Mark Bradley

By TampaGator

December 6, 2008 9:50 PM | Link to this

This coming from the AJC writer that has been insulting Urban Meyer all year with the “Urban Crier” crap. You want to win Georgia, get you a coach like Urban Meyer. Great recruiter. Great game day coach. Great motivator. SEC coach of the year. Probably NCAA coach of the year. Go Gators.

By shakazulu

December 6, 2008 9:52 PM | Link to this

Looks like Florida’s pretty darn tough too……

By Norcross Baby

December 6, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this

I loved your article. Until Georgia learns to play for their team (versus padding individual stats to help certain players get into the NFL) they will continue to be good (even very good) but not GREAT. Just look at those great Gator teams…. they played their hearts out for each other and are a joy to watch. I agree with you, the programs in Gainesville have learned that it is team play that makes you great!

By JIM COLLINS

December 6, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this

As a wise man once said,GOD shined on the GATORS today. THANK YOU TIM TEBOW & Co!!!!

By Norcross Baby

December 6, 2008 9:55 PM | Link to this

I loved your article. Until Georgia learns to play for their team (versus padding individual stats to help certain players get into the NFL) they will continue to be good (even very good) but not GREAT. Just look at those great Gator teams…. they played their hearts out for each other and are a joy to watch. I agree with you, the programs in Gainesville have learned that it is team play that makes you great!

By Joe P.

December 6, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this

Hats off to ‘Bama for a great contest, but this game was proof that Florida is the best team in the nation. Tim Tebow is the yardstick by which every college QB should be measured, and his offensive arsenal, from Demps and Rainey to Hernandez and Murphy, provided more than enough depth to compensate for the loss of Percy Harvin. All of us in the Gator Nation should be proud of what this team has accomplished, and look forward to a THIRD national title in January. GO GATORS!!!!

By Gators Are #1...

December 6, 2008 9:59 PM | Link to this

… at bad sportsmanship and cheap shots. Who could miss the dirty play of the Gator offensive lineman that swift-kicked an Alabama player lying on the turf after the final play of the game. Only the conclusion of the game prevented sure ejection.

Where did this player learn this type behavior? I thought that Gator players did not reduce themselves to poor sportmanship but the Gator nation and coach whined endlessly about UGA players celebrating in the endzone. Hypocracy reins! Evidently, Gator players are like their fans, bad sportsmanship whether they win or lose.

Mark, you called it a couple of weeks ago, Gator fans are the most obnoxious and their team is running head to head with them in that race.

By BullDawg79

December 6, 2008 10:01 PM | Link to this

Florida does not deserve a shot in the national title game ahead of USC. Southern Cal lost at Oregon State. Florid lost at home. Any team having any claim of being the best team in the country (assuming there is no difference in the number of losses, and no head-to-head record to discriminate equal record contenders) must win all their home games. A loss at home should be a disqualifier, especially in college football with the hometown atmosphere and raucous crowds.

USC should play Oklahoma for the national championship. Florida should first win all their home games, then talk about being the best team in the land.

By Smack = Inferiority

December 6, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this

The truly “great” ones just find a way, - teams, athletes, and coaches. Love them or hate them, I find it hard to believe that any SEC program {or its fans} would not like to capture for themsleves what the Gators have going, as well as the same type of killer instinct that resides in Meyer and Tebow.

Is it not possible to honestly respect another’s accomplishments without all of the “Urban Crier” and “Timmy Te-blow” garbage? UGA fans love to use the terms “class” and “classless”.

Let’s see if they know the difference…

By ROBBOB

December 6, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this

HEY BAMA STAN, ITS 31-20 AT THE END!

By airheadmotorcycle

December 6, 2008 10:03 PM | Link to this

Those are kind words, Mark, and very much appreciated by this Florida alum.

I’ve read these Dawg fans rag Florida on the comments section of the AJC for years now. I’ve heard that Tebow (Teblow from Dawg fans) couldn’t throw, couldn’t come from behind in a big game, and some have even said he is soft. Will this finally shut your mouth? Thursday and Friday I read Dawg fans claiming Alabama would kill us. I hope you’ll think before you rag us again. We own you, Dawgs. It’s you that’s soft and you can’t win the big game. Think before you speak/write.

Congrats to Bama for an excellent game. This was one of, if not the best win we’ve ever had, mainly because of how good your team is. I swear you guys never missed a tackle all game. Your coach is great. If we didn’t have Meyer, I’d want Saban.

It’s great to be a Florida Gator!

By MVP

December 6, 2008 10:04 PM | Link to this

Shut up Bradley. All the negative comments you made about Meyer and UF. When will the AJC give you your pink slip.

By michael

December 6, 2008 10:06 PM | Link to this

Great article…couldn’t agree more. Any players that want to win championships knows to go to Gainesville, if they can. Go SEC.

By cy brown

December 6, 2008 10:11 PM | Link to this

Pulling for Oklahoma in the Championship…Florida is the cheesiest school with the cheesiest fans…almost like a fake christmas tree with no tradition….(I’m not a Georgia Bulldog, either)…Great game though! Play of the game: The facemask penalty in the 4th Q on AL…without it, FL would not have scored the go-ahead TD…

By Danny G

December 6, 2008 10:15 PM | Link to this

Florida still sucks. Love,

the DawgNation

By LOL Bulldawg

December 6, 2008 10:15 PM | Link to this

The Bulldawgs hate and their dead NC Title hopes feed my soul.

Class is the argument for losers.

I’m sure if UGAY was #1, class wouldn’t be in the conversation.

By michael

December 6, 2008 10:16 PM | Link to this

By BullDawg79

December 6, 2008 10:01 PM | Link to this

Isn’t it great to be able to make up your own rules, after the fact, then impose them on others? So, who did USC BEAT this year…oh yeah, OSU and Notre Dame, whoever they are. What an imposing gauntlet that was. Get real. The SEC has won, without an undefeated team, the last two national championships. Probably will win a third.

I say any team must have a left-handed quarterback and have beaten the current #1 in the country, as well as the consensus preseason #1…(now that was obviously a joke).

By zone1atl/borngator

December 6, 2008 10:17 PM | Link to this

Stick to your guns Mark and continue to maddawg on UF. We don’t need you on our team at all. You had a lot of jokes before one game was played. This is how its done Marky, on the football field. Let me guess, uga is gonna win it all next year huh. Go GATORS!!!

By Bill

December 6, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this

Dog 79 first of all spell you nickname correctly.That you do that and probably are a Uga Alum says volumes.

UF plays in and won a real confrence.USC plays in a one team confrence.

By RJ

December 6, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this

this was a great game and clash of tow great programs. Gators prevailed because of leadership and great team play by all players. They take advantage of mistakes and capitalize. Every player knows their time will come and prepares to be ready. That is what is great about this team. I said TEAM!! Tebow made great reads and quality passes in tight coverage. That is Heisman material. Gring on Sooners, Penn State, USC,or Texas, it doesn’t matter

By Gators 08 SEC Champs

December 6, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this

Keep crying and making classless remarks UGA fans. UGA will always be 3rd or 4th in the SEC.

By BullDawg79

December 6, 2008 10:32 PM | Link to this

Hey Michael, Florida lost at home. USC had no control over their schedule this year, and how crappy their opponents would be, just like Florida had no control over how crappy their SEC opponents would be this year, even Mississippi. Oh that’s right. Florida LOST to Mississippi, AT HOME!!!!!!!

USC deserves the shot at the NC over Florida.

By hook or by crook

December 6, 2008 10:35 PM | Link to this

May Tim Tebow get himself eaten by cannibals on a missionary foray in Africa.

By LarDog

December 6, 2008 10:36 PM | Link to this

First, congrats to both teams and especially to Gators. And yes Tebow is the most valuable player in college football. However, there are lots of ways of saying this without ripping Stafford or any other college player. UGA’s problem this year was not Stafford. He is a terrific college QB who came through many times this season and led his team to victories that others might not have obtained. I think in the next few years we will find out how really great he was at UGA and will be in the pros.

By BullDawg79

December 6, 2008 10:37 PM | Link to this

Hey Bill, I’ll spell my nickname correctly when you spell you nickname correctly.

By Nick Chick

December 6, 2008 10:38 PM | Link to this

I was at the game at the GA Dome and first let me congratulate Florida on their win. Bama had a great season and Bama fans are very proud of their hard work and perseverence this year.
I will say that I witnessed some pretty awful behavior by Tim Tebow while we were on TV timeout. He went out on the field to about the 5 yard line, did the gator chomp with his hands towards the gator fans..then skipped all the way to the end zone doing it. NO, this wasn’t at the end of the game…it was in the 4th quarter after Florida scored the go ahead TD (probably 4 or so minutes to go). Not sure why he was allowed to do that…no other players were on the field from either team and he was clearly not preparing for the next play (FL was on defense). I lost some respect for him at that point…as great a player as he is…he seemed to think he was above the rules.
The FL fans were very gracious in their win and I appreciate that. It was a hard fought game and Bama came up short…Roll Tide!! We’ll be back!!

By shakazulu

December 6, 2008 10:40 PM | Link to this

BullDawg79…..enjoy your holiday at home without a championship…..it feels GOOD….

By Bulldawg79 Idiot

December 6, 2008 10:42 PM | Link to this

What an Idiot saying Florida shouldn’t play for the nc cause they got beat at home. BS stupid! Remember how UGA Leghumpers thought they should play for the nc in 07 when UGAY didn’t win the SEC title? What a moron you are but again you are from UGAY, what do you expect.

By Travis C

December 6, 2008 10:44 PM | Link to this

Good article Mark. This game was a national championship semifinal and Florida came away a clear winner. Now they’ll face Oklahoma in a very riveting final matchup.

By liferdawg

December 6, 2008 10:47 PM | Link to this

Saban will be back in the next few years and rip Cryer a new one! Gators are good and diiirrrrttttyyyyy! How many cheap shots and potential injuries did you see during the game on TV against Bama players away from the ball, I don’t think you could have seen this classless stuff in person at the dome. Unbelievable, UF by far and away is the dirtiest team in the nation. I am a proud bulldog and just want the Florida fans to thank our stupid a* university for keeping its football program down a notch through crap coaching for the last 20 years. If UGA ever find a lights out coach we WOULD torch up the Lizards again like old times! Heck I don’t care if you win the next 50, my kids/grandkids are going to UGA because its so much of a better college/people/education/and state. I would have been nice and congratulated gators tonight, but after all the cheap shots/kicking Bama players on the ground in the heads after the play was over I was horrified and wanted to puke on a gator myself.
Put me in Adams position and I would go and steel Charlie your DC right from under your cold blooded green snouts, offer him twice the money and put him in line for the HC job at UGA, but I think UF has paid off everyone in their sights to win including our own AD to keep letting UGA be second tier!! Ref calling tonight “at the play” was fair but cheap shots around the field by Gators should have been quite a few 15 yarders for Bama. Saban much more classy the way his team handled themselves and he will be back to whip those Gators A** next year. Congrats Bama for playing great and playing “clean”!!!!! I hope Oklahoma gives those Gators some rough lovin in the rear and sends those smelly lizards packing!!!!

UGA welcome to sucking until you find a great DC, maybe even head coach. Dog fans even if we suck compared to the gay football gods @ UF, At least we aren’t reptiles and we didn’t have to go to G-Ville, our country’s ballsack of a location!!! Hahaha why do real southern hotties still go to Ol MIss/UGA/Bama and not UF?

By georgia sucks

December 6, 2008 10:47 PM | Link to this

Bama, Florida and Yellow Jackets beat over rated UGA. Mutts have fun at your non BCS bowl.

By Idiot posting as Bulldawg79 Idiot

December 6, 2008 10:48 PM | Link to this

Florida lost at home. Oklahoma lost on at neutral site. USC lost on the road.

All three have one loss.

USC should play Oklahoma for the NC.

By Beating UGA Even A Nerd Can Do It

December 6, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this

Georgia Tech Beat Georgia at home! WOOO

By Gator Chomp!

December 6, 2008 10:51 PM | Link to this

Hate pups hate! UGA will never be on UF’s level.

By It's Great 2B A Gator!

December 6, 2008 10:53 PM | Link to this

IT SUCKS TO BE BULLDAWG79…….29 YEARS OF FAILURE FOR UGA AND STILL COUNTING!

By Typical Bulldawg Bullcrap

December 6, 2008 10:57 PM | Link to this

Liferdawg,

You are without a doubt the dumbest, most ignorant UGAY fan there is. Obviously, you’re just spewing hate, because you’ve lied about everything in your post.

UGAY will always be a 3rd rate University, Football Team, and Fan base. Your endless dribble means nothing.

You are a loser, just like your football team.

UGAY wouldn’t know class if you had to serve it with fries at your day job.

2008 SEC CHAMPIONS!!!!

By CBGator

December 6, 2008 11:02 PM | Link to this

Hey Liferdog: Quit sucking at life. Don’t get robbed while walking through the ghetto on your way to the Cap One Bowl. Also, please be sure to watch us in Miami. Would you by chance still have that hotel reservation you made down there before the season started? You know, when the Humpers were the pre-season #1? What happened there?

BullDawg79: How does it feel to lose to the team that lost to Ole Miss at home? If Florida doesn’t deserve a title shot because of that, then UGA must really, REALLY suck. I mean, goodness. How can you even bring up that insult? Not to mention that UF just beat the #1 team in the country, something the Condoms did not do. Do your trailer park a favor and stop tying up the only phone line it has.

By BULLDAWG79

December 6, 2008 11:02 PM | Link to this

BULLDAWG79

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE COMPLETELY DOMINATED BY A TEAM THAT LOST TO OLE MISS?????

