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DEL.ICIO.USFootball picks that won’t get you fired, even at Auburn
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In the fastest anybody at Auburn has moved since reports of grade-fixing two years ago led to the disappearance of files, computers, desks, cellphones, a half-eaten sandwich, secret whistles only linebackers could hear and adjunct professors who suddenly found themselves in Cabo San Lucas answering only to the name “Pablo,” Tommy Tuberville fired his offensive coordinator this week.
Auburn’s offense ranks 104th in the country, just behind Mississippi State and one spot ahead of the 1869 Rutgers team, who are all dead. So there is some explanation of the sky-is-falling panic.
Imagine if Tuberville coached in Knoxville. There wouldn’t be anybody left except for Phil Fulmer, who has 97 lives, largely because he eats all of his vegetables and maybe the table.
Fulmer hasn’t been fired yet. Tennessee is 2-3, but you can’t assume anything until after the Georgia game. The Vols won the past two years 51-33 and 35-14. Eighty-six points in two games? Methinks Fulmer needs to put Willie Martinez in his will.
No talk of jersey color in Athens this week, just limiting penalties to a few simple assaults. That’s a start.
The line is 12 1/2. Seems like a lot. For a bye week does wonders for the ego, and PumpkinHead is running out of good-luck charms. Dogs cover.
GameDaze
• Lunch at Tech: Poor Jackets. They can’t crack the Top 25, and now they’re stuck playing Gardner-Webb because the scheduled opponent, Army, retreated. Maybe next time Tech should pre-schedule a tougher outfit. Like the Salvation Army. Or the Swiss Army. They can put up a good fight, and all they’ve got is a bottle opener and a plastic toothpick. Where was I? No official line. We’ll set it at 27 1/3 and call it a cover. G-W gets $300,000 for medical expenses.
• LSU at Florida: Tim Tebow spent part of spring break last year in the Philippines, helping circumcise impoverished children. Is it just me, or is his coach, Urban Meyer, suddenly calling plays like a nervous Moyel? Gators have lost their bite — and they’re going down at home. Take the seven, but LSU pulls an upset.
• Arkansas at Auburn: Know the biggest difference between Bobby Petrino now and every other year? He already wants another job; he’s just not getting offers anymore. (I’m sure there will come a day when Petrino jokes get old. On second thought, probably not.) Tigers by 19? Hey 19, we can dance together.
• Oklahoma vs. Texas: A Longhorns upset and Alabama probably slides into the top ranking. My ears hurt just thinking about it. And so: Okie covers 6 1/2.
Pros and Ex-Cons
• Bears at Falcons: The Falcons are 3-2, which means if they go 7-4 in the next 11 they’re in the playoffs, which means the next president should be able to balance the budget in his first 17 months, give or take a week, depending on how quickly Sarah Palin realizes a frozen mooseburger tailgate fundraiser on Dupont Circle probably isn’t going to cut into the deficit much, even if she is hotter than Arlen Specter. The Falcons are a nice story. But they’re not there yet. Michael Turner leads the league in rushing. Chicago leads the league in dismembered running backs. You can fantasize, but: Bears cover 2 1/2.
• Cowboys at Cardinals: Adam “Pacman” Jones got into a fight with the security guard whom the Cowboys assigned to babysit him, and it just happened to be in the same hotel where Roger Goodell was staying. Think of: running over a policeman’s foot. Still: Boys cover 5.
• Raiders of the Lost Mind: If everybody bought Al Davis shots on Bourbon Street this weekend and then ditched him in a transvestite strip club in the Quarter, do you think he’d make more sense the next day? Saints cover 7 1/2.
• Packers at Seahawks: Before Seattle turns over the coaching reins to Jim Mora next season, they might want to notice that his secondary has only one interception in four games and the defense ranks 27th. Take the Cheese and two on the road.
You will bow
• Last week: I was so pretty. (8-4 straight up; 7-4-1 against the line.)
• Overall: Kinda treading water. (38-21 straight up; 28-29-2 against the line.)
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Comments
By Grant Field of Wet Dreams
October 9, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this
Don’t kid yourself. The only reason that Tech is playing Gardner - Webb is because Agnes Scott was already booked.
That plus The Georgia Academy for the Blind does not field a team.
Techies claim Tech at 4-1 would be rated if they were in any other conference. If Tech were in any other conference they would be 1-4.
By Backroads
October 9, 2008 8:32 PM | Link to this
“PumpkinHead is running out of good-luck charms.” Great line! One of the best article Jeff has ever written. Jeff are you sure you wrote this one?
By smartguy
October 9, 2008 9:58 PM | Link to this
Grant Field, good one, you are funny. I liked the line about Agnes Scott. I laugh at that one for days. Don’t forget your black shirt this weekend.
