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DEL.ICIO.USBCS a shipwreck of a system
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mark Bradley
So much for that claim about how every week in college football constitutes a one-game playoff. If you’re LSU, you’re allowed to play a triple-elimination tournament. If you’re LSU, you’re allowed to flub two auditions as No. 1 and still have people say, “That team deserves another chance.”
We’ve known for years that the BCS is a sham of an arrangement. (To call it a “system” confers far too much dignity.) What we didn’t grasp until Sunday was that the BCS is devoid of rules, devoid of reason, devoid even of common courtesy.
Georgia got jumped without losing a game or even playing one. LSU was hoisted above the Bulldogs on the dubious strength of a seven-point victory in a game it was favored to win by 7 1/2 points. Georgia was No. 4 in the BCS standings last week — LSU was No. 7 — and two of the top three teams lost. Simple math should have put the Bulldogs in the title game. Turns out the BCS flunked math as well as logic.
What happened over the course of a week to make enough voters devalue the Bulldogs? Lobbyin’ Les Miles and ESPN happened. The LSU coach opined that a team shouldn’t play for a national title if it hadn’t won its conference — even though the BCS has repeatedly resisted making a league title a requirement — and a slew of cable-ready gasbags bought his line. It was known nine days ago that the Bulldogs wouldn’t be playing for the SEC title, but eight days ago the voters didn’t seem to mind. Came the only BCS poll that matters, they minded.
All night Saturday and into Sunday we were treated to ESPN’s nattering nabobs insisting Georgia couldn’t be considered for the BCS title game because it didn’t win its conference. (Said Mark Richt: “We were unofficially disqualified.”) Some of those same voices also claimed the Bulldogs didn’t win their division. Let the record show that Georgia was co-champion of the SEC East.
Alas, too many people — BCS voters obviously among them — believe only what they hear on television. Even Mike Slive, the BCS coordinator and SEC commissioner, admitted Sunday night that the BCS might need to educate its electorate. “That’s a good question, and it’s one I will take to the table in April,” he said. “We might need to say, ‘These are fundamental principles and concepts we expect our voters to think about.’ “
Georgia could and should have been considered. Georgia could and should be playing Ohio State. Instead it’s LSU, which has had more reprieves than Liz Taylor has had husbands. Instead it’s the team that managed one offensive touchdown against Tennessee and needed a late interception return to find the winning points.
The criteria for entrance to the BCS title game shift with the winds and the seasons. There was a time when the idea was to pair the best teams. At this moment, Georgia is the nation’s best team. And if you’re saying, “Georgia lacks LSU’s body of work,” are we to believe 10-2 is appreciably different from 11-2? Each beat Florida, Auburn and Alabama. Georgia beat Kentucky, which beat LSU. LSU beat Tennessee and South Carolina, which beat Georgia.
Here’s the difference: Since losing at Tennessee on Oct. 6, Georgia has moved ever upward, while LSU has wobbled all over creation. LSU has lost twice since Georgia lost last, and both of the Tigers’ losses came when they were ranked No. 1. The Bulldogs haven’t been, and won’t be, granted the chance to prove they’re No. 1 or even No. 2, but the fierce belief here is that they would beat anybody — LSU, Ohio State, Southern Cal, Oklahoma — on a neutral field.
What happened to the Bulldogs is worse than what befell Auburn in 2004. Those Tigers went unbeaten but were barred from the BCS championship game because Southern Cal and Oklahoma started the season Nos. 1 and 2 and didn’t lose. At least there was numeric consistency to that snub. Four years later Georgia climbed to No. 4 but somehow fell to No. 5 in final BCS standings while No. 7 bounded all the way to No. 2.
Yes, it’s amazing — an amazing disgrace.
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By Adam
December 2, 2007 8:40 PM | Link to this
Georgia didn’t win their conference. Enough said.
By HA HA UGAG SUCKS
December 2, 2007 8:42 PM | Link to this
Bradley= LAME HOMER!
GO HAWAI’I!
UGA GOT the SHAFT!!!!
I LOVE IT!
By Remember last year!
December 2, 2007 8:42 PM | Link to this
Crying WON’T get it done. I noticed last year when Fla jumped #2 Michigan there was no uproar from the SEC, so remember what goes around comes around and enjoy playing that oooohhhh so toouuggghhh Hawaii team - wow, what a real test of the SEC strength!
By Stephen--Dalton Dawg
December 2, 2007 8:42 PM | Link to this
Funny…we were #4 and the voters KNEW we hadnt won, then when others lost, what we accomplished was out the window. BcS anyway, Go dawgs, and we are springboarding into 2008…Go dawgs
By First
December 2, 2007 8:42 PM | Link to this
Heck yeah!
By Dawgs_Fan
December 2, 2007 8:42 PM | Link to this
If you would have asked any Dawg fan at the beginning of the season if Georgia would play in a BCS Bowl game I think the answer would have been no. Georgia will handle Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl and when the pre-season numbers come out next year Georgia will start at #1 and stay there.
By Leslie Miles
December 2, 2007 8:42 PM | Link to this
LSU did what UGA couldn’t - beat Tennessee.
Where is the BCS rule that disallowed coaches and voters in the Harris Poll from reassessing things every week?
UGA is a bunch of crybabies. You wanna play for all the marbles, don’t lose at home to a team that lost 6 times…losers!
By TampaGator
December 2, 2007 8:43 PM | Link to this
Unlike pro baseball, in college football, only champions get the opportunity to play for championships. Georgia was the 3rd best team in the SEC. Why should they play for the National Title? Win the SEC and you go…period. And you should…and, this year, it is LSU. PERIOD.
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 8:43 PM | Link to this
stop your whining uga people you suck and your overated, maybe win a few championships and get up there with the big boys like gt,ohio.st,lsu,alabama,nd,usc…teams like that that have tridition and have won the big game
By jeff
December 2, 2007 8:44 PM | Link to this
We need a playoff system
By Steve Spurrier
December 2, 2007 8:44 PM | Link to this
I just heard that Coach Richt and his pups have been invited to be the halftime entertainment at the championship game!! He will wear all black and dance to Soulja Boy, and then the whole team will run onto the stage to celebrate and they will rip his shirt and reveal his nipple!!!!
By dawgs
December 2, 2007 8:44 PM | Link to this
Ich bin ein Buckeye! Screw the BCS and screw LSU.
By michaelgee
December 2, 2007 8:44 PM | Link to this
Somewhere in South Carolina tonight, Steve Spurrier is laughing his arse off
Cry dawgies, cry!
By Duston
December 2, 2007 8:44 PM | Link to this
WE GOT SCREWED!!!!!! Hawaii, prepare for some Angry Dawgs in NO on the 1st!!! We will welcome them to the real world of college football.
By LSU #1
December 2, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this
Want a nice slice of cheddar to go with your Whine????? LSU would have mopped the floor with the Dawgs!!! Go LSU Beat OSU!!!
By WhatDidYouExpect?
December 2, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this
Come on, what did you expect? A system set up by “experts” like sports writers and you expect to not have controversy?
BAA HAA HAA HAA!
By John A. Silbernagel
December 2, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this
Sour Grapes!
By VolMBAer
December 2, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this
Congrats on going to the Sugar. You didn’t get the shaft, while there is no rule you have to win your conference in order to play for the Nat’l Title, you should have to. You didn’t even win your division, you can say your better now than you were then, and you are, but you WERE NOT the 2nd best team in the SEC, much less the best. Enjoy the Sugar, your certainly in a much better game than Tennessee is.
Oh and for all you UGA homers saying Tennessee is crap…your morons. As dumb as they come. You got your butt kicked on Oct 6. and you WOULD NOT win against us now either. So shut up, be happy with where you are.
Oh one more note, all this “TENNESSEE got lucky in all of it’s last games” let me remind you of the Vandy game you guys had, lucked saved your season too. So shut the hell up.
By buzzkiller
December 2, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this
Bark, You are predictable as a clock. One day, you will get over your mancrush on the Rev. Richt, but I doubt it will be anytime soon. Until then, you’ll just have to pine for him from a distance. There is no difference from a talking head on TV and you…….both are void of real intelligence. Oh well, you can go ahead and start polishing your preseason column for next year when you annoint the Bulldogs the best team in the history of football. Get to work!
By scott
December 2, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this
Cry me a river. GA should have beat TN!
By mcdawg
December 2, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this
i’m with you-but hope we take out the frustration on hawaii—lsu does not look like a BCS champion—hope we do not loose focus
By jerome
December 2, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this
Give me a break, Mark. Your homering/pandering is embarassing. No objective person who knows football could think that the Mutts are one of the best two teams in the country. Give it a rest and buy your ticket to that “other” game in New Orleans.
By Matthew Sanders
December 2, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this
Yeah, we did get the shaft. For LSU to leap so far up in the polls is so ludicrous it’s almost suspicious.
BUT, that doesn’t matter. We still got a GREAT BOWL…GO DAWGS
By Mike in 'Fretta
December 2, 2007 8:46 PM | Link to this
All of a sudden I just don’t care anymore. Could there be a less inspiring match-up than facing Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl? The Rainbow Warriors? I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Who cares about this game? It is meaningless. I am so sick of the BCS.
By Villa Rica DAWG
December 2, 2007 8:46 PM | Link to this
Obviously, the rankings are meaningful only until what “the powers that be” doesn’t want to happen happens…
I recall seeing a quote from some BCS official that said #1 and #2 falling and UGA going to the Title Game would be a “nightmare scenario” for the BCS “system.” I guess they had to make sure that didn’t happen.
All I have to say is that the first person to poke at me about this will likely be the last.
I am pi$$ed!!!!!
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 8:46 PM | Link to this
look stop whining,win a couple of national championships you uga rednecks and gain a little tradition and maybe you will gain a little respect
By walter
December 2, 2007 8:46 PM | Link to this
Without a playoff system, any “championship game” in college football is a joke. Computers don’t play games, players. Start with the Top 10 teams and let them play for the championship.
Of course as for Georgia, they didn’t even win the SEC Championship, LSU did. In terms of the SEC, LSU is the champion so I’m not sure how Georgia can play for the “national championship” when they didn’t even with their own conference.
By Brian
December 2, 2007 8:46 PM | Link to this
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Thank you Mr. Spurrier for helping shut up those mutts earlier this year.
By montanadawg
December 2, 2007 8:46 PM | Link to this
This is terrible. BCS is is in total dissarray. Let’s get ready for the Rainbow warriors.
By TW
December 2, 2007 8:46 PM | Link to this
Mark - why is nobody talking about how VT got screwed? #7 LSU squeeks by a three loss #14 and Jumps #6 VT who blew out a two loss #11?????
Great rebuilding year for the Dawgs.
SC, UGA, OSU, and VT could all beat LSU this weekend.
By John A. Silbernagel
December 2, 2007 8:46 PM | Link to this
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Sour Grapes!
By Tiger_Dan
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
F_ off Mr. Bradley. You are just as nutty and disillusioned as the rest of these puppy chow eaters….Be happy you’re going to New Orleans as well, only a week earlier! Geaux Tigers
By Zach
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
Could not have been said better.
By drave15
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
we are so screwed-screwed! So we beat Hawaii, what did we do? Not much. And if they somehow beat us, we drop like a rock out of the top twenty. Bradley is so right. Maybe a playoff isn’t the answer, but the BCS (Big Crock of Sh*@) is a national disgrace. And by the way, how does a nine and three team get into a big bowl, anyway? Jeez…..
By dawgman
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
It would have been great, but then who among us on Sundat October 7 thought we’d be in the Sugar Bowl? Lets take care of Hawaii and continue to improve!See you in NOLA!
By Dawgs2007
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
The face value for this ticket is $135.00! WOW!!! That is an a*******load to see a cupcake. Don’t we usually schedule teams like this to open the season and to past the time between Fla and Auburn?
Georgia is just not as popular as the other teams in the eyes of the Lords at ESPN. Next year people will take notice after we dismantle LSU.
If you think CMR was fired up this year, wait till you see his drive for next year. The Bulldogs will be mad and the rest of the SEC better watch out.
That is fine. We will play in our stupid bowl and kill those guys. Bring it on!
By Gator Fan
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
Agreed!
By Les
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
AMEN!! I might even have to go for OSU on this one! Probably not though may not even watch.
By First
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
First
By First
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
First?
By Vol4Ever
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
35-14. The gift that keeps on giving. Not only do we OWN the Dogs now and forever more, but our glorious stomping of you ensured you would not get an undeserved (unanimous opinion of real national media, not the AJC homers) shot at the national title.
Looking forward to killing you again in Athens next year. Maybe we can score 60 on you. Ha ha ha ha ha.
By VolMBAer
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
Oh and Mark Bradley…Auburn went undefeated…you are 10-2, your a hack for thinking you got a bigger shaft than they did. Moron.
By Mikey
December 2, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this
It is an amazing disgrace- but I knew it was coming as soon as the games last night ended and the talking heads began spewing their love for LSU.. I love my dawgs- I’m proud of what they have accomplished this season and look forward to next year..
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
uga geeks you got blown out by tenn. and lsu beat tenn. without there top qb so you really think you could have played with lsu? uhhhhh naaaahhhhhhhh
By SugarSweet
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
Ohio St’s in for another whipping—eventually everyone will figure out the other conferences are weak. UGA vs LSU would be a much better matchup.
By Bluezilla17
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
All I can say is bravo. Well explained. The most important part is where Mr. Bradley points out that until last night, nobody minded that Georgia wasn’t going to play for the SEC title. I can’t blame Les Miles. His lobbying got his team a shot. I also have to feel for Mizzou. Kansas getting the Orange Bowl instead of them might be the biggest travesty of the whole thing.
By HokieFan
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
Georgia got what they deserved, if they would have beaten TN, they would have gone to their Conf Championship. Anyway, with news coming out that UGA is going to be put on real probation (in addition to their self reported violations) they may pull an Auburn next year and go undefeated and have it not count. VT was the team that got the shaft. VT was also ranked higher in the BCS than LSU and VT beat a high ranked team in BC (while LSU beat unranked TN). Grow up doggies, many other teams deserved it more that you.
By camo
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
Excellent - dawgs in a no win situation.
By TCB
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
Mark, you are blithering idiot. Did the AJC tell you to write this baloney to try to boost circulation amongst toothless Dawg fans because people who can actually read are cancelling subscriptions exponentially?
By Justin B
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
You got it.
I just hope UGA mops the floor with Hawaii..and even though I love the SEC, I’d like to see LSU embarrassed.
By Carter
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
LSU had their chance twice and lost. The hottest team in the country is Georgia who has fought to get where they are at. Don’t even get me started on Ohio State. Give me a break. That conference is about as weak as the ACC these days. UGA, USC, and Oklahoma are the 3 best teams in the country right now. What a joke this system is!!
By CJ
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
Oh, shut up! I hope Hawaii rapes your sorry @ss, personally! Geaux back to the DAWG POUND!
By Bob
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
just goes to show you how much the media controls everything. Sure LSU beat tennesee, who beat us. But it wasn’t impressive enough to move from number 7 all the way to number 2. I don’t care who you are, that is some effed up crap.
By Carter
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
LSU had their chance twice and lost. The hottest team in the country is Georgia who has fought to get where they are at. Don’t even get me started on Ohio State. Give me a break. That conference is about as weak as the ACC these days. UGA, USC, and Oklahoma are the 3 best teams in the country right now. What a joke this system is!!
By bull$hit
December 2, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this
Amen-BCS is a joke
By Herewegoalready
December 2, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this
Bradley you are full of sh!t J@ck@ss! Georgia didnt make it because they did not deserve it.
By Dan
December 2, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this
Well said. I agree.
By RT
December 2, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this
The season is about 12 weeks,not just 6. Your Dogs weren’t good enough over the WHOLE SEASON to play for their conference championship, so quit your bellyaching. Also, as a “journalist” you should know better than to plagiarize Spiro Agnew’s “nattering nabobs” without a footnote.
By CruiserSikes
December 2, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this
Why rank us ahead of LSU before the SE championship game if you’re only going to rip our hearts out after the game by having LSU jump over us. STUPID
By TybeeDawg2
December 2, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this
And almost as bad, was the Rose Bowl picking Illinois!!
By Jim
December 2, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this
How many chances are they going to give LSU, Georgia and LSU were both 6-2 in conference the only difference is LSU plays in the west. So LSU gets to go because of geographical location. We have them circled October 25 2008
By Knowshon Ain't $#!T
December 2, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this
Stop your whining. Win your division and your conference. Geaux Tigers!
By Joe
December 2, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this
Huh? So where is it stated that a loss late is worse than a loss earlier? Why doesn’t it make sense that a conference champion should go ahead of the 3rd place (at best) conference team? Why is uga considered the hottest team in the nation, because they did a black out? Because they can dance? Sure they’ve won their recent games but they have hardly been dominant. A pathetic offensive performance agains an ailing Kentucky team then surviving a MEDIOCRE GT team with considerable good fortune. They got throttled by Tennessee who LSU beat and they got their arse kicked by a poor USC team. Give me a break!
By Bulldawgy
December 2, 2007 8:49 PM | Link to this
The BCS is a joke, plain and simple. But, personally, I don’t think a team should play for the national championship if they cannot even win their conference. Question is:
Why LSU over Oklahoma, or USC or West Virginia? They all won their conferences and have two losses.
A joke, plain and simple.
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
call someone who cares like ugga, he stinks and is a nasty dog he might listen wahhhhhhh
By gaDAwg
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
Mark,
Your comments are so true. LSU will give OSU it’s first victory over an SEC team in a bowl. Why? Because lyin Les cried wolf just like Urban did last year. If you watched Les’ body language during the interview when asked about being the LSU coach, he could not look the lady in the eye and he had that sheepish look of I know that I won’t be here on Jan 8.
That’s alright. UGA gets to play the only undefeated team in Div 1 in Hawaii. We beat them and we can claim that we defeated the only previously undefeated team. Also,the dawg nation mark your calendars for Oct. 25th, 2008. That’s when UGA will show LSU losers who deserved to play in the NC.
By bw
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
Thanks, Mark. I absolutely agree. Next year, we’ll probably go undefeated and get voted out by Ohio State or some other team that gets lucky every year because they are in a sub-par conference. I’d love to play LSU the first game of the season next year and blow them out. I haven’t checked the schedule, but I sure hope we get to play LSU!!! I don’t even want to watch another game on ESPN. I think the Dawgs will be a hard team to beat in 2008…..and I look for them to win big in the Sugar Bowl…..GO DAWGS!!!!
By LOWCOUNTRYDAWG
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
I’m still waiting to see if Les Miles is back next year at LSU. Georgia got penalized for not playing this weekend. If we don’t beat Hawaii, then all the media will be saying- see - we were right about Georgia.
By MeatCleaver
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
OSU is a Joke! Dawgs would have killed ‘em, so will LSU.
I am so tired of hearing people say that a team needs to schedule strong out of conference opponents to get the attention of the BCS. OSU just proved that to be crap. Load up on the Kents, Akrons, and Youngstowns of the world.
They were embarassed by the gators last year and had a better team then than they do now.
Dawgs got ripped! I hope LSU wins by 20.
By Bleed Red and Black
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
I am very happy that the Dawgs were selected to play in the Sugar Bowl. Not exactly happy with our opponent though. Lose-lose situation. We win, everyone says “Wow, you beat a mid-major conf champ.” We lose, everyone says “Wow, you lost to a mid-major team and whinned about missing a chance in the BCS Championship.” Either way, we are not going to be given any credit. I was actually hoping for a Rose Bowl game against USC. UGA and USC are the two hottest teams in the country. Gooooo Dawgs. See you in New Orleans.
By masivatack
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
unbelievable. we are now in a no win situation uless we put up something like a 52-10 victory. If/when we beat hawaii, we will still get no more respect nationally than we do now. I would rather have played anyone in the top 10. Oh well. Its still great to be a DAWG. Lets pummel these guys.
By Cheelio
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
Amen, MB. What a disgrace. Not one positive mention on ESPN or FOX. Not one second of coverage. BCS is full of holes and must be fixed. ESPN has to be pulled out of the factoring for the MNCG. Period.
By Dennis G. Berdanis
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
Although I hate Les Miles winning the spot with his mouth rather than on the field, what’s even worse is that he also talked voters into jumping a #9 Oklahoma all the way up to third over UGA. Now that Les has set that criteria, I’m sure in future years SEC fans other than UGA will be crying when a 2 loss Big Ten, Big 12 or Pac 10 team has to be rated higher in the final poll than a 1 loss team in the SEC that didn’t win the SEC title.
By ncdawg
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
Les Miles Just said on ESPN that his team was undeafted in regulation play……..I am a big UGA fan but another team that got the shaft is oklahoma………winning the Big-12…….and beating the BSC #1 Saturday night……..Les Miles and LSU most have made a deal with the devil………………Hopefuly the dawgs will play fired up and upest because of the events that have unfolded………..I would not want to see dawgs fall prey like the sooners did last year.
By TampaGator
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
The biggest shame is that Ohio State is going to the game…beating the powerhouse teams of Akron, Bowling Green, and some 1-AA powerhouse from Ohio. I guess you only need to be the champion of Ohio to go…oh, that should be Cinncinati…they would kill Ohio State! Ohio State is better than Georgia, Oklahoma, USC..or even Hawaii…give me a break! What a joke! The game should have been Oklahoma vs. LSU.
By chris
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
Let’s see… Georgia loses to Tenn. Tenn loses to LSU. LSU has the same number of losses by much fewer points. And you still feel like you got slighted.
Perhaps UGA should have just beaten USC. Everyone else did.
By catherine
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
i have never seen such a convoluted scenario. i love uga and quite frankly this is the biggest load of crap i have ever seen dished out by people who claim to have an education. The BCS folks are absolute idiots. I wouldnt let you shine my shoes. Good luck finding a brain. do u even know what that is?
By Hillary for President
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
Dear ESPN,
I am really impressed with your power to persuade voters. Will you please be my campaign manager for the upcoming presidential election?
Thank you,
Hillary for President
By PTC DAWG
December 2, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this
Ohio State is the team that doesn’t deserve to be there.
By matt
December 2, 2007 8:51 PM | Link to this
BCS is a scam. Does UGA deserve to play in the title game? Not really sure…would love to see it, but we did not win our conference. How in the wolrd does UGA drop while LSU, OU, and VT each shoot up the rankings? How does VT feel?…they were ranked higher than both OU and LSU at before the games on Saturday. BCS=BULL CRAP STINKS!
By EmmettDawg
December 2, 2007 8:51 PM | Link to this
I couldn’t agree more.
By GO DAWGS!!
December 2, 2007 8:51 PM | Link to this
I see all sides of the argument. If Georgia won the SEC, there are few fans that would argue that another team should play for the NC. What ticks me off is the voters didn’t see this coming last week when they put Georgia at #4. Now, they’ve all backtracked. I didn’t anyone, media included, saying that LSU should play for the NC while losing and after they lost to Arkansas. No, the talk was wide open about who should play…but certainly not that Tiger team. Next year though, we should have even Pete Carrol cringing. GO DAWGS!!
By Dusty
December 2, 2007 8:51 PM | Link to this
It hurts not being in the BCS, but it is really a scham that Illinois was given the berth into the Rose Bowl over a MUCH more qualified Georgia team. The Rose Bowl is a joke! They should decide if their bowl is about matching the most deserving teams or hosting a parade! Illinois beat 2 ranked teams. That is truly a scham.
PS- I hate Rocky Top!
By Huckleberry
December 2, 2007 8:51 PM | Link to this
ESPN hosts are a bunch of loudmouth has-beens or never-was in shopping center storefront church pimp suits. They cheapen college and professional sports with their loud-jerk-next-to-you-at-the-bar blowhard opinions. I feel sorry for their families.
By Cynthia
December 2, 2007 8:51 PM | Link to this
Thank you, Mark. LSU and LES(S)Miles couldn’t win agaist Kentucky in regulation play. They couldn’t win against an UNRANKED Arkansas in regulation play. And this is a reason they should jump to the #2 position? You gotta’ be kidding me. Only a bunch of nimrods (like ESPN’s announcers) would want to watch LSU blunder all over the field for a third try at a position they clearly don’t deserve.