2008 SEC CHAMPIONS!!!

KICKING RICHTS AND UGAY’S A$$ for many years to come.

By Chuck

December 6, 2008 11:03 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Fla. on a hard fought win. I’m proud of our Tide and the effort they made. We shall return! Bama is back!!
Trash talk is cheap! Be proud to be part of the toughest conference in the land! Gators, the ball is in your court. Go take care of the Sooners!!

By HOUSTON NUTT

December 6, 2008 11:06 PM | Link to this

OLE MISS BEAT the gator chomps and don’t you forget it!

By liferdawg

December 6, 2008 11:07 PM | Link to this

I KNOW 10 PEOPLE AND COUNTING WHO HAVE UNFORTUNATELY BEEN LAID OFF!! 9 OF EM ARE GATOR GRADS! Friends of mine for sure and a sad bit of news but go figure. More to life than football blue freaks!!! My football team has been sorely mismanaged for the last 25 years allowing cheap shot gators the run of the mill, frustrates me but god ol mighty the way your teams cheap shot and play dirty for many years came to a head tonight. If you Gayturds didn’t see the blatant cheating/ shots to the head etc…..right on your TV keep drinking your blue/orange koolaid. This proud UGA masters grad hates the dirty play he first witnessed as a child watching Miami play. UF champs in that so far. GO STOOPS show Cryer the ropes baby, and take some Gators out on dirty plays away from the ball PLEASE!!!

By Thomas

December 6, 2008 11:09 PM | Link to this

Congrats Florida lets win another National Championship!!!!!!!!!

By King Bee

December 6, 2008 11:14 PM | Link to this

Well I guess this proves that BAMA was highly over-rated. Georgia Tech is the only team that won all it’s SEC games; therefore we should be playing for the National Championship. I only wish we could play all SEC teams, what a weak schedule that would be.

By BullDawg79 = Jealous Biotch

December 6, 2008 11:15 PM | Link to this

Enjoy polishing your team’s 28 year old NC trophy tonight AFTER polishing your inbred BF’s tool again.

By LMAO Liferdawg

December 6, 2008 11:19 PM | Link to this

First,

A degree for UF is more highly coveted from the hick university of UGAY. Second, I call you a liar saying Gator grads are laid off more than UGAY students.

I also call you a like saying you have a UGAY Masters degree. There is no way someone as stupid as you could get a Masters degree. Wait!! It’s from that JOKE of the SEC UGAY!!!!!

Got to HOPE STOOPS does something UGAY BALL-LICKERS couldn’t do huh?

Liferdawg, You’re an ignorant twit who is showing that us being the premier program in the SEC is killing you.

EAT IT UP LOSER!!!!

MARK “THE PRICHT” WILL HAVE THE DAWGS DOING THE SOULJA BOY WHILE MEYER WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS!!!

2008 SEC CHAMPIONS

UGAY PRESEASON #1 CHOKE JOB

By P Reynolds

December 6, 2008 11:23 PM | Link to this

I live in Ohio and am a HUGE Florida Gators Fan. That isn’t always easy, especially when I go out sporting my Gators gear, my beloved 2006 National Championship Shirt. However, now I look forward to moving on, by sporting my 2008 National Championship Shirt. I love my Gators. We have a great TEAM. Never let the fame go to your head though, just go out there and win. Don’t ever forget what got you there, hard work, and playing as a Team. Go Gators!

By Tim Tebow

December 6, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

I am not as great as Mark Bradley thinks I am. I believe that the players on my team aren’t worried about letting me down. I believe that they are more concerned with doing their jobs and winning ballgames than what I think. For Mark Bradley to insinuate that I am the reason players play hard for Florida is patently absurd. I prefer to think that they play hard because Urban Meyer recruits the right kind of players.

(And this is coming from a Bulldog fan that is using “Tim Tebow” as his moniker. Give it a rest, Mark. It ain’t Tebow. It’s the program.)

By Go Gators

December 6, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

GT,

You barely beat FSU, and we dominated them. We beat UGAY worse than GT did. I don’t want to hear it. You’re having a good year, but next year you’ll be back to what you are now (Middle of the Pack) in the ACC.

By Run Heap Run

December 6, 2008 11:31 PM | Link to this

Play of the game: The facemask penalty in the 4th Q on AL…without it, FL would not have scored the go-ahead TD…

Yep. That was the ballgame right there. Great, great game. Hats off to both teams for great seasons… 1 quarter away from a perfect season and the NC game. Bama, you got nothing to hang your heads about. Without that one mistake (the penalty on 3rd down in the 4th) I think Bama would have won it. The final score is NOT indicative of what a close, hard fought game this was. People who didn’t watch the game and only check the scoreboard will be misled by the score.

IF the media weren’t so in love with Tim Tebow I might could get behind FL and the SEC for the NC. I’m not ready to do that just yet. Not after watching a 3 hour game that felt like a meeting at the church of our lord and savior Tim Tebow.

By Rick

December 6, 2008 11:35 PM | Link to this

I don’t really care who won the game tonight, and I am not an SEC fan at all. I agree the UF is a good team, but the country is getting robbed again of seeing a real championship game thanks to the BCS. A championship game that does not include USC is a crime. And no, I am not a Pac 10 fan either. I love a good college football game, and I think a UF vs. USC game would be a great game to watch. Even a USC vs. Texas or Oklahoma would be more of a game then what we are likely to get with UF vs Oklahoma.

By liferdawg

December 6, 2008 11:36 PM | Link to this

I think I could win with UF’s football budget. Tops in the NATION (true). UF degrees overrated, job loss stats factual!!! Just love spewing on the hype that is UF all sports $$ very little substance behind the rest of Gayturd nation. UGA got a lot less hicks (jean short outfits and beyond at most UF events) and a lot more high class southern p***. UF doesn’t even qualify here, its pathetic. God if you obnoxious Gator fans didn’t have your football wins over the last 20 years I think you would just loose it completely and go jump off a cliff! Of which there is not a one in the great yankee state of Florida!. With UGA the last 25 years so what about the stupid misguided football team, we still rule. Give us another 25 mil annually and a bad a* coach like Saban and you lizards would be back to square none with the DAWGS!!! Saban will get you next year and I am pulling for Stoops now!!!! Coach Stoops you must match the dirty play of UF away from the ball and start writing your checks to pay off those refs like UF does.
The entire rest of the SEC votes you people the MOST OBNOXIOUS !!

By garlandtxdawg

December 6, 2008 11:40 PM | Link to this

this txs born uga grads sends his congrats to the mighty gators,who are one fun team to watch,speed every where! they are and have been the sec model for the last 16 years ! they are the best team in the country !now make this sec fan proud and take care of oklahomo !!iam so tired of hearing how good the big 12 & the sooners are !__ou does not know what real team speed is ! man they are about to find out gators in a romp !

By Ben

December 6, 2008 11:43 PM | Link to this

Go Sooners. Score 60 against Florida.

By Liferdawg is an Idiot

December 6, 2008 11:48 PM | Link to this

LIFERDAWG,

HOW come Athens has so many gay bars? BECAUSE most UGAY fans are f*. Keep talking about classless, everyone knows UGAY fans are obnoxious and hasn’t won anything in years. Each university has great looking girls, but those UGAY f* boys don’t know what to do with theirs. Claim it’s the budget for football, I say it’s you have a joke program that’s not even up to GA TECH now. GOD, you losers lost at home to GA TECH. HOW PATHETIC IS THAT? I ROOT for anyone against the gay f* from UGAY!!

I can tell the UGAY fan base are rednecks. ALL the 4-wheel drive trucks with huge G’s on their windows that are driving 50 mph in the fast lane.

I love your envy Liferdawg. You’re hate proves we are sooo far ahead of UGAY that you won’t catch up!!

49-10!!!

I’ll call a timeout to let that sink in!!!

By MVP

December 6, 2008 11:52 PM | Link to this

CHOKE……..THE OFFICAL DRINK OF THE GEORGIA FOOTBALL TEAM!

By LOL

December 6, 2008 11:54 PM | Link to this

GA CHOKES WORSE THAN A BAD PORNSTAR!!!

FIRST IN BASEBALL. NOW IN FOOTBALL!!!

By Ed

December 6, 2008 11:58 PM | Link to this

I’m one of those 40-somethings that remember the no-grit, 50 plus years without an SEC title Gators that existed into the early 90s. When they weren’t choking away big games and potential championships, they were cheating and getting nailed by the NCAA.

I hate to admit it, but the turnaround has been impressive. Florida rose to national prominence the same time FSU did and just after Miami did, but they’ve outlasted those programs. Give the SOBs credit. I think Tebow is his generation’s Herschel Walker, a rare player that elevates a talented team into greatness. Meyer’s a great coach, but he’ll have a hard time sustaining this level when Tebow graduates. Then again, who wouldn’t?

By UGA needs a coach likr Urban and a QB like Tebow

December 7, 2008 12:00 AM | Link to this

We would be playing for SEC CROWN and NC crown, have another heisman winner….with this coaching staff it will always be a 3 or 4 loss every year .. gosh I wish UGA was a elite program..should I buy a timeshare in orlando or tampa?

By "G" stands for gay u dummy

December 7, 2008 12:05 AM | Link to this

thats right!

By joe_h

December 7, 2008 12:06 AM | Link to this

Jesus Christ! You’re ripping Stafford over this year’s BS? Get a clue Bradley. Stafford is the only reason we won 9 games, and we’ll see how much better he is than Tebow at the next level. Nobody can inspire a team with a defense as awful as UGA’s dumba**.

By joe_h

December 7, 2008 12:09 AM | Link to this

Oh good God Ed! Shut up. Tim Teblow doesn’t even deserve to be mentioned in te same breath with Herschel Walker.

By Buck Belue Still Living In The 80's

December 7, 2008 12:19 AM | Link to this

Dear Bulldog79, You should FIRST tell your FCA coa

By DBCOOPER

December 7, 2008 12:23 AM | Link to this

Was in Jacksonville when Florida was shopping for coaches. Nobody including radio “experts” knew who the heck Urban Meyer was. Now they all claim him as some saviour or, nobody hs a coach like us. Which is typical of Florida fans, alott know nothing about what’s going on in their own league much less the rest of the country. Florida has the arragence and haughtiness of Notre Dame and the history and tradition of Wake Forest. They have always had talent down there but kept shooting themselves in the foot with inept coaching and athletic dept. management. They will continue to be good. The rest of the league will get better. In the erly nineties I doubt anyone thought

As for Georgia, There is enough talent in this state to field a competitve program. I think they do that. Richt is a top 7 or 8 coach in the country. His staff and loyalty to that staff is questionable .

By secondguesser

December 7, 2008 12:26 AM | Link to this

No doubt about it. Liferdawg was the lead roll in “The Hills Have Eyes”. Is there a more blatant example of the dangers of mountain hillbilly inbreeding! A masters degreefrom UGAY? Okay! This has got to be the premise for Dante’s Hell for Dawg lovers. IT’S GREAT TO BE A FLORIDA GATOR!

By Buck Belue Still Living In The 80's

December 7, 2008 12:29 AM | Link to this

Dear Bulldog79 and Liferdawg, Instead of worrying about Florida, I’d try to inspire my FCA coach to get his BOTOXED butt in gear and leave the missionairy work to someone else until he can find a way to reach a National Championship Game. It’s been 28 LONGGGGG!! years since Dog Nation has won something meaningful and as long as you have the Petulant Prince of College Football autographing bombs in the Middle East instead of worrying about the job he is being paid millions for—Well, you may be aiming for half a century of ineptitude. Of course you never have to worry about pro teams sniffing around the Head Dog’s backside as they realize his Bobby Bowden Bull%#&^@% may work with boys but will flop with MEN. 28 YEARS!!!!! Since you have been relevant—That almost is enough to remove you from the football ELITE!! Please no more to harm the SEC—Win your silly mid level bowl game.

By crack for lindsey

December 7, 2008 12:36 AM | Link to this

It’s good to see, in response to a column acknowledging UF’s greatness, so many weak, sad bulldog fans crying and living vicariously (look it up, stupid) through Bama. Saban will be back and rip us a new one, huh? One thing’s for sure, we won’t have to worry about the puppies doing worse than ripping the hem of our jorts. In case you forgot, I’ll remind you that Richt has a losing record against all Gator coaches he has faced. Should you happen to win next year, you will have won four games in the last twenty years. That’s .200 percent. Enough of you are Braves fans to know that .200 is poor in any sport.

Cry all you want, deluded dawgs! We own you and you know it!

By Georgia Sucks

December 7, 2008 12:42 AM | Link to this

I can recall how dumb inbread mutt fans said the spread would not work in the SEC and Tebow would never be a good QB in the SEC.Meyer and Tebow won 2 sec title in last 3 yrs and going for 2nd nc title topo(richt 0 in 8 years @ ugly) Keep choking on your predictions dumb inbread mutt fans. don’t care who uga recruit gators will continue to beat uga every year. uga+mark richt= zero national titles, just a average football program.29 years of choking and still counting.

By BamaBen

December 7, 2008 12:57 AM | Link to this

Congrats to Florida! We had a GREAT year! We beat Awbun, Tn, and Ga. and played for the SEC Title. Florida has a better team. This was my third SEC title game and BAMA will win in the near future! RTR.

By Miscalculated ignorance

December 7, 2008 1:08 AM | Link to this

Congratulations Tide! Your team played an awesome game and your fans are, by far, “classy”. We’ll be on our toes against Saban’s future talent.

Speaking of “class”, I love how the Dawgs are the first to start barking when their time with the SEC victors has long passed and quite forgotten by those who matter. Why watch the SEC Title game when it’ll just make you angry all over again?

