Oddsmakers have UGA as underdog vs. Bama, favorite vs. Notre Dame
Georgia would be an underdog against Alabama in the SEC Championship game but, if the Bulldogs pull an upset there, would be favored over Notre Dame in the national title game.
That’s the early word from oddsmakers.
Todd Fuhrman, former sports oddsmaker at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, said Monday that he projects Georgia as a 7-point underdog to Alabama in the Dec. 1 SEC title game. But if the Bulldogs beat Alabama in the Georgia Dome, they would be a 4-point favorite over Notre Dame in the Jan. 7 BCS title game in Miami, said Fuhrman, now senior market analyst for betting information services provider Don Best Sports.
RJ Bell, of sports betting news website pregame.com, sees it similarly. He projects Georgia as a 7-point underdog to Alabama but views the Bulldogs as 1-point favorite if they play Notre Dame.
All of this could be altered by what happens Saturday, of course.
Notre Dame, No. 1 in this week’s BCS standings, closes its regular season at USC and needs a win to secure a spot in the national title game. Alabama, BCS No. 2, plays Auburn and needs a win to clinch a berth against Georgia in the SEC title game. And BCS No. 3 Georgia plays Georgia Tech, which could knock its arch-rival out of the national-championship picture with an upset victory.
The top two teams in the final BCS standings, to be released Dec. 2, will reach the national-title game. Although there are no guarantees in a system driven by polls and computers, BCS analysts agree that if Alabama and Georgia win this week, then the winner of the SEC Championship game would rank in the top two.
If Alabama faces Notre Dame in the BCS title game, Fuhrman projects the Crimson Tide as an 11-point favorite over the Fighting Irish. Bell figures Alabama as a 10-point favorite over Notre Dame.
– Tim Tucker, AJC
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7576DAWG
November 20th, 2012
1:24 pm
sorry, on the wrong blog.
Joey
November 20th, 2012
1:25 pm
someone who knows is a doofus. UF beat 2 teams you have ranked ahead of them. And we beat UF.
Your jealously is obvious.
go uga go dawgs
November 20th, 2012
1:26 pm
Take care of GT and then get ready for a war with Bama. Then if Notre Dame is favored against the Dawgs,,,put all your money on UGA on a money line getting money odds and we will all be rich!!!!!!!!! Notre Dame will get beat bad by Bama or UGA. Way to go Dawgs, after S.C. you did not pack it up for the year. Once again another great year for our Dawgs
someone who knows
November 20th, 2012
1:27 pm
TODAY Joey…as of right now…the past is the past…TODAY…
NCDawg
November 20th, 2012
1:28 pm
Someone who knows… it sure isn’t you that knows. UGA beats SC in a rematch…guaranteed…with or without Lattimore. They would beat A&M too because our offense can put points on the board.
Go back to the person who told you and slap him.
someone who knows
November 20th, 2012
1:29 pm
TODAY Joey, would Florida beat TAMU again?…Would Florida beat LSU?…
Discount DoubleDawg
November 20th, 2012
1:31 pm
Bob- you don’t really believe either of those statements you just made… do you?
Richt obviously does have a chance to win it all, that is common knowledge… and him leaving would likely not be a good thing for UGA. The chances of someone coming in and elevating the program is possible but unlikely. When a coach averages 10 wins in the SEC it is tougher to improve on that, although not impossible… Mush easier to step in and improve with a .500 team in the ACC…
someone who knows
November 20th, 2012
1:33 pm
Lattimore isn’t as responsible for the 35-7 asskicking as SC’s defense and Georgia’s quitting skills….
yellow hammer
November 20th, 2012
1:36 pm
ALABAMA only has 9 seniors on their team.It has been a job in its self for those seniors to keep all the underclassmen focused with the press constantly telling them how good they are.there will be no problem with them staying focused after the aTm game. And how good will BAMA’S team be next year
Joey
November 20th, 2012
1:36 pm
Who cares about TODAY – that’s purely speculation.
And UF beat A&M, LSU, and SC this season – and we beat UF.
And we will find out Saturday week who is the best team in the SEC.
THAT DAY.
someone who knows
November 20th, 2012
1:41 pm
And those quitter skills will be on full display once Bama goes up by 30 in the dome…can’t wait to see all you pie-faced, bib overall wearing losers crying into your spit cup as you crawl out of the dome…..have fun at your usual good-but-not-good-enough-bowl NY day in Florida…
Defense wins Titles
November 20th, 2012
1:44 pm
No mo bama. No mo Obama
AltamahaDawg
November 20th, 2012
1:53 pm
I think you guys are making some incorrect assumptions.
You think that winning a NC would:
1. Leave his with nothing left to accomplish. and
2. allow him to go be a minister.