By Dan
December 2, 2007 8:51 PM | Link to this
quite your b!tchin! If you are in the SEC and you want to play for the national championship you need to win your tie breakers (so-champions my A$$) and be prepared to walk off the field in Atlanta the SEC Champs. Boo Hoo. Ga. isn’t playing becuase they didn’t win games they should have. Ga. is to blame for Ga. not playing, not the BCS, not corrupt coaches and polls…GEORGIA.
Want to get to the big game? Win the big games early, middle AND late!
By uga grad
December 2, 2007 8:51 PM | Link to this
Sorry Bradley, you got this one wrong, and I am a die-hard Dawg……LSU deserves to be there, and UGA blew it when they lost to S Carolina….this is a cockamamie system, but it would have been a total sham if UGA went without winning the SEC…..just remember, at the beginning of this year, UGA as a BCS team was laughable….. GO DAWGS BEAT THE RAINBOWS AND GET IT DONE IN ‘08
By Thankful
December 2, 2007 8:52 PM | Link to this
BCS Bowl, slew of underclassmen and a very brught future…I’ll take it.
By Cedrick Carter
December 2, 2007 8:52 PM | Link to this
Good comments! But what makes this even worse was some of the coaches ballots that were released early. How could the coaches SEC vote (a twice number 1 number loser) LSU to jump over Georgia in the polls. Especially when one of those losses was at home and the other was to an unranked team. This system sucks bring on a playoff!!!
By Dan
December 2, 2007 8:52 PM | Link to this
quit your b!tchin! If you are in the SEC and you want to play for the national championship you need to win your tie breakers (so-champions my A$$) and be prepared to walk off the field in Atlanta the SEC Champs. Boo Hoo. Ga. isn’t playing becuase they didn’t win games they should have. Ga. is to blame for Ga. not playing, not the BCS, not corrupt coaches and polls…GEORGIA.
Want to get to the big game? Win the big games early, middle AND late!
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 8:52 PM | Link to this
uga stands for u go away uga
By Dusty
December 2, 2007 8:52 PM | Link to this
It hurts not being in the BCS, but it is really a scham that Illinois was given the berth into the Rose Bowl over a MUCH more qualified Georgia team. The Rose Bowl is a joke! They should decide if their bowl is about matching the most deserving teams or hosting a parade! Illinois beat 2 ranked teams. That is truly a scham.
PS- I hate Rocky Top!
By TJ
December 2, 2007 8:52 PM | Link to this
The coach looked like a whiney little baby who didn’t get his way but then who would expect more?
By Fredbob Magillicudy a.k.a.FMDAWG
December 2, 2007 8:52 PM | Link to this
First!!!!!
By Dennis G. Berdanis
December 2, 2007 8:52 PM | Link to this
Steve Spurrier is still crying because he’s only invited to the toilet bowl.
By bill
December 2, 2007 8:53 PM | Link to this
Your comments are right on target…what the Dawgs need to do is NOT go into the Sugar Bowl over-confident and take care of business with Hawaii…we don’t want to repeat Oklahoma’s mistakes againt Boise State last year!
A big win gives us momentum into next year’s pre-season Top 5, when most rational Dawg fans exepcted us to make our move…
By NW Ga Dawg
December 2, 2007 8:53 PM | Link to this
Bull Crap System!!!
Bring on a play-off! Again (and again ad nauseum) it’s been pointed out: the only major sport without a playoff. The system isn’t broken; it just doesn’t work at all.
This KILLS one of the maxims of the game: if you’re gonna lose, lose early. LSU has lost very late—only a week and a day ago. They say that UGA was punished for being idle and OSU has been idle for 2 weeks and not just one.
Go Dawgs—and use this for fuel in 2008.
By Hayley
December 2, 2007 8:53 PM | Link to this
What is the difference between bulldog puppies and bulldog fans?
Answer: After a while, even the puppies will quit whining!
UGA - The perinnial “wait unitl next year” team.
Hawaii 32 Whinedawgs 14
By that's funny
December 2, 2007 8:53 PM | Link to this
Mark, why/who keeps a playoff system from being implemented? Exactly who is it that is against a playoff?
By Scott
December 2, 2007 8:53 PM | Link to this
Your last paragraph almost made me sick. You think this is worse than what happen to Auburn? You are the worst sportswriter in the nation.
By brian
December 2, 2007 8:53 PM | Link to this
Now i have seen it all a team who was not good enough to win in regulation and was taken to the limit by two teams that lets face it are not at the top of the sec and then lose to each of them jump five spots. We knew the bcs was a joke and now they have just proven it.
By Michigan all over agian
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
This is hypocritical - the same argument was made last year against Michigan. UGA didn’t win the games when they had to, so you don’t deserve to go. Lets just hope they pull what michigan did last year - deflated by not going to the NC game, they got their tail handed to them in their bowl game. That would be fitting for all these puppy whiners.
By Bull Crap System
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
You got it exactly right, Mark. This is absolutely ridiculous. Georgia will get no respect for beating Hawaii. NONE. (Just like USC will get none for beating Illinois). Thanks to ESPN for putting LSU into the title game when they surely didn’t deserve it.
By Wurider
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever? they went from 7 to 2.
By Chris
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
so much for seeing the best matchups in the bowls. I dont care about the national title game but who would’nt want to see UGA play USC or OU. We are #4 in the BCS. PLaying Hawaii is a no win situation for UGA. Win and people will say it’s expected.
By Matt
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
I don’t agree at all with what has been said, and I’m a GA fan. GA should have beat tenessee. We lost 2 games and LSU didn’t. Thanks why they’re there and we’re not. At least we’ve got a nice advantage for next year. Go dogs.
By Sheryl
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
Appreciate the remarks on behalf of the DAWGS. But what bums me twice again is that Georgia was forced to the Sugar by rule after LSU, the conference champion, ascends to the NC game. The Sugar had to replace it’s conference host and got first dibs on the highest ranked SEC team behind LSU. That’s a load of crap! The DAWGS deserved a chance to play in the Rose, Fiesta, or Orange based on their achievement in ranking…if not the NC game. “Screwed By The BCS - TWICE” t-shirts go on sale tomorrow.
Lift your heads DAWGS, the future is bright. Gooooo DAWGS!!!
By go Dawgs
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
BSC SUCKS NUTS LSU DONT WANNA PLAY GEORGIA …N****
By makes perfect sense
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
You shouldn’t have to win the conference - but you should at least PLAY for the conference championship. You can’t get 3rd in the conference and say you’re in the top 2 in the country.
Just because uga’s losses were earlier in the season than LSU’s doesn’t make uga’s resume better.
Tennessee crushed uga, and LSU beat them with a backup QB.
The BCS actually got it right.
By Steve
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
The mutts did not win their conference, they lost to Tennessee, who stomped them and to SC by a point, they were not the best team in their conference, therefore they don’t play for the national championship. So, SHUT UP!!!!!! But it is a shame, I would love to see the Buckeyes stomp the mutts!! Oh, well, guess we will just have to watch Hawaii and Colt stomp em!!! GO WARRIORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
damn dawg fans if lsu wins they have more national championships in the last4 years then you do in your football history, call hershal back he’s in good shape lol lol lol uga a joke
By DawgFan22
December 2, 2007 8:54 PM | Link to this
Amen Mark. Its all about who ESPN and ABC want as their teams. Herbstreit knew Miles was coming after him for the Michigan leak and he was just gushing LSU last night after the Misso/OSU game. Its a shame college football has come to this. Hopefully LSU won’t embarrass the SEC ‘cause if they play like they did last night they will get massacred!
By voice of reason
December 2, 2007 8:55 PM | Link to this
let me say first that i am a die hard tech fan. i respect the uga program and yes i am jealous of the uga program, it’s coach and everything else about uga football. i wish we had as many positives about our football program as georgia has. we have had very little to cheer about lately but the best news in a long time was just announced. uga just got screwed out of the national championship game. it is wonderful to see all of bulldog nation be so disappointed. and to top it off, they get to play in a bowl where they have absolutley nothing to gain. if they win they were supposed to….if they lose it will be a monumental upset. outside of georgia and hawaii absolutely no one will care anything about the game. it may not last long but right now all is well on the flats. i don’t even care if we are going to another no name bowl. now come on all uga fans, tell me how you got screwed and make it even better for me.
By Perry
December 2, 2007 8:55 PM | Link to this
Well said. This proves the BCS rankings mean nothing. If they did a number 7 team that barely won a game that they were favored in could not jump 4 places to be in the NC game. LSU lost their last regular season game to an unranked SEC team. With this type of logic why did Ohio State move up to number 1 with a loss to a non ranked team in one of the weaker divisions in the NCAA. It was never discussed the OSU should not move to number 1. UGA lost to two ranked teams. What a joke!
By DanDawg
December 2, 2007 8:55 PM | Link to this
UGA would be a 6 point favorite in a game vs. LSU. OSU moves up two spots we move down one?
By T.K.
December 2, 2007 8:55 PM | Link to this
Leslie, You may be the dumbest poster in the the history of Blogs, I’m sure you’re a tech fan you idiot.
By Brad in KY
December 2, 2007 8:55 PM | Link to this
Bradley,
When people say that the season is like an elimination tournament, they don’t mean that it’s literally an elimination tournament. And you know that, you just choose to ignore it when it’s convenient.
It makes perfectly good sense (and you know it) to expect that the contenders for the national title win their own conference. This is why everyone was so angry a few seasons ago with Oklahoma - they got to play for the title after losing their conference championship. It wasn’t right, and I bet you said as much then.
Of course, before you can win your conference title, you have to win your division. LSU did that. Georgia didn’t. Guess what else. LSU beat Auburn and Florida just like Georgia did. They also beat Tennessee and South Carolina, unlike Georgia. The only real claim Georgia can make opponent-wise is that they beat Kentucky and LSU didn’t.
The only other possibility is that there be some significance to when a team loses. I see no reason for it. Games at the beginning of the season should count as much as at the end. That’s one reason I’m thankful for the conference title games: in order to qualify for those, an early season conference game counts as much as one later in the season. Thus, the human element is removed from deciding who plays in conference title games. There’s no guessing game like with the BCS crap.
Basically, Georgia has no one to blame but themselves. You can’t lose two games in your own division, fail to win your division and your conference, and then cry that you didn’t get to play for the title.
Besides, I’ve seen both LSU and Georgia play and LSU is pretty clearly a cut above everyone else talent-wise. That matters when your having to split hairs.
By SpoiltDoggy
December 2, 2007 8:55 PM | Link to this
Wah!! Wah!! Wah!! I’m not going to bed until I get to play for the National Championship!!
By buckhead dawg
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
ESPN just dissed UGA and the Sugar Bowl. So far the only mention has been a sidebar that showed all the major bowls. An hour into the show they still haven’t discussed it individually. The BCS and ESPN sucks.
By UGAFan
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
LSU fans….Georgia would have beaten you last night…No doubt…We will see you next year and see if you jerks can back up what you say.
By blake butler
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
You have got to be kidding me. Georgia lost to SC (not even in top 25) and to Tennessee (talk about wobbling into the SEC champ.) Get off the Athens Red wagon and start reporting without bias. Even if the rules don’t state it. A team should never get to play for the national championship if they can’t win the games to get them into their conference chanpionship. You should leave the AJC and go work fro UGA as press secretary.
By reality check
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
To quote Reggie Ball, “hey. it’s just a game, dog.”
I’m a Georgia fan. We will wind up ranked second or third or something like that, much better than I thought we would be in what clearly was a rebuilding year early in the season.
We didn’t get it done against Tennessee. I believe we could beat anybody in the country right now, but LSU is the conference Champion. I believe we would beat them if given the opporunity, but we will have to wait until next year.
By TigerJon
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
S^ck it Leg humpers. If you can’t beat the Gamecocks you don’t deserve to go to ANY bowl. Besides, how about that gift at Vanderbilt??? Not to mention ALABAMA? Take what you get and like it.
By bill
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
You could see this coming, but it still was hard to believe when the announcement was made. Ohio State had one of the easiest schedules among the top 25 BCS teams, but that didn’t effect their ranking. LSU had a finish that took them out of the top 5, yet here they are in the title game. I think Georgia falling to 5th was a disgrace…the system does not work! Now, that being said, Georgia and Hawaii will be the most exciting bowl game of the season and I may not even watch the so-called title game.
By modawg77
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
I guess, he who whines the most, i.e Les Miles, gets into the BCS Bowel.
By gaDAwg
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
gtlover - Let’s see, UGA 31- Tech 17. Play with the big boys. That’s what Tech needs to learn to do! Enjoy that frozen blue smurf field at the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise.
By blake butler
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
You have got to be kidding me. Georgia lost to SC (not even in top 25) and to Tennessee (talk about wobbling into the SEC champ.) Get off the Athens Red wagon and start reporting without bias. Even if the rules don’t state it. A team should never get to play for the national championship if they can’t win the games to get them into their conference chanpionship. You should leave the AJC and go work for UGA as press secretary.
By bscsux
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
AMEN. Tell my why Illinois, Kansas and DivII Hawaii are in the BCS?
By Scott
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
Your last paragraph made me sick. You thing this is worse than Auburn going undefeated? You are the worst sportswriter in the nation.
By TT
December 2, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this
Yes, once again Georgia gets the shaft in the polls. But, come Jan.7, 2008 this die hard DAWG fan will do something I never thought possible….pull for Ohio St. A playoff system works in every other major college sport, trash the BCS now and have a real National Champion!
By catherine
December 2, 2007 8:57 PM | Link to this
spurrier. u are an idiot. sour grapes 4 u. mark richt is the best out there
By smart
December 2, 2007 8:57 PM | Link to this
UGA got shafted people keep saying LSU beat tennesse so uga beat Kentucky so there it is an oh LSU or Tennesse couldn’t beat UGA today nor anyone else.
By man of words
December 2, 2007 8:57 PM | Link to this
If Duke wins the ACC regular season title and then procedes to win the ACC tournament but North Carolina wins the 64 team Tourney whos is crowned national champ. North Carolina…..Nuff said…..
By Matthew
December 2, 2007 8:57 PM | Link to this
For the first time in my life I’m pulling for Ohio State.
By GT Athletic Supporter
December 2, 2007 8:57 PM | Link to this
Bradley — You’re ridiculous!! What a ‘homer”! Doesn’t matter how you look at it - no way UGA should be in the Championship game. They got beat by a 6-6 team and got drilled by UT who was beat by LSU. LSU played a very difficult schedule and lost two games in triple OT. Th argument about where UGA stood going into the last poll doesn’t hold any water. Evveryone knows how loose the polls are evey week. Some coaches and voters delegate the vote — until the last poll when it actually makes a difference. That’s what you saw happen - voters got serious when the stakes were actually on the line and ranked the teams according to their strength. You’re a joke. Nobody objective has even put UGA third. Do you actually get paid for such unobjective analysis?
By Jbird
December 2, 2007 8:57 PM | Link to this
OSU IS THE PUNCH LINE OF THE BCS JOKE. THE BEST TEAM THEY PLAYED WAS ILLINOIS AND LOST.
By W3
December 2, 2007 8:57 PM | Link to this
I cannot believe your editor actually let you post this article. You are an embarrassment to the AJC. You shouldn’t let emotions get in the way of rationale.
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 8:57 PM | Link to this
hey joe you say gt is a so,so team huh? No we have a bad coach but do have great recruiting (look it up) so mediocrity not under acheeve maybe
By The Grinch
December 2, 2007 8:58 PM | Link to this
Well, at least the title game is a good match up. Neither team belongs in the top 8 and either one would get their @$$es handed to them by UGA, USC, Va Tech or Oklahoma. LSU wouldn’t make it out of the 1st round of a playoff and they know it, hence all the support for the current BCS and complaints of us “whining.” We’re whining because we don’t get the chance to prove we’re better on the field (as if we should need to at this point); you’re boasting like the guy who knows the bunch of people in between won’t let the fight actually go down. Cowards.
By GaDawgs7
December 2, 2007 8:58 PM | Link to this
You’re so right! And this only proves, maybe more than any other year, that BCS should be known by what it really is,the BS system. More than any other year, it also shows the desperate need for a playoff system.
Herbstreet stated during last nights Oklahoma-Missouri game, as he lobbied for LSU, that voters should forget the entire season, and just base it on the two teams most deserving. Using his idiotic logic, then the championship game should be between Southern Cal and Georgia, the two hottest teams in the country.
If Georgia was ranked number 7 last week, and Lsu was 4th, i would fully expect LSU to be in the championship game…but how can you be the 4th best team in the country one week, not play a game, have two teams above you lose, and actually drop to number 5. I might have changed my mind had LSU’s win been convincing, but as bad as tennessee played, they were ahead in the fourth quarter before they realized the holidays were coming and gift wrapped the game and handed it to LSU. A playoff system would solve all these issues, create added excitement, and would FINALLY allow college football championships to be determined on the field, and not decided by a handful of individuals that seem to have their own agendas. Unfortunately, it probably won’t be in my lifetime!
By Gator fan
December 2, 2007 8:58 PM | Link to this
Perhaps the Dogs should’ve considered the long term consequences when they decided to take a nap against UT.
By Sam
December 2, 2007 8:58 PM | Link to this
What about 2 years ago when UGA lucked into the SEC Championship? Auburn was ranked wall above UGA. If Auburn had gotten to go the Sugar Bowl would that have sat with UGA? Why not? Auburn was the better team at the time.
By pack
December 2, 2007 8:58 PM | Link to this
They should at least let Georgia go to the Rose bowl. I think the Rose bowl gave Georgia the shaft.
By cdawg
December 2, 2007 8:58 PM | Link to this
WOW! Bronze this column it is a thing of beauty. The BCS is a total sham and I am glad you included ESPN in that mix as a sham, too. Thanks Mark for a classic column!
By h_charles
December 2, 2007 8:59 PM | Link to this
BCS is a sham. Oklahoma deserves the game. UGA DOES NOT. Can’t win your conference, can’t even play in the SEC title game, but somehow that is deserving over an LSU team that beat UT on a neutral field? The sham here is your UGA homerism, Mr. Bradley.
By screwed
December 2, 2007 8:59 PM | Link to this
Hey LSU! you want to talk about teams that don’t deserve to play in the big game - look in the mirror! YOU lost to an unranked team last week, Arkansas (who can’t even throw a pass), and got a “third” chance to be #1…. and you’re bragging about how good you are? I can’t wait until next year to play you guys… I was a little worried about playing you and UF back to back but not now - we have motivation for both games…. maybe you can lose the national title game too and still be crowned National Champs because your coach gets on ESPN and cries to media about how tough your schedule is and how you lost in OT’s…. key word LSU - you LOST both of those games… and one of those games was to UK - a team we beat pretty handily. Keep LES - we can’t wait till next year - we beat Saban when he coached LSU - and now we’re looking forward to beating Les (again) - just like the SEC Championship three years ago.
By UGA 99
December 2, 2007 8:59 PM | Link to this
This is very disappointing, but to be expected. Here goes another 2004 Sugar Bowl repeat. UGA plays what appears to be a lesser team. UGA is expected to win, so if that happens then big whoop. But, if UGA is defeated by HI, then it’s a terrible loss. A no win situation indeed. I hope that LSU gets run over by OSU. Then LSU will be once, twice, three times a loser. OSU is happier than LSU that LSU made to the NCG. They got their wish to not have to play a team that was less boring than them.
By Eddie
December 2, 2007 8:59 PM | Link to this
Give me a break. To say this is worse than Auburn 2004 is crazy. To go undefeated in the SEC and only have One team that had the ball in the 4th quarter with a chance to take a lead doesn’t come close to comparing Georgia this year. Try being an Auburn fan and living thru that. THE BCS IS A SHAM, I learned that in 2004.
By DawgFan22
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
You idoits make me sick, LSU fans are U proud of your showing against IT last night? YOU SUCKED OUT LOUD!!!! Please don’t embarrass the SEC with your meat head idiot of a coach.
By Thomas
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
Give me a break, LSU won more games and UT, the SEC East champ, beat tar out of dawgs.
Lets see, UGA beat one top ten team (UF). Bammy, AU, Vandy and UK pretty much sucked!
By Dawgs01
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
LSU didnt lose a game in regulation. Great arguement. Oh well, we didnt lose a game in overtime so i guess that should cancel that out. LSU knows they would have been whipped if they played us. The SEC championship was to decide the 2nd best team in the confrence. Not the nation.
By DawgFan22
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
You idoits make me sick, LSU fans are U proud of your showing against IT last night? YOU SUCKED OUT LOUD!!!! Please don’t embarrass the SEC with your meat head idiot of a coach.
By Dawgs Numero Uno
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
Mark, you hit the nail squarely on the head…UGA needs to play 08 with a chip on their shoulders…
ESPN is a farce…
GT LOVER, Ga tech is not one of the “big boys”..You are a bottom feeder from the weak acc..we own you. 7 in a row you. What does 59-38-2 mean to you? Maybe one day your sorry team will be able to hang with the Nations Best “UGA”
By DawgFan22
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
You idoits make me sick, LSU fans are U proud of your showing against IT last night? YOU SUCKED OUT LOUD!!!! Please don’t embarrass the SEC with your meat head idiot of a coach.
By Matthew
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
I love how all these Georgia-haters are here. I guess they’ve got nothing better than to laugh at a team that’s heading to a BCS bowl, while you’re team is headed to a joke.
You people suck a*.
GO DOGS!!!
By Eddie
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
Give me a break. To say this is worse than Auburn 2004 is crazy. To go undefeated in the SEC and only have One team that had the ball in the 4th quarter with a chance to take a lead doesn’t come close to comparing Georgia this year. Try being an Auburn fan and living thru that. THE BCS IS A SHAM, I learned that in 2004.
By tony
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
a week before the sec title game everyone on espn was saying that it would be better if ga didn’t play for the sec title because the bcs standing wouldn’t effect them one way or the other but when the #1 and #2 teams lost they want to say ga don’t deserve to play for the national championship.
By DawgFan22
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
You idoits make me sick, LSU fans are U proud of your showing against IT last night? YOU SUCKED OUT LOUD!!!! Please don’t embarrass the SEC with your meat head idiot of a coach.
By Leon
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
Come on Mark. The only other teams with a valid argument are USC and OU. UGA is not even in the discussion anywhere outside this state. For some reason their hype has gotten out of control. There are the 3rd or 4th best team in the SEC right now. If played on a neutral field next Saturday, they would be a underdog to LSU, UF and probably UT. They should be happy with Sugar.
By Michael
December 2, 2007 9:00 PM | Link to this
GEORGIA DID NOT WIN THEIR DIVISION AND THEY WERE A FUMBLE AWAY FROM LOSING TO MIGHTY VANDERBILT. tHEY STRUGGLED AGAINST TROY ALSO. GEORGIA WILL HAVE NEXT YEAR TO PLAY IN THE TITLE
By VolMBAer
December 2, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this
This is not a bigger injustice than Auburn, that’s a joke.
LSU jumping VT is something that should have happened anyway, VT LOST TO LSU BY 41 POINTS! It was a joke that VT was a head of LSU anyway.
You didn’t win your conference, how can you even make a LOGICAL arguement when you weren’t even one of the top 2 teams in the SEC?
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this
look i love it georgia dropped down a spot in the bcs, good call bcs you got that just right from 4th to 5th
By bob
December 2, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this
do the stupid mutts dance to “Cry Me a River” too?
By Steven
December 2, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this
The BCS is a sham and has lost all (if it ever had any) of its credibility this season. Even if you don’t agree UGA should be in the title game, I’m sure Va Tech, USC and Oklahoma have just as good of a resume as LSU and/or Ohio State.
For UGA it is a no win situation in the Sugar Bowl. Win by four touchdowns and Hawaii “should never of been a BCS team.” Barely win the game and “I told you UGA should not have played for the national championship.”
I really think Mark Richt was upset and is having a difficult time understanding why we’re not celebrating instead of wondering the (lack of) logic behind the B(C)S.
By CarolinaBulldog
December 2, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this
I wonder how much the BCS paid ESPN for the smear campaign against UGA? The whole BCS (Bogus Championship Series) stinks. UGA deserved a chance to play and all those “cable-ready gasbags” know it.