Liferdawg: And what exactly does the p mean in “high class Southern p*”? Seriously, if you want to refrain from being one of those “obnoxious fans”, I highly suggest you learn some manners of your own.

Go 2008 SEC Champs!

By Buck Belue Still Living In The 80's

December 7, 2008 3:12 AM | Link to this

Hey DB Cooper, I’m surprised you are still alive after all these years. At least you are not with the Unibomber. That crack about Florida, Notre Dame and Wake Forest predated the inception of the SEC Championship Game. I’m sure even as you meander through those woods that you realize Florida has won as many of those(7) as Tennessee(3), Alabama(2) and Georgia(2) COMBINED. LSU won the other 3. So you keep waiting for Missionairy Boy to lead you to the Promised Land. I actually prefer his work in foreign lands to the time spent in hospitals getting botox injections. You realize the Reverand Mark hails from Boca Raton, Florida. Now Botox is BIG in Boca, BUT it’s usually pruneish looking 50 year olds getting it done and not the football coaches of formerly elite programs. Just wait—it’s almost time to start hearing about all those wonderful recruits coming to Athens. Of course they have allegedly been coming for years and YET still not one national Championship since the 1st year of the Reagan presidency. Since 1981 Miami, FSU, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Southern Cal, Ohio State, Penn State, Nebraska, LSU, Alabama and for Pete’s sakes even Brigham Young and Clemson!! have won at least one Title—My apologies to whom I have forgotten. BUT NO Georgia. It’s been so long that the screaming maniac has even seen fit to call it a day. But you keep waiting and like Dusty Springfield crooned nearly 50 years ago—“Wishin and Hopin won’t make it come true”. PLEASE!!! No choke job against some Big 10 “Dog” in Central Florida.

By Mark Bradley

December 7, 2008 4:31 AM | Link to this

I don’t think Alabama was overrated. I think Alabama is a tremendous team. And Florida was 11 points better on a neutral field without Percy Harvin.

By heeldawg

December 7, 2008 6:50 AM | Link to this

First of all, for all of you Gator fans, congratulations. I have to agree with Bradley’s article 100% here. This was a great championship game between two great teams, and the Gators gutted it out at the end, like great teams do. Both squads left it all on the field.

For those who say the Tide was overrated, BS. This was the national title game. Bama had beaten every team on its schedule and would also have beaten any other team in America on Saturday (yes, including USC. Yes, including Texas and Oklahoma). If you couldn’t see this on the field on Saturday, then you don’t appreciate great college football.

For those who insist that USC deserves a shot at the title, sorry. The Big 12 champion had to run a gauntlet that included several teams that actually had national relevance. They also had to play in a conference title game. Ditto for Florida, who obliterated everyone after the one-point Ole Miss loss and also won a conference title game against a top-ranked opponent. The PAC 10, by contrast, is a joke. Southern Cal mailed it in against Oregon State and the rest of its creampuff schedule didn’t impress anybody.

Georgia has the talent to compete at this level (heck, Stafford, AJ Green, Mo Mass and Moreno will all be first rounders in the NFL draft someday), but this season was all about three things for the Dawgs: injuries, undisciplined play and lack of leadership. With eighteen starters lost for the year to season-ending injuries, the nucleus of the team that played so well at the end of last season was gutted. The players committed too many penalties and turnovers in critical situations and failed in a lot of very basic areas (tackling, blocking) that underscored the underlying lack of cohesion in this team. And when the chips were down, when somebody needed to make a play, there was no leadership. Bradley is absolutely right—Tim Tebow motivates his teammates in ways that championship players do. He challenges them to perform at his level. And that drive is why Florida will win the national title this season.

Georgia has had some great teams under Mark Richt, including last year’s. This team, despite all of its talent, was not one of them.

By gatorwolf

December 7, 2008 7:06 AM | Link to this

Congratulations to the Bama players on a great game. Go SEC. As for the few Dawg fans spewing hatred for the Gators, it appears they are the same fans always blasting their own team and coach. Before you go downing others how about learning a little about respect for your own team. These are young kids playing their hearts out and you so called adults insult them and your own coach. Grow up. Good luck to Bama and the Dawgs in the bowls and Go SEC

By BullDawg79

December 7, 2008 7:34 AM | Link to this

How can any team that did not win all its home games be given a higher ranking, and shot at the NC, over a team with the same record that won all its home games.

Oklahoma vs. USC for the National Championship.

I see I have struck a nerve with the Gators here. Oh well.

By BullDawg79

December 7, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this

USC beat Virginia 52 - 7. Virginia beat Maryland 31 - 0. Maryland beat Wake Forest 26 - 0. Wake Forest beat Mississippi 30 - 28. Mississippi beat Florida 31 - 30.

Therefore, USC is better than Florida.

By Kennesaw Dawg

December 7, 2008 7:52 AM | Link to this

OK, OK……well at least we own Alabam and Florida in tennis and women’s gymnastics!! And we could probably beat you at bowling and diving!! We participate a lot in those lessor sports rather than taking football seriously!!

By simplythetruth

December 7, 2008 7:52 AM | Link to this

Kudos to all of you JEALOUS pups. Alabama and Florida both proved yesterday, that you over-hyped, do nothing, pre-season champs were never even a blip on the radar. These 2 teams have some things that your players and your ACC minded coach lack. Leadership and a strong work ethic. Go head, keep hyping USC,cry all of the way up until the next season AND you’ll be right back where you are now. Definitely not on the same field with the 2 BEST programs in the SEC. Bama and Florida played a great game. You pups talk a good game BUT talk is cheap.You played both of them and well, nuff said.

By marie

December 7, 2008 7:55 AM | Link to this

Yes, UGA had tons of injuries and tons of penalties(half which should never have been called). In watching st nick’s team and the crier man’s team play, saw some things they were doing that should have been penalized, but not called. Uga was called all year for them. One more thing: go tebow, go tebow, go tebow, go go go go go—-AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should be OK and TX in Nc. However if Texas(whom I like, by the way- also a Southern team)should get there- a riot, like has never been, should break out in Georgia.

By TampaGator

December 7, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

After Florida wins the NC, you Dawg fans are still going to be blaming the refs for losing to the Gators, saying every other team in college football is better than the Gators, that Ole Miss (which is currently a top 10 team in talent and coaching) beat the Gators, that we were lucky and dirty against the Tide, that Tim Tebow has no class, and all Urban Meyer does is cry. What a bunch of losers and cry babies you guys are! You would never admit it, but you would give up your right arm if you could replace Richt with Urban as your coach tommorrow. Tennessee now has a great coach. Bama has a great coach. Florida has a great coach. Get used to being losers, Dawg fans.

By BullDawg79 Likes Little Boys

December 7, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

BD79 - Wow, I don’t know what’s more impressive: your persistent delusion that no one else on any {other than USC’s} message board or blog shares; or the fact that you’re up so early after a night of debauchery with little boys.

By Uga is the best Bulldog!

December 7, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

You know something? TampaGator is…..RIGHT! We ARE a bunch of losers and cry babies who should get used to being losers and cry babies. I cry at football games when the Bulldogs lose. I unfairly blame the coach, the refs, the mascot, and the alumni association. I foolishly believe that UGA could win the national championship if I were the coach. I’m not just a monday morning quarterback, I’m a tuesday evening offensive coach, a wednesday afternoon waterboy, a thursday nite blitzer, and a friday night cheerleader gang-tackler, (wink).

Maybe, as terrence moore suggested about the Hawks, the rebuilding of any team starts with the fans. Maybe we need to cheer louder, woof woof harder, start food fights in the stands, quit putting play dough in the band equipment, quit watching the Paris Hilton video at halftime, I dont know, maybe it really is ALL OUR FAULT!!!

Repeat after me, Bulldog fans: “I promise, to wear my bong hat, loan my beer hat to anyone who loves the Bulldogs, bring extra seat cushions, loan my binoculars to anyone interested in the cheerleaders, bring scooby snacks for Uga, and to obey the law of the 6-pack. amen.”

This….could….WORK!!

By kING BEE

December 7, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Florida and certainly Alabama do not deserve playing for the National Title. Florida couldn’t even beat Ole Miss at home, who lost to Wake Forest. I agree these were the best of the worst conference in college football this year, but neither is good enough to play for the title.

By BullDawg79

December 7, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

Hmmm…it seems like I struck a really hard nerve with the Gators.

Any national champion should win all their home games. College football provides home teams with overwhelming advantages to the home team.

USC won all their home games. Oklahoma won all their home games.

USC should play Oklahoma for the NC.

By G8TR

December 7, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

Unbelievable. Every other program in the SEC — except UGA — has fans who are smart enough to root for their fellow conference teams to win the NC. This includes Bama fans who just lost in a great and well-played game but are intelligent, know their football history and have enough class and grace to recognize that if their opponent succeeds, their conference stature is raised.

When our conference wins on the national stage, whether it be ALA, LSU, UT or UF, the SEC’s brand as the best in the NCAA is sustained. Unfortunately, UGA apparently cannot contribute to this in the modern era (like this year’s Richtian collapse from No. 1). They can only benefit from others maintaining the conference’s supremacy and must continue to live on their national title highlight reels from back in 1980.

Sorry, Dawgs. We just called timeout again. You must stay on the field in Jacksonville until we tell you can leave the field. That’s Dawg ownership.

By BullDawg79

December 7, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

I would gladly root for Florida for the NC if I believed they deserved the shot. Absent a playoff system, you have to develop other criteria to determine who deserves the shot at the title if all teams have equal records. In this case, USC and Oklahoma lost away from home. Florida won at home. Therefore, Oklahoma should play USC for the title.

By BullDawg79

December 7, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Oops… make that Florida lost at home.

By shakazulu

December 7, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

BD79, I say again. Enjoy the holidays with no relevance in the national picture.

By BD79 Rides The Short Bus

December 7, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Maybe BD79 should start his own “Top 20” computer poll for next year and sell subscriptions. That should raise a few dollars for his GED effort and help pay for his computer from Aaron Rents. Of course, those folks at the BCS who know nothing about strength of schedule or quality wins could learn a thing or two also.

By Mark Bradley

December 7, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Texas should play Florida for the national championship. Period.

By The Bank of Ron

December 7, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

College football is not pro football. It’s not as fun. it’s not as important.

However, I think that the war on terror would be over if only UGA had won all it’s games. McCain would have been elected…. The yankees would have cloned Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, and Shoeless Joe Jackson would be like Imelda Marcos with all the shoes……. If UGA were number one then the drought would be over, home prices would have risen, the dollar would soar over the euro, and gas would be the same price it was in 1934……I know what you’re all thinking: “but gas IS the same price it was in 1934 if you count inflation, deflation, and stagflation”….Yes, that’s true, but what you didn’t figure on is that Nixon took us off the gold standard…

thus UGA is not number one, and Nixon is not a crook.

By OleCountryDawg

December 7, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

A team who did not win its division playing FLA for the NC??? Come on Mark….where were you last year???

By ....Tired of Bob (stupid) Stoops

December 7, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

Bob Stoops just can’t enough style points, the Ohio redneck coud’nt resist tacking on 21 more points in the 4th quarter against Missouri.-Stoops is disgusting,

By Dr. Dre

December 7, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

It is astounding that fans of a team that dances and taunts Florida players in the end zone on the coach’s orders, or frolics to rap music on the sideline during a game, or resorts to silly “blackouts”, would be critical of Florida or Alabama sportsmanship. Georgia players are sandlot thugs in comparison. Until someone incorporates some discipline in the Georgia program, the Dogs will remain a second-rate team. Richt will not be that person.

By longtimeSEC FAN

December 7, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

to Nick Chick: if what you say (one FL player went on the field during a TV commercial) and led a FL cheer is correct,I and many other Gators would say it was not appropriate. But compare this with ENTIRE TEAM going on the field at coach’s direction and interrupting flow of the game. This was GA not Bama of course. Bama did themselves proud and I admire them and their coach. Point is 19-20-21 year olds are so emotionally involved in game they sometimes do things we older fans (and often the players) regret. But many of these bloggers act like 19-21 year olds. Great game. GO GATORS.

By zone1atl/borngator

December 7, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

I would like to award uga with the PRESEASON national title. Great job garbagedawgs, you deserve it. Go GATORS!!!

By JJ

December 7, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Mark, Texas didn’t even play for their conference championship!!! Isn’t that the reason UGA was left out of the conversation last year? The pollsters moved 3 teams ahead of UGA one year ago today just to keep UGA out of the national title game for that very reason!!! Sorry, but if Texas is put into the NC game ahead of Florida (I know that wasn’t your argument, but I’ve seen it written elsewhere), it will be the last straw for the BCS. These double standards from year to year are ridiculous.

By NotaAtlantafan

December 7, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

No way the gators should play in the mythical national championship game. They barely beat an overrated Alabama team and lost to then un-ranked old miss team. FL won a average at best SEC. If Ok is one of the teams then Texas should be the other.No question. But this won’t happen this is why the BSc is a joke.

By jason

December 7, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

First of congrats to the GAtor Nation. That was one of the best games of the year. Both teams played great. I was one who thought UA would win. Just by imposing their will on both sides of the line. I thought it woul be close. I was right for 3 quarters. I don’t know how anyone could doubt Tebow now. This coming from a DAWG fan. He showed it and more yesterday. He just has IT. He is not the prettiest, the flshiest, nor perfect pass. He just flat out wins. And Gator fans, you are right. No DAWG fan can really say anything. The only player I can remember UGA having close to a Tebow was Pollack. Again congrats to the Gator Nation on a hell of a game and win. Now go get a MNC for the SEC.