By Andrew
October 9, 2008 11:13 PM | Link to this
Just watched Clemson- boy are they dreadful. The ACC is awful this year, and both Bowdons need to find something else to do. Tech is decent, but has played no one, and may not play anyone until they lose in Athens.
By Dean George Griffin
October 9, 2008 11:19 PM | Link to this
Jacksonville State, Gardner-Webb … who’s next week? Truett-McConnell?
By Gen Neyland
October 9, 2008 11:22 PM | Link to this
Jeffy
When are you ever wrong..? Don’t answer that, don’t have the time. You may fall out on this one but regarding UT-UGA, I think you’re onto something. ‘Course I’ll be pulling for the Vols but my head speaks over my heart…The guess here is CPF will be given the year to make amends. Season’s end will tell the tale…Just to keep us honest and on track to agree to disagree, UT 17-UGA 16…
By Matt the Brave
October 10, 2008 1:10 AM | Link to this
backroads, how long have you been reading these articles? They are about the only thing to read on Fridays in the Sports section, especially now that Braves baseball is done for the season. Get with it, man!
By Denver Dawg
October 10, 2008 1:51 AM | Link to this
Jeff:
“Methinks Fulmer needs to put Willie Martinez in his will.”
CLASSIC! Actually, a lot of coaches need to put Willie their wills. He does a great job of devising sh1tty gameplans.
By Bamafan
October 10, 2008 4:51 AM | Link to this
Dawgs will play its best game of the season and kick the big pumpkin back to knoxville. I want to see Phat Phil get fired this year!! GO DAWGS!!
By gamecock
October 10, 2008 6:00 AM | Link to this
anything over 10 though they would see the day when a wake forest win over clemson is headined as “deacons avoid upset with narrow win”.
By DawgSpanky
October 10, 2008 6:37 AM | Link to this
It’s amazing that three of the dirtiest college football programs- the barn, UGAy and the viles continue to field football teams. The gutless wonders from the ncaa are too busy massaging Kim Kardashian’s big a* right now to take notice.
By GaDawg
October 10, 2008 7:14 AM | Link to this
Garner-Webb, that will get the bugs in the top 25, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, what would even be funnier would be a bug loss. ACC not over rated just not rated! GO DAWGS!
By AlabamaJack
October 10, 2008 7:21 AM | Link to this
Don’t kid yourself. The only reason that Tech is playing Gardner - Webb is because Agnes Scott was already booked.
No, we just wanted to beat three sets of bulldogs in one year.
By Old Dawg
October 10, 2008 7:26 AM | Link to this
As usual, funny and pithy article. Loved the Steely Dan reference. Very clever!
Go Dawgs!
By Not a beeliever - yet
October 10, 2008 7:32 AM | Link to this
El Jeffe’ - Thanks for attempting to remind the ignorant masses that the G-W game being on the schedule was NOT in the plan nor was it the fault of Tech. Nevermind that no one bothers to listen. Tech is benefitting from a third straight week off and getting the troops well for a stretch run. To be honest, I’m not sure Army would be that much stiffer competition at this point.
Funny that the puppies like to point fingers at Tech playing Jacksonville State and G-W, but fail to remember that their pitiful schedule so far has been padded with the likes of UGA@Statesboro and Central Michigan Community College.
Anyone that watched the ESPN game last night realizes that the Bowden’s need to go, Tommy first and Babblin’ Bobby next. Actually Bobby has all but gone already. Jimbo Fisher is running the team in Tallahatchee. Bobby just stands on the sidelines and mumbles to a student assistant that’s been assigned to empty his drool cup every 10 minutes.
It’ll be interesting to see the coaching carousel at the end of this season. Phat Phil, Tommy Tooberville, and Bowden all appear to be on the hot seat. Maybe one of those “Pablos” down in Cabo will return to coach an SEC team. Habla Espanol??
By GaDawg
October 10, 2008 7:42 AM | Link to this
NBY, I would like to see Yeck play GA. Southern! I beleive that’s an (L) in the bug column. But you got to admit, playing G-W, there’s no one on the DAWGS schedule like that, thats a non-game.
By kennyh
October 10, 2008 7:44 AM | Link to this
I believe the dawgs should wear pink..it suits them.. go Vols Go!!
By Not a beeliever - yet
October 10, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this
GD,
This battle cry is getting old and only serves to show the ignorance of anyone raising it as an issue.
Why lend your program’s credibility to another program when you have nothing to gain by it and everything to lose?
Tech would be stupid to play them and UGA is too dumb to realize that what they are doing by playing them.
If Tech plays UGA@Statesboro, the UGA@Statesboro recruiters use that fact when they go out and try and recruit in-state talent. See….you can come here, be a star and still get to play against the big boys.
God help you guys if you ever have a one-in-a-million bad day and lose to them.
By playing them, you are hurting your own program and you are playing with dynamite and are too ignorant to realize it.