Nonetheless, who would have thought we would be disappointed in a trip to the Sugar Bowl? I hope our guys are ready to pinch the heads of the Warriors! And, I hope our guys are ready to take care of business next year so this won’t happen again.
By Michael Mays
December 2, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this
I’m a Georgia Tech fan, and while I understand that LSU shouldn’t have jumped five spots by beating a good but not great Tennessee team, OU is a better team than UGA based on what they did to Missouri this year. I don’t think a team should have to win its conference to go to the national championship game (imagine if a team loses one game but beats three or four top-ten teams and doesn’t win its division). All this being said, I do think LSU is the better team; however, they shouldn’t have jumped that many spots.
By Artie
December 2, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this
Love to hear all the Dawg fans cryin’. Be careful not to take the Rainbow Warriors for granted!!!!
By JW
December 2, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this
So now it is clear to all…The BCS BS is just that…BS. No honest broker can explain how UGA gets jumped in the rankings, no way!!!
Seems like Hollywood has corrupted our beloved college football. SAD!
By listen
December 2, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this
All this crying probably means that UGA is going to get thumped by the Rainbow Warriors. It usually goes that way!
By Dave
December 2, 2007 9:02 PM | Link to this
GT Lover….you are the dumbest individual that has ever posted on this board. GT and tradition…GT has tradition????…the only tradition GT has is losing to UGA every year. Have fun in Boise while UGA is in the SUGAR BOWL!
By DB
December 2, 2007 9:02 PM | Link to this
Mark, If you can’t even win your own division (SEC East), much less your conference championship, then you have no business playing for the national championship. Whether you like it or not, it is a good argument. The Dawgs lost to UT head to head.
By dawg in dc
December 2, 2007 9:02 PM | Link to this
Leslie Miles, by that rational you could say Georgia beat Kentucky and LSU couldn’t. Of course you’d probably use the Miles logic of ‘we didn’t lose in regulation’. Brilliant.
By dawg daddy
December 2, 2007 9:02 PM | Link to this
we are not going to the championship game, because we lost to a sorry team. then we had to watch that joke of a team try to beat LSU. Just be glad we dont have to pull for them. what a joke
By 08 is the new 80
December 2, 2007 9:02 PM | Link to this
If Notre Dame was in Georgia’s spot, 10-2 and not going to any conference title game and ranked number 4 before the selections and won their last 6 games, I bet they would be in the title game……
By Xenophon
December 2, 2007 9:02 PM | Link to this
Bradley had it exactly right. LSU staggered across the finish line to grasp the championship in its quivering hands, wheezing all the way. GA powered over its last six opponents, getting stronger with each game. The polls were shocked at their resurgence and rightly voted them high in the polls. And now, instead of advancing, all that is forgotten and they actually drop BEHIND LSU??? Huh? Where’s the logic? Ohio State didn’t have to play in a league championship game, either. What makes them so magical? The BCS has lot its credibility with a lot of folks. Also, to the person who complained about FLA jumping over Michigan last year, the facts bore that out. Michigan was overrated, just as Ohio State is overrated this year. Last year the polls had the sense to realize it. This year, they have amnesia.
By Smiling ear to ear
December 2, 2007 9:02 PM | Link to this
Wow, someone is sure pouting. I must assume that Mr. Bradley is a UGA fan. Nothing made me happier then to see UGA fans get knocked off their pedestal. You all did have a good season but you should not be playing for the championship. Yeah there is not a rule that says you have to win your conference, but let’s face it, that is what killed you in the coach’s pole. You have to win your conference when it comes to the human factor of the rankings process. It’s going to be hard to be sympathetic to all the whining UGA fans at work tomorrow. All I am going to hear is the same rant; “we got the shaft”.
By Whatever GT
December 2, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this
gt lover
Get a dictionary or at least spell check. Why don’t you get one of your smart friends to help you use the internet and research some… Georgia has more football national championships than the trade school does. However, we don’t have any “triditions” - but we do have some traditions.
Have fun in the loser - I mean Humanitarian Bowl. Seems like they might call you by name there - you have been there so many times. Maybe you will forget how to get back to Georgia. That would be nice.
By UGAMom
December 2, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this
UGA should have gotten the Rose Bowl against USC. That would at least show this whole thing has something to do with good football. The Sugar Bowl against Hawaii is a HUGE disappointment.
By grub
December 2, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this
You shouldn’t have lost to SC just like USC shouldn’t have lost to Stanford and Oklahoma shouldn’t have lost to Colorado. USC and OU have just as much reason to complain as you do, and, by the way, better prepare for Hawaii, remember the last Sugar Bowl you were in? A lot of the same chest beating and you got hammered.
By JP
December 2, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this
All the uga fans are whining about LSU jumping over them but their argument is ridiculous. LSU beat both teams that beat UGA, won the conference championship and had more top 25 wins. UGA had 2 (Florida and Auburn). LSU had the same 2 (UF & AU) but also beat Tennessee (who crushed UGA) and Virginia Tech by 41. You dawg fans are delusional if you think that you truly deserve to be in over LSU.
How about some stats too:
LSU is 1st in the SEC in total defense, UGA is 3rd
LSU is 2nd in the SEC in scoring defense, UGA is 3rd
LSU is 3rd in the SEC in total offense, UGA is 6th
LSU is 3rd in the SEC in scoring offense, UGA is 6th
By Carl
December 2, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this
For the last freaking time, Georgia is not the hottest team in the country! You struggled against Kentucky and Vanderbilt, your QB is a pudgy inconsistent moron, and TN ripped you a new one. Give me a break, how long are you morons going to say “wait until next year”; honestly. Face it, UGA is average, nothing more.
By chainshaw
December 2, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this
Listening to all of the Georgia fans b*** about playing Hawaii is eerily reminiscent of when they played WVU. We all remember how that turned out!
It is what it is. UGA is going to the Sugar Bowl. They will all be sitting at home and watching the Championship on TV and talking about the good old days when Herschel Walker was there. Maybe next year, pups.
By Dawgdad
December 2, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this
Were going to the wrong bowl! UGA vs.USC would had been an ratings monster for the Rose Bowl. Tell those old farts on the Rose Bowl committee that to go back to their nursing homes, and match the two best teams outside the national championship game. Once again the pac ten will open a can of whip a* and destroy the so called big ten,
By Jamie Gaverts
December 2, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this
I can’t believe this drivel even made it online. Win your division first, then your conference, then worry about a Nat’l Title. Are you serious? And get your story right. AU went undefeated. Uga got their a* handed to them by Tenn and embarrassed at home by a weak So Car team. Bradley, you are an absolute embarrassement to that filthy rag.
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this
look dawg fans you still have basketball and baseball….well maybe not but football will be back around in about 8 months. Athens will be quiet for on 8 months chill out hahahahahahaha at uga sports
By Thomas
December 2, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this
Mark, you should get good night’s sleep and rethink this article. You might be bet embarrased tomorrow when you reflect.
By Dorsey Hill
December 2, 2007 9:04 PM | Link to this
Who knew that you can give up 52 points at home and be no. 2? I have a sneaking impression that if we’d have beaten LSU yesterday that they say “well LSU sux. They lost there last 2 games” and we’d get screwed anyway. I think the “system” is get a Big Ten team in the game and find someone they might be able to beat. Of course, since we’ve won our last 11 vs. the Big Ten, it couldn’t be us.
By Thomas
December 2, 2007 9:04 PM | Link to this
Mark, you should get good night’s sleep and rethink this article. You might be bet embarrased tomorrow when you reflect.
By Jake
December 2, 2007 9:04 PM | Link to this
Spare me Bradley. Can you possibly kiss UGA a$$ anymore than you just did?
Worse than Auburn in 2004??? Auburn was unbeaten and did everything they were supposed to do which is win all your games, Georgia and every other team than Hawaii lost at least once.
Once you lose, you lose the right to complain, lose and you put it in other people’s hands, your own fault you delusional Mutts.
By laura
December 2, 2007 9:04 PM | Link to this
Boo-who. Whine, whine, whine. I love it. Seriously you think you deserve it just because you were at #4? Give me a break. The voters are allowed to reasses the situation from that week’s games. That’s what they do EVERY week. UGA isn’t the second best team in the country. If Tennessee would’ve won last night, UGA probably would’ve been in, end of story. You lost to them…I’m sorry, got your face kicked in by them, and lost to a not-so-good South Carolina team. Plus you almost lost to Vandy and Bama, a lucky break and a good pass in OT kept you alive. LSU played more ranked teams than UGA, lost twice in multiple overtimes, and won the SEC championship. This is a good day. Go cry to someone who cares!!!
By hop
December 2, 2007 9:04 PM | Link to this
the last two games played between GEORGIA and LSU,THE DAWGS WHIPPED YOUR A*! pay back will be next year, when we KICK YOU A* once AGAIN in baton rouge.
when is the auburn and georgia presidents going to get off their behinds and due something about this terrible system ,that decides matchups by voting on them instead of allowing the decision, to be made on the field.
this is the ONLY sport that does not allow the outcome to be played out.
if NOTRE DAME HAD BEEN WHERE GEORGIA WAS IN THE BCS POLL; THEY WOULD BE PLAYING FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
THE NATIONAL MEDIA DECIDES WHO IS GOING TO PLAY AND WE KNOW HOW ONE SIDED THEY ARE IN THEIR VIEWS.
WHAT A HORRIBLE system WE HAVE and SOMEONE NEEDS TO STEP UP. it is high time for DR. ADAMS to start EARNing YOUR MONEY and lead a crusade to end this madness.
By LIttleTuna
December 2, 2007 9:04 PM | Link to this
Come on…I’m a UGA grad and I don’t even believe we deserve a national title shot. Hawaii will be a good opponent and a fun game to watch. This was a rebuilding year and we have overachieved in the second half of the season. Let’s just enjoy it and know the next few years will be even better.
By JFJ
December 2, 2007 9:04 PM | Link to this
Having to play in New Orleans is punishment enough. Vols are the winners in this. Heck, Boise is a step up from New Orleans.
By JJ
December 2, 2007 9:04 PM | Link to this
Is this really an appropriate piece of writing by a columnist for a major newspaper? It’s ugly, meanspirited and hopelessly boosterish.
Anyway, I just came to express my admiration for the UGA team…I’m a Hawaii native and resident but have spent most of this year in the Southeast, and I’ve seen Georgia twice. Good football team, good coach…I loved the way they came out for the Florida game.
I know you’re disappointed, but it’ll be a great game.
Those who mock Hawaii should educate themselves a little bit, as well…go check the UH schedules for the past couple of years, and you’ll find plenty of BCS victims.
Anyway, sorry you missed your shot, and looking forward to a great game.
By Aloha
December 2, 2007 9:05 PM | Link to this
Ha Ha! If you win, you’ve only beaten a WAC team and if you lose then you’ve embarrassed yourselves and lost to a WAC team. Should’ve won your division and then you couldn’t whine and moan!!
Aloha!
By Chan Gailey
December 2, 2007 9:05 PM | Link to this
Tech fan where is GT are they in the picture, oh Im sorry they playing in some toilet bowl ha ha ha ha ha
By hop
December 2, 2007 9:05 PM | Link to this
the last two games played between GEORGIA and LSU,THE DAWGS WHIPPED YOUR A*! pay back will be next year, when we KICK YOU A* once AGAIN in baton rouge.
when is the auburn and georgia presidents going to get off their behinds and due something about this terrible system ,that decides matchups by voting on them instead of allowing the decision, to be made on the field.
this is the ONLY sport that does not allow the outcome to be played out.
if NOTRE DAME HAD BEEN WHERE GEORGIA WAS IN THE BCS POLL; THEY WOULD BE PLAYING FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
THE NATIONAL MEDIA DECIDES WHO IS GOING TO PLAY AND WE KNOW HOW ONE SIDED THEY ARE IN THEIR VIEWS.
WHAT A HORRIBLE system WE HAVE and SOMEONE NEEDS TO STEP UP. it is high time for DR. ADAMS to start EARNing YOUR MONEY and lead a crusade to end this madness.
By GAlegendsinownmindl
December 2, 2007 9:05 PM | Link to this
LSU 2 loses in triple overtime GA 2 loses, SC and spanked by TN
LSU SEC Champions beating TN GA did not even win their region
LSU toughest non-conference game was against VT who they spanked GA toughest non-conference game was GT as usual. (Go out and play someone you chickens)
By Brian
December 2, 2007 9:06 PM | Link to this
How do we FALL one spot? Makes no sense at all! This wouldn’t burn as bad if the voters had not put us as high without thinking “What IF WVU and Mizzou lose?” Playoff….playoff…playoff….
By Knuckledragger
December 2, 2007 9:06 PM | Link to this
The first drumbeat for LSU passing UGA that I read was the AJC’s very own King Tony Barnhart about 4 days ago - Bradley you can walk down the hall and shake his hand for that. I hope OSU beats the overrated Ben Gay Tigers by 46.
By listen
December 2, 2007 9:06 PM | Link to this
cry,cry,cry! You finished third in the SEC for goodness sake! The Rainbows are going to run the score up on the crybabies!
By Les
December 2, 2007 9:06 PM | Link to this
Could not have said it better myself Mark.
The BCS is a joke and always will be
By atlvol07
December 2, 2007 9:06 PM | Link to this
Nations Best Team? I can’t stop laughing….that’s so funny….hahahha. UGA is a good team, but give me a freakin’ break.
By lott
December 2, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this
The BCS is a joke and this year like every other has people up in arms about it. Why no changes? Because the BCS is about money and they know that even if we are upset we will still tune in and watch. What we should do along with Ok, USC, VT, and anyone else with a beef is watch our team play in their game and watch all the non BCS games. Then flood all the sponsors of the BCS games and tell them we will not be tuning in. When the money is in jeapordy then and only then will it be fixed. Go Dawgs…beat Hawaii
By listen
December 2, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this
cry,cry,cry! You finished third in the SEC for goodness sake! The Rainbows are going to run the score up on the crybabies!
By patrick macleod
December 2, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this
The Big Ten is, and has been, a farce for so long. OSU was idiol on Championship Saturday, AGAIN! Now they play for the title. Despite the fact that LSU is a one of the shakeiest teams in the country(strougles w/ everyone), at least they play in a progressive conferance that has balls. Go LSU!
By TCB
December 2, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this
Look at the Sugar falling from the Sky!! You just got your faces crushed by a hob nailed boot!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha
By patrick macleod
December 2, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this
The Big Ten is, and has been, a farce for so long. OSU was idiol on Championship Saturday, AGAIN! Now they play for the title. Despite the fact that LSU is a one of the shakeiest teams in the country(strougles w/ everyone), at least they play in a progressive conferance that has balls. Go LSU!
By UGABigDaddy
December 2, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this
Were is the consistancy???? GA is penalized for NOT playing in their championship game, yet KS is rewarded with a BCS bid? OK loses to 2 non ranked teams and they move above us in the BCS pole?
I guess this Dawg got his bone.
By pcbuzz
December 2, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this
Got what you deserve. Just pray you don’t lose to the rainbow warriors. Might offset my prayers you do. No way the mutts should be playing for a national title.
By Fridawg
December 2, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this
Les Miles must have some incriminating photos of Herbstreit. Perhaps Herbstreit worked a deal where Miles wouldn’t take the Michigan job if Herbie worked LSU into the championship.
After the bitter taste goes away, I’ll be happy to see the Dawgs in the Sugar Bowl. If you expect a spot in the championship, you’ve gotta go undefeated.
College football is great. A playoff system would have destroyed yesterday and today’s suspense.
By jeb
December 2, 2007 9:08 PM | Link to this
Georgia vs. USC would have been better thatn OSU vs. LSU-That game would have been for the true national champion!
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this
im thinking to myself what that goober uga fan said when he said uga beat nick saben, well it seems like saben smacked that a* in the sec championship the year before so tuck your tail between your leggs and get in your gay little dawg house
By JT
December 2, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this
Worse snub than Auburn? Not even close. Win all your games, win your conference, then give Auburn a call. The title is not the November Champion, it is National Champion.
By Ga trek Nerd
December 2, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this
enjoy the bottom of the acc and your smurf bowl
By Paul Morvant
December 2, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this
Sir, I take exception to your accusation that Coach Miles lobbyed for the chance to play in the NC game. Les Miles was trying to get his team ready for an important football game and was responding to ESPN inquires. If you consider that lobbying, what do you call what Mark Richt was doing when he went on ESPN to say that his team deserved to play in the championship game. Face the facts sir, Georgia did not win their division and did not win the SEC. GA lost the same number of games that Lsu lost (both in triple OT). Perhaps the voters finally did the right thing by not penalizing a team for losing late. GA was ranked #4, but the season was not over. LSU has found a way to win these games just as Ohio State won many close games while winning the 2002 NC. LSU WON the championship of the strongest conference in the country and by doing so EARNED the right to play the champions of the Big 10 for the NC. Georgia DID NOT. Mark Richt sounded could not even give credit to Lsu for wining the SEC. It would have been great if GA could have at least won the East so that Lsu could have beaten them in Atlanta, but they DID NOT.
By NC DAWG
December 2, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this
Notice how in the other BCS games the power teams are all playing much lesser opponents. For example: USC vs. Illinois! Hmmm? You think had Georgia gotten a chance at USC and beaten them or vice-versa they could have made a claim at being the best team in the country? Darn right they could have. So what does the BCS do? They totally eliminate that possibility by putting together the crappiest, most non-sensical bowl games I’ve ever scene. Now no team other than the two scrubs in the title game can make a claim to anything. What a joke! I can’t wait until March Madness when college sports are truly at there best.
By FloweryBranchDawg
December 2, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this
Mark, Great read!!! I guess the first 13 weeks of polls and 7-8 weeks of the BCS poll are just a formallity because it does not mean DOO-DOO on the last week!!! We can talk about a playoff system all day long, but all of these Univ Prez’s are worried about the “Almighty $$$” and will not implement one. I guess you have to take of business from week one to the very end and do not lose a single to get a sniff of the NC game!! GO Dawgs and lets have a great time in “New Orleans” beating Hawaii!!
By Ron Roberts
December 2, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this
Dawg fans… let’s remember what our expectations were going into this season and appreciate what actually became of it. This has been a magical season, and were it not for a case of the dropsies against the Gamecocks, we’d be in New Orleans a week later. It happens.
This team grew up, before our very eyes and overwhelmed us all with their body of work this year.
I’m also of the belief that the shortcomings of this season will serve them well in 2008/09. Never again, will these guys go into a game against clearly inferior opposition, at home or on the road, and play less-than-capable football.
That’s right, folks. When Georgia takes the field against the Gamecocks, you’d better believe they’ll K N O W they’re the better team and will leave that field still knowing it. Same for Tennessee, Auburn, Kentucky, etc.
The O N L Y thing that might cause the Dogs to stumble will be the backloaded schedule, next year. If/when we survive two early back-to-back road games against Carolina and Arizona State!!, we’ll then have ‘Bama at home before a bye, then Tennessee at home before homecoming against Vandy, then (check T H I S out…) road games at LSU, Florida (Jacksonville), at Kentucky, and at Auburn.
Now don’t get me wrong; all those games, Georgia should be favored to win, barring disastrous injury or suspensions beforehand, all of those games, with the possible exception being LSU, but it’ll be a draw.
I’m just saying that the schedule’s flat-out B R U T A L but if there’s ever been a Georgia team capable of marching through it unblemished, it’s the one that’s coming back next season.
We graduate only 14 seniors, and only 5 of them were starters on the depth chart. Three of the others were kickers…
The 2008/09 Bulldogs are going to be deep, and hungry to not slip up agaisnt inferior opponents. The 2007/08 ‘Dawgs lost to two teams they shouldn’t have, and it cost ‘em the title game. It won’t happen in 2008/09 so long as our key parts stay healthy and the guys remember the bitter taste in their mouths from this let-down.
By engdawg
December 2, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this
Dawgfans were beat over the head every five minutes by the commentary on ESPN declaring that an LSU and Ohio State matchup was the only logical choice. And now, look who’s playing for National Championship, exactly the two that ESPN harped on every chance they could. There needs to be some rule written into the BCS about these commentators who basically pushed forth their agenda. Here is a small group of people on ESPN who became the most powerful people in all of college football. They basically highacked all the voters into choosing Ohio State and LSU. I really don’t want to see LSU play again. I really don’t want to see any of the matchups in the BCS. And, I’m not really all that excited about Hawaii. As far watching this years BCS, or anymore for that matter, wake me up when we get get a playoff. I’m out of here.
By steve
December 2, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this
We got screwed And I hope the team remembers next year that Tuberville ranked us #5 and Les Miles kept saying how you have to win your conference to go to the title game.What a crock..Now we have to go out and put an a whipping on Hawaii** If we aren’t ranked in the top two next preseason I think we should resign from the BCS. Next year LSU won’t have to worry about going to “the game”…
By Duke
December 2, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this
Worse than what happened to Auburn in 2004? You cannot be serious. You guys could have avoided this by simply not losing a game.
Auburn did everything they could and didn’t get their shot. Hell, you lose just ONE game this year and you are there. You need a serious reality check.
By LSUTIGER28
December 2, 2007 9:10 PM | Link to this
As usual, Bradley writes a biased article in favor of a GA team that got hammered by the Vols and a very weak SC team. What an IDIOT! A few games of momentum and you’re ready to declare yourself as the #1 team. At least your colleague, Terence Moore, got it right in his article.
GA should have been thinking National Championship when it was having its %^&*$ handed to them by SC and TN. Sore losers. BUT, GA can still make the National Championship game - just extend your trip after your loss in the Sugar Bowl and watch LSU (SEC Champions) win from the cheap seats in the Dome. Geaux Tigers!!!!!
By Cesar Millan
December 2, 2007 9:10 PM | Link to this
O.K. ugly achondroplastic puppies with slobbering huge jowls.Congratulations. You got what you deserved and will be thankful for it. You are over-rated for the NC title game. If you have a problem with this, have Mama Richt ‘sic ’ me on those doggies.—Cesar
By it's on....
December 2, 2007 9:10 PM | Link to this
Thats fine. Im p**, but…that’s fine. The University of Georgia is about to strut for a long time! I like being the hated team! I like it when ” the whole conference is praying against us”. I like it when national faces get on tv and radio one week and say ” georgia should have a chance to play for the championship” and when it doesn’t happen they say the exact opposite. That’s fine bulldawg nation. This year we danced on the gators for motivation. This year we wore black and whipped auburn and danced to soulja boy! DECEMBER THE 3RD was what we needed going into this offseason to stay focused and p** off all summer. As bad as it feels right now, it will stay in the coaches and players hearts for 9 months until we come out bigger and badder than any dawg team to ever take the field in sanford stadium. Not a team carried by #34, but a team carried by people at every position that are hungrier than ever. Be ready. Beware, because as coach van halenger said, ” We are about to get rollin” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, let’s whip Hawaii and be ready to finish of recruiting season and bring the funk next year!!!
By modawg77
December 2, 2007 9:10 PM | Link to this
I hope Ohio St. kicks LSU’s a**. It’s all about money.
By Lee
December 2, 2007 9:10 PM | Link to this
I am ok that the Dawgs didn’t get the title game shot. I am simply mad that we are rewarded with a game against Hawaii. Let us play USC or Oklahoma! Everything is wrong with the postseason of college football. Hey Dawg fans stick it to the Sugar Bowl and don’t go! The Sugar is the reason we are not in the Rose or the Fiesta. They could have given permission to the Rose Bowl and they didn’t. The BCS can’t pair the two best teams and apparently they don’t want a UGA vs USC/Oklahoma game to out shine the “fake” title game. By the way, I am ok with LSU being there. I personally don’t think Ohio State should be there. Weak Big 10 and a weak non-conference schedule. If Dawgs were in the Rose or Fiesta I would be happy.
By BR
December 2, 2007 9:10 PM | Link to this
Spurrier is laughing right now? About what? What bowl is SC going to? Also, TN and GT fans… where are you going this year? NOT to a BCS bowl!! GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!
By Joshua Barlowe
December 2, 2007 9:11 PM | Link to this
Beat Tennessee and South Carolina next time — now quit yer yelpin’.
Bark Madly is at it again.
By mart
December 2, 2007 9:11 PM | Link to this
Georgia should be extremely pleased to be in a major bowl. Mr. Bradley, you’re losing credibility.