By ckgator

December 7, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

“It’s time again to grit our teeth and admit that greatness resides in Gainesville, Fla.”

Mark - good to see reality has finally set in, but where was your foresight when you were over-hyping the Dawgs all summer - and even into October? You are a good writer, but need to remember you write for a major market newspaper, not a Clark County mullet wrapper.

My advice to Bulldog fans and writers: next time, approach a promising season with a dose of reality, a sense of humility, and an understanding that your season means nothing if you can’t get out of Jacksonville with a win. And that game takes place in October on the football field, not in August in the pages of the AJC.

We look forward to your support in our National Championship game on Jan. 8.

GO GATORS!

By Gator Nation

December 7, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Bulldawg79

So using your argument the national championship game should be between Utah and Boise State. Both undefeated. We shouldn’t look at strength of schedule or victory margin or even the games themselves and make real assessments about who is the better team. We should just look at the record. Heck, why shouldn’t Montana play for the championship? They are 13-1.

As fog horn leg horn would say, “that boy is about as sharp as a bowling ball.”

By Who Needs Polls?

December 7, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Who needs the BCS or any of the year-long polls anyway? Everyone knows that the Dawgs just won the pre-season number #1 title for the 28th year in a row. In fact, there’s already talk on the Junkyard Blawg about next year’s over-hyped recruits, the returning, under-performing thugs who’ll somehow manage to avoid arrest and flunk out of school and, of course, the undefeated season and inevitable NC.

By .... OLE MISS CHOMPED urban's urchins

December 7, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

The Mississippi Rebels stir-fryed some gators in 2008!

By OLE MISS CHOMPED urban's urchins

December 7, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Sorry, I know that my post was way off-base and has nothing to do with anything substantial this morning. I’m just a miserable human being and can only feel some semblance of pleasure by attacking and demeaning others who are more successful than me.

By Supes

December 7, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

*airheadmotorcycle * “we own you Dawgs”, this is exactly what makes EVERYONE in the country dislike FLA so much. Thank you for proving our case and making a jakca&& out of yourself to do it.

TampaGator No thanks, you can keep Cryer. Karma will eventually catch up to him. Tebow will go to the NFL to be a TE, and the SEC will eventually catch up with his gimmick ridden offense who won’t work with another less talanted player than Tebow. Besides when you were 9-4 last year I didn’t hear any of this BRAGGING? BTW, how sad is it to read all the comments from FLA fans insulting UGA rather than CELEBRATING the SEC championship? Unreal. Your arrogance is uncanny. It will eventually catch up with your program at the end, and then you will have to suffer the wrath of ALL SEC fans that you’ve ragged on all those years. Karma is a b***. Trust me, UGA experienced it this year b/c of what happened last year. It’s coming to you FLA, and it may take 3-4 years but it will come. THEN WHAT WILL YOU DO? That’s right, hide from the blogs, like you did last year. FLA 9-4 in 2007 and LOSING TO MICHIGAN in the BOWL GAME.

By GATORBOY

December 7, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Mark

It was nice to read this positive article on the Gators after all your usual insults. What I find so amusing is all the bitterness from non-Gator posters. They are so jaded and consumed with jealousy they just can’t give any credit to this awesome team and the legend - Tim Tebow - who is on his way to becoming the greatest college football player of all time. Take care - It’s Great To Be A Florida Gator - Gainesville FL - where champions play.

By cheerwino

December 7, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

As a Bulldog, I hate the Gators and whatever whiney coach they have at the time. But, as a football fan, they are great to watch as long you aren’t on the receiving end. Congrats Gators!

By dbc

December 7, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

I’m sure many won’t agree, but I’ll say what needs to said. I’m a longtime DAWG fan and although I hate losing to Florida, I have to congratulate them on a great game and season. I love college football, and it was a pleasure to watch a team that knows how to play as a team. They were basically unstoppable because they had the inner toughness and fire to get the job done. The gators put on a clinic as to how championships are won: Innovative play calling, tough as nails D, swagger, emotion, confidence and sterling special teams play. Instead of finger pointing after the Ole Miss loss, they acted like MEN and got it together. And I would take Tebow over Stafford any day of the week — the man is simply a winner. Stafford shows flashes of brilliance, but he doesn’t have the skills or leadership qualities to put a team on his back like Tebow. Florida has a TEAM, UGA has a few semi-talented individuals who obviously thought the game would be chocked up as a win just because they showed up. I hope every Georgia football player watched that game yesterday and learned something from it. I doubt that Richt, Willie and Bobo even watched the game. They were busy with their new plan : “Hey guys, we’re going to turn up the intensity during practice NOW THAT THE THE SEASON IS OVER!” WHERE HAVE THEY BEEN ALL YEAR?

Anyway, credit where credit is due — congrats again gators. Represent the SEC well…

By -Ole Miss Rebel Vision-

December 7, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

“I’m sorry. Extremely sorry, we were hoping for an undefeated season,something Florida has never done. I want it to stay in our hearts and keep hurting. It’s awful. Bad, bad stuff.”— Timothy Richard Tebow

By bamed

December 7, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

Where are you Bama Man? Rather gutless aren’t you?

By SEC facts

December 7, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee have all had undefeated seasons.

By Charlie Crist

December 7, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

I thought Florida was undefeated? Did that Ole Miss LOSS really count?

By Mark Bradley

December 7, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

This Florida team seems better, at least to me, than the 2006 BCS title-winner. But there’s a soft spot in my heart for the 1984 Gators, who won the SEC championship on the field but had it taken away by SEC presidents six months later. Kerwin Bell, Ricky Nattiel, Lomas Brown, Crawford Ker, Phil Bromley, Jeff Zimmerman, Alonzo Johnson, Neal Anderson, John L. Williams — I covered four Gator games that year, and it remains my favorite SEC team.

By SEC facts

December 7, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

AUBURN has been UNDEFEATED ALSO!

By LZ

December 7, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

Hey LiferDawg, why don’t you learn how to write. If you did attend UGA, it is sad you did not receive an education. It is funny that you rag on UF’s educational successes, yet, your writing is horrible. How much money do you make at McDonalds loser? I am so sick of you and the other bitter haters out there. At the beginning of every football season, every DAWG fan claims that their team is winning the National Championship. However, each and every year, your gigantic dreams are always stomped out in front of you and your gutless DAWG Nation. By the way, hold the cheese on my hamburger.

By dandydawg

December 7, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

Hey Gators… Congratulations on a Great season. To TampaGator.. I am happy with Mark Richt.

To all on here bashing Florida or Georgia… Get over it! Florida won out right and Gator folks - your team just won the SEC championship stop bashing us and enjoy your win! Hell to US Georgia is the BEST Team around. So, congratulations again and enjoy the ride… If you play in the NC game.. beat the hell out of OU! I think you are the only team that can do it.. Try to put 60+ on their defense so they can see how it feels . From this Dawg to the Gator Nation —- GO GATORS!

By Van

December 7, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Urban Meyer is the best coach in College football. He’s smart, driven, passionate, disciplined, and unlike Richt doesn’t wear his religion on his sleeve. Georgia shouldn’t be able to beat him in the near future. Super-talented African American football players have figured out they can play in states like FL, NC, VA, CA where they get political support for Obama. GA is still fighting the wars of the past—the civil war and Roe vs Wade. Until we can drag ourselves into the 21st century and become a progressive state, our blue chip AA players will go elsewhere to play and we’ll wallow in mediocrity.

By Gators!

December 7, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

After a great game, Tebow and Urban got in on at the Ramada after the game. Tebow was taking it, of course.

By ace

December 7, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Stafford is a superb QB the problem is that he has not had any coaching since his arrival. How great do you think he can be with BoBo as his coach? What in the world qualifies him to be the QB coach anyway? It was actually painful watching Fla.& Ala play. It makes you realize just how far behind UGA is compared to these programs, and the problem is you realize they will never catch up with the coaching staff we have been dealt! Please Adams and Evans wake me out of this nightmare and tell me we are going to do something about it.

By Stay 24

December 7, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

For the first time ever, I will not be cheering for an SEC team in the title game. Go Sooners.

By Recruiting Standings

December 7, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Current recruiting standings according to rivals:

Georgia - 9th Florida - 18th

Hear this: Florida goes down after Tebow leaves.

By heeldawg

December 7, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Bulldawg79, you’re ridiculous. See my other post—the Gators deserve to play for the BCS title. Oklahoma deserves to play for the BCS title. They each played in very tough conferences, won their respective conference title games and thereby qualified for the championship. The PAC 10 is a joke of a conference (heck, the Mountain West was better this season), and USC backed into the conference title because the team that beat them lost without its best player. They didn’t have to play the extra game to get there, either.

And Mark, I disagree with the Texas argument. Regardless of how idiotic the Big 12 tiebreaker may seem to you or to Mack Brown, the rules are the rules, and Texas did not win the Big 12. Oklahoma did. That should end that discussion right there. Last season, Georgia moved down without losing and LSU moved up in the standings so that the Bayou Bengals could play in the national title game as SEC champions. You can’t reverse field now and say that this “rule” (which I agree with, by the way) doesn’t apply anymore. People tried to make the same argument the year before in favor of a Michigan-Ohio State rematch for the national title, which was a similarly ridiculous proposition.

Oklahoma vs. Florida. That’s your title game. And the SEC will win it all for the third year in a row.

By simplythetruth

December 7, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Mississippi: The Gators do owe you a debt of gratitude. You helped reinforce a key ingredient necessary to be a champion.Humility. Humility is used by champions to lead to improved play and effort. Losers never GET IT. That’s why Bama, Florida, and Mississippi are better teams today. They DO GET IT. NUTT, MEYER, and SABAN are really good coaches and our schools are proud to have them.

By FLA DAWG

December 7, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Gator Fans show once again why few neutral fans will pull for them - worse than being poor losers, they are poor winners. UF is the ONLY SEC Team I do not support.

The Gators have great talent, coaching, recruiting and will likely win the NC. But few fans outside Gator Nation want them to win.

GO SOONERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By UGA fans

December 7, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

are the most BITTER, self-loathing, simpletons on the planet. Good God. I know you are tired of us complaining when you overcook our french fries, but damn….your outlook on life must suck.

By Lowcountry Bulldawg

December 7, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

Tim Tebow is the best player in college football. Incredible to watch that performance. All the Big 12 QB’s can accumulate stats all they want, but Tebow honestly is the best at his position.

As a Dawg fan thats tough to say, but after watching his performance then watching the joke of a Big 12 game you realize just how tough the SEC truly is. Mizzou had NO business being in the game and you could have put TT, Texas or Oklahoma and the score would have been the same.

Congrats to Florida on being the SEC Champs and for the first time EVER I will be pulling for the Gators to shut up the Big 12.

By Run Heap Run

December 7, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Heh.

http://deadspin.com/5103675/closerkkake-those-guys-really-really-like-florida

My thoughts exactly.

I wish I had thought of muting the tv and turning on the radio for commentary.

By BullDawg79

December 7, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Gator Nation I take it you put USC, and the PAC-10, in the same class as Utah and Boise State. I put the PAC-10 in the same class as the other BCS conferfences, with the Conference winner worthy of consideration for a shot at the NC.

Once you establish the criteria for consideration —the BCS conference winners — you then start the process of elimination.

If conference champions have the same number of losses, then head-to-head should be used.

If no head-to-head took place during the year, where did the loss(es) take place.

This leaves us with USC and Oklahoma, both losing on the road, and Florida losing at home.

USC should play Oklahoma.

Maybe the reason Florida and Alabama were rated so highly this year was due to the other competition in the SEC having an overall down year.

By Rocky Gator

December 7, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Folks close to the UF program are saying this next game will be Meyer’s last at Florida. Notre Dame has amassed a huge pot of money and want him on the biggest stage in college football and, most importantly, Urban wants it too. When he went to Gainesville he said that ND is his “dream job” and he’s about to get it. We love him but he deserves to go to the top.

By FLA IS NO GREAT TEAM

December 7, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

FLORIDA IS NOT A GREAT TEAM. GREAT TEAM’S DON’T LOSE TO MISSISSIPPI. AND TEBOW IS NOT EVEN THE BEST QUARTERBACK IN THE COUNTRY MUCH LESS THE BEST PLAYER IN HE COUNTRY. NO HEISMAN FOR TEBLOW.

By Edwardo

December 7, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

This is all mighty entertaining chatter. I haven’t lived in the South for 19 years, and that makes it much easier to sit back and enjoy the fracas. As a long-time Dog, it is no fun to admit it, but Florida has made us and pretty much everyone else their bihatch. But especially us, who had them in the same position 25 years ago. But no more, and I wonder if the tables ever will turn back. As dominant as Georgia’s football team was over Florida, it basically was one national title and some SEC titles, in one sport; the Gators now are looking at maybe a third football national title with two in basketball. They have hit the mother lode, and they’ve done it in the shadow of Georgia’s arches. We live in a different world now, the resources in college football have shifted, and Gainesville is a lot closer to the beach than Athens. Athens is close to … Monroe.

By TampaGator

December 7, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Jason…you are a class act Dawg fan. Comparing Pollack (sp??) to Tebow is dead on. He made Georgia win when he was on that team. Georgia did not have anyone like him or like Tebow this year. As good as he is, Mareno is all about Mareno. So is Stafford. Tebow and company are all about team…and where does that mentality come from…the head coach. In Gainesville, it is about team. In Athens, at least this year, it was about “me”. And it showed in the two team’s performances this year.

By Roderick

December 7, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

The University of Florida is the class university in the conference. Second to none in athletics, and only surpassed by Vanderbilt in academics.

Congratulations to the Gator Football program on a great win.