If GSU wants to play against D1A competition, let them do what others (e.g., MTSU, UAB) have done, have the cajone’s to step up and become a D1A program. Otherwise, sit down in the onion patch, play Wofford and UTC and Shut the “F” up!
By lakerat
October 10, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
regarding Phat Phil, the last line should have said “Pumpkinhead is running out of good Lucky Charms”
By yellowblood
October 10, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
The team is relaxed and playing well. It’s all because Paul has allowed the players to relax and have some fun at our Tickle Piles.
By GaDawg
October 10, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this
NBY, that’s the most ignorant thing I’ve read this morning. If Yeck had any cajone’s they wouldn’t be affraid to play them. At least they don’t have to give hotdogs away to fill their stadium! but playing powerhouses like G-W should really packem in.
By 1eyedJack
October 10, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
Not a beeliever - yet
Maybe you guys recruit the same athletes as Ga. Southern but we don’t.
By the way Jax ST. and Gardner-Webb are not even in the same ballpark as Ga. Southern and C. Mich, both of which have won championships. Bugs suck.
Go DAWGS!!
By Jack Mehoff
October 10, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
Kennyh…..I’m sure the only thing pink around here is your panties. Go take some pyridium so you will be able to pee orange this week like those other ignorant Volunqueers.
By Not a beeliever - yet
October 10, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this
GD, your response just shows how ignorant you and your kind are.
Like a child on a playground, you equate bravado with prudence. Refusing to engage a lesser opponent has nothing to do with “being affraid.” (Your spelling shows your own lack of intelligence, pup.) It has everything to do with not wasting time and effort on pursuits that offer you NO benefit.
Play Central Michigan Community College and UGA@Statesboro all you wish. It only serves to drag down your own program.
Did you not watch your own ranking go down at the beginning of the year due to the hit on your strength of schedule from playing these chumps????
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m personally against EVER Tech playing ANY D-1AA opponent (and I don’t care that they call it something else now, they are still D-1AA and always will be).
Call Michigan and see how they feel about playing Appalachian State again.
What an idiot!
By Not a beeliever - yet
October 10, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
GD, your response just shows how ignorant you and your kind are.
Like a child on a playground, you equate bravado with prudence. Refusing to engage a lesser opponent has nothing to do with “being affraid.” (Your spelling shows your own lack of intelligence, pup.) It has everything to do with not wasting time and effort on pursuits that offer you NO benefit.
Play Central Michigan Community College and UGA@Statesboro all you wish. It only serves to drag down your own program.
Did you not watch your own ranking go down at the beginning of the year due to the hit on your strength of schedule from playing these chumps????
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m personally against EVER Tech playing ANY D-1AA opponent (and I don’t care that they call it something else now, they are still D-1AA and always will be).
Call Michigan and see how they feel about playing Appalachian State again.
What an idiot!
By Jack Mehoff
October 10, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this
Kennyh…..I’m sure the only thing pink around here is your panties. Go take some pyridium so you will be able to pee orange this week like those other ignorant Volunqueers.
By PJD
October 10, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this
GA Dog,
While everyone can already guess on your intelligence, I’d like to point out that Gardner-Webb and GA Southern are in the same sub division. In fact, both teams have 3 losses as well. So, yes, there is someone on the Dawgs (sic) schedule like that.
That is all.
By GaDawg
October 10, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
PJD and NBY, Intelligence, that’s something that nether of you would know anything about obviously. You two Morons should hook up on the short bus!
By Dawg Fud
October 10, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
whatever, Jeff…you said we would cover against Alabama, too…
GO DAWGS! Beat Tennessee!
By hsf
October 10, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this
Tennessee will get its yearly October meal of grilled Dawgs. Go Vols!
By Halberstram
October 10, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
I’m not a Tech fan at all, but they don’t deserve any backlash for playing Gardner-Webb this weekend. They had Army on the schedule, and Army backed out last year. Not much they can do about it, same thing happened to UGA a few years ago when Tulane backed out to get a bigger payout from another team. You don’t have much of an option at this point other than to take a D1-AA team.
I’d just like to see Tech play Ga. Southern fairly often, since its Johnson’s old school and he used to call for the big state schools to play GSU when he was there. Time to put your money where your mouth is Paul.
By razerGT
October 10, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
Bulletproof argument, GaDawg! Once you’re proven wrong you result to petty insults. Brilliant!
By Ron Roebrts
October 10, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
Tech Fans… Please buy your football tickets so w can read the AJC.com sports page without your pesky pop-up ads.
R E A L programs don’t have to resort to such measures, so become one and buy your game-day tickets.
By Eagle=Dumb
October 10, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this
Coach Johnsons addressed playing GSU in this week’s press Conference: He said we asked and they said “NO”. Then he said “that dog won’t hunt.” I think that it’s pretty clear that GSU was scared.
By Eagle
October 10, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this
bugU doesn’t have the class to play us!