By bukakkejackets
December 2, 2007 9:11 PM | Link to this
gt lover is a fruitloop and loves to bite the pillow. flame on loser!
By randall
December 2, 2007 9:11 PM | Link to this
The system is so screwed up I hope Ohio State beats the mess out of LSU. Go Dawgs!!!
By DaddyDawg
December 2, 2007 9:11 PM | Link to this
Mark:
Very good post! Everyone talks about LSU’s “body of work,” but the point is LSU lost just last week to an unranked team at home and has lost one other game over the past 6 weeks when it was very shakey throughout the perid and GA was winning impressively without a loss.
Do you now realize that ND, a 3-9 team, has a longer winning streak (2) than either team playing for the national championship??? The pollsters had no principled basis to move teams several spaces in the rankings over others, other than the ad hoc, Machiavellian principle that “the ends justifiy the means.” Such a result-oriented approach only causes the public to appropriately question the integrity and credibility of the polls and the BS BCS system. If anything, this travesty should ultimately serve as a battle cry for a playoff system to replace the BCS and the polls!
By LADAWG
December 2, 2007 9:12 PM | Link to this
This is complete nonsense. UGA got hosed and they should be rightfully upset. It was unfortunate that we did not get a chance to settle it on the field. LSU fans were pulling so hard to play TN because they were scared to play UGA. I hear all these LSU idiots saying we just barely lost our games. Well we didnt barely beat KY, or AU, or FL. Fact of the matter is Mark is right, LSU is a 500 club with a crybaby bit$% of a headcoach. As an SEC guy, I hope OSU smacks LSU around so that he gets a dose of humility. Georgia will prevail and this time next year, they will not leave anything up for doubt.
By Rvenge
December 2, 2007 9:12 PM | Link to this
It really is laughable. LSU loses 2 games since Oct 16th and still make the title game! Ha. It was very obvious that the two best teams weren’t playing in the SEC title game. I am ashamed to have LSU representing the SEC. I would have rather have seen Oklahoma if it wasn’t Georgia going, at least Oklahoma can put up in a big game, LSU has proven that they can’t!
By bp101
December 2, 2007 9:12 PM | Link to this
As much as I love college football, it is time to get radical with this stupid BCS crap. If you really want a playoff, then it is time to send a message that these greedy university presidents can understand. It is time to boycott college football. I know it will be very difficult to do, but maybe then these greedy presidents will understand what the fans want.
By ssidawg
December 2, 2007 9:12 PM | Link to this
Go Dawgs!! I would have liked to see us in The Rose Bowl against USC. That would have been an awesome game. However, let’s take care of what we can control and beat the crap out of Hawaii!! It’s still GREAT to be a Georgia Bulldog!!!!!!!
By Don
December 2, 2007 9:12 PM | Link to this
Preach it, Brother Bradley! I am a Georgia homer and this much is true…whether or not the Dogs belong in the title game pales in comparison to the Bu!!sh Championship Series (or whatever that piece of crap system is called) giving LSU its 3rd chance. This sytem is totally bogus and run wreaks of being run by a bunch of old farts who can’t and won’t give up tradion.
By bob
December 2, 2007 9:12 PM | Link to this
lsu lost by a combined 4 points…enough said. what’s the argument for uga??? we decided to dance with ourselves instead of finishing out the game?
By Darius
December 2, 2007 9:12 PM | Link to this
LMAO at the idiot UGA fans and media hacks who can’t understand how a team that did not win their division or conference championship is not included in the BCS Title game. BTW, UGA finished #5 in the BCS … not #4.
By Doug
December 2, 2007 9:12 PM | Link to this
**Hey Bradley and all you Jawja Dawgs…Please stop all your crying before coming to the Sugar Bowl because Post-Katrina New Orleans can’t handle another flood. By the way you have to be the most biased ‘journalist’ I have ever seen.
GEAUX TIGERS!!!!!!
By dawgma
December 2, 2007 9:13 PM | Link to this
Well stated, Mark.
Back when UGA defeated LSU for the SEC championship in 2005, Les Miles tried to conduct his coaches show from the 50 yard line of the Ga Dome a good 30 minutes after everyone left the stadium. I happened to still be present, and remember a few red and black revelers from a suite interrupting his show with cries of “Les Miles is a buffoon!” and “Les Miles is a lying scumbag!”
Why call Les a liar, you ask? Well, I vaguely remember Les telling the Oklahoma State faithful that he was their man after leading the Pokes to a big upset of the Sooners. Somewhere along the way, Saban bolted for the Dolphins, and Les went back on his word to the the Cowboy Nation, and took the vacant LSU job.
Guess what? Les the lying buffoon did it again last week when he accepted the Michigan job. However, as many of you folks may not know, this did not make some of the Michigan faithful too happy. My sources say that Lloyd Carr thinks Les is a buffoon, too, and they were so upset that some Michigan brass decided to leak this “secret” information to ESPN’s Kirk, “I-got-my-a$$-handed-to-me-by- UGA-in-the-1992-Citrus Bowl”, Herbstreit.
When Kirk reported this premature news before the SEC championship, it so infuriated Les, that he decided to stay with LSU. Imagine that. Les was about to bail, but his ego got the best of him once again. Only this time, his ego caused him to stay.
So what does all of this have to do with UGA, you ask? It is my guess that ESPN was so embarrassed by their crappy reporting that they wanted to make amends and, therefore, they did everything possible to promote LSU. Unfortunately, this included bashing Georgia.
Go Dawgs!
By Ben
December 2, 2007 9:13 PM | Link to this
Mark, you forgot that LSU also beat VA Tech, a conference champion. But this will hopefully create more converts to a playoff system
By Get Over It
December 2, 2007 9:13 PM | Link to this
who cares?
By Will Collier
December 2, 2007 9:13 PM | Link to this
Congratulations, Mark. You’ve just proved again that you’re the dumbest writer at the AJC. Considering you had to out-dumb Terence Moore, that’s quite an achievement.
By Roger in Buckhead
December 2, 2007 9:13 PM | Link to this
Bradley, you are correct - makes no sense. Georgia maybe does not deserve to be playing, but dropping to 5th? With VaTech leaping-frogging them?
Finally, Tuberville ranking Hawaii over the Dogs - My god!!! OK Bulldogs, kick Auburn’s butt next year, run up the score, and stomp on the Tuberville/Auburn emblem while celebrating the win!!!
By taylor
December 2, 2007 9:13 PM | Link to this
Sugar is sweet.
How much does the Humanitarian Bowl pay these days? All the potatoes you can carry and a PSP?
By David
December 2, 2007 9:13 PM | Link to this
Georgia playing in the Championship Game? Is this bias reporting or just stupidity? Georgia didn’t even play for the Southeastern Championship. Georgia is just lucky they are playing Hawaii instead of Oklahoma or USC. Or they would get their clock cleaned and be whimpering throughout 2008.
By outsider lookin in
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
UGA fans should be happy about going to the Sugar Bowl. New Orleans is a great place and it needs your money. That aside UGA lost 2 games and did not play in the SEC title game. LSU lost 2 games in triple OT without the OT LSU would still be undefeated. Yes, I know UT played LSU close, but UT won by a few touchdowns over UGA. A few years ago UGA lost to Florida and still played in the SEC title game due to previous rankings. (UF lost 2 out of the 1st 3 SEC games and then went on to win 5 straight 1 being UGA) Enjoy New Orleans and look to next year. You had a Great Season!
By Chris
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
The BCS is controlled by ESPN
By David
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
Georgia playing in the Championship Game? Is this bias reporting or just stupidity? Georgia didn’t even play for the Southeastern Championship. Georgia is just lucky they are playing Hawaii instead of Oklahoma or USC. Or they would get their clock cleaned and be whimpering throughout 2008.
By PM
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
I’m going to quit reading the AJC. It’s time. Not just the stupid opinions by Bradley and Moore but the whole damn paper is not much better than the National Enquirer. As for UGA, you people have really shown what dumba@@es you are the last few weeks. You all must be a bunch of left wingers looking for the usual handout. What will you do if Hawaii gives you a game? Don’t you remember Boise State over Oklahoma last year? Oh I forgot you are all too arrogant to think straight. It was priceless that UGA did not get nary a mention till about the 30 minute mark of the ESPN show.
To all bosses in Atlanta: Look out for a hundred thousand DAWG fans calling in sick tomorrow.
By DA82WG
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
Hey gtsucker, learn to SPELL and try to win more than once every 7 years—also get a new head coach for that grest TRADITION of playing in Boise in December,,,,the tradition of playing in crappy bowls….may next year y’all can REDUCE the size of your crummy stadium again…………..
By David
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
Georgia playing in the Championship Game? Is this bias reporting or just stupidity? Georgia didn’t even play for the Southeastern Championship. Georgia is just lucky they are playing Hawaii instead of Oklahoma or USC. Or they would get their clock cleaned and be whimpering throughout 2008.
By james
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
LSU had it’s chance on 2 different times and could not hold on to the top spot.BCS you don’t know what u just have done. To all the Hawaii fans and to all the Hawaii team enjoy NO because you going to play a team that is really p** off and should have been playing for the Title. And to Lou Holtz no disrespect but u have been 0-4 against UGA .And to all the LSU fans if you where so great how come you barely beat Florida and barely beat Auburn,while Ga beat Fla by 12, and beat Auburn by 25 and plus you can’t even beat Kentucky but Ga did. So if u where all that good why didn’t play us during the season. Go Dawgs and G
By sam
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
Auburn was 13-0 and won the SEC and beat 4 top 10 teams in 2004. Auburn also had 4 players drated in the 1st round 3 were top 10 pickes of the NFL draft. No way a 10-2 Georgia team who didn’t even win the East, got a bigger shaft. Stupid comment.
By falcon
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
LSU is no doubt glad to be playing Ohio State. I’m not sure they could handle Arkansas or Kentucky again. After that anemic offensive display in the SECCG, I hope they at least put a few points on the board in the BCS Championship Game.
Mark your point is well made. The best two teams are clearly not playing on January 7.
By Donna Outlaw
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
UGA - You didn’t play this week so you had to settle for the BCS computer rankings you ended with last week while those of you who played this week had a chance to better our computer rankings or worsen them. Notice how you dropped to #5 in the BCS? There is much more math involved when 4 teams are idle the last week of the season than a simple “If #1 and #2 lose, then #3 and #4 move up to #1 and #2.” The computer rankings took into account the stats of the teams that played this week and that moved you down even though the human polls kept you at #4 in the AP (which doesn’t count toward the BCS poll) and also in the coaches poll which is 1/3 of the BCS rankings and the Harris poll which is 1/3 of the BCS rankings so if UGA is #5 in the BCS poll, it was the 1/3 part of the BCS computer rankings that cased them to drop to #5. The computer rankings made a very strong statement from Oklahoma and LSU to cause UGA to drop to #5 even though the other 2/3 of the makeup of the BCS rankings kept UGA at #4. And as we all know, computers do not use emotion to make their rankings as the human polls do. The 1/3 computer part of the BCS poll is based soley on quality wins and quality losses. LSU played seven ranked teams (you played 4 all year) , four in a row, and our loss to UK in triple OT was a loss to a ranked team. And until last night, LSU was the only #1 or #2 team to lose to another ranked team. The computer takes all that into account. UGA was whining that the human polls were going to keep them out of the title game but the human polls actually helped keep them at a higher spot in the rankings than the computer wanted to allow. If it hadn’t been for the human polls, UGA would have been ranked lower than #5 at this point. The BCS computer average actually has UGA tied with Oklahoma for SIXTH place. Win the Sugar Bowl and you will most certainly go up and by being given Hawaii to play, you should do that very easily or you just need to go crawl into a corner and hush. Oh yeah, notice the computer third of the BCS has Va Tech as #1 and Ohio State as #3? ALL have LSU as the solid #2 team.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/BCSStandings
By listen
December 2, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this
GT Whatever, get it right! Tech 4 National Championships in football including the most recent. UGA has 2. UGA should be a superior program, but they always underachieve with all that talent and then cry about getting screwed! Dawg fans have no sense of reality. I think it’s from all the inbreeding!
By gaDAwg
December 2, 2007 9:15 PM | Link to this
Matt- IF LSU did not lose two games then why are they 11-2? They lost to Kentucky and Arkansas. Get your facts straight.
By David
December 2, 2007 9:15 PM | Link to this
Georgia playing in the Championship Game? Is this bias reporting or just stupidity? Georgia didn’t even play for the Southeastern Championship. Georgia is just lucky they are playing Hawaii instead of Oklahoma or USC. Or they would get their clock cleaned and be whimpering throughout 2008.
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 9:15 PM | Link to this
dave you moron look it up we have 4 national championships compaired to uga’s 1, the heisman trophy was named after johnny heisman you moron a gt player, gt has the oldest division 1 field in college football we have 5 rose bowl wins, we have 3 sugar bowl wins, we won the most recent national championship in the state of georgia and not to mention when we were in the sec we won 6 sec championships you uga goon
By ugadawg
December 2, 2007 9:15 PM | Link to this
AMEN. NOW GO DOWN THE HALL AND WHIP TERENCE. WHAT AN IDIOT!!!
By Wankine
December 2, 2007 9:15 PM | Link to this
Aloha from the Big Island, the Land of Fire and Ice and home of Madame Pele. We are honored to be playing Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, but we are humble and know we will need all the miracles of our Island heritage to win. We survive here despite erupting volcanoes, tsunamis, and the occasional hurricane. Who’s to say we can’t win a football game nobody thinks we can win? Aloha nui loa, no ka oi Rainbow Warriors.
By Joshua Barlowe
December 2, 2007 9:15 PM | Link to this
UGA never should’ve been #4 in the first place. They were the only 2 loss team that high - and the voters corrected that mistake this week.
By Mike
December 2, 2007 9:15 PM | Link to this
This is the dumbest article I have ever written by a paid journalist. UGA deserved to play because they were #4 in the bcs and did not play? Uh, that is exactly why they got jumped, it was championship Saturday and they were watching on tv like you. A 2-loss UGA team should not have expected to play for the national title over the 2 loss sec champ. Are you delusional?
Maybe UGA should have beat 6-loss USC in their ‘audition’ for #1.
By ESPNwillnot
December 2, 2007 9:16 PM | Link to this
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By modawg77
December 2, 2007 9:16 PM | Link to this
The media swung the decision making process because UGA did not win the SEC. It sucks. If Notre Dame had been ranked 4th in this same situation, they would be playing for the national championship.
By ncdawg
December 2, 2007 9:16 PM | Link to this
In case you missed it on ESPN…………….67% of the country believes that LSU and OSU are NOT the 2 best teams in the country….the only 2 states that do: Ohio and Louisiana.
Hey Dawg fans let’s quit complaining about not making the title game……We have had a better season than most people thought…now let’s pull hard for the dawgs in the sugar bowl
By Danny
December 2, 2007 9:17 PM | Link to this
Are u really surprised that UGA got jumped in the polls? They didn’t get jump despite the fact that they didn’t play a game, they got jumped because of the fact. If they had played in the SEC Championship and won, then I would agree that they deserve a shot at the National title, but they didn’t. I don’t think that LSU is the best team in the nation by any means, but they are certainly more deserving than UGA because they won the conference.
I agree that a playoff system should probably be implemented, but that wouldn’t matter for all you UGA fans because you wouldn’t win it anyway! It will be hilarious when the Dawgs get beat by Hawaii
By the way, Mark Bradley, you are an idiot
By Kraw
December 2, 2007 9:17 PM | Link to this
what amazes me is how the UGA fans constantly belittle LSU, yet say nothing about Ohio making it. Did they not have weak schedule? Have they proven anything?
nah
By commonsensefan
December 2, 2007 9:17 PM | Link to this
Okay, I keep hearing about how LSU beat TN who beat UGA. How come no one is talking about the fact that UGA beat the KY team that beat LSU? Then LSU turns around and gets beat by a one dimensional ARK team that has been overrated since day one of the season. We’ve got to have a playoff. Every single year thousands of fans get the shaft because there is no definite route to a real champion.
By Walter Odom
December 2, 2007 9:18 PM | Link to this
I know Bradley is a moron, but he takes it to a new level with this “Geogia is the best team in the nation” garbage.
By Swampdawg
December 2, 2007 9:18 PM | Link to this
All I will say “Strength of Schedule” doesn’t mean squat! OSU played 2 teams this year and lost to 1 of them. And LSU was given a gift win by Tenn in that SEC game! Not an impressive win for LSU. Not enough to jump over Georgia. Georgia very impressively beat Florida, Auburn, Kentucky and Tech. I am pi$$ed!
By George
December 2, 2007 9:18 PM | Link to this
Couple of things, First off, my post at the beginning of the year is very prescient indeed. UGA needs to play a tougher non-conference schedule. Second, this is the most underwhelming batch of post-season college football games in recent memory. Much more interesting would have been: USC vs. UGA, OKLA vs. LSU, OSU vs. VT, and Hawaii vs. Kansas/Mizz. With either of the first two being the championship game. But you people will watch these garbage matchups and the powers that be will keep giving it to you until you stop watching, and then and only then will we get the playoff (of the top eight teams) that college football fans so richly deserve.
By ssidawg
December 2, 2007 9:18 PM | Link to this
CMR just announced on ESPN…..Black jerseys in The Sugar Bowl! Back in Black!!!
By you all stink
December 2, 2007 9:19 PM | Link to this
Get over it…all of you need to get a life…blah
By ampAU
December 2, 2007 9:19 PM | Link to this
Worse than AU’s snub??? What an idiotic thing to say? Did UGA win it’s conference or it’s division? nope.
By Charlie
December 2, 2007 9:19 PM | Link to this
Dear Mr. Bradley,
This is my first post ever. The reason I’m posting is that I have a strong opinion about your article. Simply put, it is not objective, and in fact is so non-objective, I could smell the dog odor. Emotion is one thing, but credibility is my gauge of your performance as a writer.
Charlie
By Mark's Alter Ego
December 2, 2007 9:19 PM | Link to this
MB,
I’m no UGA or LSU fan. You can’t logically compare the two teams’ records side-by-side and conclude that UGA was more deserving than LSU: same conference; both with 2 conference losses; one is conference champ, other didn’t even win its conference division. Take off your homer blinders for a second and look at the situation objectively, as true journalists are supposed to do. Your blind homerism, along with the comment that UGA’s treatment is worse than the 2004 undefeated Auburn team’s treatment, completely destroys all credibility.
By Artie
December 2, 2007 9:19 PM | Link to this
Waaaaaaaaah…uh, uh, waaaaaaaaah…uh, uh, waaaaaaaaaaaaah…
The question is **HOW LONG WILL THE DAWG FANS CRY ABOUT THIS “INJUSTICE”???
LMAO
By Xenophon
December 2, 2007 9:20 PM | Link to this
GA was number 4 last week and LSU was number 7. This week LSU is number 2 and GA is number 5. So either the pollsters were lying last week or they lied this week. Take your pick.
By chris
December 2, 2007 9:20 PM | Link to this
I haven’t seen this many crybabies since I last picked up my niece from the nursery. Get over it, move on, have fun in new orleans. But please, for the love of God, STOP CRYING!
By UGAgradinCO
December 2, 2007 9:20 PM | Link to this
As a UGA grad and fan, I totally believe the national championship game should be reserved for conference champions. Plain and simple, if UGA had won the SEC, we’d be in the national championship game. We didn’t take care of business against UT and SC. We didn’t win the SEC and didn’t even win the East. While UGA had a great season, we didn’t deserve consideration for the national championship game regardless of how “hot” we finished the season.
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 9:20 PM | Link to this
YEAH AND UGA FANS MAYBE ONE DAY YOU WILL HAVE THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS WE HAVE DOES 4 TO 1 MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU GEEKS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WE HAVE 4 YOU HAVE 1 CALL HERSHAL BACK UP,AND NOT FOR A WIDE OPEN TOUCHDOWN DROPPED BY US AND A FUMBLE AT THE 1 WHEN WE WERE GOING IN FOR A TD WE WIN THE GAME GOON
By Richard
December 2, 2007 9:20 PM | Link to this
How very sad this situation is. I guess only a play off (not likely) is the answer. Mark, you are correct on all your points. Guess it will have to be next year with another TOUGH SEC schedule. I imagine we will be left out then as well. Absolutely no respect where respect is deserved. Just a pitiful turn of events. How does one respect the BCS. Money or the best games. UGA and USC or Oklahoma is the best game. Rose bowl screwed up as well as the other BCS games. As a fan why don’t we get to see the best match ups? So very sad…
By Janet
December 2, 2007 9:20 PM | Link to this
I could not agree with you more. Regardless if you are a UGA fan or not, LSU does not DESERVE to go to the title game. Les Miles is a whiny brat and will get stomped by the Buckeyes. I hope OSU exposes LSU and the idiots that supported this ridiculous match up shut up.
By JS
December 2, 2007 9:20 PM | Link to this
I have heard my dog whine and whimper here at home, but I’ve never heard hundreds of thousands of them all at once. Aside from being annoying, it makes me laugh. You didn’t even win your division! What a bunch of losers. This entire Title Game business was media hype in the first place. You had no chance. Be happy with the Sugar Bowl for goodness sake. What else do you want? You had your chance in 2002, but you lost to Florida. You had your chance this year and you lost to South Carolina. Shut up already. Goodness.
By David
December 2, 2007 9:21 PM | Link to this
Mark,
Crying doesn’t become you.
Bulldog fans — crying is what defines you. But it doesn’t become you, either.
As you cry yourselves to sleep tonight, just remember: beat UT and SC and there would be joy in dawgville tonight.
I know that logic and UGA fans don’t often intersect, but under the bright light of logic, there is no rationale that would justify UGA’s presence in the championship.
You can argue that UGA was ahead of LSU, and therefore the #2 slot should automagically go to UGA. But the polls are simply opinions, which change based on new information. New info: LSU beat a team that whalloped UGA. Additional factor: the weight of placing at #2 a team that didn’t even win it’s division. Also, the computer polls rejigger every week based based on who won and who lost. I know that math is hard for you folks, but try to understand that LSU’s win made them stronger, while simultaneously the UT loss made UGA’s strength of schedule weaker. This is why Va Tech also jumped you.
Bottom line: you have no one to blame but yourself. You played yourself out of the SEC championship, and had to rely upon the most absurd set of upsets just to have a chance. Outside of dawgville, the presence of UGA in the championship game would have been an affront. For you to have believed otherwise shows just how naive you are.
By Granger Dawg
December 2, 2007 9:21 PM | Link to this
Wow! This only proves the hypocrisy of the BCS system to determine the top teams in the nation.
The biggest difference between the playoff system and the BCS formula is that:
In a playoff system, the cream rises to the top.
In the BCS, the milk gets shaken so much a little grime is allowed to overtake and hold down the cream.
By engdawg
December 2, 2007 9:21 PM | Link to this
Dawgfans were beat over the head every five minutes by the commentary on ESPN declaring that an LSU and Ohio State matchup was the only logical choice. And now, look who’s playing for National Championship, exactly the two that ESPN harped on every chance they could. There needs to be some rule written into the BCS about these commentators who basically pushed forth their agenda. Here is a small group of people on ESPN who became the most powerful people in all of college football. They basically highacked all the voters into choosing Ohio State and LSU. I really don’t want to see LSU play again. I really don’t want to see any of the matchups in the BCS. And, I’m not really all that excited about Hawaii. As far watching this years BCS, or anymore for that matter, wake me up when we get get a playoff. I’m out of here.
By gaDAwg
December 2, 2007 9:21 PM | Link to this
1 teams do not loose in overtime. They finish the drill in regulation by winning and not tying unranked and low ranked teams.By Chitown Dawg
December 2, 2007 9:21 PM | Link to this
Not only did the BCS screw the Dawgs, but Missouri got it even worse when they were snubbed by the BCS in favor of a Kansas team they beat handlily 2 weeks earlier. The only possible good that can become of this is that maybe the hypocrisy of the system has really been “outed” and that eventually a playoff system will replace the BCS. I also think that LSU isn’t nearly as good as they think they are and that Ohio State will give them all that they can handle.