By Dorsey Hill

December 7, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

Tampalizard,

We can all take something from the wisdom of an idiot who spells Moreno, “Mareno.” Go drown yourself in the Bay jackazz.

As far as grit and toughness, I’d say that Curran, Mo Mass and yes Moreno play with a hell of a lot of heart.

And Tampalizard and the rest of you slimy reptilian morons, Tebow was better last year and you lost 4. This year wasn’t just about Tebow, it was about having a very good D and the other pieces Demps, Rainey, Harvin, etc… that made the spread work like it is supposed to. Yes, you beat Bama without Harvin and Rainey was limited, but you wouldn’t have gotten to the game without them and you won’t win in January if Harvin isn’t back.

By simplythetruth

December 7, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Nice try Rocky Gator… Now go ahead and take another puff…

By Irish87

December 7, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

Enjoy this year and next year Gator Fans.

Tebow Graduates.

Weis sucks once again.

Urban Meyer, new Notre Dame coach 2010.

And all will be right with the football world once again.

By Tebow for Heisman?

December 7, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Who do you all think will win the Heisman this year? Personally, I think it should go to McCoy. I don’t think that will happen though since the BCS screwed over Texas. They lost by 6 in the last second of the game to Texas Tech, and that wasn’t Colt’s fault. Plus they played at Texas Tech. Oklahoma lost by ten to Texas at home. So, in my mind that would make Texas the superior team, but “rules are rules” even if they are dumb as hell.

Colt McCoy for Heisman! Dude completes 78% of his passes! Tebow can only complete a pass if the receivers are wide open. He couldn’t hit a receiver in a tight spot if his life depended on it. I’m not saying his bad, just not good enough for Heisman.

If Tebow gets it again, the media is biased, there is no God, and everything in this world is complete BS.

By Huh?

December 7, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

“As good as he is, Mareno is all about Mareno. So is Stafford.”

That simply could not be further from truth. These are team guys that did everything within their power this year to help the team win. You’re bullsh!t simply isn’t fair and is a flat out lie. I’m tired of hearing this garbage about these guys. I find it especially surpring out of a Florida fan. What Tebow all about Tebow when you went 9-4 last year? Please shut up.

By simplythetruth

December 7, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Notre Dame football…hahahahahahahahahahah Notre Dame University hahahahahahahahahahah Charlie Weiss “buyout” clause.hahahahahahaha Notre Dame degree if you are the recipient of one..hahahahahahahahah

By Roderick, are you KIDDING?

December 7, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

“The class university?” Is that a JOKE? Let me tell you about your “classy” students. Three knuckle-heads in jorts spray-painted my car with a giant gator when I went down to the Ga/Fl game. Four years ago, a few more classy gator fans threw a rock through the windshield of my buddy’s truck. I’m glad we play on a “neutral” field. We’d have to hire an airplane to spray a giant can of Lysol over Athens if they played a home and home. Good God. Those people are the most disgusting group of fans in the SEC by FAR — both to look at and be around.

By Dorsey Hill is a Retard

December 7, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

Moreno DOES NOT PLAY WITH Heart! IF so why does he take himself out of the game? Hate the Gators al you want, they own the over rated mutts and Atlanta too. They will continue to beat Georgia every year.mutt fans know that feeling don’t you all? Keep Mark Richt, never a contender for a national title. Georgia will always be just above average program.

By Irish87

December 7, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Urban Meyer will be the next Notre Dame coach. Bookmark that.

Notre Dame will be back with a vengance. Bookmark that.

Notre Dame degree v U of Florida degree. Are you kidding?

Graduate your players and then we can talk about the difference in education between the two schools.

Actually, keep your players out of jail first…

By Artie

December 7, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

You heard it here first…OU beats UF!!! Both have great offenses (OU’s may be a little better), but OU’s defense is better than UF’s…that’s the difference.

By jumbo

December 7, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Congrats to the Gators for winning the SEC and I’ll be pulling for them on Jan 8.

I wonder where those few Bama fans are today after talking smack the whole season? You know who you are and you are a disgrace to the majority of the Bama fans who have shown class over the years.

I guess you are too juvenile to know that noone in the SEC should talk smack. No one school is going to dominate this league any time in the near future. It is what it is. A great league with 6 programs who will generally be in the mix most years for a conference title.

Geaux Tigers! Go Gators! Go SEC!

By The Truth

December 7, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

This blog is a perfect example of trash talking Gators. I have read numerous congrstulations from Dawg fans but the Gator fans continue their unabated diatribe and insulting comments. Does it really make you feel superior to blog blather with no intelligent content? The truth is that UF has been rated a top 20 school along with UGA among public universities in the USA for many years. Only Vanderbilt exceeds the academic rigors of UF and UGA in the SEC. So, all you Gator fans, please shut up. Your insults only cast your school in a poor light (as well as yourself).

By fred

December 7, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

WHEN YOU WATCH THE GAME YESTERDAY YOU CANT HELP BUT THINK OF WHAT COULD BE IF WE HAD A COACHING STAFF AND COULD KEEP GEORGIA KIDS HOME.BUT IT IS NOT TO BE AND NEVER WILL BE. AT 70 YEARS OF AGE I WILL NEVER LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SEE A GREAT GEORGIA TEAM. THIS UNIVERSITY IS NOT INTERESTED IN GREATNESS GOOD IS GOOD ENOUGHT FOR THEM.

By Notre Dame...What a joke

December 7, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

Why would Meyers want to leave an Elite Program like Florida to go to Notre Dame who is in dire straights.They can’t recuit, nobody wants to play for those losers. Notre Dame tried to get Urban (Mich too) and he turned them down. This past week, again Notre Dame contacted Urban sports agent and again Urban turned them down. Keep dreaming and I bet you still think there is a Santa.

By The Truth is a Liar

December 7, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

Dawgs fans hate to see any team from the SEC have success.Dawgs fans always start the name calling. Everybody in the SEC knows Georgia fans are the worst..I have had drunk Georgia fans talk trash, want to start a fight and then “lets do a cheer together”. That 28 years since your last title is really eating Georgia fans up. Congrad to the Gators for winning the SEC Title and win another nc and make the SEC proud!

By Georgia Who?

December 7, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Great win Florida. I thought this was suppose be the best UGA since 1980 or maybe ever. UGA fans talked trash ever since the preseason #1 ranking.. what happen? ohhhhhh yeah you clowns used the Gators excuse from last year..everybody hurt. Thank god for cmr, UGA will never win a nc title.

By dawgpound

December 7, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Florida got lucky in a down year for the SEc. Florida shouldn’t play for the national title, since they lost to a weak Ole Miss team, while Texa snd OU lost to better teams. If florida lucks out and gets in the title game, OU should beat them easily. Tebow’s luck will have run out! Next year, Stafford and Moreno will come back and the dawgs will rule the SEC—-mark it down!!

By Gator Nation

December 7, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

79bulldawg

Your take that the only the BCS confences should be eligible for national championship consideration canablizes your argument for a USC vs. Oklahoma national title game. Why just the big 6 conferences? Because they play better football. Right? Why is Florida going to get the shot over USC or Penn State (who you failed to mention). They have played a tougher schedule (now that Alabama has been beaten) and are currently playing better football. Watch a game with sliver of objectivity before you open your pie hole. There is a reason the majority of football people disagree with you…….your wrong!

By Dorsey Hill

December 7, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Anybody that has watched Knowshon play knows that he plays at full speed all of the time. I’ve never seen him whine about one injury or have we seen the Bulldog Nation say we lost because he was hurt like the Gators did with Tebow. Those who say that taking himself out is a sign of not being tough are just morons. He gets the same amount of touches every game (around 25). Would you rather the defense know that we’re calling a pass because Knowshon is winded or would you rather have a fresh back in there so the defense has to worry about both pass and run? Most teams have a reliable second team guy that they can start a series with. We didn’t have that. So Moreno pretty much had to start every possession and then make judgments as to when he needed a breather. One of the reasons we attract and will continue to attract top recruits at TB, is because we don’t wear them down and ask them to take 30 to 40 carries a game. Although I think when Knowshon was the only back we could play vs. the gators last year he got 38 carries and looked pretty good doing it. Its not that he can’t he and most people with functioning nervous systems know that doing that all the time is not a good idea.

By Irish87

December 7, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

PLEASE post the link that says ND talked to Meyer’s agent. I hope its true. I hope what was discussed was that Meyer gets his last year with Tebow and ND gives Charlie one shot with his players being upperclassmen.

By UGA Fan

December 7, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

First of all, congrats to a great UF team for the win yesterday. I think UF deserves to win the crystal this year since they have pretty much trounced every team they’ve played; the sole hiccup was the loss to Ole Miss and that was clearly the fault of Meyer since everyone in the stadium and all of the TV observers knew what the 4th down play was going to be (should have thrown a short pass).

Secondly, I have read many of the posted comments and had to just skim over a few that came from morons talking smack. I hate to admit it but the comments surrounding the possibility of an SEC championship (let alone a MNC) for UGA are correct. It will never, ever happen as long as Mark Richt is the UGA HC!! I’m certain that he is a real nice guy and an outstanding family man but he is not a coach who can impart fundamental things such as discipline, character, tenacity, attention to detail or mental focus to his student athletes. That explains why he and his inept coaching staff are unable to get his team up for the big games. All three of the coaches that Richt lost to (Saban, Meyer and Johnson) understand how to prepare a team both mentally and physically; Richt doesn’t have a clue and it shows on the football field. One cannot blame the UGA players as there is no shortage of talent year in and year out. Georgia will continue to be an occasional 10&2 team but more often 8&4 or 9&3.

Finally, as long as the three coaches mentioned above remain at UA, UF and GT they will continue to absolutely dominate UGA. The only question is how many more years the fans and alumni will allow UGA to continue to plod along with Richt and his mediocre staff cronies.

By dawgsux

December 7, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

I have heard all the Ga. fans whin and cry. I heard them brag so much at the beginning of the year. I hear excuses everytime they get beat. I heard a song last night on the way home from watching the Gators capture another SEC Title…and that was “HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW>>>NOW THAT I AM ON MY WAY”….eat your heart out dawg fans. I know it p** you off so bad and you never will admit it…..but Florida ia a pretty dang good football team with players who care and coaches that coach and prepare their team…something you dawg fans haven’t seen in my life time…I am pretty old….hold on to your Herschal memories! Win or lose…we are going to 2 National Championships in two years. I know it hurts your heart and soul….does 17 out of 20 mean anything to you dawg fans?

Go GATORS!

By AJ

December 7, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Bulldawg79 says he struck a cord with Gator fans. That’s hilarious. All he’s done is show how BITTER UGA fans can be. BD79, just be happy that you lost to the future National Champion. Oh, and UF lost to the 3rd best team in the Conference. They beat the 2nd best (UA) and the 4th best (UGA) - not too bad. Losses happen. The computers like USC even less than they like UF. Blame the computers. Let me know if you’re not sure what a computer is.

By gatorsrulle

December 7, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

The only reason you are reading post about Urban going to Notre Dame is that it is from Ga. fans who would LOVE to see him leave because Urban will kick their butts every year….oh I forgot..ZOOK kicked their butts two…. Get a coach and some discipline Ga….then you might contend.

By Gator Nation

December 7, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

Georgia fans hate winners. Georgia fans are whinners and always will be. Georgia fans said they would win it all in 08. Noodle Arm Stafford or Noshow Moreno would win the Heisman.. HAHA

By GatorFan

December 7, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

As a Gator Fan, I admit that Alabama played so well and it was not easy beating them. Also, Gator Receivers caught crucial passes.

Us Gator fans played a tough team and Won. We are all happy and consider that as “NC Game”…No, we do not care to play in NC as OU is not Alabama. Florida had to fight for every thing last night and there was no “gimme”.

UGA Fans - Not sure why you guys keep bringing up Ole Miss loss. No Gator fan is justifying and no Gator fan has forgotten. In a way, it helped the team to be more focussed. Maybe we are better than USC..maybe we are not. But, we played a great game against a great team.

By CarolinaGator

December 7, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

I love to read the whining and crying that we hear from the Dawgs. As Steve S. used to say, “If they love you, that means they are beating you.” We listen to you calling our coach Urban Crier and all that crap. Congratulations, you won last year, but now we will see if the streak starts again. You can’t even go over the ACC because you lost to Tech. When you are winners, then you can gripe all you want, until then…

By WDEnATL

December 7, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

BD79: USC did not beat the #1 team in the nation. Florida has beat two number one teams this year. Did you already forget UGA was #1 at the beginning of the Bama and Florida were the best teams in the country this year. Just man up son and admit your mistake. If not you are the very example of a UGA fan.

By BamaMan

December 7, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

Great game there, crocs. You should have lost it and the refs pretty much gave you a personal foul gift. Stop all of your crowing for a while. Let’s see you man-up and put Alabama on your regular schedule. Nick Saban is a much better coach than Urban Crier and he came extremely close to making Timmy T-Bone cry again a la Ole Miss this year and UGA last year. Nick Saban will assemble a team that will wipe the field with you nasty lizards so just enjoy it while you can. Maybe - just maybe UF will draw a team other than Michigan (who whipped the crocs’ azzes last year) for their bowl game. See you gayturds on the turf next year, ya bunch of chest thumping inbreds.

By Cocky 80

December 7, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

As a Carolina fan I don’t have a dog in this fight but one things for sure: Urban Meyer HAS to drool when he considers he could have his first and ultimate love: Notre Dame. UF fans might wish it would go away and pretend that it will but it won’t. C’mon, his own NBC contract for EVERY game? National recruiting? The chance to bring back the greatest name in college football and to get out of th shadow of Steve? Weiss leaves… HELLOOOOOO Urban! He’d be a fool not to go for the biggest show of all.