By houston dawg fan
October 10, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this
lol Tech fans, gardner webb?? wtf where is this school located, must be and online school like univ of Phoenix. They take homeless walkons.
By GO Jackets!
October 10, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this
If you UGA fans could read and research, you would know that GW is in my beautiful homestate of NC. Which, by the way, is where App State is located. Enjoy that a** whipping when you play them in the coming years!
By GO Jackets!
October 10, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
If you UGA fans could read and research, you would know that GW is in my beautiful homestate of NC. Which, by the way, is where App State is located. Enjoy that a** whipping when you play them in the coming years!
By David
October 10, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
Hey Dawgs…what color outfit is CMR getting you to buy this weekend? A dawg and his money are soon parted! It is going to be great watching the DAWGS lose for the 2nd game in a row to a team that barely beat N. Illinois. Now dont look ahead to that powerhouse VANDY!
By Hershel
October 10, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Tech people are always making useless noise. Sure they are 4 and 1 but they have not played any teams of caliber and should not be surprised that they are not ranked. When they lose they claim that their players are more intelligent and fans are smarter which is pure hogwash (spell check that Believer). If you guys are so intelligent why have you not invented an alternative fuel for our vehicles? Tech is nothing more that a conduit for Western technology (MIT) to flow to 3rd world countries that hate the great USA.
By Huh?
October 10, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
razerGT, here’s your bulletproof argument: 7 in a row and counting. Now sit down and STFU, capice?
What exactly has happened that makes Tech fans so confident about talking trash to UGA? What have I missed that gives them the ability to run their mouths like this about UGA? Someone please help.
By David
October 10, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
Hey Ron….what are you doing reading the AJC anyway…I didnt know that the DAWGS could read and if they did why arent they reading the Athens paper? See AJC stands for ATLANTA Journal Constitution not ATHENS! If you read it I am sure they will tell you how great the DAWGS are and probably will leave out all the arrest reports of players also! Hope you hear Rocky Top Saturday til your ears ring!
By Missman
October 10, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
I think Georgia will annihilate Tenn. and the Fulmer scourge will soon be over.
By Boo Boo
October 10, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this
Ranking are what you do when Saturday is over and you have nothing better than watching the leaves change colors, until the next Saturday. Real rankings are the actual record in conference play; and that means nothing until the season is over; and the only ranking of merit is “who won the conference.” Of course, if you are a Georgia fan, to keep your hands out of your overall pockets (or inside your overalls), you spend way too much time fantasizing about “golly gee, what if we’uns wuz number 1 in the whole dadgum nation?” Then, you start thinking a ranking is important; and for frustration relief (for never being number 1), you go sling mud on the house of the boy down the street, while his family is all at work and he is at school. The boy has a real brain, and goes to Georgia Tech. He doesn’t dream about rankings, because he has calculus and physics exams to think about. But, if you want a ranking, I make up the Jeff Schultz ranking of 495 (out of 502). That is where he ranks (in my mind) among all the best sports writers in the old Confederacy, before the beat writer for the Garder-Webb Gazette, but after the sports-blog-meister for the Auburn Farmer’s Almanach.
By Trowel and Era
October 10, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
Schultz, why do you persist with the Keith Olbermann wannabe political satire? We’ll read Bookman’s column if we want wiener-head political analysis. Your job is sophomoric sports commentary. A man ought to know his limitations.
By RAMBLE ON!!!
October 10, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
I got drunk and had this BLACKOUT, but somebody told me Vanderbilt is in 1st place.
Good reason to quit drinking, cause I know the SEC is the biggest and baddest conference in the history of college athletics, and to have Vanderbilt in 1st place half-way through the year would make me a complete idiot!!!!
To bad they haven’t played the likes of Central Michigan or Georgia Southern. If they did, there is no way they could stay healthy and compete in the mighty SEC. Good golly, throw in ASU and holly cow, they are where they belong,..in last place.
What’s ASU ranked these days 52nd, I mean come on, Vandy your bubble is going to bust. You just wait till you come between the hedges. You will get the same beat down you got last time you were here!!!!
By yellowblood
October 10, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this
How many you dumba$$ UGAy fans are going to wear your black outfits this weekend? What an embarassment!
By KJ
October 10, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this
Boo Boo, what you’ve just typed is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
What exactly has happened that makes Tech fans so confident about talking trash to UGA? What have I missed that gives them the ability to run their mouths like this about UGA? Someone please help.
Techies have this enviable ability to rationalize what happens every November, as well as matters involving annual trips to blue fields. This ability also allows them to cope with matters pertaining to virginity and social retardation. Hope this helps.
By KJ
October 10, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
PS - Georgia sucks!
By KJ (the real one)
October 10, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
Well, I guess you know you’ve arrived when people start stalking your handle, especially with scathing burns like “Georgia sucks”. Well done!
By Billy dawg
October 10, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this
Hey DAWG fans!!