In reality, striving for a NC is simply one of the goals he has for his players, and I doubt he sees that as the end all for him, one year. Other players will surely enroll next year.
And the big thing I believe you are missing is that it seems obvious that coaching college football IS already his ministry?
NCDawg
November 20th, 2012
1:56 pm
Someone who knows… obviously your puppet master is yanking your strings again. Well when Bama loses in The Dome… you can chronicle all the suicides because that is all they have to live for in Bammy.
AltamahaDawg
November 20th, 2012
1:58 pm
Because you think the UGA fans in the Atlanta based Dome, will look and act more redneck, than those coming over from Alabama? that’s your opinion?
Joey
November 20th, 2012
2:04 pm
And we only wear bib overalls when we’re slopping the hogs, feeding chickens and such.
Khakis and oxford shirt to UGA games . . .
Frankly
November 20th, 2012
2:09 pm
Wreck Tech!!!
Defense wins Titles
November 20th, 2012
2:10 pm
Georgia wins National Championship and then secedes from the union.
NCDawg
November 20th, 2012
2:12 pm
Someone who knows… nothing. That is what I am gathering from these posts. I don’t think you’re a Bama fan so you’re probably a nerd. How can I tell?… it is the reference to spit cups. Those are sacred in Bama. No Bammer would ever sneer at a spit cup.
Justin
November 20th, 2012
2:14 pm
Man, I never thought of that… The SEC Championship is gonna generate a tsunami of tabacci juice – on the floors, walkways, urinals, spit cups everywhere… The cleanin’ crew is gonna need hazmat suits to clean that mess up
Jville Dawg
November 20th, 2012
2:15 pm
UGA and Bama have played 4 common opponents to date, 5 once Bama v Aub is in the books.
Here are the results:
FL Atl
Bama Score: 40-7
UGA Score 56-20
Ole Miss
Bama 33-14
UGA 37-10
Missouri
Bama 42-10
UGA 41-20
Tenn
Bama 44-13
UGA 51-44
Aub
Bama TBD
UGA 38-0
The only one with any real discrepancy is Tenn – which btw was the first game we had Alec Olgetree and Bacarri Rambo back for and the defensive timing was off, and players that filled in for them went back to their natural position. Not an excuse as much as a fact of the matter.
Another interesting item
Last week UGA beat Ga So. (8-2 #1 team in the Southern Conf.) 45-14
While Bama beat W.Carolina (1-9 last place #9 in the Southern Conf) 49-0
Ga So beat W.Carolna 45-13 btw.
The last 4 games UGA has outscored it’s opponents 137-33, Bama has outscored it’s last 4 132-53.
My point is, UGA and Bama aren’t as far apart as people try to make them out to be. Especially since the Kentucky game.
WDE
November 20th, 2012
2:31 pm
Man all the this, this team beat that team and that means that they…………..its just wonderful that we have to play the games and that blogsmanship doesn’t win games..bring on Bug U lets see what happens!! It is great to be a Georgia Bull Dog !
NCDawg
November 20th, 2012
2:34 pm
Man you think conference realignment is whacky now… if Georgia were to secede and/or several other states what kind of realignment would that spawn!
Mobile Dawg
November 20th, 2012
2:34 pm
You can’t compare apples and oranges, meaning what one team does against another has little bearing on how two common opponents match up. Anyone that really thinks that Alabama will show up anything but prepared need only look back at the National Championship they won against LSU last year. You don’t mess with a wounded animal and come away unscathed very often.
DawgNole
November 20th, 2012
2:36 pm
Chip Towers
November 20th, 2012
9:35 am
Tomas Broun has been blacklisted for posting under multiple names and posting false and inflammatory comments. He was also posting as “Voice of Reason” and several other handles.
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Is this the “Thomas Brown” (aka “BuLLdawg” et al) who posts endless condescending, contradictory, and inflammatory trash under multiple handles? If so, thanks to you, Chip, for having the integrity to remove his posting privileges. He’s been banned–and rightfully so–from about every AJC sports blog except Schultz’s.
Joey
November 20th, 2012
2:49 pm
Jville Dawg, I looked at that myself, but unfortunately all that means nothing. You only have to look at the UF, SC, and UGA games with each other to see that the common opponent thing tells us little.
Individual matchups will be the difference, OCs vs DCs, HC vs HCs, but especially the players. Look at how our Jones and SC’s Clowney can impact a game if their blocker can’t handle them. Almost win a game single-handedly.
Or wide-out X vs corner-back Y.
Matchups will tell the tale.
NCDawg
November 20th, 2012
2:49 pm
The Tide will show up prepared…I just wonder which team they’ll be prepared for. They’d better watch only the UF film from this year. Maybe the Auburn game. If they look at SC and prepare for that team they are in for a shock.