By Dorsey Hill is a Moron

December 7, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

After the UGA got blown out by UF, Chip Towers asked Coach Mark Richt about Moreno, Richt said Moreno has the that option taking himself out the game dufuss.

By Carolina Gator

December 7, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Hey BummerMan. I don’t suppose you watched that game closely or you don’t have a clue about the NCAA rules. By the way, talk to the SEC there in Birmingham about the schedule-they make it up. Talk about inbreds—my guess is your kids look like your sister. Saban will be gone in a couple of years to greener pastures and Ala will suck again. Great season, but no chance for a cigar.. You got your butt whipped when the pressure was on. Talk about man-up, you lost so go back to the rest of the trailer trash and maybe your sister will make you feel better.

By bamaguy

December 7, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

You will be seeing a lot of Gator/Tide matchups for the SEC Championship over the next few years. The reason is that Meyer and Saban are the two best recruiters and coaches in the USA.

Roll Tide and GO GATORS, bring the SEC another National Championship!

By Florida Dawg

December 7, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

I hope we can do some great missionary work in 2009…I think backing away from football is what we need to do. What would be a good country to visit this year? Never mind us poor souls trying to hold down the fort in Jacksonville. We will do our best to put on a good game face. Can’t wait to buy Capital One Bowl tickets…think they will be available a few minutes before kickoff.

By bull-gator

December 7, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

I suppose I should be surprised and shocked at these jealousy inspired negative and hateful posts. Fortunately the positive posts outweigh the negative. In any event, the Gators are the SEC Champs and should be congratulated on a hard fought and well deserved win. Alabama has nothing to be ashamed of as they are a class team with loads of talent. They will only get better. As such, I look forward to several more years of this SEC Championship rivalry. Go Gators!

By BamaMan

December 7, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

CarolinaGayturd, you seem to know an awful lot about trailers and incest - comes first hand, huh? Why is it that every single time a hurricane strikes Northern Cuba there are several trailer parks taken out? Jorts strewn everywhere. Storm victims sporting mullets walking aimlessly beside obese women through the rubble. Mouth-breathing inbred offspring following their parents (first cousins) around as they search for precious family treasures (Elvis paintings on black velvet, NASCAR posters and boiled peanut recipes). Pretty sad. Nice state you have there, CarolinaClown. Real nice.

The crying crocs barely got by a very young ‘Bama team and you would realize that if you’d just let the crack pipe cool off for an hour or so, lizard fan. At least you didn’t see John Parker Wilson running to the locker room holding a case of Kleenex at the end of the game!! Why does Timmy T-Bone have to cry when he drops a game? It’s disgusting! What a little sissy boy who has to throw a temper tantrum when he doesn’t get his way. Little pvssy - that’s what he is and the ‘Bama defense let him know they were there. Just wait until Saban starts fielding many more of his recruits. It will be ugly for the gayturd nation, boy. The gayturds will lose their bowl game, dweeb. Oh yes, yes they will.

By Mike T.

December 7, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Why are all you Gator pukes even on this blog? In case you morons forgot it was Bama not the Dawgs you played yesterday. Go to the Birmingham or the Tuscaloosa blogs and talk your trash there. If UF won the NC for ten or twenty years straight it would still be Great to be a Gator Hater. Go Sooners.

By BullDawg79

December 7, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Hey WarDEagle in ATL. I know, like everyone else, who all the teams played, as well as their respective rankings at the time they played them. UGA was definitely overrated compared to the pre-season expectations. Since neither Florida nor Alabama played anyone of significance outside of the SEC, we don’t really know how good they are. The pundits rank them high because they did so well against other teams in the SEC (except Florida, which lost at home to Mississippi). I’ll give USC credit for playing Ohio State and Notre Dame, even if neither team has a premiere squad this year. How many of our SEC teams travel around the country to play the traditional powerhouses?

It is very hard to run the table. But if you are going to claim to be worthy of consideration for playing for the NC, WIN ALL YOUR HOME GAMES!!! The college football atmosphere provides home teams with a significant advantage. Losing at home is a discriminator when comparing teams with equal records.

It really doesn’t matter. Based on the latest rankings, it looks like it will be Florida against Oklahoma. So be it.

By Gregg

December 7, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

You Leghumper fans that love to run your mouth about the Gators are the same ones that criticize your own team for their shortcomings. You’re nothing more than band wagon fans. True football fans know that two very good teams, the best two in the SEC played each other last night. Only one winner and that winner will go on to represent the best conference in college football and will bring a third consecutive NC title to the SEC.

Georgia will never win a NC with CMR at the helm. He is a good coach, a good man but does not have the fire in him to get it done.

By Ga Tech beats UGA@Between the Shrubs

December 7, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

GA Tech beat your overrated mutts @ between the shrubs..take that bulldawg79.

By BullDawg79

December 7, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

Hey Gator Nation Good point. Penn State deserves a shot at the NC over Florida as well.

However, it looks like the polls will have Florida (the home losers) playing Oklahoma. So be it.

By BamaMan

December 7, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

The crocs will LOSE their bowl game. Timmy cry-baby will not make it in the NFL. If Timmy turns on the old tear ducts after an NFL loss then he will get the $heeyit beat out of him in the locker room by real men football players. The NFL is not for crying sissies. Timmy wears orange/blue panties and probably bunks with Urban Crier during road games.

By Darkjuice2

December 7, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Bulldawg mutt 79 keep crying loser. you are typical pathetic UGA loser. Keep crying cause uga football program is average. it’s been like that for twenty eight years, so you used to it. Bama, FLA will continue to play for the sec title. say what you want but you know Bama and UF program is light years ahead of uga. keep paying cmr so uga fans can play in non bcs bowls. now go wipe off the dust of your only nc crown.

By GaYechLoserz

December 7, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

Ga Tech beats UGA@Between the Shrubs, UGA was up 28 - 12 against your inferior team at the half. Don’t try to pretend that you weren’t pretty ticked off at that point. All UGA needs to do now is go out and find a DC who has a clue. You nerds will need to rebuild your entire defense. That was a total fluke of a game. It sure took your lame team long enough (8 years) to post a victory. Enjoy it while you can since your triple-fumble offense will cough it up many more times in 2009. No ACC championship for GT. No BCS bowl game for GT. Just 9-3 and 8-4 seasons in the weak ACC from this day forward. UGA starts the new 7+ streak next year.

By BCS Slave

December 7, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Have you guys seen the BCS rankings today?

Bama still sits at number 1.

UF still sits at number 4

By MarkBradley

December 7, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

BCS Slave, and you still sit there with drool trickling out of the corners of your mouth since you don’t realize that the BCS has not yet been updated. Must be a UF graduate…..geeeez!!!!!

By BCS Slave

December 7, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

Here’s the link to the BCS Standings I just referenced:

(http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/poll?poll=BCS)

By BCS Slave

December 7, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

Here’s the link to the BCS Standings I just referenced:

(http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/poll?poll=BCS)

I can’t believe what I’m seeing.

By BCS Slave

December 7, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

The standings say they were updated Dec. 7, 2008 at 12:23 pm ET. Note that under the coaches poll…it shows Bama’s rank as “4”.

I don’t believe it either.

By bullg8r52

December 7, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this

Tebow is classless because he rouses the UF fans during the game? Gators don’t deserve to be in NC because they lost by 1 to Ol’ Miss at home? Tebow doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath with Herschel? Gators wear jeanshorts? Stafford has no heart?

Really lame stuff. I know a bunch of UGA grads and am confident these dumb comments DO NOT come from GA grads, they are smarter and have more class.

A great win by the Gators over a terrific BAMA team. Congrats to both. I pull for the SEC, period, even UGA when it doesn’t affect the Gators. Have loved the past 20 years, thanks Coach Spurrier!!!

By onedawg

December 7, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

Tech wins 1 out of the last 8 against Georgia, by 3 points, and they act like they own us.

By chazz

December 7, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

Florida owes this game and its season to Tim Teabow. I have made fun of him and bad mouthed him (mainly because the media gushes so), and I am here to tell you. That guy willed and led that team from good to great. While the Georgia players are drinking and fighting, Teabow is in the weight room. Teabow is doing something to make himself better. I don’t think there is any coincidence that he also works to make the world better. Dogs take note. Champions act like champions.

By Burt Gator

December 7, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

bullg8r52, like many Georgia Gators, I am appalled by the continuing level of vulgarity, rudeness and juvenile smack talk on these AJC blogs. I don’t care if you’re a Gator, Tide, Dawg or Taliban fan, many of the blog comments made by alumni and fans are simply beyond the pale. I am embarrassed for the universities, their alumni, their teams and their coaches. The AJC really should do something to filter or otherwise police these blog comments. The First Amendment does not protect vulgarity and obscenity.

I note many of the ridiculous comments and insults directed at Urban Meyer, an outstanding coach who runs a clean program with a great deal of personal integrity and “tough love” concern for his players. Here’s an excerpt from a Fox Sports wire story that reveals a great deal about this much maligned man:

“On the day Mrs. Murphy died, Florida coach Urban Meyer, who lost his mother to cancer nine years ago, walked out of an SEC meeting and hopped on a jet to be with his player. ‘I was there within the hour,’ Meyer said. ‘I think that’s the best thing that any coach can do is to be with the person. You love him and support him and be part of the family.’”

It would be nice if some of the snarkier sports columnists, including Mark Bradley, would show some respect for Coach Meyer and cover stories such as this one.

By Sautee Dawg

December 7, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this

Mark Come on Mark, “Texas should play Florida PERIOD?” UTAH 12-0 should be playing Boise ST. 12-0 in Miami on January 8th. This BCS thing is really a Bowl of S#$t!!! LSU last year with 2 losses and Fla. this year with a loss at home. Alabama and UGA only teams Fla beat this year that were ranked.

By Burt Gator

December 7, 2008 7:14 PM | Link to this

Just STFU, Sautee Dawg. Our team is the best in the entire nation and you know it, butt wipe. The mighty Gators rule the SEC and I’m here to say that we will kick the ever-loving $hit out of whoever we face in the fing bowl game. I was sort of holding back in my earlier post but I’m mad as #ell now. The Gators are here to stay and there’s nothing you flea bags can do about it. F UGA and f* Mark Richt. F* you all in Georgia!!!!!

By Sautee Dawg

December 7, 2008 7:24 PM | Link to this

Once again another year of controversy over an undisputed National Champion in College Football. 2/3 of the BCS rankings comes from human’s voting for which team should be playing when simple math would work much better. USC. Texas, Texas Tech, Florida, Alabama, Oklahoma. All good 1 loss teams. But they are all just that. One loss teams. None had a perfect season. While 2 teams sit there undefeated. 12-0 Utah and Boise St. How hard of a math problem is that?

BCS is a joke. But then we saw that a few years ago with an undefeated Auburn team didn’t we?

By BCS Slave

December 7, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

Check this out:

[http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/poll?poll=BCS]

By bullg8r52

December 7, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this

You got it right, Burt Gator!!! I hate those Georgia fans with a passion! They beat us last year with all of that in-zone celebration and Soldja-Boy horse crap but it has all been dumped at their doorstep, huh? The Gators are here to stay in the SEC and will dominate every team for years to come. That includes the Saban-led wannabees to our west. I do love my Gators!!!! Goooooo Gators!!!!!!!!

By Sautee Dawg

December 7, 2008 7:29 PM | Link to this

Butt Gator

If your the best in the nation why couldn’t you handle Ole Miss in the Swamp? You didn’t have a perfect season. The other 2 teams did, get over it

By Burt Gator

December 7, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

Sautee Dawg, I always suspected it, but I could never prove it——many of these rude, obnoxious and grotesquely unsportsmanlike AJC blog posts are made by the same individual or small handful of individuals. I have NEVER posted on the AJC blogs before tonight. The entry @6:10 PM is actually mine; the entry @ 7:14 PM is someone who has hijacked my blog name the first time I have ever posted on the AJC. Please accept my apologies——the jerk @ 7:14 neither represents me, my alma mater or my fellow Gators.

Mark Bradley & AJC Editors, you really need to clean up your blogs. I posted for the first time tonight, and I will never post again until you take steps to police this vulgar mess that you have allowed to happen. You are permitting a handful of vulgarians to demean your website and its other users. I won’t participate in it.

By Sautee Dawg

December 7, 2008 7:36 PM | Link to this

Burt Gator

I don’t think my earlier post was directed to you, if you’ll notice it was addressed to Mark. You should keep your ignorance to yourself.

By Burt Gator

December 7, 2008 7:41 PM | Link to this

I also assume that the same desperate, juvenile individual who hijacked by blog name @7:14 PM also hijacked bullg8r52’s blog name @7:28 PM.

By bullg8r52

December 7, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this

Sautee…there is a reason non-BCS conferences are not part of the Championship deal.

By your logic, an undefeated Hawaii team from last year should have been in the NC game last year, right??? Wait a second, UGA said the Dawgs should be in the game last year. What’s your story???

The reason the non-BCS conferences aren’t and shouldn’t be in it is because they ARE NOT QUALIFIED. No greater evidence than UGA blowing Hawaii out of the water last year, making UGA fans think the Dawgs were the best team in the nation and worthy of the #1 ranking…which was so obviously incorrect.