All you dawgs comin’ on here rippin’ on Tech.
YOU LOST TO BAMA! YOU’RE DREAM IS OVER! THE DAWGS LOST! THE DAWGS WILL LOSE AGAIN!
Nothing better to do than to condescend Tech fans.
YOU GUYS BLOW!
Oh, BTW, I am a UGA grad —but I don’t pull for your mutts!
By foootballll fan
October 10, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
KJ…what an a$$ you are..Boo Boo is a dawg…who likes to stir things up…just like the rest of you a$$ lickin dawgs….GT may not have gone to those high dollar bowls in the past but times are changing…UGA has to be glad LSU went to the BCS championship game last year…or they would have been in the Outback….one last thing…you have to play 60 minutes of foootball in a game….and UGA just can’t seem to do that…..woof woof
By foootballll fan
October 10, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this
KJ…what an a$$ you are..Boo Boo is a dawg…who likes to stir things up…just like the rest of you a$$ lickin dawgs….GT may not have gone to those high dollar bowls in the past but times are changing…UGA has to be glad LSU went to the BCS championship game last year…or they would have been in the Outback….one last thing…you have to play 60 minutes of foootball in a game….and UGA just can’t seem to do that…..woof woof
By KJ
October 10, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this
Oh, BTW, I am a UGA grad —but I don’t pull for your mutts!
Suuuuure you are.
times are changing
the battle cry of the techie, never gets old.
By Gumbo
October 10, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
NOBODY who pulls for UGA went there. Hell , most of’em didn;t even make it thru high school. And NONE of them have ever seen a dentist. Of course, dental hygiene is not that important when you’re married to your 1st cousin.
The biggest thing they got going for them is that many of them have figured out how to get on disability, so they can hunt and fish all day.
Hey UGAs, how about we have a little spelling bee, shall we?? I’ll start. What’s another name for a peanut or a UGA fan?
G-O-O-B-E-R
By War Eagle
October 10, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
Jeff, why all smart a** talk about Auburn, ajc senting you to China for Olympics does not make you Jay Bookman?
By Huh?
October 10, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this
That’s an interesting theory KJ, but in order to rationalize something they have to acknowledge that it actually happened to begin with don’t they? That is something they cannot bring themselves to do. They will talk openly and freely about every game Georgia plays every year, except the last one on the schedule. They don’t want to talk about that one. They will talk about Alabama, Florida, LSU, etc., but its like the last one never even happened. They think its like that Stephen King book where if you ignore terrifying things then they will go away. I’ve got news for you Techies. The boogey man in the closet wearing red and black is not a figment of your imagination Techies. It is very real.
By snapshot
October 10, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this
Be patient Yellow Jacket Fans. One mutt down two to go.
By Delusional
October 10, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this
I love it; GA fans like Huh? writing of rationality. GA fans are oh so rational, they (politicians, school presidents, et al) argue that a team that didn’t win it’s own conference, much less it’s own division of the conference should have been in the NC game! How damn stupid of the rest of us who don’t drink the dog water not to agree! These are the same fans whose complain their team has no national respect, are dropping in the polls for no good reason, when they are promptly taken to the woodshed a couple of weeks back. They then get on these blogs making excuse after excuse as to why the woodshed trip was an apparation. After all it couldn’t have been, we are the BullDawgs! Must be preparing for their end of season arguments about their due spot in the nation spotlight!
By gatrent
October 10, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this
Thanks for picking LSU…now I KNOW UF will win
By Boo Boo
October 10, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
KJ,
Let me put it in terms you can understand … but I advise you to read S L O W.
My momma always told me, “Son, college football rankings are like a box of chocolates. Sometimes you bite into one and you like it. Sometimes you bite into one and puke.” But momma always also said, “Boo Boo, you can always afford a box of chocolates if you go to an ACC school (before they let the trash from Florida and those hillbillies from Virginie in), or Vanderbilt. If you can go there you can then also sell a rewrapped box of half-eaten chocolates for profit, to them poor people that go to SEC schools.” Momma always said, “Good thing you were born smart and wealthy Boo Boo.”
By Scottbravesfan
October 10, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this
Georgia already got destroyed by Alabama they are a joke. And I like the comments from the Georgia fans telling the Tech fans to buy tickets. Were does any Georgia fan get off telling another fan to buy tickets? Georgia doesn’t support any of their teams and they will stop supporting Georgia football once people realize they will never win a national championship.
By wes
October 10, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this
The comments in this blog are living proof that Georgia fans are (%-wise) really really dumb.
By NYJacket
October 10, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
Jeff,
The reason given for Tech not being ranked in the top 25 is that they have not defeated a top 25 team.
I don’t believe that Georgia has done that either.
The only top 25 team Georgia has played beat them like a drum.
As for Tennessee, the power rankings peg them at a “lofty 48”.