I don’t care if they are prepared or not… if the Dawgs come out fired up it will be war. Just like the UF game. A slobberknocker for the ages. Personally I think Florida’s defense is better than Bama’s. They play the pass better.
heeldawg
November 20th, 2012
2:52 pm
@BamaJoe: I feel sorry for you–because you have to live in Alabama.
We all understand why you Alabama folks fixate on all of those fictitious national title tallies (i.e. the Greengrocer Poll National Champion, the Playboy Centerfold National Champion, et al). Seriously, when you live in a state where the most cosmopolitan city is Birmingham, a state where running water is a relatively new innovation, where the Dreamland Barbeque is considered haute cuisine and where the closest thing to a professional sports team is the Auburn Football Team (at least the payroll is lower now that Cam is gone), what else is there to talk about?
So, have at it. Beat up on your little brother on the Plains this weekend, then hose off the pickup, grab your houndstooth hat and overalls, and head up to the Big City next weekend to see the Tide play the Dawgs. But you’d better strap your hats on. The Dawgs are not afraid of you–not one bit.
Joey
November 20th, 2012
2:53 pm
DawgNole – not the same guy – Thomas Brown is a UGA fan – have you read him lately? The UF game transformed him.
That other, Broun guy was no UGA fan.
DawgNole
November 20th, 2012
3:08 pm
Joey
November 20th, 2012
2:53 pm
DawgNole – not the same guy – Thomas Brown is a UGA fan – have you read him lately? The UF game transformed him.
That other, Broun guy was no UGA fan.
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Thanks for the info, Joey
“Put in Timeout . . . ” posted Chip’s comment on Shultz’s blog–but changed “Tomas Broun” to “Thomas Brown,” so I had my hopes up. What “Put in Timeout . . .” did in changing Chip’s post is a bannable offense to me, but Schultz is more liberal with his blog policies.
As for the “real” Thomas Brown, he remains a liar and an arrogant, condescending jerk–transformation or not. He predicted “four or five losses in 2012″ for the gators virtually all season long–despite my opinions to the contrary. Now, since they’ve lost to the Dawgs, he acts like he’s been impressed with them all along. He’s a weasel who copies and pastes posts out of context to support his lies. He should be banned from all blogs–and I remain hopeful that eventually he will be.
Jamie
November 20th, 2012
3:10 pm
UGA is a good team. Bama is a good team. UGA got smoked by USC. Carolina is a quality opponent, but it was beat by a large margin. Bama got smoked by A&M, but had a chance to win it at the end. (IE) did not quit when down by a large margin. Bama could have lost to LSU, but didn’t. You have to be competitive in big games to have a chance to win them. BAMA was 1-1 in those games. When is the last time UGA won a big game? Isn’t that why Richt was on the hot seat? Don’t give me the FLA game either.Florida is good but you should have beaten them. Same could be said for Bama against A&M. I hate to say it but FSU will expose Florida this weekend. In the end A&M and LSU will be ranked higher than Florida or South Carolina. Who would you rather play those 2 West teams or the 2 East teams? I rest my case. The WEST is still King till someone else proves it otherwise. Close game in the Dome: Bama 27-UGA 21.
AltamahaDawg
November 20th, 2012
3:32 pm
I guarantee you that nobody on the Bama staff is concerned about the SC/Ga game. The perception from that game far outweighed the reality.
WDE
November 20th, 2012
3:34 pm
Jamie not a bad post Bama is the Champ until someone takes the crown, I hope its UGA. It will be a Dog fight for certain and for sure….
Jamie
November 20th, 2012
3:37 pm
This is getting good. Recent history tells us what we already know and Vegas knows. This will be a great game but Bama will pull it out. By the way, which is the only team of the SEC’s big 6 that has not won a BSC nat’l title? Or even a Bowl Coalition nat’l title. Its all about the Big Games: SEC title games, BSC nat’t title games. All UGA has to do is win one and this talk goes away….
Joey
November 20th, 2012
3:42 pm
Jamie, checking the past games to predict the future ones is a perilous path, especially when when the teams haven’t met for 4 years.
If I was a non-fan, betting man, and the line is as Chip thinks it will be, with Bama a 7 point favorite, I would take Bama. You just get what you get with Bama, every week. I just think they will be more prepared, and are pretty even top to bottom in talent, as well as (obviously), deeper.
But, UGA’s D is playing with a lot of confidence, and if Murray, who had a really good 2nd half vs UF, when the game was on the line, plays like he has since then, Bama could be in big trouble.
I believe it is true to say that right now, UGA can beat you with defense, or can get in a shootout and outscore any opponent.
AltamahaDawg
November 20th, 2012
3:44 pm
Jamie, Richt was on the hot seat because he went 6-7. He wasn’t on the hot seat before, or after. Not with the folks that matter.