By Buck Belue Still Living In The 80's

December 7, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this

I too know about 20 Georgia grads who range from dermatoligists to veternarians and CPA’s. They are all GREAT people and I can vouch for the fact this garbage coming from the flotsam and jetsam are NOT Georgia grads. They MAY have matriculated at Macon County Community College. The ONLY Georgia grad I’ve even suspected of being a MORON is Buck Belue, but I’m sure MOST Georgia grads agee with me. If I might add, IF you want to win you will have to dispatch the facially augmented guy from Boca Raton. He has all the guts of a 7th grade bully. You WILL eventually cut him loose IF MEYER stays because IF MEYEWR stays at Florida the Choir Boy has NO chance. He should have stayed at FSU and maybe by now the cognitively challenged one may have moved on and two birds could have been killed with the same stone.

By bullg8r52

December 7, 2008 7:57 PM | Link to this

Exactly right, some lowlife highjacked “bullg8r52”…in the post beginning “You got it right, Burt Gator!!!”

I didn’t write that, don’t think that way and won’t post again…anything else using that name is bogus.

By G8TR

December 7, 2008 8:04 PM | Link to this

bullg8r52, you are probably right about that except for the fact that you suggested that UGA fans thought the best team in the nation was UGA. The hyped-up media suggested that. The hyped-up media also suggested that we were actually terrorized by Mid-Eastern jet pilots back in 2001. Do you believe that?

By Mr. Gator

December 7, 2008 8:41 PM | Link to this

I HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO BUT…I TOLD YOU SO!!!

I’D LIKE TO THANK UGA, TENN, UK, SC, VANDY, LSU, FSU, & BAMA!!!

TEBOW FOR HEISMAN!!!

IT’S GREAT TO BE A FLORIDA GATOR!!!

AND TO ALL YOU SOONERS, IF YOU AINT A GATOR THEN YOU MUST BE GATOR BAIT!!!

By Research Dept

December 7, 2008 9:02 PM | Link to this

Here are the SEC Championship Game records:

Results by Team

Appearances School Wins Losses Pct Notes

9 Florida 7 2 .778
6 Alabama 2 4 .333
5 Tennessee 2 3 .400
4 LSU 3 1 .750
3 Arkansas 0 3 .000
3 Auburn 1 2 .333
3 Georgia 2 1 .667
1 Mississippi State 0 1 .000
0 Kentucky 0 0 N/A
0 Ole Miss 0 0 N/A
0 South Carolina 0 0 N/A
0 Vanderbilt 0 0 N/A

GATORS = DOMINANCE.

By BT

December 7, 2008 9:29 PM | Link to this

I’m very bias here. You don’t have to live in the south to see just how obnoxious Florida fans are.

First SEC game. Tide fans welcomed me and were incredible. Shared laughs with a some Bulldog and Auburn people too. Took a couple fun jabs when I told them that I went to a non-football school… Pepperdine. Thanks people.

Florida fans on the other hand were rude, foul mouthed, you name it. I could not believe how classless they were. I witnessed the rumors to be true.

I hope OU kills you guys though I could really car less at the end of the day.

By Class?

December 7, 2008 9:40 PM | Link to this

Ah, yes… the old “classless” argument. Go thru this blog and count the following references:

Te-blow Urban Crier Lizards Gayturds Jorts

Those aren’t Gator fans, BT. That’s just a sampling of the jealous crap that we deal with every year from UGA and others. Pot meet kettle.

By gatorsownbulldawgs

December 7, 2008 9:49 PM | Link to this

G8TR - knows darned well that UGA fans were carping like crazy about how they were the best team last year.

BT - Pepperdine my foot. Clearly a bitter gator hater making stuff up. What game were you at where there were GA, Bama and Auburn fans. Bogus.

By CryMeARiver

December 7, 2008 10:19 PM | Link to this

Back in August, most of the fans on this blog “guaranteed a spot in Miami”

If any of you that booked your flights/rooms, do you still have the reservations. I’ll pay good money for them.

For a UGA fan to call ANY other fan clasless is comical to say the least.

I sat with the nicest Bama fans in secion 116 yesterday at the game. There was a mutual respect for both teams and players. I have NEVER witnessed that from a Dawg fan. Yes we both cheered when our teams did good but it was never disrespectful of either team.

By dan

December 7, 2008 10:28 PM | Link to this

This season is like salt in a wound. Of all the teams that had to win the National Championship this year, it had to be Florida! I guess this is pay back for the celebration last year. But in all fairness, the Gators are the best team in the nation this year. I just wish UGA would have played with more heart this year. It really p** me off how bad they played this year. Oh well off to the Capital One Bowl for UGA the benchmark for mediocrity.

By TebowCrier

December 7, 2008 10:42 PM | Link to this

CryMeARiver, you need to just get a life, bozo. Your post is total bull$hit and you know it. Gimme a break. I hope your momma brings down some nice, warm soup to your basement dwelling, nerd. Better hide the PB & PH mags before she gets there, psycho. You were not* at the game yesterday and you’re making all of that $hit up and you know it. Dweeb.

By Mark turns my stomach

December 7, 2008 10:52 PM | Link to this

God Mark, you are such an idiot. Had Bama had any of the 3 good QBs in the big 12, they would have mustered some drives in the 4th. Different outcome

By UGA Booldog

December 7, 2008 10:55 PM | Link to this

dan, you are right. You sound pretty gay. I’d really like to meet you and so would all of my gay pals. Let’s get together in a nice, classy motel down in Florida (Motel 6) so we can kweer off and just be gay. We are Gayturd Nayshun and we are gay and here to stay!! Yesssth!!!!

By DanMakesMeSwoon

December 7, 2008 11:17 PM | Link to this

Dan….oh, Dan. I love you, honey. I am a Gator fan and it sounds like you are too. I am also gay and it sounds like you are too. I know most people down there in Florida are gay just like us, Dan. Tell me, do you have a trailer where we can just kweer off together? I suppose that you do unless the most recent hurricane took it out. Dan…..oh, Dan. I am just dreaming about one day signing my name “Ms. Dan” because then we will be happily joined together. Let’s move to San Francisco, Dan. I’ll be your ‘Ms. Dan’ and you can even slap me while we’re doing the wild thing, sweetie. Yesth, you’d like that, wouldn’t you honey? Oh, Dan…..oh, Dan…….yesssth…..oh, Dan!

By TimmyTebown

December 8, 2008 12:02 AM | Link to this

Tell ya what, you gay fans have me all fired up again! Yeah, we’re all gay and very liberal down here in Florida. We voted in a socialist for our next president so what does that tell you?

As for sleeping arrangements during our UF away games, coach told me to not say anything about that. Coach Meyer also told me not to say that we are in love. Oh, yes. Did you see us on the sideline in the SECCG yesterday? I love coach Meyer and he loves me. We cry together. We cry a lot. Yep, that’s what we do down here in liberal Florida. We cry. Yessth, we love to cry. Coach Meyer took me back to the locker room and washed me in the shower after the game. I love coach Meyer and he loves me. Maybe I’ll get in trouble for posting all of this but I don’t care anymore. We have cried a lot of tears together and held each other through the rough times. I like the way Urban holds me - a very manly hold. I just love coach Meyer so much!!! I have to go now because I’m crying again. I cry very often as you UF fans know.

By bubbav

December 8, 2008 12:07 AM | Link to this

I don’t know which is better…going to Miami for the NC game or realizing that UGA is considered the worst pre-season number 1 in 40 years.

By Crymeariver

December 8, 2008 12:25 AM | Link to this

Well UrbanCrier, since for some reason, MB or the AJC won’t let me post a tiny pic URL, I guess I can’t show you my scanned tickets. We were in the Lower Level section 116 Aisle L21 row 25. They were great tickets.

I can tell you that we sat behind some really sweet couple with their grand-daughter who was decked out in bama gear. The whole family was. I had as much fun watching her as I did watching the game.

I really don’t care if you “think” I was at the game or not. I do KNOW that Eric Zeier was given some phoney baloney award and was BOOOOOed during the ceremony - just as some Auburn player was.

Wait till next year - right???

By KJ

December 8, 2008 7:29 AM | Link to this

*Back in August, most of the fans on this blog “guaranteed a spot in Miami” *

LOL, exaggerate much?

I can tell you that we sat behind some really sweet couple with their grand-daughter who was decked out in bama gear. The whole family was. I had as much fun watching her as I did watching the game.

You should probably get some therapy for that, sicko.

By BT

December 8, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this

Class?: That was no argument I was making. Please read my blog again if you are going to comment. This was a straight out fact by a nuetral observer. Your getting defensive because it’s true. If if was not true you would have not responded like you did. Even in the airport this am I’m running into gator people that just can’t win with class. It’s just my opinion and we all know what opinions are. However, this opinion is brought on by an observation. I’m sure not ALL UF people are like this, but a ton of them are.

By gatorsownbulldawgs

December 8, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

bubbav…great point. Going to the NC is best, but here are some others worthy of consideration:

Listening to UGA fans talk about having the all-time series lead over UF (which is exclusively based on domination by UGA pre-1950).

Seeing the hope build at UGA…we’re back, we’re the best, blah, blah, blah, yap, yap, yap…to be demolished once again by a humiliating loss in Jax.

Hearing UGA fans talk about how unfair Jax is…they sure loved it in the 70’s and 80’s.

Hearing UGA fans use the formerly Gator bitter saying “Wait til next year”.

Hearing UGA fans talk about UF being not much of a team without Tim Tebow and telling them that is like saying UGA was nothing but Herschel Walker in 80-82.

Getting to hear UGA fans cheer for BAMA, f$u, USC and the HBC…anyone please beat the Gators and do the work that the mutts CANNOT get done.

Listening to GA fans suck on the “Gators wear jeanshorts” pacifier. An absolute lie but whatever gets you through the day.

Getting to say to the mutts…”One in a row” every 6-7 years when they win a game against the Gators.

Listening to GA fans deride Tech for being dilusional when they win a single game after so many losses (see above LOL).

Seeing the GA section empty at the beginning of the 4th quarter in Jax. Everybody gone except the players’ families and the band. Nice support of your team. Reminds me of 1995 in Athens…HBC responding the GA complaints of running up the score “Not sure what they were upset for, about all there was in the stands in the 4th quarter were Gators”.

So much good stuff! It’s great to be a Florida Gator!!!

By Sautee Dawg

December 8, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

Burt Gator

My point was, what’s going to happen and it could whenever we have a season where, FLA. USC. Texas, West Virginia. Ga Tech. Ohio St. all these teams go undefeated who’s going to be left out in the cold then and if it were your schools program being left out how would you feel about it? I’m just stating the fact that Utah and Boise St. are feeling disrespected right now probally. You know how Urban Meyer would feel if he were still coaching Utah. LEFT OUT

By gatorsownbulldawgs

December 8, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

BT - I did read you post. Fact? Spare me. You go to any SEC school and you’ll see both class and poor behavior…I’ve been to them all. I’ve seen both at Michigan, Texas, OU, Va Tech, f$u, Miami as well. Mix passion, youth, rivalries and you’re going to see some good and not so good stuff…especially when you pour on the alcohol.

Your generalization is akin to me saying everyone from the west coast if a leftist, liberal, tree hugging socialist.

By Kinggator

December 8, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

I think Bear Bryant once said during his reign at Alabama, that Florida was a Sleeping Giant!! He knew the potential was unreal down here, and it fianlly appears to be coming to fruition.

By Dawghead

December 8, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

I no longer hate Urban Meyer. He’s not a jackhole. He could have done something much more classless than the two timeouts in Jacksonville. It was subtle, justifiable payback. He’s a great coach and leader. And, he happens to have the best college football player in America on his team. Gators will win because Tebow won’t let them lose.

That said, Go Dawgs!

By warhorse

December 8, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Things are back to normal. Poodle fans reduced to talking about sportsmanship (the most penalized team in America) and academics (a school that admitted folk who applied with crayons until a few years ago).

Normalcy has been restored — the Gators rule and the poodles make puddles. All is right with the world.

By athensdawg

December 8, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

until uga gets the same tougness as alabama and florida, we will always be at best the 3rd best team in the sec.

as i see it, here is the sec landscape at the end of this season…

florida and bama are the class of the league.

uga has the opportunity to step up…but until our players stop wearing skirts and start wearing football uniforms it aint gonna happen. our defense has to stop taking tackling lessons from deion sanders.

until then, we better get used to credit card bowls and steak bowls on new years day.

tennessee just hired their version of ray goff. kiffin is a politician, not a football coach. maybe his daddy can help him…

who knows if auburn is going to get a coach?

les ‘have a nice day’ miles has run out of nick saban’s talent and better start recruiting.

ole miss is going to be a sleeper in the west as long as houston nutt is there.

spurrier may sneak in there and win an sec east title after tebow leaves….but until then, he’ll be happy with 7 wins and playing golf at augusta.

By Switch Coaches

December 8, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Would SEROIUSLY like to ask the Georgia fans—If Meyer would have coached Georgia and Richt coached Florida, what would have happened this year. With both rosters remaining the same—I say Georgia wins with Meyer.

By Red Elephant

December 8, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Congratulations Florida! We gave you a good game, but you were just too deep for us. Win another NC for the SEC! Roll Tide.

By Missman

December 8, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Don’t you suspect that Stoops will be talking to Houston Nutt of Ole Miss — the only coach who knows how to beat Florida — much over the next month?

By gt4ever

December 8, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

Nick Chick

I agree with you 100 percent. It seems that Tebow can act any way he feels…. It’s absurd to watch a football player demonstrate a total disregard for the other team, pure and simple act of selfishness, and totally CLASSLESS! Somebody(THE COACH) needs to tell TEBOW that there are cheerleaders at the game to motivate the fans! I can’t imagine anybody else allowed to exhibit such a lack of good sportsmanship! UNBELIEVABLE!