By CitrusDawg
December 2, 2007 9:21 PM | Link to this
I don’t so much mind being left out of the NC as much as I do getting the least attractive BCS bowl game (again). Playing Hawaii is an absolute lose-lose scenario for the Dawgs. The BCS guys made up reasons to keep UGA out of the NC game, and then used their preposterous rule about non-BCS conferences to stick the Dawgs with the ugliest girl at the dance. This is the wosrt we’ve gotten shafted in a while.
By jc_atl
December 2, 2007 9:21 PM | Link to this
Waaaah - beat USC and don’t get drubbed by UT then whine. UGA has the same number of losses as LSU but LSU, by winning their division, has one more SEC win. I hate whining dawgs.
By Tom from Duluth
December 2, 2007 9:21 PM | Link to this
The biggest screwing UGA got was having to play Hawaii in the Suger Bowl. Who is excited about the Sugar Bowl. And Hawaii is a no-win match up. If UGA wins, they were supposed to, if not, then its another Boise State situation. UGA should be playing for the Championship, but if not there, then either playing USC in the Rose or Oklahoma in the Fiesta. Illinois in the Rose? Are you kidding me!! What a joke. UGA should boycott the Sugar Bowl. Let them fill up to Superdome with Hawaiians!! The BCS games are a big joke. WVa, Kansas, Illinois…all are crap teams who wouldn’t have finished in the top half of the SEC or ACC.
By Greg
December 2, 2007 9:22 PM | Link to this
Mark,
You obviously have a short memory. Georgia lost by 21 points and looked like they did not deserve to be on the field to Tennessee, a team that LSU beat. End of story. Lets go back to 2004, Auburn was the hottest team in the country at the end of the year and did not get to play for the national championship. They got hosed. Only 5 times in the last 28 years has a team gone undefeated through the SEC, the hardest in the country and Auburn did it and did not even get a shot. UGA lost two games, a blow out and to an unranked team. UGA did not get hosed, they simply lost their two playoff games. Had they won one, they would be their. On the other hand, LSU won theirs.
By Joe
December 2, 2007 9:22 PM | Link to this
gtlover,
Just poking a little bit at the folks on the board. I’m unconditionally for GT and think that we should have won the game. At least as hard as I yelled we should have. Here’s to better days to the white and gold. I just think that uga is demanding a little too much respect.
Joe
By Rere
December 2, 2007 9:22 PM | Link to this
OK. I will try to say this in language that even a georgia grad could understand…..
You DID NOT win the conference championship. LSU did.
You had your chances during the season. You did not do what you needed to do and now you are blaming “the system”. Win the SEC next year and then you have a reason to gripe.
By thomas
December 2, 2007 9:22 PM | Link to this
First of all, as a UGA fan, I did not believe we should have been in the BCS Championship game, but the Sugar Bowl against Hawaii? That is horrible and it sucks for all the Georgia fans out there. It should have been USC vs. UGA in the Rose. I feel cheated again in the Sugar bowl, like WVU all over again. We weren’t prepared for the game and Coach Richt admitted it afterwards b/c it is hard to get motivated for WVU and Hawaii. If we played WVU again we would kill them, and they have been living off the hype of that game ever since. Now we are in the same situation with Hawaii, and it sucks! I am a season ticket holder, will get tickets, and I am not going!
By LSU Forever
December 2, 2007 9:23 PM | Link to this
Georgia has a great football team. But, you need to be able to spell SEC Championship. Right now, also ran, is spelled Georgia. In past years, also ran has been spelled LSU.
By RationalThought
December 2, 2007 9:23 PM | Link to this
Coach Richt was just on ESPN and said that in his opinion a rule should be incorportated into the BCS that states you must win your conference championship to play in the NC game. Coach Richt = Integrity He also said Dawgs will wear their black jerseys to black out the dome.
By Mike
December 2, 2007 9:23 PM | Link to this
The THIRD place team in the SEC deserves to play in the national title game.. Give me a break Bradley your an idiot.
By Steve
December 2, 2007 9:23 PM | Link to this
O.K. Explain to me one more time why UGA is better than a team that beat a team that beat UGA by 21 points??? Oh, yea… That was a long time ago.
It was fun watching Richt whine on TV tonight.
By porksword
December 2, 2007 9:23 PM | Link to this
Whatever, the BCS is a joke. But for all you lesser teams going to lesser bowls to be here rubbing it in UGA’s face after we destroyed you, go to hell. We’ll be laughing in your face AGAIN, next year.
By DaddyDawg
December 2, 2007 9:23 PM | Link to this
Mark:
Very good post! Everyone talks about LSU’s “body of work,” but the point is LSU lost just last week to an unranked team at home and has lost one other game over the past 6 weeks when it was very shakey throughout the perid and GA was winning impressively without a loss.
Do you now realize that ND, a 3-9 team, has a longer winning streak (2) than either team playing for the national championship??? The pollsters had no principled basis to move teams several spaces in the rankings over others, other than the ad hoc, Machiavellian principle that “the ends justifiy the means.” Such a result-oriented approach only causes the public to appropriately question the integrity and credibility of the polls and the BS BCS system. If anything, this travesty should ultimately serve as a battle cry for a playoff system to replace the BCS and the polls!
By Carter
December 2, 2007 9:23 PM | Link to this
I wouldn’t say we got the shaft. I dont think we deserved a shot at the ncs. I am disappointed that the Rose didn’t take us over #13 Illinois. USC/UGA would have been fun to see. Playing Hawaii doesn’t gain us much.
By Dawgie Doo
December 2, 2007 9:23 PM | Link to this
Chan Gailey is FIRED and the smelly, wretched BUTT-LICKERS are SNUBBED by the BCS, all in ONE WEEK…Is this a GREAT COUNTRY or what?!?!?!?!
By Dawg in NC
December 2, 2007 9:23 PM | Link to this
Ohio State is a fraud. LSU is overrated and lucky. ESPN can completely influence the outcome and did. Sugar against Hawaii is no win situation. Should have gone to Rose. The system is broken but we’ll take our medicine. Sure are a lot of dawg haters out there and I will tell you what, I don’t know who your team is but you don’t want any from UGA right now and you know it.
By MtnDawg
December 2, 2007 9:24 PM | Link to this
My oh my, 60+ comments so far and most are anti-UGA taking their jabs. Big surprise. 10-2 and going to the SUGAR(which for you GT and UT folks is a BCS Bowl),is nothing to shy away from. Remember, this is a rebuilding year. 17 starters come back next year and it will be sweet irony this time @ selection time. LSU fans can enjoy their THIRD opportunity at #1 this year. In all honesty, they should be embarrassed. As they say, “third times a charm”? We’ll see. Snake Miles and Michigan job is NOT ruled out yet, PROMISE! UT - nice 9-4 year and damn that Cutcliffe is amazing with his quarterbacks…ha,ha! Good luck in the Outhouse Bowl. In the end, Rose Bowl with UGA and USC would have been the most interesting game, but like the rest of the BCS, it just didn’t happen.
Here we come Sugar and…
GO DAWGS!!!
By tony
December 2, 2007 9:24 PM | Link to this
CMR need to start blowing teams out from this day forward. That’s the only way they’re going to get any respect.
By Dorsey Hill
December 2, 2007 9:24 PM | Link to this
What is this obession that non-UGA fans have with us? Did one of us get caught screwing your girlfriend or wife? Maybe it was your momma? We can’t help she likes it “dawgie-style.” Get over it and go to your own teams blog—-losers.
By atvol07
December 2, 2007 9:24 PM | Link to this
UGA got jumped by teams who played in Conference Championship games as they should have.
By vinced
December 2, 2007 9:25 PM | Link to this
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW…YOU UGA WINERS HAVE BEEN WISHING..HOPING…PRAYING FOR THE VOLS TO DO YOUR WORK FOR YOU…THEY COULD NOT …YOU COULD NOT, SO BE THANKFUL YOU ARE EVEN IN THE BCS. LSU BEAT THE #3 TEAM VAGINA TECH BY 41….
ROLL TIDE
By EverGator
December 2, 2007 9:26 PM | Link to this
Get over it, Dawgs…and get ready for a whuppin’ by Hawaii…wuff wuff!
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 9:26 PM | Link to this
LOOK GUYS I HAVE BEEN TO ATHENS AND IT’S NOTHING PRETTY IT’S ALL COUNTRY AND YOU CAN SEE THE HILLBILLIES UP ON THE MOUNTAINS WITHOUT THERE SHOES ON,AND ALL THE UGA GIRLS WORK AT WAFFELL HOUSE AND CHEW TOBACCO SORRY UGA BUT YOUR REDNECKS….WATCH OUT LSU FANS IF YOU HAVE A UGA FAN IN YOUR FAMILY THEY WILL DO THE INSEST THING
By Matthew
December 2, 2007 9:26 PM | Link to this
Mark Bradley may be the dumbest human in the metro area. Worse than what happened to Auburn? I’ve never seen a writer lose all composure like this, what a pathetic display.
By War Eagle
December 2, 2007 9:26 PM | Link to this
Auburn was 12-0 got Sugar Bowl 2004, I said in a post yesterday,UGA will feel the pain when BCS announces the selections.
By Yolanda
December 2, 2007 9:26 PM | Link to this
hey adam, ur a f*
By GATORBOY
December 2, 2007 9:27 PM | Link to this
WAAAHHHHH. I can’t believe all this crying and begging. Take care of business on the field and you don’t have to worry about the whims and opinions of the voters. You had your chance but couldn’t score a TD against the Evil Genius and got destroyed by by a team with an even worse defense (tenn) than UF. You had a nice season with signature wins over an 8-4 auburn team that also lost to s florida and miss st and Florida - a mediocre team led by a first year QB and a bunch of high school kids trying to figure out how to play defense. Be happy with trip to the sugar bowl against the powerful wac champs - you are getting what you deserved - sure beats our bowl. By the way - please don’t beat us too bad next year at wlocp. PS - if mark richt gets tired of coaching I think he has a future as a campaign manager for political candidates after hearing his pathetic begging and politicing on ESPN last night.
By Nick
December 2, 2007 9:27 PM | Link to this
Win the confrence come talk to me. UGA is the second best team in the east, third best in the SEC.
For once the BCS got something right…
By Who Made Who
December 2, 2007 9:27 PM | Link to this
As a reporter your job is to report the news, not make the news. Face it, Georiga is only the 3rd best team in the SEC. Stop your crying and do your job.
By decdawg
December 2, 2007 9:29 PM | Link to this
OSU slow as yankee players are once again going to get mowed over like boys amongst men; maybe every year a new SEC team can woodshed doodoo tressel and his flat foot fgs.
By phyre
December 2, 2007 9:30 PM | Link to this
Situation:
1 team (say Ohio St) is undefeated… 2 and below all have 3 losses by year end… 1 team loses their conference championship…Can they not play in the BCS championship game even they now have 2 fewer losses than everyone else???
I think not…
By Shotgun
December 2, 2007 9:30 PM | Link to this
This system is a shame. Should UGA be in the title game? Maybe, maybe not. But should LSU, who has lost 2 of their past 4 games, and squeaked by numerous others this year? I don’t think so.
I think Va Tech, who I will admit got drubbed by LSU earlier this year, but dominated in their championship game, deserved the shot more than LSU.
I just don’t see how beating a good but not great Tennessee team on an awful interception that was returned for a TD is worthy to move a team from #7 to #2?
And I’m also p** at the Rose Bowl for not putting the two hottest teams in the country together in what would have been the best bowl game of the year…USC v UGA…would’ve been a great game.
What a joke college football is right now!
By EverGator
December 2, 2007 9:30 PM | Link to this
Oh, Puhleeeez, you homer…what will you say after Hawaii gets through rolling over the pups?Wahhh Wahh!
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 9:30 PM | Link to this
NO,NO,NO UGA HAS 1 TITLE AND GT HAS 4 CATCH US IF YOU CAN PUPPIES AND YOUR SISTER CALLED SHE SAID SHE GETS OFF WORK AT THE WAFFEL HOUSE AT 12:00 SHE NEEDS A RIDE HAHAHAHAHAHAHA UGA GOONS AND GEEKS 1980 WAS A LONG TIME AGO WASN’T IT
By Call it Like it is
December 2, 2007 9:31 PM | Link to this
What is really funny is UGA will not will the East next year either!!
Stop all of the complaining.
What I found stupid was when UGA moved up 10 spots after beating FL!
Bottom line:
UGA did not go to the SEC Championship game.
Enough Said!
By Justasecond
December 2, 2007 9:32 PM | Link to this
Ha ha you cocky Dawgs; come-on, who do you think you are kidding to think you “deserve” to play for the championship when you LOST to Tennessee and SC - particularly after LSU beat TN? It’s just like you UGA people (and AJC writers) you are so full of yourselves that you can’t see past your own a88. CMR should be ashamed of himself to whine and cry on national tv that his dawgs should have had the shot. All I can say is - enjoy that sorry bowl of place call New Orleans. You guys stink
By Bradley UGA Homer = No Talent
December 2, 2007 9:33 PM | Link to this
What a moron…UGA is a late fumble away from losing to Vandy…Be grateful that you were able to make the Sugar Bowl despite not even winning your own division. I can’t remember that ever happening.
By Mike
December 2, 2007 9:33 PM | Link to this
This is the dumbest article ever written by a paid journalist. UGA deserved to play because they were #4 in the bcs and did not play? Uh, that is exactly why they got jumped, it was championship Saturday and they were watching on tv like you. A 2-loss UGA team should not have expected to play for the national title over the 2 loss sec champ. Are you delusional?
Maybe UGA should have beat 6-loss USC in their ‘audition’ for #1.
By Cry Babies
December 2, 2007 9:34 PM | Link to this
Yes, that is how I feel. We are a bunch of bed wetting cry babies. If we had played good teams all year instead of some of the lay ups, we would have gotten a bid.
Sure, we beat Florida when their all pro quarterback was injured, but that was luck, not momentum. We struggled with Kentucky and had our butts handed to us by Tennessee. Maybe that was a fluke also, but it showed our coaching staff what it meant to be playing for something, not just playing.
Enjoy the Sugar Bowl guys and quit whining about what might have been. A lot of other teams would be happy to be playing there. Mississippi would love to be just playing in a bowl.
By Jdawgz
December 2, 2007 9:34 PM | Link to this
The bias against Georgia is amazing. I do not know if we should have been in the NC, but to get jumped by LSU, Oklahoma, and VT is crock of shiiit. Georgia needs no more bulletin board material for the futre then what we got today. I hate to be any team that has to play Georgia from here on out until the NC next year. LSU at Baton Rouge is gonna get their heads handed to them just like the past three times Georgia has played them.
Go OSU, let everybody see what a fraud LSU is. Having an SEC team lose in the NC will not effect Georgia down the road. As they have been continually disrespected in the polls by the media and by other coaches.
Georgia is a great team when someone beats them, uhhhmmm cue West Virginia & Tennessee, but when they beat the great teams they are just considered average by the media. Next year will see if we get shafted again. Arizona State, LSU, Tennessee, and Florida, and Auburn. Georgia will be hell to deal with.
GO DAWGS!!!!
By Jdawgz
December 2, 2007 9:34 PM | Link to this
The bias against Georgia is amazing. I do not know if we should have been in the NC, but to get jumped by LSU, Oklahoma, and VT is crock of shiiit. Georgia needs no more bulletin board material for the future then what we got today. I hate to be any team that has to play Georgia from here on out until the NC next year. LSU at Baton Rouge is gonna get their heads handed to them just like the past three times Georgia has played them.
Go OSU, let everybody see what a fraud LSU is. Having an SEC team lose in the NC will not effect Georgia down the road. As they have been continually disrespected in the polls by the media and by other coaches.
Georgia is a great team when someone beats them, uhhhmmm cue West Virginia & Tennessee, but when they beat the great teams they are just considered average by the media. Next year will see if we get shafted again. Arizona State, LSU, Tennessee, and Florida, and Auburn. Georgia will be hell to deal with.
GO DAWGS!!!!
By George G.
December 2, 2007 9:35 PM | Link to this
What happened to UGA IS IN NO WAY COMPARABLE TO WHAT HAPPENED TO AUBURN. UGA got beat at home by a 6-6 team, and got smoked in Rocky Top. Auburn beat 5 top 10 teams (UT twice, VT, UGA and LSU), and dominated most of them. The fact that you even try to compare the two is flat-out laughable.
By CDS
December 2, 2007 9:35 PM | Link to this
When I first read your previous article talking about UGA being in the title game, I thought it was good for a laugh. But Mark, this is just sad. UGA didn’t get hosed in the least. You guys aren’t even champions of the SEC East, and you whine about not being in the title game?
Don’t worry, Colt Brennan will show you why you don’t belong in the title game when they put up 50+ on UGA. Hawaii is this years Boise State, and they are going Vick-timise your beloved dogs. Then maybe you’ll write a column about how it wasn’t fair to pit Georgia against Hawaii.
By kb
December 2, 2007 9:35 PM | Link to this
Tampa Gator, I have only one thing to say 42-30!!!!!
By I HEART CMR
December 2, 2007 9:36 PM | Link to this
NEW UGA MATH: 4-2=5
By Shotgun
December 2, 2007 9:36 PM | Link to this
gt lover,
Learn to spell before you try to insult someone else because really you are doing nothing but insulting my intelligence with your poorly constructed banter.
By GTgrad4u
December 2, 2007 9:36 PM | Link to this
Enough on UGA! Will somebody please put up a good Humanitarian Bowl board? I did all the calculations already on blue painted fields vs regular green grass fields and I really think Tech has a chance in this one.
Hold that! I forgot to acccount for the white numbers.
I’ll get back to you.
Buzz Buzz big boy!
By DWG
December 2, 2007 9:36 PM | Link to this
Why are tech people on here? Go to Boise already. That’s just sad that you have to resort to this.
Congrats to LSU. They deserve to go. I just hate that we got stuck with the WAC or MAC or whatever team this year like OU did last year. NOBODY wants to play one of these teams because its a no win situation. So, as a dawg fan, I’m just disappointed in the matchup but not upset about LSU going to the NC game. Hopefully they’ll open up a can of gator on em. If OSU lays a stinky in the bed again this year, I vote no BIG ELEVEN team gets a shot again until they go to 12 teams and get a championship game. Finally, somebody bring some dang scissors with them to NO, them Hawai’i boys need a trim.
By FCS Fan
December 2, 2007 9:37 PM | Link to this
It’s time for a true national championship system for the big boys. Several years ago, when the regular season was 10 games in length the argument against a true championship series system was “the season would be too long for student athletes.” Then an eleventh game was added. The argument against a true championship series? “The season would be too long for student athletes.” Today another game has been added to the regular season. Twelve games now it is. Add a conference championship game and that makes thirteen. Throw in a bowl game and student athletes play a fourteen game season and the NCAA takes the money to the bank. Where are the great protectors of the student athletes today? Obviously a more lengthy season is not the detrimental monster to the student athlete it was painted to be. That’s what the FCS (formerly Division 1-AA) has known all along. The FCS division teams play an eleven game regular season. Take the top sixteen of those at season’s end (whether a team has won it’s conference championship or not), throw them into a championship series and after game fifteen (only one more than LSU will play this year) a true champion is crowned. For such a time as this, a true championship series is needed. No more BS BCS.
By georgiagirl
December 2, 2007 9:37 PM | Link to this
To the TENN and South Carolina fans yes you beat us. But we grew up and we are 10-2 and you are!!!! So laugh if you wish, but we did a good job at scoring 30 to 40 points on our last five games. And Joe you are just a dumm a@@. Tenn did kick our butts and that made us grow up and USC won by 4 points not a butt kick. But USC OL Ball Coach, eats his words loses to Vandy and 4 SEC games in a row. Everything goes around comes around. Everything said TENN 9-4 USC 6-6. UGA 10-2, we still came out better than most thought we would and I’m damn proud to be a DAWGS FAN. But we only get redneck TENN and South Carolina fans on this blog. So, go get some class and get over it. GO DAWGS AND GET READY FOR HAWAII. I know that we will not over look them this year, like we did WV. Time to shut up the cry babies that come on here to run their mouths. IT GREAT TO BE A GEORGIA BULLDOGS FAN. We ended this season great. So to all you cry babies cry me a river. GO DAWGS
By AU Fan
December 2, 2007 9:37 PM | Link to this
How is Uga’s “snub” this year worse than AU’s 2004 year? AU won the SEC, Uga did not. AU beat 5 Top 10 teams that year. Uga? 1? Bradley’s a moron.
By engdawg
December 2, 2007 9:37 PM | Link to this
Dawgfans were beat over the head every five minutes by the commentary on ESPN declaring that an LSU and Ohio State matchup was the only logical choice. And now, look who’s playing for National Championship, exactly the two that ESPN harped on every chance they could. There needs to be some rule written into the BCS about these commentators who basically pushed forth their agenda. Here is a small group of people on ESPN who became the most powerful people in all of college football. They basically highacked all the voters into choosing Ohio State and LSU. I really don’t want to see LSU play again. I really don’t want to see any of the matchups in the BCS. And, I’m not really all that excited about Hawaii. As far as watching this year’s BCS, or anymore for that matter, wake me up when we get get a playoff. I’m out of here.
By Bud Wiser
December 2, 2007 9:38 PM | Link to this
Political correctness has saturated college football. Another reward to New Orleans/LSU for being “victims” of Hurricane Katrina. UGA gets screwed so the po Luziuannans can see their Tigers in the BCS championship, and, by the way, that is exactly what it now is…the BCS Championship. It will be no more the true championship of college football than the Falcons will be NFL champs. BCS….Bull Crap Served is what it is. Then to drop UGA to 5th because they didn’t play???? And then to pair UGA and Hawaii? What football geniuses came up with that one? LSU played last week - they lost - ranked number 1 (supposedly TWICE during the year, losing TWICE). I hope Ohio State dissolves those moronic cajuns/tigers/inbreds back into the swamp, GO BUCKEYES!!!
By GeauxGeauxTigerz
December 2, 2007 9:38 PM | Link to this
Sour grapes. If Uga Uga had been chosen the BCS would have been the best thing since sliced bread. Have some class……….
By BW
December 2, 2007 9:38 PM | Link to this
As always, Georgia gets shafted by the ESPN—-so-called experts. Who cares if LSU won the Championship…..let’s remember that they lost to Arkansas an Kentucky very recently…..so why is it that a team that’s lost two of the last three games they’ve played gets invited into a national championship game? Let’s remember that LSU ended their season with TWO losses….had Georgia gone undefeated all year and then lost to Auburn and Fla and won the SEC Championship….I think it still would have ended up LSU vs. Ohio State…. Next year, it will be UGA undefeated and we’ll probably still miss out on a national championship because of something some ESPN reporter said…my only hope is that we have an opportunity to demolish LSU next year!! GO DAWGS!!!
By FlDawg
December 2, 2007 9:38 PM | Link to this
The Sugar Bowl…another Tech-like game with nothing to win and everything to lose.
Playing number 10 (by viture of their undefeated season against the cream of that great conference)…if we don’t beat them by 30 pts, UGA will fall in the final standings; if we beat them by 45, will probably fall anyway.
Looking forward to a 4-hr game, 100 passes (70 by Hawaii, hoping they’ll catch 30 of them), constant coverage of the Hawaiian shirts in the crowd and weeks of ESPN hype about the dynamic and imaginative Hawaii passing attack versus the stoic perenial SEC powerhouse. Can’t wait.
Everyone else can analyze the BCS, but what seems apparent to me is that the 3 best teams in the country right now (UGA, Oklahoma, USC) are playing games that are of little interest when they should be playing each other.
Politics permeates life and it certainly has made its way into ESPN…anybody got an idea as to the turnaround there in a week? Last week UGA was their darling; starting yesterday the negative spin really started?!?!?!?!
By Patsy_Schedule
December 2, 2007 9:39 PM | Link to this
How old are you, Dorsey ?
By markg
December 2, 2007 9:39 PM | Link to this
Richts attempt to place the Dawgs ahead of LSU denigrates the entire SEC.
LSU won the SEC Championship on the field. The Dawgs sat at home and watched on TV.
I’ll take winners on the field over sportscasters and sportswriters polls anytime.
Marc Richt - you owe all the schools in the SEC a massive apology.
