree Mountain Dawg – All pipe dreams to this point. We struggle with cheese puffs but at least have played the last 2 tough. If we had better field generals, I’d be getting jacked up but we have Joe Slick as the head ball coach and he’s about as motivating a coach as watching paint dry. If Spurrier wants to pay the players, maybe we can get Shawn some greenbacks for getting his teammates jacked up every week. Maybe he could insult a different family member every week.
DawgNole
November 5th, 2012
6:28 pm
DawgFaithful
November 5th, 2012
4:37 pm
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That post you attributed to me is NOT mine; it belongs to “Put in Timeout by . . . .” I simply reposted it since I was commenting on it. So you may wish to redirect your venom toward him.
And before you call people “dumbass” and “retarded,” you also may want to brush up on your reading comprehension skills.
Jborodawg
November 5th, 2012
7:03 pm
Just get ready for and beat Awbun. GATA against Awbun. Play the next game. Anything else is speculation.
M A Double T
November 6th, 2012
7:32 am
All the UGA fans should wear black and they could call it a Blackout for the SEC Championship Game… Wouldn’t that be so cool???? RMFT!!!!
Bulldawgman49
November 6th, 2012
8:39 am
I think Georgia has grown since the SC game meaning they looked like a top 10 team on saturday .
They will take care of business against Auburn , Georgia Southern , And the Bees.
SEC Championship game I think Alabama will be playing the best balanced team they faced all year . GO DAWGS!!!!
Columbia SC Dawg
November 6th, 2012
10:03 am
Sleepwalking over here in Columbia cost the Dogs a shot at the NC. Sux.
G-Dawg
November 6th, 2012
10:45 am
Bama’s schedule..
Michigan (6-3) Wins against, AF, Umass, Purdue, Illinois, Mich St, Minn (Overrated)
W. Kentucky (6-3) Sun Belt Conference
Arkansas (4-5)
Fla Atlantic (2-7)
Ole Miss (5-4)
Mizzou (4-5)
Tenn (4-5)
Miss St (7-2)
LSU (7-2)
Then finish out with Aggies, W. Carolina, and Auburn
So what makes their schedule more difficult compared to Dawgs?
B'dawg
November 6th, 2012
11:48 am
Exactly my point. Everyone is so preoccupied with Georgias cupcake schedule they completely forget about Alabamas weak schedule. Just goes to show you how much the sports media, ESPN especially, has invested in Bama.
Tech Sucks
November 6th, 2012
12:05 pm
P laval
all that so called brain power the bees have they cant figure out how to play sports. WOW. You must be proud to call yourself a gnat.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
November 6th, 2012
12:43 pm
@ RJ / Gotta Love It:
RJ don;t be too hard on GLI. He is a lifetime member of the Single Digit IQ Club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
November 6th, 2012
12:53 pm
@ Bull Dawg:
Let’s not get too mouthy towards the Gators. If we should happen to lose to Auburn, Florida will be the SECe Champs so lets be a little more restrined UNTIL we beat The War Chickens.
As you probably know, most any team in the SEC can upset a much better team on a given day!!!!!
Not expecting a win by Auburn but it could happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
November 6th, 2012
1:05 pm
@ P Laval:
You sound as if you know all about the WELFARE LINE!!!!!!!
Is that how you know about the Welfare Line????????????? Meeting all those former college player wannabees in the welfare line?????? Based on your theory, you evidently was one of the THUGS CMR booted from the UGA squad!!!!!!!!!!!
Best of luck in the future and your lot should improve in the future IF ROMNEY wins today’s election so get out and vote for Romney if you want a job!!!!!!!!!
Real Dawg Fan
November 6th, 2012
4:10 pm
@ PLaval
AS a recent high school graduate who applied at both schools, it has become way harder to qualify for UGA in the last 10 years than Tech. I was accepted at TECH before any other school actually and had to work my way into UGA, so your “smarter argument: is about a decade or more old.
7576DAWG
November 6th, 2012
4:27 pm
Real Dawg Fan
Same thing with my son. He was accepted right off at Tech but he had to wait until the second round to get a UGA offer which he took and had a great college experience for the four years he was in Athens but he did say that Georgia was a lot harder than he expected. Tech has nothing on Georgia when comparing the more challenging majors.
Andy
November 7th, 2012
7:53 am
UGA record during that time period is nothing to write home about
Showmeyurtd's
November 7th, 2012
11:26 pm
Bulldawgman49
November 6th, 2012
8:39 am
I think Georgia has grown since the SC game meaning they looked like a top 10 team on saturday .
They will take care of business against Auburn , Georgia Southern , And the Bees.
SEC Championship game I think Alabama will be playing the best balanced team they faced all year . GO DAWGS!!!!
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I agree and if CMR will turn the king loose we’ll smoke Alabama. seriously, we have WR’s out…..surprise bam a with a passing game out of the gate and we’ll take the sec! Yeah baby….
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Sautee Dawg
November 8th, 2012
4:02 am
P. Laval, you need to go back to Tech which I doubt you could find with a map and a GPS, and see just how many GT players this season are taking courses in Phys Ed, Business Managment. Courses of this nature. And don ‘t say they don’t exist because they do. Harder to get into UGA now than GT. out of 100+ players and scout team players at Gt, maybe 5% are there for engineering. The welfare remark shows your ignorance that even a true Gt fan wouldn’t have commented. Some of my closest friends and co- workers are tech fans and I would bet your not one. Show your ignorance somewhere else, Dawg fans and Tech fans alike don’t need your ignorance or your waste of our time!
deborah pirkle
November 8th, 2012
1:02 pm
im sick of everyone downing my ga dawgs football team,first of all the ga dawgs are the best sec team n the east and in the west and not only that the ga dawgs are the best team in college this season,those 4 teams ,alabama, kansas state, oregon,and notra dame,will all have one loss before the end of this season,ga will only have the one loss by the end of the season,gas defense will never play soft again, jarvis and the ga dawgs defense will super dominate every game and shut every offense down ,auburn, ga southern ,gatech wont even be able to score against the ga dawgs,not only that, gas offence will dominate their defense also aaron murray will be specitular, and so will gas offense,not onlly will the ga dawgs show up thru the whole game they wil super dominate them.all of you people have little faith,i predicted atthe beginning of the season at the ga dawgs will play in maimi this season and not only that will win the national title this year,and they definatly will,everybody will pick alabama to win the sec championship game they will be wrong ga will upset alabama in that game gas waited 5 y ears to play them, and show them that the ga dawgs are the best this season,all these football teams and fans that talk trash about ga will be wrong ga doesnt talk back, ga just answers them on the field by domnationg and winning the game that how the ga dawgs answer back.go dawgs!
deborah pirkle
November 8th, 2012
1:27 pm
all you non believers in he ga dawgs,you better believe, ga will deffenely beat auburn sat, theyll beat ga southen ,and ga tech,they will upset alabama in the sec championship game,the ga dawg deffense wil never play any game soft again,jarvis jones will bea total wrecking crew and so will the ga dawg deffense,aaron murray will be spectacular and so will the go dawgs offense putting up massive amountsoftouchdowns,the ga dawgs will definatly win the national title this season go dawgs!