By Brad

December 8, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

First, to Mark… I’ve been hard on you this season for the Gator-hate you have vomitted over the years. If I’m going to be quick to criticize you for constantly hurling insults at UF, I should be just as quick to give you credit for praising them. For that, I say thank you… it was probably very hard on you… I’ll send you a fruit basket.

For all the UGA fans spewing your bitterness on this blog, I think it is nothing more than a sweeping case of what experts are now calling ‘Jorts Envy.’ This epidemic has spread quickly throughout the Bulldog nation, espcially on or around November 1st, 2008. If you have a loved one who you believe to be suffering from ‘Jorts Envy,’ you are encouraged by the CDC to call their toll free number at (800) GO-GATORS or go to your nearest sporting goods store to purchase a ‘University of Florida 2008 SEC Championship’ tee shirt… or any orange and/or blue article of clothing. Symptoms of ‘Jorts Envy’ include excessive blogging, a collection of clothing that is red and/or black, displaced anger that can lead to random and violent temper tantrums, impaired driving (particularly while listening to Sports Talk Radio), road rage, specific sexual side effects (attraction to one’s sister, vice versa), self mutilation, excessive drinking and/or drug use, installing excessively large tires on one’s pick-up truck, specific birth defects, excessive use of chap-stick, and explosive diahrrea. The CDC emphasizes the seriousness of this situation and encourages everyone to take immediate action if you suspect that you or a loved one has come in contact with someone with ‘Jorts Envy,’ as it is extremely contagious. The CDC also has released a statment that warns against going anywhere near the Athens/ Clarke county area, as it is now considered ‘beyond salvage.’ If you must venture into this infected area, the CDC encourages you to proceed with extreme caution.

By gatorsownbulldawgs

December 8, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

You guys banging on Tebow for stoking the Gator fans are a bunch of losers. What’s the deal when your players do that??? Oh yes they do (answer to your lying response).

You are so jealous the smoke is coming out of your ears.

GO GATORS!!!!!

By gt4ever

December 8, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

As indicated by Brad’s above rhetoric, you UF fans rank very close to the UGA fans as the WORST fans in the NATION…. Your gators will no doubt be the NC this year in football, it’s just a shame that fans like you can’t be acknowledged for what you really mean to the sport of football….

By DawgGirl32

December 8, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

As a UGA grad I am beyond jealous of UF fans right now. My expectations for the year were not met and UF’s were exceeded. Congrats to them on a great year. I hope my dawgs can see a year like that in the future and I honestly think that Mark Richt can take us there.

On another note, please represent the SEC well, Florida, in that NC game, fans included. I’ll be a Gator fan for that day. (Did I just say that?)

By Blognostibator

December 8, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

U R very passionate, DawgGirl32, but you do not peruade. At least the cops removed your sister from the game after she incited those two innocent girls from Jax into girls-gone-wild behavior.

Your sister sounds like one of the rare chicks who should never have been tricked into putting on a beer hat at a tailgate party. I think maybe she should concentrate on ALTA tennis and short white skirts, because she is most certainly a spandex-challenged latent botox abuser.

By Brad

December 8, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

DawgGirl32,

In all seriousness, I apologize for my post. And I apologize for the experiences you had with some mentally disturbed Gator fans… that’s pretty horrifying, actually. I will say, however, that I’ve been a Gator fan living in Georgia my whole life and I have encountered some situations with UGA fans over the years (i.e. last year when I went with some friends to the race, which just happened to be the day after UGA won) where I feared for my own personal safety, so I think that what you are referring to is unfortunately common across the board. Auburn fans, however, have, in my experience, been a refreshing exception. I have always said that my favorite group of opposing fans are from Auburn. Unfortunately (and I mean this as no disrespect to you), Georgia fans tend to be worse than any group of fans I’ve encountered b/c of the kinds of posts you see above (not that mine is much better, but I assure you that I talk trash not to be insulting, but to have a little fun… to me, it’s all part of it). I have several friends who are UGA fans (by-product of being a life-long GA native) and we are always jawing at each other in much the same way you see in my previous post.

I guess my point is this; if you’re going to blog, you might consider growing a thicker skin. These message boards are chalk full of this kind of drivel. And if anyone ever walks up and moons you, Gator, Dawg, or otherwise, it is completely acceptable (and possibly encouraged) to drop kick them in the bear a$$. Just some friendly advice. :))

gt4ever,

I sincerely apologize for having offended your delicate sensibilities. I wasn’t aware that Tech actually had any fans, so I can’t really comment on your contribution to college football fandom. At any rate, that was a great win for you guys in Athens… it really opened my eyes about what Paul Johnson is accomplishing there. You and your friends should get ready for some pretty good football in the coming years… hope y’all can handle athletic success at Tech… it might interfere with study time for exams, but I’m sure you’ll figure it out… after all you do go to Tech, which makes you smarter than 99 % of the rest of us (and that’s no joke).

Anyway, both of you take care. Just know that anything said from this Gator is not meant to be taken seriously.

Go Gators!!

By DawgGirl32

December 8, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Blognostibator- A “spandex-challenged latent botox abuser?” I bet you thought that was really funny.

Brad- actually I thought your “jort envy” post was semi-humorous, much better than the posts I was referring to. My post was intended for the above comments that aren’t even funny. If you can make it at least clever, it’s fine. Urban Crier, Timmy Teblow, and UGAy can only be funny so often. Like once. It’s getting pretty old. I just feel like I hear the same comments over and over again about who’s better than who and it would be more fun for me to read if they were actually funny and/or accurate. :) I don’t care about how “mean” the comment is just as long as it’s not the same old “you’re gay” or “you suck” stuff that we’ve heard since middle school. Blognostibator’s post is a prime example. See his above post about my “sister.” Anyways, I’ll be rooting for the Gators against OU. Here’s hoping the Dawgs can represent the SEC well in our bowl game…

By heeldawg

December 8, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

AJ: Just to clarify, Florida lost to the fourth best SEC team, not the third. Ole Miss had a worse overall record, worse SEC record and worse final BCS standing than Georgia. Since the two did not meet head-to-head, these objective criteria are all we have to go by. I think it’s clear that Georgia was the SEC’s third best team. That’s not saying a lot this year, but it is what it is.

Warhorse: I’ll concede the sportsmanship point. We had a problem with penalties this season (often those of the stupid, drive-prolonging variety). But by the same token, the league’s second-most penalized team was…Florida. So pot, meet kettle.

And the academic comment was really unjustified. Only three SEC schools have been ranked among the top universities in the country: Vanderbilt (of course), Florida and Georgia. The “crayon” comment was completely inaccurate for a school with an SAT average of 1280 and average high school GPA of 3.75 for this year’s freshman class—not to mention the best Honors program in the south, and the school with the most Academic All-Americans in the history of the SEC.

Finally, once again, congrats to the Gators and the Tide for outstanding seasons. Call me an optimist, but I think this season will be instructive for Georgia. Hopefully, it will teach them all why football is a true team sport.

Lastly, I’ll concede that Tim Tebow—Heisman or not—is the best college football player in America. He proved it Saturday.

But he’s still no Herschel.

By BT

December 8, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

gatorsownbulldawgs:

I was curious when getting home from Atlanta today to see if anyone corresponded to my post. To be told, the friends that I stayed were Vandy grads. Don’t get so full of yourself thinking that only UGA people talk bad about you. You represent MOST of the Florida people I ran into during my visit to Atlanta. Very arrogant, rude and CLASSLESS!!!! I can give a flip about UGA. Not much of a going concern.

gatorsownbulldawgs: my guess is that the truth hurts because your post back to myself was absurd. Get a life my friend and stop being so parsimonious with the few brain cells you have left in that tiny little cranium you have. First and last time I’ll be posting here.

Parting shot: GO SOONERS!!!

By gatorsownbulldawgs

December 8, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this

BT - you come on here, make generalizations and trash all Florida people and then are offended and start calling names when there’s pushback? Really???

My post was absurd? You saying so doesn’t make it so. What about it was absurd, that there are some obnoxious fans at all the schools I mentioned??? You think we have a corner on it…now that is absurd!

Glad you are gone and your parting shot was nothing.

By gatorinnewnan

December 9, 2008 7:16 AM | Link to this

UGA National Champs - Nope SEC Champs - Sorry SEC East Champs - Not this year State Champs - Opps

LOL

By Blognostibator

December 9, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

Mark Bradley opened his piece about the Gators with a crock. (hi mom). “Aggregation for the Ages”. The stupefying alignment of ill-fitted alliteration knocked him sideways, and his venture never recovered. The poor Dawg probably spent a half hour looking at the dictionary. He wanted it so bad he had to force it. Never force a bit. Ever. It’s like wasting a time out.

Then he describes the collapse of the Alabama defense, but doesn’t explain why. Does he possess so superficial an understanding of momentum swing, that any tipping point, no matter how obvious, eludes him?

I wont lecture about how every play must address the three great questions that have been handed down to us all by the ten trillion plays that came before it in the history of electric football, where all of today’s offensive schemes were born. I wont remind anyone that if you crimp the little plastic thingie underneath the little plastic player, he will turn in a large circle, perfect for the end sweep, and a sure six. I certainly dont need to reminisce about how loud your mother would yell if you played electric football in the living room. “Get that damn thing out of here!”

No, Mark Bradley must have been a deprived child, his parents unable to afford an electric football game.

And I think it’s a damn shame.

By typical bulldawg fan

December 9, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Urban cryer and timmy teblow are the luckiest bunch of babies in college football!

Florida is a bunch of Jort wearing mullet heads that are loud rednecks

Florida is the Jeff Gordon of college football

UGA is the best and Florida is just lucky

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

By auggator22

December 9, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

BullDawg79 - you say uf shouldnt play in the national championship game because they lost a home game. Are you not a fan of the same team that felt they should have played in the big game last year, eventhough, you (A) lost 1 home game to carolina (B) lost 1 away game to tenn and (C) didnt even represent your division in the sec title game…Wow, sure funny how opinions can change in a year.

By Baby Jesus

December 9, 2008 9:56 PM | Link to this

I, baby Jesus, am going to give Tim Tebow the Heisman and the Gators another National Championship for Christmas.

Merry Christmas to All!

By And the hate continues...

December 10, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Kill the blogs…. not one of these blogs have any meaningful content. You people need to quite wasting your bosses money and get back to work or go to scool. Grow Up!!!!

By ted

December 10, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Being a loyal Dawg fan for years and a bit of a Gator Hater, had to pull for the Tide, but I have to tip my hat to the Gators. Tim Tebow is a great football player who willed them to a victory. The Gators are going to do to the Sooners just exactly what they did to a constantly overrated Big 10 school a couple of years ago. Those Big 12 QB’s are talented but that entire conference has defenses rated in the bottom 30 out of 119 Div 1 schools and they leave their starters in till the end with 40 point margins…talk about padding stats!!! Yo Sooners, we are about to welcome another media hyped overrated team to another beatdown by a defense you haven’t come close to seeing all season, another SEC championship. And USC top 5? They get to play 9 Mississippi State teams year in and year out!!! My God, with that schedule, Vandy would be undefeated or at least 8-1 in that incredible conference. PAC 10, what a joke!

By Zeb

December 10, 2008 9:33 PM | Link to this

Ted, to you and all my Bulldog brethern out there, as much as I hate the Gators, they have represented the SEC in a great way. I work with an Alabama fan who is as obnoxious as they come. I hope the Gators kick the sh!t out of the Sooners……..do you know how hard that is for me(and a ton of bulldawgs) to say???? But seriously, you guys took care of business and deserve the chance to play in this game. I wish you guys nothing but good luok and please take care of Oklahoma.

By newnan tide

December 11, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

Of all the 1 loss teams bama has the ‘best loss’ to a #2 gator team…this bcs system is a joke, how can you not even have the big 10, pac 10 even play a championship game. If that was the case in the sec, we would be champs and playing for all the marbles. But ‘it is what it is,’ congrats gators on a big win tebow is a special player enjoy him while you have him. Give saban 1 or 2 more of his recruiting classes and we can match you step for step.

By 78 DAWG

December 11, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

The DAWGS lost 2 games (Yech doesn’t count cause we didn’t care) because of bad luck and bad officiating and suddenly the gayturds are great? lmao Gimme a break.

By gvblack

December 11, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Reports from Orlando are that Auburn has asked permission to speak to UCF coach George O’Leary about their opening. When asked about the resumé fiasco, AU AD Jay Jacobs reported said “We are looking for a Head Football coach, not an English professor”.

By Tripper

December 12, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

It’s been more than a week since Mark Bradley has published a column. I think all that Gator lovin’ made him sick…

Get well soon, at least in time for next year’s Jacksonville beat down!

By turkey

December 15, 2008 12:11 AM | Link to this

Florida is light years away from Georgia. Meyer will do what it takes to win. Just think Florida has almost the whole team back and Georgia is going to lose its offensive firepower and with Willie Martinez as DC, oh my.

By Dawg

December 20, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

There was a time that the only thing Florida was great at was landing on probation. Most Gators these days don’t even know that Florida has been on probation more than once and they don’t want to talk about anything that happened before 1990 when Spurrier arrived. I can’t blame them because nothing happened in the 90 years prior to his homecoming. It’s time to go back to the future!

By Dawg

December 20, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

There was a time that the only thing Florida was great at was landing on probation. Most Gators these days don’t even know that Florida has been on probation more than once and they don’t want to talk about anything that happened before 1990 when Spurrier arrived. I can’t blame them because nothing happened in the 90 years prior to his homecoming. It’s time to go back to the future!

By FLA DAWG

December 22, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

Florida may indeed win the NC. But as well as Bama has played, they are no Oklahoma.

Oklahoma over Florida in a smashmouth game.