By Michael
December 2, 2007 9:39 PM | Link to this
Well this should hopefully shut up the Dawg Nation until August and then the yapping will go from then until our annual loss to Florida in October.
By Jordan
December 2, 2007 9:39 PM | Link to this
The sad thing is if UGA was in the pac 10 or big 10 this wouldnt be an issue b/c UGA would have shared the title with lsu b/c they dont play a championship game.
By BhamDawg
December 2, 2007 9:40 PM | Link to this
Unless your a Tennessee or South Carolina fan you have no place to talk trash about UGA. We beat all you other mo fo’s, especially the state of Alabama. Bring on Colt brennan and his boys. It should be a good one. To hell with GT, Auburn, and Alabama. Go Dawgs!
By Michael Vick
December 2, 2007 9:41 PM | Link to this
Can’t spell SUGAR witout U-G-A!!!
Or the Dawgs can come work for me!!!!
By PM
December 2, 2007 9:41 PM | Link to this
MtnDawg,
17 starters minus however many get kicked off the team by then. The over/under is 8 starters for the first game and 12 for the second.
You are all getting slammed because you are such whiners and have no clue about reality.
By And another thing
December 2, 2007 9:41 PM | Link to this
Hey you sorry Dawgs - I keep hearing you guys (and others) complain abount how OS played softees such as Akron and Bowling Green - well what about your own sorry team - playing the likes of Western Carolina and Troy - every year your non-conference schedule (along with the rest of the SECs) is about the worst in the nation. Stop whinning - TN beat you and so did SC (Spurrier must really be loving this at the moment)
By Aubie
December 2, 2007 9:42 PM | Link to this
As an Auburn fan, I can sympathize with UGA as far as getting the shaft is concerned. On the other hand, I would not have agreed with UGA playing for the national championship when they could not win their divison, let alone the conference championship. Being idle on that particular week end probably helped to seal their fate.
By ChrisN
December 2, 2007 9:42 PM | Link to this
Much as I hate to admit it, I’ve never thought it made sense for a team that couldn’t win it’s conference to play for a Mythical National Championship.
I’ve seen Hawaii play a couple of times this year and they’re not bad. But I figure the Sugar Bowl can go one of two ways. The Dawgs can take Hawaii seriously, put a major beat-down on them, and send a message to the pollsters both about this season and for next. Or they can be upset about not getting to play for the MNC, look past an opponent who’s going to try make the most of a rare opportunity, and lose.
What’s done is done. Time to get serious about beating Hawaii.
By really Bradley????
December 2, 2007 9:42 PM | Link to this
UGA ‘07 got screwed worse than Auburn in ‘04??? really? seriously? As a professional sportswriter, that was a serious comment? I’m having trouble believing that you are serious. I know you have to cater to all the bulldogs in atlanta, but come on buddy. its one of the stupidest comparisons i’ve ever heard of…
By James
December 2, 2007 9:42 PM | Link to this
Gag - I just threw up when I read your headline, Mark. Ha-ha-ha to the ‘necks!
By Ray Goff
December 2, 2007 9:42 PM | Link to this
We Dogs just need to accept the fact that we’re not a top national program. Lost to Tennessee and to a South Carolina team that has crumbled down the stretch. There’s a reason why the Rose Bowl chose Illinois over us. At least we’re not back in the Outback Bowl. I’m sure we’re just one more top 5 recruiting class away from a national championship. There’s always next year.
By really Bradley????
December 2, 2007 9:43 PM | Link to this
UGA ‘07 got screwed worse than Auburn in ‘04??? really? seriously? As a professional sportswriter, that was a serious comment? I’m having trouble believing that you are serious. I know you have to cater to all the bulldogs in atlanta, but come on buddy. its one of the stupidest comparisons i’ve ever heard of…what will you write if they lose to hawaii?
By Bob
December 2, 2007 9:43 PM | Link to this
I think this is a wonderful example of how worthless the bcs polling system really is. GA should be #2!
By really Bradley????
December 2, 2007 9:43 PM | Link to this
UGA ‘07 got screwed worse than Auburn in ‘04??? really? seriously? As a professional sportswriter, that was a serious comment? I’m having trouble believing that you are serious. I know you have to cater to all the bulldogs in atlanta, but come on buddy. its one of the stupidest comparisons i’ve ever heard of…what will you write if they lose to hawaii?
By steve Marlor
December 2, 2007 9:43 PM | Link to this
OK everyone lets stop all the SEC bashing!! AT the end of the season there is going to 5 or 6 SEC teams in the top 25. no other conference comes close. we beat each other up! i DON”T THINK UGA GOT SCREWED!I think that OHIO STATE was given something they did not deserve!!! They are not the best team in the nation. If the BCS had wanted to see the best 2 teams in the nation right now playing for a national championship we would be watching UGA vs USC. Also, since the SEC is hands down the best conference why not UGA vs LSU for a national title and Tennessee in the Sugar?
By Warrior fan
December 2, 2007 9:43 PM | Link to this
Aloha! Of course the BCS is a joke. The line of reasoning Mr. Bradley developed here is the best proof that, despite all the complexity of the process, the BCS ranking task is FUNDAMENTALLY IMPOSSIBLE to do reliably and fairly. These types of arguments could be made for every team near the top - and they would all be wildly convincing for their respective fan base. At the end of the day it is still a subjective - and hence unsatisfactory - ranking system.
As an observer 4000 miles away from Atlanta - it looks like it may have come down to some ESPN face time and lobbying from Les Miles that nudged UGA out of the NC game. Maybe Coach Richts and Damon Evans should have manufactured some controversy to get UGA buzz on the ESPN soap opera network over the past week :)
In any case - everyone out here is really looking forward to the game. This is a big deal for our program and we are honored to have the opportunity against such a quality opponent. The Warriors have a good team this year - hopefully we can make it a good show in New Orleans.
GO WARRIORS
By Lance
December 2, 2007 9:43 PM | Link to this
You ruined your entire article by trying to claim UGA got screwed worse than Auburn. In case you forget we won our division, won our conference, and didn’t get blown out by a four loss team and lose to a 6-6 team at home. I know you get paid to be a homer and all but that is taking it to a new level or stupidity.
By Yam
December 2, 2007 9:44 PM | Link to this
THIS is for all of you moronic gt, tenn. and gator fans who can’t spell worth a damn.
You’re = you are Your = possession
GO DAWGS…we should be excited to be given a chance beat the ONLY ranked, undefeated team in college football. Look out, rainbows, cause we’re p** and ready to win! Keep your heads up, boys, y’all had one hell of a season!
By DWG
December 2, 2007 9:44 PM | Link to this
Dang GATORBOY, wasn’t that long ago that your B!TCH coach was so far up the BCS voters behinds that he couldn’t see! Are you KIDDING ME! A Gator creep criticizing another team for politicking to get in the NC game? Urban Meyer was about to CRY on national TV last year if he didn’t get to play the game. Gators SHOULD SHUT THE HELL UP AND PREPARE FOR THE TEAM THAT LOST TO APP STATE.
By Dawg Fan
December 2, 2007 9:44 PM | Link to this
The Bowl season is going to be a disappointment as usual. Ohio State is back in the national title yet once again. How did their conference championship game turn out? LSU was annointed the national champions team from the very beginning of the season. Prognosticator’s must be right you know. (What about OU?) I could have handled the disappointment much better if the other bowls offered more intriguing match ups. Instead we get USC/Illinois. Wow! That’s going to be a good one. :-( Oklahoma/West Virginia. (I’m sorry OU, I know that you’re disappointed too.) Virginia Tech/Kansas my television is shivering with anticipation. These match up stink. Maybe for New Year’s I’ll make the commitment to do something more productive with my life.
By i8AG8R
December 2, 2007 9:44 PM | Link to this
LSEWWOUX….. Lets all feel sorry for your Hurricane Katrina asses again!!! 3 bowl games in your sh_t hole town. How?
By Erik Coventry
December 2, 2007 9:44 PM | Link to this
UGA fans and even Mark Bradley have a hard time being objective. U know dang well that you had no business being in the national title game after getting BLOWN OUT by Tenn. Yes, the same Tenn. that LSU beat. If you were given the same situation without attaching school names to it then even you would agree that UGA should not be in the National championship. Win your division, then win your conference, and stop whining b/c better teams took a spot that you should never have had in the first place. The only sham is that you ever made it to 4th in the BCS anyway. If you want to talk about getting hosed, look at Missouri who beat Illinois and Kansas and was #1 less than 2 days ago and only lost to OU twice and won’t even be in a BCS bowl at all
By Stephen Herbst
December 2, 2007 9:45 PM | Link to this
why don’t you mention Georgia got smoked by Tennessee, the same team LSU beat and a bad, yes bad South Carolina team. Georgia did not win its conference, its division and lost two games to a bad team and the team that did win the division. UGA is lucky everyone else had a bad year and is going to the Sugar bowl. They shoudl be happy. As for your comment on the 2004 Auburn team, well that’s just a flat out joke. The 2004 Auburn team beats Georgia worse than Tennessee beat them this year, which by the way was a lot. Just because you beat a bad GT team and above average Auburn team and bad Vandy, Ole Miss and average Kentucky teams to end the year by no means allows you a pass into the BCS Championship game. Sometimes your articles are just clueless.
By Kerry
December 2, 2007 9:45 PM | Link to this
For all of you people that think we have a chance at #1 next year. Do you really believe that ESPN’s political College Football machine won’t scew us again. It’s obvious that the only teams they like are Herbstreets weak schedule playing OSU,USC, and Oklahoma. The only SEC teams they can tolerate are Florida and LSU.
By Dennis G. Berdanis
December 2, 2007 9:45 PM | Link to this
The poll voters have decided that every year they should pick who they like at the first of the season and then results on the field don’t matter. Even if LSU goes 2-2 their last four games, hell let’s keep them #2 anyway. Why even pretend to drop them or Oklahoma or USC or any of their other favorites. In the final poll they’ll just find a justification for jumping them over teams like UGA, Vir. Tech etc.
By dawg fan
December 2, 2007 9:45 PM | Link to this
Great season Dawgs!!!! Remember this was to be our rebuilding year and we end up #5 in the BCS, playing in the Sugar Bowl. Not too bad for a rebuilding year. Thanks Coach Richt for an outstanding season…..GO DAWGS
By Evan Pittman
December 2, 2007 9:46 PM | Link to this
Back in 2004 nobody cared that the Red Sox did not when their division on their quest to become World Series Champs. Just like back in 2006 when nobody cared that the Super Bowl was one by the Wild Card Pittsburg Steeler. Yet, Suddenly when their is any
By Dog 3
December 2, 2007 9:46 PM | Link to this
GA beat KY. KY beats LSU. You want to talk about whining. Look at Les Miles who started crying a week ago because he saw that GA was about to play for the National Championship. I would like for GA to play LSU in the National Championship. The SEC always has the strongest teams in the country and they beat each other to death all year long. One more fact, not guess work. Ohio State should MAYBE make it to the TOILET BOWL sponsored by CHARMIN. They played one team that is in the current top 25 (Wisconsin). WOO! What a joke of a conference.
By OLD SEC
December 2, 2007 9:46 PM | Link to this
Mark.
You homer, AJC mullet wrapper deserves you.
Georgia did not win the SEC, did not win their division and was overrated.
You and CMR quit crying. The boys from Hawaii will kick the mutts rear!
By fayncDAWG
December 2, 2007 9:46 PM | Link to this
BOYCOTT!! DO NOT GO TO THAT MURDER-CAPITAL CITY TO PLAY SOME THREE RING CIRCUS DIVISION 2 CALIBER TEAM! WHAT’S EVEN MORE INSULTING IS THAT THE ROSE BOWL WAS TOO DARN SHORT-SIGHTED TO PUT THE DAWGS AGAINST USC!! DAWGS, SHOW THE BCS THAT IT IS TRULY FULL OF BS!! BOYCOTT!! STAY AT HOME!
By Xenophon
December 2, 2007 9:47 PM | Link to this
Donna Outlaw, how does your computer ranking explanation of LSU’s miraculous leap over the Dogs come into play with Ohio State? According to your logic, OSU should have fallen completely out of the top ten. Instead, they advanced while GA fell. Sorry, but something stinks here.
By jb
December 2, 2007 9:47 PM | Link to this
LSU has two losses (in overtime) and an SEC Championship. Georgia has two losses and didn’t even play in the championship. I don’t understand how anyone could complain.
Now UGA thinks they are too good to play Hawaii. Don’t take them lightly, they could light you up like a Christmas tree if you don’t watch out.
By The University of Georgia
December 2, 2007 9:47 PM | Link to this
Thanks, Mark! Your paycheck will be deposited into your account at the end of the month, as usual.
(Although we know that our school and no other school from the highly overrated SEC deserves to be in the title game this year, we thank you again, Mark and the rest of the Athens Journal Constitution staff! You are the best!)
By Joe
December 2, 2007 9:47 PM | Link to this
hey georgia girl,
Well said?
Joe
By War Eagle
December 2, 2007 9:47 PM | Link to this
Mark, this is worst than Auburn 2004? Auburn beat Tenn for SEC title and during regular season also, never was behind during the season but two times. UGA lost to a 6-6 team at home and got beat by Tenn 21 points, who played LSU a solid game in the Dome last night… You have to cheer for the home team, I forgot? You could see foot prints last night when the talk on ESPN turned to UGA not winning their division.
By SemperFiDawg
December 2, 2007 9:48 PM | Link to this
Just watched the first 30 minutes of the ESPN BCS show and had to turn if off in disgust. I stand amazed at the unabashed insolence and arrogance of the media in general and the ESPN staff in particular. For the last 24 hours or so the ESPN staff and some assorted other members of the media such as Stewart Mandel of SI have had one goal; to change the selection criteria of the BCSC game from that of the two “best teams” to one of the two “most deserving teams” in order to put OSU and LSU into the title game. Both Mandel in his article yesterday and the ESPN analyst on TV tonight readily named UGA and either USC or OU as the best teams in America. And while ESPN reported that 67%(read sixty seven percent)of the nation did not think the two best teams had been selected, Herbstreit smugly assured us that the two “most deserving” had. So now we have come full circle: from a preseason poll that is nothing more than a popularity contest to a national championship game that is nothing more than a popularity contest, both of which are now without any doubt what-so-ever being controlled by the whims and fancies of the corporate media. The only saving grace is that at least 67% of the country has enough sense to know when they have been scammed.
By Duston
December 2, 2007 9:48 PM | Link to this
LSU vs. Ohio St. is the most overrated team in the nation bowl!! Both do not deserve to be in the National Championship game. Oklahoma should be playing USC or Virginia Tech. All you UGA haters need to get your own damn blog!!!! Go Dawgs!!! Tennessee have fun in the “we are the second best team in the SEC with 3 losses bowl, but not good enough to get to a real bowl”
By so what?
December 2, 2007 9:48 PM | Link to this
So UGA got screwed? LSU lost LAST WEEK to an unranked team. Imagine Oklahoma…coming off throttling the #1 team in the country YESTERDAY and what do they get? UGA got off easy compared to the hot garbage OU got served. Who cares about LSU-this year has an asterisk next to it.
By Krogunner
December 2, 2007 9:48 PM | Link to this
Couldn’t have happened to nicer group of THUGS. Now have fun in New Orleans a week early playing in a nothing to gain game. Looks like the ole Ball Coach got the Dawgs again. Well, there’s always next year, but before you throw out that tired cry look at the schedule. Also there will be a fired up group of Gators waiting in Jax and this time with a healthy Tebow.
Cry on also rans.
By gtfan
December 2, 2007 9:49 PM | Link to this
So what’s the point of having dvision leaders and conference champions if it doesn’t effect the BCS. Might as well just drop the Conference CCG
By brokebackvol
December 2, 2007 9:50 PM | Link to this
This is such an awful example of “homerism.” Bradley is not the least bit objective. The Dawgs didn’t win the SEC East, so they didn’t get to play in the SEC Title game. Whine all you want, and just be glad to get an at-large spot in the Sugar Bowl. Let’s see the Dawgs dismantle the Rainbow Warriors and THEN start your whining. Until then, hush.
By UGAg is overrated
December 2, 2007 9:50 PM | Link to this
Just a few moments ago on ESPN, Mark Richt said that he agreed that the rule should be in place that you had to be a conference champion to play in the National Championship.
Lets see if UGA can stop the #1 scoring offense and beat the only undefeated team. I can only imagine that UGA will cover up that stadium since I don’t expect that many fans to come from Hawaii.
By Jroch
December 2, 2007 9:50 PM | Link to this
Georgia- QUIT WHINING LIKE A PACK OF B*(^CHES - U DIDN’T WIN YOUR DIVISION MORE LESS YOUR CONFERENCE. BEAT HAWAII AND GO TO BATON ROUGE AND BEAT LSU NEXT YEAR - RICHT - U ARE A PUNK - SIT DOWN
By kirkdawg
December 2, 2007 9:51 PM | Link to this
I guess Les is lucky the Dawgs are not in that conference that Notre Dame plays in. Otherwise we would be in his spot. Go Dawgs!
By Ben
December 2, 2007 9:51 PM | Link to this
I hate to hear grown men cry. But whoever said Georgia fans acted like grown men. Bulldogs have always been able to carry creative whining to new heights when they lose or don’t get what they think they deserve.
By CDOG
December 2, 2007 9:51 PM | Link to this
TM IS GETTING A WELL DESERVED LASHING RIGHT NOW. PLEASE AJC AND REDUCE YOUR WRITING STAFF OR LIMIT THE SPORTS PRINT. I’LL GUESS WHO GETS CUT IF YOU DON’T BASE ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTON
By Kerry
December 2, 2007 9:51 PM | Link to this
All of the mullet wearing Gator fans need to get off the UGA blog saying do it on the field because we did it to them on the field enough said.
By JohnD
December 2, 2007 9:51 PM | Link to this
Dogs
Hawaii is not the Rainbows!
Hawaii is not the Rainbow Warriors!
They are the Hawaii Warriors.
Maybe UGA would have more respect if there was not a Div II team on their schedule every year.
How silly to think UGA is a national championship caliber team after failing to win even the East division of the SEC.
So you UGA fans are unhappy with the system? Take care of your own business and there would be no question.
Steve Spurrier beats you Dawgs year after year and his passing attack is pedestrian compared to Hawaii, but I do love the way you Dawgs are covering in advance for the collapse in the Sugar Bowl - Mid-Major, no incentive, what do we prove by beating Hawaii, etc. etc.
By G. Thompson
December 2, 2007 9:52 PM | Link to this
Georgia never should have been ranked 4th to begin with. That is a joke. They did, after all, lose two games — including getting blown out by Tennessee. To even think that Georgia should be given a chance to play for the national championship when they didn’t even qualify for the SEC Championship game is a complete farce and an example of how messed up the BCS is. LSU won the SEC. The SEC is the best conference in the country. LSU should be playing for the national championship. Get over it. The real joke is that Ohio State is in the national championship with their anemic schedule.
By Jeff
December 2, 2007 9:52 PM | Link to this
It dose’nt matter, it was out of the Dawgs hands anyway. It looks like it did’nt matter if tennessee had beat LSU the SECCG, Oklahoma and Virgina Tech also jumped over the DAWGS in THE BCS poll. That being said ” I would like to thank Tennessee for playing an out standing game minus a couple of awefull interceptions. I still think UGA would have whupped LSU and played for the National Championship had they had the chance. I will be pulling for the Tigers to represent the SEC and kick the holy poop of that wannabe Ohio State. Matter of fact I’ll be pulling for all of the SEC teams to win their bowl games.GO SEC!!! and GO DAWGS!!! black out for the Sugar Bowl and Hawaii won’t know what hit them. God Bless All
By Duston
December 2, 2007 9:52 PM | Link to this
Hey tech fans, you have no room to talk, have fun in a third tier bowl, again. I did hear Boise was really nice in late December!!!
By gtfan
December 2, 2007 9:52 PM | Link to this
Oh yeah… and if I’m not mistaken the Coaches are doing the voting…..LOL
By Shotgun
December 2, 2007 9:53 PM | Link to this
East Conf Overall Georgia 6-2 10-2 Tennessee 6-2 9-3 Florida 5-3 9-3 Kentucky 3-5 7-5 South Carolina 3-5 6-6 Vanderbilt 2-6 5-7
West Conf Overall LSU 6-2 10-2 Auburn 5-3 8-4 Arkansas 4-4 8-4 Mississippi St. 4-4 7-5 Alabama 4-4 6-6 Ole Miss 0-8 3-9
By ESPN = Agenda pushers
December 2, 2007 9:53 PM | Link to this
I just think it’s hilarious how ESPN’s agenda has been exposed. Leave it up to the Div 1-A teams to have an inconsistent and unpredictable year so that ESPN can decide how the coaches and the rest of the voters should vote. And on top of that they’ve been prepping Tebow on what he should include in his Heisman acceptance speech since before the season started. I thought I only had to deal with partisanship/transparent side-picking on cable NEWS channels. …now they’ve taken over our sports networks as well. And it doesn’t help that ESPN’s 2 old, “ex-coaches posing as relevant analysts” are just painful to watch. I guess I’ll just have to suck it up though since they’ve got a nice monopoly going in the sports world…
By ryan
December 2, 2007 9:54 PM | Link to this
for any of you that consider gt to be an elite team because of their championship; you must really be hittin the hooka pretty hard. If being an elite program is being something remotely resembling gt then i am proud to call myself a bulldog. we got stiffed. we were idle this week and dropped in the bcs standings… how the hell can you justify that when no where in the rules does it state that the team has to be the champs of their division?
By AlphaDawg
December 2, 2007 9:54 PM | Link to this
I can’t believe I’m saying this..But Go USC!! I hope they beat the $hit out of Illinois. They lost to Missouri, Iowa and Michigan and get to go to the Rose Bowl. What does the Commish of the Big Ten have on the BCS guys??? The Big Ten is a joke, they are probably the 5th best BCS conference and are losers because they refuse to hold a championship game!! Why, because Michigan/Ohio State don’t want to. The SEC will dominate again and now Ohio St. will be 0-9 against SEC teams in the SEC. Go Tigers and Trojans!!!!!!!!
By Kerry
December 2, 2007 9:54 PM | Link to this
Another travesty is that crybaby Tebow will probably win the Heisman beccause the ESPN political machine has been pushing him until we are sick of hearing it.
By Kerry
December 2, 2007 9:54 PM | Link to this
Another travesty is that crybaby Tebow will probably win the Heisman beccause the ESPN political machine has been pushing him until we are sick of hearing it.
By South Carolina 16 uga 12
December 2, 2007 9:54 PM | Link to this
This article is absolute nonsense. Why should it matter at what point of the season a loss came? One of the nonsensical premises of this article inherently gives uga an advantage because its losses were earlier in the season, and LSU lost more recently. A loss is a loss, regardless of when it occurred. Moreover, the only two LSU losses were triple overtime games. Does it count for nothing that LSU won the SEC championship, whereas uga failed to win even the Eastern Division of the SEC? What about this… LSU had an astronomical win over the ACC champion Virginia Tech. When uga played us in Athens (I speak as a Gamecock), need I remind you that uga failed to make a touchdown. Did Spurior ‘run up the score’ as all of you cry babies previously accused him of? I think not (16 points is hardly running up the score, but it was enough). You think you deserve everything because you are uga… as though everyone else should step out of your way—you can live in your own little world if you want (I live in the state of Ga, and I know that in the history GT-uga rivalry, GT has two wins that are recognized plainly by the NCAA, but not by uga—maybe in uga’s little world those wins never occured… how about this, uga: why don’t you come to the real world… (instead of rallying behind your former heisman winner that makes physical threats against a coach that has dominated your team for the vast majority of his career)… go lick your wounds
By Don
December 2, 2007 9:54 PM | Link to this
Responding to some flaming posts above - from a Dog fan
Tennessee people - yes, you beat us, good job. But do you really believe you had a better year than we did? I mean, you got blown out twice and easily handled one other time. 4 losses. Some in your ranks were ready to fire you fine head coach as far as 2/3 into the season. Now , you guys must be back on board with him? I don’t believe we have been after our coaches head anytime in the last 7 years.