So, stop kicking Tech until we learn how good they really are. So far, they have defeated an overall tougher group of teams than Georgia.
You know the deal with the reasons for playing GW. You are beginning to sound like one of the guys running for President.
And, just to make my point, I am quite sure Tech will show up ready to take care of business in Athens in late November.
As a guy who knows how it feels to defeat the dawgs between the hedges, I am really looking forward to CPJ’s young group of Jackets learning how it feels.
By BUSHWACKER
October 10, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this
Kyle who?? meet Matty Ice!!
Mr Urlacher meet Mr Turner, BOOM!!!
Anyone remember the day Mr Bates met Mr Walker??
Falcons kick a* at home!!!
By Buzzfan1936
October 10, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this
Reading all the trash talk above makes it tough to root for the dawgs, but I know enough decent UGA alums to have hope and continue to pull for a team from my home state to win.
By THWG
October 10, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
What do uga and GT have in common? They are both 4-1.
What else do they have in common? Neither has beaten a ranked team.
So why is it that uga is ranked so high, yet the reason why GT is unranked as of yet is because “they haven’t beaten a ranked team”?
By JacketSteve
October 10, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
It always makes me laugh when the idiotic uga fans (most of them never went to college, much less at uga) start talking about filling seats. There are about 1/4 as many students at Tech than uga (showing that there are fewer smart people in this world than stupid). The uga degree loses value each mile you travel away from Athens so their only opportunities are in Georgia. Since the Tech degree is noted as a true sign of intelligence across the country, we can choose anywhere to work and live. That means there are fewer of us in the Atlanta area to go to the games. Meanwhile, all the Ga Perimeter, Gwinnett Comm Coll grads and GED holders flock to Athens to discuss football and how things are going on the late shift at Ingles stocking cans.
By MidnightRambler
October 10, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this
Andrew, Grant Field [etc.], Dean George Griffin, GaDawg, 1eyed Jack, houston dawg fan, Hershel, Huh? and all other trash talking dawgs who are knocking Tech and the ACC, I’ll repeat an earlier post:
The following graphic and comments were noted on Raycom TV during the GT-BC game: “MORE PLAYERS WERE DRAFTED FROM THE ACC, 115, OVER THE PAST 3 YEARS THAN FROM ANY OTHER CONFERENCE! THIS INCLUDES THE #1, 2, AND 3 PICKS: MATT RYAN, BC; CALVIN JOHNSON, GT; AND MARIO WILLIAMS, NC STATE!”
By Dogbyte
October 10, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this
Jeff-Isn’t it frustrating to read this drivel and see what a bunch of idiots that comprise your “readership”. And regardless of what you write, they say mostly the same thing. No wonder you mail it in.
By Huh?
October 10, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
Again, lots and lots of big mouth talk out of the Techies about a wide range of subjects, but there is always one glaring ommission: That last weekend in November. Who wants to talk about that? Who wants to talk about how they spent their weekends after the past 7 Thanksgivings? I’m up for it.
By scooter
October 10, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this
It is in the bylaws somewhere that every ajc college fb article must spiral into the vacuum of dorky tech and uga fans whining at each other about cr*p no one cares about?
By Poor Tech Fans
October 10, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this
I don’t know why Georgia is ranked so high. I do know that they probably wouldn’t be ranked so high if their in state rival could beat them everyone once in a while. That would probably help Tech fans. You whine and cry about Georgia being overrated like Tech has no control over the situation. You are pathetic. Does Georgia finish in the Top 10 five out of the past six years if the Joke By Coke beats it? Of course not. Does Georgia finish #2 in the country last year if your piece of crap team beats it? Of course not. Does Georgia enter the 2008 season with loads of hype and expectations if that piece of crap football team on North Avenue grows some cajones and finally beats it? Of course not. So you see, you have some control over this situation. Quit playing the victim sissies. Tech has its chance to deal with Georgia’s supposedly overrated stature every single year. So what are you whining and crying about?
By JamBee
October 10, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this
So why is Auburn ranked again? Tennessee? Abysmal. Vandy on top in the East. Just ain’t what it used to be….or thinks it still is….
By searchmaster
October 10, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this
Georgia has not played well offensively vs. a stout defense(SC and Ala.). Granted UT offense is nothing to call home about . Specialty teams is vastly improved defense leads the SEC, the question mark is if the UT offense can play mistake free. Vols error free = victory!!!! Georgia was supposed to kill UT in 2004,2006, and 2007, and actually did in 2005.
By KJ
October 10, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
Boo Boo, you can always afford a box of chocolates if you go to an ACC school (before they let the trash from Florida and those hillbillies from Virginie in), or Vanderbilt. If you can go there you can then also sell a rewrapped box of half-eaten chocolates for profit, to them poor people that go to SEC schools
You forgot to include Clemson and NC State, which are also ranked below UGA academically. But don’t let the facts stand in the way of another of your retarded rants.