“big game” complaints were/are simply that.
AltamahaDawg
November 20th, 2012
3:50 pm
A non-fan betting man should take Bama. They are the better football team.
WDE
November 20th, 2012
3:53 pm
Jamie agreed one thing different UGA is not scared of Bama and if they don’t bring the A game and Murray can stay upright we can light them up thru the air…but thats a big if they are better on both lines .
AltamahaDawg
November 20th, 2012
4:02 pm
We may very well have an opportunity to put the oft heard “I would be pleased with a good showing” to the test. I believe we all know however, that if we do not upset Alabama, and pull off the previously unthinkable trip to the NC game (and probably would have to win it as well) that nobody is going to give this team/coaches/players the credit they deserve for getting to this point.
Jamie
November 20th, 2012
4:05 pm
So if Richt was not on the hot seat before going 6-7 are you saying losing to FLA every year was acceptable? Granted, I am just a hick from Bama but when you dont beat your rival, you dont keep your job very long where I am from. Ask a few of our ex-coaches. They were nice guys too. Just a thought.
All great comments guys. I have to go back to work now. See you in the Dome in 2 weeks.
WDE
November 20th, 2012
4:05 pm
AltamahaDawg agreed but the real trolls won’t even if we do win it all.
AltamahaDawg
November 20th, 2012
4:10 pm
Nope , nobody said losing to Fl was “acceptable”. Didn’t say anything remotely close to that.
And don’t give us that BS, that Alabama fired a coach for losing to One specific rival too many times and for no other reasons, irrespective of any other circumstances.
Joey
November 20th, 2012
4:11 pm
I have low expectations AD, but am excited by what could happen. If we give Bama a good, close game, win or lose, I won’t be on anybody’s case – that is, unless we lose the Capital One Bowl game again, to an underdog.
It is true, Bama IS the better TEAM.
But, I think UGA’s starting 22 is at least as talented as Bama’s, in a few positions, better.
What do you think?
DawgNole
November 20th, 2012
4:12 pm
Jamie
November 20th, 2012
3:10 pm
UGA is a good team. Bama is a good team. UGA got smoked by USC. Carolina is a quality opponent, but it was beat by a large margin. Bama got smoked by A&M, but had a chance to win it at the end. (IE) did not quit when down by a large margin. Bama could have lost to LSU, but didn’t. You have to be competitive in big games to have a chance to win them. BAMA was 1-1 in those games. When is the last time UGA won a big game? Isn’t that why Richt was on the hot seat? Don’t give me the FLA game either.Florida is good but you should have beaten them. Same could be said for Bama against A&M. I hate to say it but FSU will expose Florida this weekend. In the end A&M and LSU will be ranked higher than Florida or South Carolina. Who would you rather play those 2 West teams or the 2 East teams? I rest my case. The WEST is still King till someone else proves it otherwise. Close game in the Dome: Bama 27-UGA 21.
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For you to dismiss this year’s UGA-fla game as not a “big” one when fla was ranked No. 2 at the time–with Ws over SC and LSU–is laughable. You’d better awaken your case instead of resting it.
In any event, I do hope you’re right about FSU exposing the gators.
DawgNole
November 20th, 2012
4:16 pm
Jamie
November 20th, 2012
4:05 pm
So if Richt was not on the hot seat before going 6-7 are you saying losing to FLA every year was acceptable? Granted, I am just a hick from Bama but when you dont beat your rival, you dont keep your job very long where I am from. Ask a few of our ex-coaches. They were nice guys too. Just a thought.
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Not sure where you’re getting your info, but Richt hasn’t lost to fla every year. Just a thought.
Jamie
November 20th, 2012
4:17 pm
Your right on the “Cocktail Party” and FL being #2 at the time. I was wrong. They had also beaten A&M which looks great now. It will suck to beat those 3 teams and then end up losing to your 2 big rivals. It could happen with FSU in Tallahassee.
Jamie
November 20th, 2012
4:22 pm
Sorry 4-8. 1 in a row. Some teams just have each others number.
DawgNole
November 20th, 2012
4:26 pm
Jamie
November 20th, 2012
4:22 pm
Sorry 4-8. 1 in a row. Some teams just have each others number.
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Wrong again. It’s two in a row. Like I said, not sure where you’re getting your info.
On the other hand, fla definitely has UGA’s number over the past two-and-a-third decades. Hopefully the past two years represents a turnaround for the Dawgs.
Rolltider
November 20th, 2012
4:27 pm
Bring on the puppies from Ga. Maybe they’ll try their black jerseys again. Roll Tide and Repeat…
Chuck J
November 20th, 2012
4:28 pm
All this matters not only beacuse uga will choke this weekend and go down in defeat to the jackets. Uga cant handle the pressure.