LSU people - maybe Georgia shouldn’t go, I’ll give you that, but why on the green earth do you get 3 chances to be #1? You will probably get it right this time, but if you don’t what will be the excuse this time?
GT people - your program is very average and has been for the better part of 30 years. You one all but one of those National Championships when face masks weren’t even used. I’ll take being a consistent top 20 propgram with numerous top 10 finishes to a number of National Championships won before 1960 (and few top 20 appearances since) any day. I believe you did the right thing in firing Gailey. maybe you will get it right this time.
Georgia had a heck of year. I’ll take 10 wins any day. Someone above suggested we have underachieved with “all that talent”. Not really, the SEC championships in the last 7 years and top 10 and 20 finishes aren’t underachieving. Even last year, after stinking the joint up for some of the second half of the season, we still did the improbable and beat 3 fine, top 25 teams in a row to finish the year. We underachieve in basketball and baseball, not football.
We will see each of you next year, I would venture a guess that we will not win all 3 games but will win at least 2.
In the meantime, you flamers, try not to flame and be realistic with your comments.
By thad
December 2, 2007 9:54 PM | Link to this
erik coventry… UGA beat kentucky. kentucky whipped LSU. enough said missouri and kansas…hahahahahahaha those guys would lose to vanderbilt
By HaHa
December 2, 2007 9:55 PM | Link to this
Heres your violin to go along with all the cheese and wining your doing. Be a man, grow up… LSU is way better that Georgia. UGA is also a 2 loss team. enough said…
By Jacket
December 2, 2007 9:55 PM | Link to this
Get over it Puppy Dogs. Hawaii will beat ya’ll like a red-haired stepchild at family picnic of blondes. Yeah…..
By DWG
December 2, 2007 9:55 PM | Link to this
Man, this is PATHETIC. Tuuuberville’s top 5: LSU OK OSU HAWAII UGA
I think someone’s still a little bitter about being stomped between the hedges! What a PUNK SORE LOSER. I knew there was a reason why I didn’t like the guy. Creep.
By Donna Outlaw
December 2, 2007 9:55 PM | Link to this
The post about The Sugar Bowl against Hawaii being a huge disapointment is exactly how LSU felt last year when we were headed to the Rose Bowl until USC lost and screwed us yet again. Instead, we went to the Sugar Bowl and blew ND out of the state. However, notice the BCS computer has UGA tied for 6th place with Oklahoma and the omputer isn’t based on any human emotion, only facts. LSU played almost twice as many ranked teams as UGA and until last night when Oklahoma beat Missouri, LSU was the only team a #1 or #2 to lose to a ranked team. It’s not about wnning or losing the conference chmpionship per se, but playing in conference championship games sure did give those teams that played this week and won a nice boost from the non-human, non-emotional computer 3rd of the BCS. Too bad the computer dropped UGA to a tie for 6th. Luckily, the Harris and Coaches poll kept UGA at 4th. Unfortunately that averaged out in the BCS standings to #5. The more games you play and the tougher schedule you play, the better the computer likes you when you win. And as for the Sugar Bowl, that’s what all of us in the S.E.C. are reaching towards at the start of each season because most years it means the S.E.C. team playing in it won the S.E.C. Championship. Maybe you should remember that in January 2004 when LSU played for the National Championship, the fans were already down in New Orleans over a week before the game and the same will be the case this year so please try to leave your chip at home or you will get upset and lose your focus. We actually want you to beat Hawaii and don’t want you to be distracted by the sea of purple and gold you will find when you arrive in New Orleans.
By HUNKER DOWN 82
December 2, 2007 9:56 PM | Link to this
GEORGIA NOT ONLY GOT SCREWED ON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, BUT THEY GOT SCREWED ON THE BOWL GAME PERIOD! WEST VIRGINA SHOULD BE PLAYING HAWAII AND GEORGIA SHOULD ATLEAST BE PLAYING USC! THIS IS ALL B/S! AND WHO’S TO SAY THAT A NUMBER 3 TEAM CAN GO UP IN THE POLLS WITH OUT PLAYING A GAME BUT A STRONG GEORGIA TEAM (AT NUMBER 4) DROPS A SPOT. AND WHY IS IT A NUMBER SEVEN TEAM WINS AND CAN JUMP ALL THE WAY TO NUMBER 2? I DON’T CARE WHO YOU ROOT FOR, THIS IS GARBAGE!
P.S. SEE YA NEXT YEAR LSU….HEY MILES TELL YOUR BOYS GEORGIAS COMING AND HELLS COMING WITH THEM!
By Dawg Fan
December 2, 2007 9:56 PM | Link to this
Mark is right own. This is a disgrace. Any body writing on this forum otherwise, I hope it happens to your team one day. Then we can talk. No way a team ranked 9 and 7 can jump over the number 4 team. Even a VA tech team we beat last years jumped Georgia. The BCS is a shame and from this day on polls mean absolutely nothing. I hope their is a bad movie on on Jan 7th cause that is what I will be watching.
By JDW
December 2, 2007 9:56 PM | Link to this
While I believe the DAWGS are playing the best of anyone in the country it is hard to make an argument that, under the current system we should be chosen for the MNC game over LSU. I believe would mop the floor with them but they are the SEC Champions. The real tragedy is that we have to play a crappy Hawaii team with nothing to win and everything to lose, see 2005. It is going to be hard now as it was then to get our guys fired up to play that sort of team. If the BCS had any redeeming value it should create better matchups than DAWGS vs Hawaii and USC vs Illinois. Bottom line is that until we get a playoff system we just have to suffer. It seems to me given the current stance of the powers that be regarding a playoff we the fans are going to have to invent a way to drive our desire for a better system home.
By Gil
December 2, 2007 9:56 PM | Link to this
I could just picture Bradley writing this column in his office, wearing his red UGA sweatshirt, listening to his “Munson’s Greatest Calls” tape. They don’t call his paper the Athens Journal-Constitution for no reason.
By Dawgs Get Owned
December 2, 2007 9:57 PM | Link to this
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh I am loving all this whining and crying from you Dawgs fans! You really think you had a shot at playing for a national championship when your sorry @ss team got destroyed by Tennessee and Spurrier’s boys beat you down? Hilarious!
Here’s a stat for you oh-so-bright UGA fans to chew on.
-UGA played 6 ranked teams and went 4-2.
Oh and one more stat:
UGA 14 - Tenn 35!
Oh, and keep making fun of the fact that your playing Hawaii. Just because you elitist Dawgs fans don’t think they are in the same class as you, doesn’t mean that Brennan won’t come in there and put you all to shame.
Go Warriors! On their first TD, the entire Hawaii team should come out there and “Soulja Boy” all in UGA’s faces!
Mark Bradley, you fail. End of story.
By BCSCRAP
December 2, 2007 9:58 PM | Link to this
LSU is overrated and got lucky this year, they didn’t have to face the best team in the SEC and it’s a good thing because Georgia would have mopped the floor with them.
By Power T
December 2, 2007 9:58 PM | Link to this
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
By Steve
December 2, 2007 9:58 PM | Link to this
Georgia…..deserving of a National Championship?? Lets look at the facts, they didnt win the SEC, they didnt even win their division!! They got blasted by Tn..who LOST the SEC and I witnessed TROY UNIVERSITY put up 30 something points on Ga at home!! Hawaii by 10! Period!!
By okoou
December 2, 2007 9:58 PM | Link to this
uga, if you want usc so badly, then schedule them.
man up or shut up
usc danced with auburn oh st hooked up with texas oh st and usc will play each other in 2008 and 2009.
uga plays ga southern and central michigan next year. but it’s all good cuz mark richt is a sweetheart of a man.
By Bulldog 1
December 2, 2007 9:58 PM | Link to this
All you Dawg haters on here, go find your own blog you bunch of losers! Oh I forgot, your papers don’t carry blogs do they you buttheads! Watch out for next year, you have been warned.
By Gadawgfan
December 2, 2007 9:58 PM | Link to this
Alls I have to say to the South Carolina and Tennessee Fans is look at the polls. Your @ss is at the bottom of the list. Look at the top and see who’s there. Can’t wait to kick your butts next year. All the UGA fans got the shaft. The BCS and ESPN sucks.
By Tiger
December 2, 2007 9:59 PM | Link to this
In your last paragraph, you say that this a worst travesty than what happen to Auburn in 2004. I beg to differ Auburn was a no loss team and as I remember even Coach Richt didn’t think Auburn was good enough to play for the National Championship and didn’t vote for Auburn to play. As as we later learn that USC possibly had violations for their team due to Reggie Bush. Now that is a complete travesty. A team with violations become the nations team for 2004. Jimmy Crickett and I have a hard time to bring a tear for a two loss team but I will keep playing my violin for Jawga and this sham of crowning a National champ.
By rob
December 2, 2007 9:59 PM | Link to this
I am excited to have a BCS game! Hawaii will be a blast. Coach Richt said we’re wearing black jerseys and blacking out the super dome.
By Frank
December 2, 2007 9:59 PM | Link to this
Conference title is simply not required and has never been the standard. Guess no one remembers Nebraska in BCS title game against Miami in 2001/2002 after missing Big 12 championship and Oklahoma as BCS #1 v LSU after losing in 2003 conference championship.
By Joey
December 2, 2007 9:59 PM | Link to this
We are supposed to believe that three teams so impresses the “polls” by winning yesterday, that they were able to jump UGA in the rankings, yet not one of them could jump Ohio State? Yeah, right. Why was it a foregone conclusion early last night that OSU was “in”? If #9 could jump over #4 who was idle, why couldn’t #5 jump over #3, who was also idle?
By dogs
December 2, 2007 10:00 PM | Link to this
Hey Vols……enjoy your bloomin’ onions.
By Dawgie Doo
December 2, 2007 10:00 PM | Link to this
See??? EVERYBODY HATES THE DAWGS because your fans are no teeth, trash-talkin A-HOLES…You got what you DESERVED…MASSIVE SNUBBATION!
You’re LUCKY to be playing ANYWHERE. You have no idea how close your CLASSLESS DISPLAY against the Gators came to a bench-clearing BRAWL…
UGA SUCKS…”Boo-hoo, we’re the Dawgs! We should be in the Nat’l Champ Game! I hate the BCS!” There are great days, and then there are GREAT DAYS! What a Glorious Day! Enjoy it you Leg-Humpers…SUCKS TO BE YOU!
By Reality Check
December 2, 2007 10:00 PM | Link to this
UGA’s snub is no worse that AU’s snub. Both teams are constantly overlooked by the media and have to go above and beyond to get what, say, an Ohio State team can get by playing a weak schedule and not having to play a conference championship game. Hawaii was penalized for its weak schedule yet Ohio State is in the NCG? Give me a break!
Is the national title game not supposed to be awarded to the two best teams in the country at the end of the season? Does everyone not know that UGA and USC fit that criteria right now?
The truth is that the current BCS system is setup to determine who had the best season, and not who has the best team RIGHT NOW!
Given the way the BCS is set up, along with the influence of ESPN, I’m not sure that UGA would be in the national title game if it had gone undefeated. Need evidence? Just ask AU.
Reality Check
By gtrocks
December 2, 2007 10:00 PM | Link to this
All you Georgia fans who think you got the shaft and are always complaining, stop and watch the GT vs. UGA game and watch for all the penalties that are against Tech and offset in favor of Georgia. What a load.
By gt lover
December 2, 2007 10:00 PM | Link to this
I have nothing better to do than bash UGA and all things UGA b/c my team sucks and may never beat UGA again and now even our basketball team sucks so I cant use the “at least we have basketball” excuse. Not to mention UGA’s backup kicker has a better arm than Taylor Bennett and now 80 % of our offense is leaving with Choice now done
By engdawg
December 2, 2007 10:00 PM | Link to this
Dawgfans were beat over the head every five minutes by the commentary on ESPN declaring that an LSU and Ohio State matchup was the only logical choice. And now, look who’s playing for National Championship, exactly the two that ESPN harped on every chance they could. There needs to be some rule written into the BCS about these commentators who basically pushed forth their agenda. Here is a small group of people on ESPN who became the most powerful people in all of college football. They basically highacked all the voters into choosing Ohio State and LSU. I really don’t want to see LSU play again. I really don’t want to see any of the matchups in the BCS. And, I’m not really all that excited about Hawaii. As far as watching this year’s BCS, or any more for that matter, wake me up when we get get a playoff. I’m out of here. BOYCOTT!
By GA Dawg
December 2, 2007 10:00 PM | Link to this
if anyone deserves to jump Georgia it would be OU. Decisive victory over the #1 team. LSU… won on an interception returned for a touchdown against an unbalanced #14 Tennessee. Playoffs are needed for next year. Oh well, at least we dont have to play in the charity bowl. I mean the humanitarian bowl.
By Paul Ferguson
December 2, 2007 10:00 PM | Link to this
Mark, You are way off base on this one pal. UGA got the blunt end of the wiffle ball bat and the bad thing is they were not the only ones to get screwed. Va Tech on the other hand has not impressed at all this season with a less than average conference schedule. Lets face it the two strongest teams in the conference are down and when you have teams like BC almost going undefeated it shows how weak the conference truly has become. I am not going to sit here and brag on the SEC and how strong they are because they speak for their self. Last year UF went into the national championship and embarrased an unbeatable OSU team just like LSU will do this year. The team that got lucky is OSU. They have no reason to be in that game and it is going to be sad when LSU runs them over for a second year in a row. I know that UGA, LSU, USC, and probably Hawaii would walk away from the Buckeyes so why dont we just quit acting like OSU deserves to be there and start complaining about the issue. The BSC is not reliable and this would have been a great year to implement an 8 team playoff due to the wide open standings but instead we are going to be forced to watch a mediocre OSU team get stomped on prime time by a far superior LSU team.
SEC Fan
By Mac
December 2, 2007 10:01 PM | Link to this
Well written. Correct Facts. LSU is GARBAGE.
By trout
December 2, 2007 10:01 PM | Link to this
Face it. UGA lost big time to UT. UT lost to LSU. UGA’s 2 losses hurt them more than LSU b/c both came in triple overtime. AND LSU was able to win the conference. UGA is playing better than anyone in the country right now but its based on the team’s entire season. And lets face it, you laid an egg at UT.
The problem isn’t LSU. Its Ohio State. They played 3 cupcake games; Ohio U, Youngstown St. and I believe Akron? They are the fraud in this situation. Not LSU.
By Seadawg
December 2, 2007 10:02 PM | Link to this
Wow. I think alot of you guys need some perspective. I’m a longtime Dawgs fan, grew up in Athens and all that. I thought I’d seen and heard it all. You guys act like this is life and death. The simple truth is Georgia does not deserve to be in the NC game. Period. If they backed in I would be embarrassed. And yes, I do believe the BCS is a farse. But so what? Anyone who at this point thinks it’s about fairness is delusional. It’s about money and ratings and overall politics. If Georgia wants to win a NC, then by golly they need to show up every game and play the way they know how to play. Forget the black jerseys and celebrations (although I loved both), just get motivated and prove it on the field. And forget all this BS about “Co-SEC- East champions, same record as LSU and all that other crap. At this point, you congratulate Tenn and LSU on reaching the SEC CG, and root for the other SEC teams to represent our conference well. Because all this talk proves nothing, except that the fans forgot that one word that I hope the coaches and players never forget. Sportsmanship. I would much rather make an opposing fan a cocktail and get to know him (or her) at my tailgate than whine about how unfair life is. If that’s all there is left, then I’m done.
Be thankful for the Sugar Bowl. I guarantee you, if you had been told we’d be there at the beginning of the season, you’d have been thrilled.
By starkini
December 2, 2007 10:02 PM | Link to this
should have controled our own destiny. Nice article mark. like waht you have to say but 2007 is not the year. we are on the national radar and have played brilliantly over the last month and a half….we are close to beign a defining team. stafford, moreno, and the boys will take it to HAWAII and prove we deserved better.
By chase
December 2, 2007 10:02 PM | Link to this
posted this on the other blog but it dereves some more responses!
THIS SITUATION IS BS
Had this been ANY OTHER WEEK during the Season or ANY OTHER TEAM RANKED #4…THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE GOTTEN JUMPED!!!!!!
Any other week if the #1 and #2 lost and the #3 and #4 didn’t play, they’d move up two spots each! AND NEVER WOULD A #7 or #9 team jumped over 5 and 6 teams that EITHER DIDN’T PLAY OR WON!!! IT NEVER HAPPENS!!!
Yesterday on COLLEGE GAMEDAY Kirk Herbstriet and CORSO BOTH SAID USC and UGA ARE THE BEST TEAMS IN THE COUNTRY!!!
Then All-of-a-sudden they change their tune last night and start saying it should be LSU and not UGA!! TWO FACED HIPPICRITES!!!! What happened? What changed? When they made those comments earlier they knew UGA couldn’t win the SECCG so that’s not it!
Just like the Sports Reports (show) said this morning: “If you go by the BCS system the way it is meant to be, and you are fair, THE MATCHUP HAS TO BE UGA vs OSU”
They said: “How can you move one up and not the other?”
THEY SHOULDN’T!!!!!!
BCS=BS!!!!!!!
If that had been USC, FLA, or OSU at #4 NO WAY WOULD THEY HAVE BEEN JUMPED..It is MEDIA DRIVEN CRAP!
By Donna Outlaw
December 2, 2007 10:03 PM | Link to this
Xenophen - the human polls kept Ohio State where they were while the 1/3 part, the computer rankings, have them at #3. I agree they shouldn’t have stayed at #1. What amazes me is the computer ranking actually has Va Tech at #1 and LSU beat the tar out of them. But this is a blog about UGA, not Ohio State but I do agree that they should have dropped as well.
By Brent
December 2, 2007 10:03 PM | Link to this
That’s rich…Michigan was trying to play this same hand last year for a rematch with Ohio State after losing to them in Columbus only for Urban Meyer, the rest of the SEC, and even CBS to go crying that Florida deserved it, that Michigan didn’t win their conference and that obviously the champion of “the toughest conference in the nation” was a more worthy opponent for OSU than a team OSU had already beaten once.
Tough luck, Georgia fans…what goes around comes around, I guess.
By Jeremy
December 2, 2007 10:03 PM | Link to this
How can anyone thing that UGA played a better season than LSU? LSU lost in triple overtimes, while UGA got demolished by Tennessee and lost to South Carolina. If you look at the season side-by-side, LSU clearly beats UGA. There’s little argument.
By jz
December 2, 2007 10:03 PM | Link to this
I thought I was reading tony barnhardt’s comments when I first saw this. Come on Mark, UGA didn’t even win the East, I hate LSU but I know that LSU would wax UGA…but wait UGA got waxed by the Vols and didn’t get the chance to play LSU. UGA barely beat some really bad teams, while LSU lost two OT games. UGA’s thug life players don’t deserve the chance to play for a national title. to hell with georgia!
By Kerry
December 2, 2007 10:04 PM | Link to this
I agree that Oklahoma was the real team that got screwed. I don’t really have problem with LSU as much as I do with OSU. OSU division one opponents were 67-66,they did’nt play a top 20 team all year, and they got beat by an unranked team. Herbstreet keeps saying that OSU was a deserving team. I guess thats because he played there but I don’t see it. UGA opponents were 74-60 and UGA beat three top 20 teams this year including a top 10 team, so who is more deserving.
By LSU Girl
December 2, 2007 10:04 PM | Link to this
Get over it already! Around the nation we are just a more likable team. “They like us, they really, really like us”. Go purple and gold…Tiger fan in Georgia forever!
By Steve Spurrier
December 2, 2007 10:05 PM | Link to this
Someone said above that I’m laughing at the Dawgs. Well, it always makes me a little happier when everything doesn’t seem to go UGA’s way…but I’m waiting on my phone to ring from a bowl, any bowl. Call me: 803 EAT POOP
By Amazed at Mr. Bradley's Ignorance
December 2, 2007 10:05 PM | Link to this
Hey, Football Experts, didn’t the Bulldogs lose to that powerhouse Vandy team in regulation and to Tennessee which LSU beat? Georgia is lucky that they didn’t schedule the Tigers!!! Oh, and look at tjose patsys on the Sanford Angels schedule.
By isdndave
December 2, 2007 10:06 PM | Link to this
What would have happened had Georgia played and beaten LSU (instead of Alabama)this year and LSU had beaten Kentucky or Arkansas. They would still have had the same records and Georgia would still have missed playing in the SEC title game. Would the argument about not winning the conference title still have been a factor in the BCS championship game. Would LSU have leapfrogged a team they lost to earlier? FYI Georgia plays LSU in 08 and 09.
By Slimpickinz
December 2, 2007 10:06 PM | Link to this
WHAH…. Go Bucks! We will be ready this year for payback…
By Hitman
December 2, 2007 10:07 PM | Link to this
Mark,
Admit it — you had to draw the short straw in the staff writers meeting, right? “Congrats, Bradley — you get the indefensible position of defending why UGA should play for the national championship.” Man, that must have been a beeotch. Sorta like the high school debate team, and you got the crappy position handed to you to defend. It had to be something like that. No objective writer (realize that is a stretch for you) could be intellectly honest (I know intellectual, honest, and several other terms don’t apply when you are dealing with UGA fans) and believe that UGA should play for all the chips — absolutely ridiculous. If on the off-chance you really do believe that, then you need to 1) get off the weed, and/or 2) realize that you have been in this market too long and have pandered to the UGA fan base so long that you are starting to believe your own crap.
How can a team expect to play for a NC when it is not even the best team in its conference. UGA did not get screwed, it simply got 3rd in the SEC and therefore got what it deserved. Gonna LMAO off if the (rainbow) warriors pummel you mutts — you delusional, worthless sacks of excrement.
By harleyman
December 2, 2007 10:08 PM | Link to this
What BCS bowl is Ga. Tech going to? Why didn’t the Sugar Bowl take Tenn? They don’t really suck that bad, do they? Maybe if Tech or Tenn hired June Jones, they could go to a BCS bowl.
By E Pittman
December 2, 2007 10:08 PM | Link to this
Back in 2004 nobody cared that the Red Sox did not win their division on their quest to become World Series Champs. Just like back in 2006 when nobody cared that the Super Bowl was won by the Wild Card Pittsburgh Steelers. Yet, Suddenly when the BCS implodes that is all anybody cares about. Boycott this ridiculous regime by not watching these jokes they call games and hit them in the only place they care about, their wallets.
By gtfan
December 2, 2007 10:08 PM | Link to this
Oh yeah… and if I’m not mistaken the Coaches are doing the voting…..LOL
By Duston
December 2, 2007 10:09 PM | Link to this
If I remember correctly, LSU lost to Kentucky, a team that the Dawgs Dominated, so lets stop all this UT beat UGA, LSU beat VT, talk. LSU is overrated!!! They shouldn’t be getting a third chance at #1!!!!
By ebdawg
December 2, 2007 10:09 PM | Link to this
UGA fans are not whinning…. it’s called stating the facts. It looks like half you people haven’t being paying attention this season… so let’s recap… KENTUCKY beat LSU. ARKANSAS beat LSU. LSU has lost TWICE since UGA lost. YES UGA lost to Tenn… doesn’t matter (See Kentucky beat LSU)… UGA beat Kentucky!! UGA beat Florida by 12, and Auburn by 25… LSU beat Auburn on the last play of the game.. and beat Florida in the last minute of the game… LOOK AT THE BODY OF WORK.. PLEASE !!!! Everybody in the top 10 has a legit argument. LSU had the number one spot TWICE, and Les choked it away TWICE. Should UGA be there? Maybe not… but don’t tell me that LSU or Ohio State are more deserving. Fact of the matter is, if Ainge has not thrown such a lame duck pass.. LSU would not even be a factor… and OHIO STATE? Don’t even get me started. No conference championship, haven’t played in three weeks, strength of schedule is not impressive… why do they deserve to move UP, and UGA move DOWN. To all you UGA haters that jump on this blog… go blog on a losers site… most of you are Tech fans anyway.
By Xenophon
December 2, 2007 10:10 PM | Link to this
Well, Donna, I guess you answered that question. In other words, you don’t know. Well let me clue you in: THE FIX WAS IN.