There are about 1/4 as many students at Tech than uga
2007 Enrollment:
UGA: 33831 Tech:18742
Let me guess, you copied off Reggie Ball in math class? Enjoy the 3rd shift at Geek Squad.
By Mike
October 10, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
Whoo, I’m glad Tech hasn’t had to play any more of those rough, tough, SEC teams this year. Mississippi State just about wore out all our running backs’ legs, piling up 500 yards of total offense and 38 points. What did Auburn and LSU score on them, combined? 37, you say?
Of course, if that bunch from Knoxville pulls off an upset Saturday, that will be just more evidence of SEC superiority, no?
By texaswreclk
October 10, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this
Wow, reading these comments makes me long for the good old days when I as a Tech grad and my brother as a UGA grad used to go to the game together and have a good time, teasing about the better school and football team. Now days, people are so rude. You ranters should have your mouths washed out with soap and sent to bed without supper- you should be ashamed of yourselves. Go Jackets, Go Dogs, go away rude posters.
By Techster
October 10, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this
Seems to me; Georgia played one team with any caliber. What happened? THEY LOSSSST. Go suck on a pit. Your all full of CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Boo Boo
October 10, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this
KJ,
I feel sorry for your curse of stupidity. I’ll pray for you, that you don’t get killed crossing the street.
You go tossing around “ranked” statements again. I told you twice now … ranking means nothing. If that meant anything, you might be ranked above the retards you think you are better than; but you are not. You are just a lowly retard that projects your retardation onto others, for a personal sense of wellbeing, amid the reality that is your miserable life.
You are just a hater. Admit it. Do you also post here as VICK SUPPORTER?
By Buzzfan1936
October 10, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this
I’ll echo what texaswreck said: Go Jackets, Go Dogs, go away rude posters.
By Techster
October 10, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this
KJ-BUZZFAN: Go back to the GEORGIA blog where you belong.
By StingDoc
October 10, 2008 6:51 PM | Link to this
In my experience, most of the trash talking dawgs never went to UGA and many never finished high school.
The comment about Tech having only 1/4 of UGA grads probably refers to the # who actually stay in the state, hence, a smaller stadium.
Another point: many of the Tech students including those from other countries and out of state come there purely for the academics and have little interest in football.
By StingDoc
October 10, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this
Techster, Unfortunately, Tech has its own share of trash-talking jerks - like you. Grow up!
By Sautee Dawg
October 10, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this
GUMBO
This ignorance that you have does it follow you around? Or is it with you 24/7?
By Douglas
October 10, 2008 7:29 PM | Link to this
What you said about the USMA football team (comparison) is sickening… another reason to keep the print edition of the AJC out of my house. Of course, the men that play for USMA are destined to be leaders, not professional football players —- your comment is ridiculous.
By Techster
October 10, 2008 7:34 PM | Link to this
StingDoc-SauteeDawg: Truth be known. You are offended because it is the truth. Sometimes the truth hurts you. Especially when it comes to the Doggies. Intelligence: The ability to acquire and apply knowledge… Obviously neither of you have the intelligence to acquire and apply the knowledge……
By webbl
October 10, 2008 7:40 PM | Link to this
Wip one bulldog at a time. Then the kittys, indians, canes, and tar heals. Then it will be time to kick the other bulldawgs. CPJ is doing a great job work with personal he has. I can’t wait until he has all the parts of the puzzles.
By KJ
October 10, 2008 8:23 PM | Link to this
I told you twice now … ranking means nothing
Ah, so the opinions of coaches, sportswriters and other professional jounalists across the country mean nothing, and the opinion of a trolling jackhole like yourself means everything. Keep it coming, it’s quite amusing.
*KJ-BUZZFAN: Go back to the GEORGIA blog where you belong. *
Sure, as soon as you get all of your jealous, pathetic tech buddies off the UGA blogs. I won’t hold my breath.
By michaelgee
October 10, 2008 8:27 PM | Link to this
CPJ takes UGA in his first season, no? If Tech beats UGA in CPJ’s first season, will Richt survive?
By StingDoc
October 10, 2008 8:52 PM | Link to this
It’s amazing that the 11 team “weak” ACC has more players drafted by the NFL the past 3 years including the Top 3 than the “mighty” 12 Team SEC!
Techster - obviously, you are smoking something. I am not a “doggie.” Your citing intelligence and knowledge are oxymorons. Get help, immediately.
By Zeb
October 10, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this
Jacket Steve….come on man, do you really believe the stupidity that you are spewing???? Why can’t all of us just stop with the my school is better than your school stuff?? And do you actually believe that all Tech fans went to Tech? I think not. Both of our schools are very good. You don’t need to go to a school to be a fan. It’s your personal preference. I went to school at Southern Poly with a very good friend of mine, and he is a huge Tech fan. Now say what you want about entrance requirements….blah…blah..blah…his family just couldn’t afford it. If you went to Tech or UGA, then hats off to you. Just be a fan of whatever school you want…………but dam….don’t dog people because they didn’t graduate from there. Georgia people are faithful to their teams. Once you get outside of metro Atlanta, the true colors come out. Most people are either Tech or UGA down south. I doubt you’ll see too many OSU or Mighigan flags in Valdosta…..but I could be wrong. Atlanta is a plethora of people from all over the country. It’s only like that for about a 40 mile radius.
Guys, just enjoy the football season and let’s not try to compare dik size…..we’ve still got a lot of football to play.
By *24 hr Wrecker*
October 11, 2008 12:42 AM | Link to this
Let Calvin Booker play the entire game, he deserves it!
By Boo Boo
October 11, 2008 12:52 AM | Link to this
KJ,
Ah, so the opinions of coaches, sportswriters and other professional jounalists across the country mean nothing
It could mean you would go down on any Bulldog ranked in the top ten, just so you could save your spit in a bottle and tell all your friends at the retardation center; but like I said, it really means nothing. You see, its the games that count and the conference standings at the end of the season. But if you can get some spunk out of ranking, go for it!
Now, if you were talking a sport like baseball or basketball, where conference winners get seeded to play teams believed to be strong second-third place teams, in a double-elimination tournament, with a set number teams allowed in, then the rankings can come into play. It comes into play so people like you can cry when a ‘ranked’ team gets overlooked.
A top ten ranking and $5 will get you a gallon of gas in Atlanta, if you can find a station with gas, not gouging the price.
By Barkin'Dog
October 11, 2008 2:01 AM | Link to this
I pitty the poor fools who have to face the Dawgs in the next game. I don’t care who it is. It happens to be the Vols - they are going down. BIG TIME! As Gator Chomp says, “mark it down…” I see the score UGA 52, Tenn. 19. Later… Gator ;-)
By Dacula Jacket
October 11, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this
Nesbitt needs at least a little mop-up duty today to get back up to game speed. Booker should definitely start and play most of the game. Not to look ahead, but I can’t week for the show down in Death Valley next week. Go Jackets!
By dawgthabootyhunter
October 11, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this
WATCH HANNITY AND COLMES TOMORROW NIGHT @ 9PM ON FOX NEWS. THEY HAVE INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT ONE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES YOU MIGHT LIK TO KNOW!!
By Rich
October 11, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Neither UGA nor GT have beaten a ranked team. Both have lost to a ranked team. The W-L record for UGA’s opponents before today: 17-10. GT’s opponents: 17-9. It is a wash.
By DAWGHATER
October 11, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
Hey UGA FANS:
Quit whining about our schedule! UGA has played NOBODY worth a crap. Ga. Southern, sux, Central Michigan, Sux, SC, Sux, ASU, Sux and BAMA who you lost to! Now you play a TN team that is 2-3 and sux. Your schedule is no tougher than ours, but yet your ranked at 10th, which is a joke. You will be lucky to win 8 games this year, as LSU, FL, AUB and GT will all slap you around just like BAMA did. Quit whining and get ready to start losing and dropping in the polls like you should. Why don’t you have another Blackout? That worked well! GO JACKETS!!!
By DAWGHATER
October 11, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
DAWGS SUCK!!!!!!!!
By DAWGHATER
October 11, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this
Hey UGAly FANS: Sorry, I take the loss to AUB back. Sorry, you might actually win that game, maybe. Check out their high powered Offense. LMFAO! Quit bragging about your tough schedule, as its pathetic. The good teams you play, you lose to and the other teams you beat suck.
Auburn’s offense ranks 104th in the country. (NOW THAT IS A POWERHOUSE!) Give me a break. Stick with Gymnastics!
By David By the #'s
October 11, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this
Records.
UGA: 4-1 GT: 4-1
UGA Opponents record: 17-10 GT Opponenets record: 17-9
UGA Oppenents (where they won) record: 12-10 GT Oppenents (where they won) records: 13-8
UGA (# of 2+ loss team they have beat): 4 (all wins)(GSU (3 loss), CM (2), ASU (3),SC (2)) GT (# of 2+ loss teams they have beat): 2 (Miss St (4 loss), Duke (2))
By GT Man
October 11, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
WOW….UGAG Played the Football Power house of Georgia Southern, Central Michigan, and ASU(that was dominated by Nevada the wek before). The other games The mighty black out games, and the scrape by South Carolina, with the help of the refs.
You guys have a lot to talk about other’s schedule. Vols may turn this thing around on a susect UGAG Defense, and an overrated QB-Running back tandem.
By muttfann
October 11, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this
I’ll be so glad when game time gets here.this blog has been reduced to shiiiit
By tierawn
October 13, 2008 2:33 AM | Link to this
hey jeff, you were wrong about the falcons.