By Kerry
December 2, 2007 10:10 PM | Link to this
Brokebackvol, you need to hide your face in shame. Your pathetic team showed that they should not have been in that game yesterday. They were the luckiest team in America for the last month but their luck finally gave out. If your piece of garbage team would’nt have thrown that game away like they tried to do all year we would’nt be in this mess. Next years blackout game should be hillbilly team from Tenn. and they will get a mudhole stomped in them until it is dry. I use to hate Fl the most but now it is that sorry excuse for an SEC team in Knoxville.
By Reality Check
December 2, 2007 10:10 PM | Link to this
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Joey,
Let me answer your question:
Because Herbstreit said so! Sad but true.
GO DAWGS!
By Tom
December 2, 2007 10:11 PM | Link to this
they didn’t win their conference? try…they didn’t win their own DIVISION. georgia is certainly the hottest team right now, but if the conference titles don’t matter towards the national title - why even bother having conference championship games??
By Frank Beamer
December 2, 2007 10:12 PM | Link to this
Don’t forget about the #3 BCS team in my Hokies. We are #5 in the USA Today and AP and should’ve gone higher with you Dawgs. By the way, GA girls are hot…especially you Blondes.
By concerned
December 2, 2007 10:12 PM | Link to this
I’m just afraid the most underacheiving team in SEC history (LSU) is going to embarrrrass the whole SEC and lose to a sorrier Ohio State. The fans need to stay away from the bowl games and make a statement. It is time to have a real national championship through the means of a playoff. Money speaks. When everyone gets sick enough of it to do something about it the system will change. Until then, LSU gets to play in the Farce bowl. ps-in this system every year has an asterisk next to it. I think I’ll stick to high school and Div. 2 where they crown real and deserving champions.
By James
December 2, 2007 10:13 PM | Link to this
Four points:
(1) I am sick of LSU. They have been ranked #1 twice since UGA last lost and have blown it both times, giving up 50 points to UK and Arkansas. Now they get a third chance? And I am really annoyed as their AD for arguing they should be in instead of Georgia. When Vandy lost to Tennessee, press reports had the LSU AD celebrating because he did not want to face UGA. Now he wants to act all big and tough? And if I can never have to see Les Miles again, that is fine by me. By the way, on a neutral field, LSU is the 3rd best team in the conference behind UGA and Florida. Maybe 4th after Auburn. Now, LSU will likely back into a national championship because they get the gift of facing a very suspect Ohio State team. Disgusting.
(2) Thank you, Tennessee. First, you play your best game in 5 years against UGA. Second, you pull off miracle wins against Kentucky, South Carolina, and Vandy in games you absolutely should have lost. Third, you give the game against LSU away. That’s screwing UGA in 3 different ways. Impressive. May I have another?
(3) If UGA plays anyone else in the country on a neutral field, who is the favorite? UGA (except against USC which would be a pick’em). This doesn’t matter?
(4) If West Virginia wins last night, UGA is ranked 3rd today. Since WVU lost, LSU and Oklahoma both jump UGA. What sense does this make? Logic and merit are out the window. Instead we are forced to endure bizarre social engineering. The thinking, “We know Georgia is better, but we cannot put them in the championship game.” Whatever.
By Ryan
December 2, 2007 10:13 PM | Link to this
This entire BCS system has turned into a joke. Why is there no playoff? Please don’t tell me that a playoff would generate less money then the current system. Ratings would be through the roof for a 4 week playoff setup in December with the championship game played on New Years Day. At least it would get the champion right. Not only can the current BCS system not get the title game right, it can’t even give us good matchups in the other BCS games. Kansas and Hawaii and their respective joke schedules should be playing eachother. UGA should be playing Oklahoma. West Virginia and Va Tech is a good matchup. Instead were going to have two games that will be decided by no less then 3 touchdowns a piece. You think thats going to help ratings? Zero chance. Plain and simple, if you want to play with the big boys, schedule them during the regular season and prove you belong. Both Hawaii and Kansas do not deserve to be in BCS games. Neither played any sort of a respectable schedule. I know Charleston Southern is pretty tough, and apparently Louisiana Tech is too because Hawaii only beat them by one point. The toughest team on Hawaii’s schedule was either Washington or Boise State. Only a playoff system will solve this complete mess of a system that allows Hawaii a team that didn’t beat anyone in the top 20 to advance to the Sugar Bowl.
By Dog the Gator Hunter
December 2, 2007 10:13 PM | Link to this
“Georgia was the 3rd best team in the SEC.”
Really? Tell me which SEC team fared better than Georgia’s regular season conference record of 6-2. How about Georgia’s overall record of 10-2? Answer: none. Georgia, Tennessee and LSU finished in a 3-way tie atop the league standings at 6-2. Georgia and LSU tied for the best overall record at 10-2, with Tenn. tying Florida for third at 9-3. Only two teams can play for the SEC title, and Georgia was the odd man out because of the tiebreaker. But to say that Georgia was the third-best team in the SEC is nonsense. Forget the SEC, they are easily one of the top 3 teams in the entire country right now.
“Be grateful that you were able to make the Sugar Bowl despite not even winning your own division. I can’t remember that ever happening”
You have a short memory. LSU went to the Sugar Bowl and played Notre Dame without winning its division just 11 months ago.
By Drew
December 2, 2007 10:13 PM | Link to this
Hey quit cryin georgia fans!!! UGA doesn’t deserve to play for a national title, because they weren’t the best team in their on conference. Hell, they weren’t even the best team in their own division and if you guys have a problem with that check out the score of the tenn. game from this year.
By Dawg4Life
December 2, 2007 10:13 PM | Link to this
I love how all the GT f$ggs get on this board and try to sh$$t talk. Be gone you bugs. You dont even deserve the write to enter anything on this board. As for the “Title” game…we should not of been jumped. It is not a rule that you have to win your conference game or even go to the game. If everyone is going to vote with that intent then it needs to be a rule. Until then, f$$k off. We will destroy Hawaii, their offense will not see the field with us running it down their throats. Side note: LSU had their shot as #1 and lost it twice, so dont tell me they deserve to jump 5 spots. And Tennessee fans, have fun in the Outback bowl. God you guys suck! 4 losses what a great year…you wish you were UGA.
By matt
December 2, 2007 10:14 PM | Link to this
Bitter Tech fans commenting here aside, the championship should be Oklahoma and Ohio State from the football I saw Saturday. LSU should be in the Sugar and Georgia should be lined up to silence the USC hype. Barely beating a slightly better than average Tennessee team does not a champion make. UGA would have beat the LSU team playing last Saturday.
By SKJOHN
December 2, 2007 10:14 PM | Link to this
It is time for a boycott. Every snubbed team: OU, VA Tech, Hawaii, USC and maybe even KU should not play in their bowl game. Don’t show up. Don’t play! That will show them. That is the only thing that will force change because the bowl weasels will get hurt in their pocket books. Yes, I know money goes to the schools but it is time for extreme measures. Coach Richt should tell the Sugar Bowl to stuff it as should the other team’s coaches.
By chase
December 2, 2007 10:15 PM | Link to this
LSU GIRL…..GO HOME!!!!!!!!!
Enough Said!!!!
EXCEPT: What happened the LAST 2 TIMES UGA played LSU…That’s Right…
Now that is Enough said LSU Girl
By The Duke
December 2, 2007 10:15 PM | Link to this
BCS….what a crock…Ohio State wins a watered down Big 11 (learn to count you morons) and this makes them worthy to play in the title game? All I hear is you must win your conference….Four dffferent SEC teams could have won the Small 10 this year. And the ACC with VT jumping up to #3…Are you kidding? UGA gave them the beat down last Jan.1 and this year LSU pi$$ed down their throat…Give us the playoffs and eliminate all the BS polls. And one more thing….It did not seem to matter to the ESPN crew last year that Michigan did not win the Small 10 as they lobbied for their case…Look at what happened to those 2 in last year’s bowls when they actually played real football teams…Get ready to be 0-9 against the SEC OSU.
By Kerry
December 2, 2007 10:16 PM | Link to this
LSU Girl, wake up not eceryone likes you. 67% of the people polled in America says you should’nt be there.
By Kerry
December 2, 2007 10:16 PM | Link to this
LSU Girl, wake up not everyone likes you. 67% of the people polled in America says you should’nt be there.
By buzz knows how to ball
December 2, 2007 10:17 PM | Link to this
Yo yo yo yo yo yo hey check it man.. Yo i watch dat college ball You ga fans think yall all tall but yall bout to fall when buzz comes up in da mall YuuuuuuHHHHH
By Bob
December 2, 2007 10:17 PM | Link to this
Since rankings and team momentum are no longer determining factors, apparently the people of Louisiana still raking it in with Katrina handouts.
By Falcon Boy
December 2, 2007 10:17 PM | Link to this
Cry on Dawgs. Next time just take care of business on the field and you don’t have to worry. Meaningless bowl game versus a mediocre at best team. You always have the ever so tired UGA rally cry…we’ll be great next year. Have fun going to Baton Rouge and playing the healthy Gators in Jax. Tebow will be waiting.
By dirk diggler
December 2, 2007 10:18 PM | Link to this
wake up people, outside of the state, UGA is a joke and gets no respect. why do you think the rose bowl chose illinois? this respect has to be earned by being in contention for nc’s, something the dawgs havent done in almost THIRTY YEARS.
By dawgydawg
December 2, 2007 10:18 PM | Link to this
neither UGA or Ohio State played last week, however, UGA doesn’t move up and Ohio State moves up 2 spots. That makes no sense to me at all.
Strength of schedule obviously means nothing there.
By Scott
December 2, 2007 10:18 PM | Link to this
“the nation’s No. 4 team should carry an asterisk because Kentucky missed a field goal in the second overtime against Tennessee”
No you moron - Georgia didn’t lose the division because Kentucky missed a field goal. They lost the division because they lost games to South Carolina and Tennessee. Win it on the field - don’t whine when backing into a championship doesn’t work out the way you fatasized.
By ac77gt
December 2, 2007 10:19 PM | Link to this
Mark:
Two things - One, I’m truly amazed that you think Georgia is the best team in the nation, it’s like one of the earlier commenters said, Georgia is the third best team in the SEC; and two, Georgia was a late comer to the top 10, and was only in the top five for a week, while LSU has been there for many weeks - and as we’ve seen, it’s dangerous being a target, because sometimes you get nailed, as we saw so often.
In closing, UGA is a talented team with a pretty darn good coach, with most of the talent returning next year, so quit your bellyaching and count your blessings.
By steve
December 2, 2007 10:19 PM | Link to this
Yes Mark, everyone got it wrong except the kool-aid drinkers like yourself and your ilk. Maybe you should read Tony’s article.
But the BCS standings, which are comprised of two human polls (USA Today coaches and Harris Interactive) and the average of six computer polls, rewarded LSU, Virginia Tech, and Oklahoma — teams that won conference championship games on Saturday — moving them to No. 2, 3, and 4 in the standings behind Ohio State.
When you can’t get the job done on the field, all you have left is lame excuses and denial.
By Terrance Moore Racist
December 2, 2007 10:19 PM | Link to this
Terrance Moore and the Atlanta Urinal have always been biased and jealous of UGA. They are Yeller Jacket Home Boys. Everybody knows that LSU isn’t the second best team in the Nation- probably not even the tenth best. ESPN lobbied for LSU and all the people voting heard this biased opinion and, absurdly, followed along like a heard of cows. The bad thing is Ohio State hasn’t beat anybody - they had a weak schedule and they are overrated so LSU will probably beat them. Les Miles is a classless loud mouth backstabbing Yankee that would have won all his games if he could really coach. Instead , he lost two games to uranked teams and was outplayed in three other games but got lucky. Neither of these teams belongs in the title game - it should be Georgia against Oklahoma.
By The Duke
December 2, 2007 10:19 PM | Link to this
And why all the posts from the tech geeks? Shouldn’t you be making plans for tickle piles in Boise, ID? Keep living vicarously through other teams since you can not beat UGA or FSU.
By NWGA Dawg
December 2, 2007 10:21 PM | Link to this
Typical BCS crap. I for one wasn’t surprised at how things turned out but I’m certainly not going to pooh pooh on going to the Sugar Bowl. Of course a lot of Dawg fans were outraged today: ALL of the media in the area were saying what had to happen in order for UGA to make it to the BCS Game—and all of it did except for LSU losing to UT: they didn’t. Of course we know that even that probably wouldn’t have put the Dawgs in with the Okies jumping over them.
Congrats, LSU. Oh, don’t be the first SEC team to lose to OSU in a bowl game—especially in your back yard.
I don’t mind a few Tiger fans opining on here but NO one else has any room to talk here. The season is over already: GT and UT homers go to your own blogs unless you can engage in some classy, useful discussion. UT won over the Dawgs this year. So what? It was 2 months ago: ‘nuff said and get over it. You’re in the “Brunch Bowl” on NYD. Be happy if that’s possible.
GT…I really don’t have anything to say to you.
Go Dawgs. Beat The Rainbow Warriors with their Falcons coaching staff and the chuck ‘n duck offense. Hilarious, Holtz is on ESPN not giving UGA any props at all (no, don’t need them but he’s pitiful). This coming from a man who left each and every school he ever coached—on probation.
By Steve
December 2, 2007 10:21 PM | Link to this
These blogs suck! Pretty much everybody on here sounds like an idiot. “UGA sucks!” “LSU sucks!” “BCS sucks!” UUGGGHHH… enough!
Like we didn’t already know that the BCS is flawed. LSU won the SEC and has a slightly better record than UGA (which has a much better record than UT, btw). Even if we had not gotten jumped by three teams in the BCS, I think that just being in the national championship discussion is a win for UGA this year. Next year we’ll be even better. Go Dawgs!
By Greg
December 2, 2007 10:22 PM | Link to this
This is just further proof that Division I needs some kind of a playoff. Why would it be so hard to take the top four teams and play 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3 and then let the winners play for the national championship? You could still keep all the bowl games and have one extra game for all the marbles. Then, situations like this year would be settled on the field instead of through subjective opinion.
By RamblinWreckinFL
December 2, 2007 10:22 PM | Link to this
Bradley is an idiot. Georgia has just been lucky. If you watched the first half of that Tech game every imagineable lucky bounce went Georgia’s way. I have never seen a half like it. Granted they were all fair plays and the calls were right but the plays were by inches. Plus they lost to Carolina and Tennessee. If any two loss “hot” team should be in there then it should be USC. Unfortunately for Tech fans Geaorgia is probably a year away from really deserving to be in the title game unless they go back to losing to Florida.
By chris
December 2, 2007 10:23 PM | Link to this
Ha! Ha!
Bark Madely=sold his soul to UGAy…
By Gordon
December 2, 2007 10:23 PM | Link to this
No one outside the state of Georgia even had them in the conversation. It was all about whether LSU, Oklahoma, or even USC should face Ohio State.
Georgia got jumped because it didn’t play, and it didn’t play because it didn’t qualify for it’s conference championship game. Go ahead with your righteous indignation if it makes you feel better, but you did not deserve a berth in that game, and it’s not even close. Congratulations on a great season, and maybe you can win it next year.
By ET
December 2, 2007 10:23 PM | Link to this
When Mark Richt irritated coaches and sports writers across the country with his call for a celebration at Jacksonville. UGA fans were thrilled. Now they learn the cost of that error in judgment. Mark Richt may have cost you the national title game right there. But take consolation, you have one friend in Mark Bradley, and you had fun in Jacksonville.
By ga dog
December 2, 2007 10:25 PM | Link to this
mark, i can not believe all these gay posts on this blog, im calling out all the tech fans,ohio and tenn fans to get back in the closet and leave the football to real men to talk about
By doggirl90
December 2, 2007 10:26 PM | Link to this
UGA definitely deserved to be there…but my big question is…Why does everyone just assume that OSU deserves to be there? Their schedule is absurd. They’d never survive in a real conference, yet they get crowned #1 without any discussion. Makes no sense.
By straight up G
December 2, 2007 10:26 PM | Link to this
did anybody see the comment by homo? that guy needs some help. i guess its just another typical georgia fan
By Tony Rogers
December 2, 2007 10:28 PM | Link to this
Great article you hit the nail on the head. You only overlooked one thing the fact that everyone feels sorry for LSU because of KATRINA. The DAWGS beat florida and auburn by more than 2 touchdowns.LSU only beat those teams by less than 5 points and with lucky fourth down plays. I Love the SEC, but I hope LSU gets their tails kicked by Ohio State.LSU is a bunch of loosers and so are thegenuises at ESPN( CORSO,HERBSTREET,HOLTZ and the PUNK MARK MAY)they constantly overlook GEORGIA for a bunch of pansies like lsu,usc,michigan,etc.
By rwl
December 2, 2007 10:28 PM | Link to this
THIS IS A JOKE. OSU and LSU have BOTH lost in the last two weeks of the regular season and NOW these yahoos are saying that THEY deserve to play for the national championship. Is this a sham? Is it a hoax? How can you say that two teams that lost in the last two weeks are the best teams in America? How can you take an LSU team that struggled and won by LUCK to overcome BAD coaching against Alabama, Florida, and Auburn, while DENYING A Georgia team that WAXED the floor with TEBOW and Florida and Alabama? No Doubt this is a sham and a joke. Hawaii is a joke, at least if Georgia played USC in the Rose, that winner really would be the best team in the country. What a shame….a disgrace…..a joke. I have lost all faith.
The best thing to do is to win the next 15 games starting with a win over the surfers (oh, I’m sorry…the warriors) of Hawaii. This streak will allow UGa to take out their frustrations against an UNWORTHY LSU team during the regular season and perhaps the SEC Championship. This streak will end with next year’s national championship. Georgia has every right to play with a chip on their shoulder from now until the end of its budding dynasty.
By george
December 2, 2007 10:29 PM | Link to this
This is one Georgia and SEC fan who will be rooting hard for Ohio State to kick LSU’s a. If it had not been for a pick that I could have returned for a TD (and I’m 64 years old), LSU would not even be in this discussion. LSU prayed to God every day that they would not have to face Georgia in the SEC Championship game. Every well known sports talk show person I’ve heard over the last few days says Georgia and Southern Cal are the two best teams in college football RIGHT NOW, and then the dumb aes who run the Rose Bowl take Illinois over the Dawgs. Not just saying it now, I’ve said it for years. It is just pure bullsht that major colleges can’t have a playoff to decide a champion on the field. If the BCS (aka BS) wants to establish a rule that you must be a conference champion to play for the title, do it. Don’t come up with that crap after the fact. Dawg fans, circle October 25, 2008 on your calendars. That’s the day we kick LSU’s a* in Baton Rouge. That’s one game the BCS can’t stop.
By The Truth
December 2, 2007 10:29 PM | Link to this
People deriding the UGA fans are ridiculous. Explain to me again how LSU gets a pass for two losses but Georgia doesn’t? And don’t say a word about not being in the conference championship. When that becomes a pre-requisite for playing in the BCS title game, then it’s an issue. But until then, I would like to hear one rational explanation.
Until then, the bottom line is there were several deserving teams and all the sportscasters used every waking moment on the air kissing Les Miles and LSU’s butt. I love SEC football, but LSU is a far cry from being the best team in the country right now—maybe seventh or eighth. Of course, they’ll win because Ohio State is worse than they are. I guess that’s the BCS’s new goal: Reinforce the idea that the SEC is the power conference by putting up inferior competition each year. USC or Oklahoma would eat LSU’s lunch. A gift of a win over a lame Tennessee team and suddenly you’re deserving of your third shot to hold onto the No. 1 position? Please!
By Steve
December 2, 2007 10:30 PM | Link to this
Next time the Dawgs head coach wants to pull a classless act like he did down in Jacksonville, remember that Karma will come back and get you. It did today. The voting nation came back and showed you your head coach is not so bright. Also Bradley, I think that you like the shaft!!!!!!!
By Cheswick
December 2, 2007 10:30 PM | Link to this
Hunker down on the Rainbows, flame dawgs!!! Just think…since last week ugay thought they had a shot at a title. Especially when the clock struck midnight! You couldn’t have received a better matchup. You’ll get your shot at LSU next year! By midnight of the new year, you’ll be Hawaii’s b*h!
By Jason
December 2, 2007 10:32 PM | Link to this
All I have to say is why did OU get to play LSU in 03’ when they didn’t we there conference title and the same for Nebraska in 01’ vs Miami????
The Last 6 games LSU lost twice and UGA won all 6 We beat Auburn by 20 and Fla. by 12, teams that LSU stuggled with in might death valley???
BCS sucks!!!!!!!!!!!
And for all the others posting on this saying UGA doesn’t belong, your just mad because your team sucks!!
By hitwriter
December 2, 2007 10:32 PM | Link to this
LSU will get stomped!
UGA will destroy Hawaii!
BCS has to go!
By Charles C. Cox
December 2, 2007 10:32 PM | Link to this
I think the DAWGS should say “Thanks but no thanks”! “We’ll just stay at home, if this is the what you think of us”.!
How can they be motivated for the Pineapple Bowl?
By johnr
December 2, 2007 10:33 PM | Link to this
hooray The drought in Georgia is over. With all the crying by Ga fans the lakes and rivers will be over flowing
By whine whine whine
December 2, 2007 10:33 PM | Link to this
Interesting…..
Keep whining….and cheating….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I42PYAKXKm4
By ike turner
December 2, 2007 10:33 PM | Link to this
Not only did Georgia not win the SEC, they didnt even win the SEC EAST! How can you be national champs if you cant even win half your division? Best? YEAH RIGHT
By Kerry
December 2, 2007 10:34 PM | Link to this
I think next year when we are killing everybody if Gameday wants to come to Athens we should say no thanks or let them come and ride them out of town on a rail.
By Dahmer
December 2, 2007 10:34 PM | Link to this
I love all the Dawg haters out there laughing at the snub we received by Herbstreit and the BCS. All I can say is we will continue to be a factor for a long time to come and Hopefully your team will get the shaft down the road, if so I hope the Bulldog nation will have more class than what I have seen on this Blog. Go Dawgs………..
By TechCrybaby
December 2, 2007 10:34 PM | Link to this
Settle down, everybody. I saw UGA beat GT, and some others, too. The Dawgs are solid, and will whip Hawaii going away. Take it from me, playing in the Sugar Bowl ain’t so bad.
By Sam Apo
December 2, 2007 10:35 PM | Link to this
Pardon me but GEROGIA vs HAWAII is the NCAA DIV I Championship Game;
udefeated HAWAII is #1 on the basis it is a member of the NCAA, pays dues, abides by the rules, etc., and has held its own in the recent past, defeating and losing to Alabama, defeated Michigan State (too many obvious off-sides), WASHINGTON…and in the past NEBRASKA 6-0 (lost next 6-0), lost Notre Dame in its glory days 6-0; swamped BYU and Heisman Detmer 2 days after he was named, and BYU National Champion.
GEORGIA is in the CHAMPIONSHIP GAME without an asterik which belongs in the ridiculous LSU-OHIO STATE joke.
Another thing, how is that ranking does not count other than 1 vs 2? 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12. Who got trampled to get #13 Illinois in a BCS BOWL and the money!
By fayncDAWG
December 2, 2007 10:35 PM | Link to this
THE DAWG NATION NEEDS TO BOYCOTT THE BCS AND TM! BOTH THE BCS AND TM BELIEVED A TREAM THAT BEAT FIVE STRAIGHT BOWL-ELIGIBLE TEAMS BY DOUBLE FIGURES MARGINS DESERVE A #6 RANKING!! CONSIDERING NO OTHER NCAA TEAM CAME EVEN CLOSE TO FINISHING THEIR SEASON WITH FIVE STRAIGHT DOUBLE-DIGIT MARGIN WINS OVER FIVE BOWL-ELIGIBLES, NO DOUBT GEORGIA GOT HOSED!! BOYCOTT THIS GAME!! DO NOT EVEN BOARD A PLANE!! TELL THE BCS WHAT IT CAN DO WITH THEIR MONEY!!
By Alan
December 2, 2007 10:36 PM | Link to this
Georgia deserved to play for the title. LSU ,if they were as good as advertised, should have stomped Tennessee instead of winning on a 4th quarter interception return. Georgia is a much better team now than the one who lost to Tennessee and South Carolina. Georgia should of got the nod easily due to strength of schedule. We were hosed!
By MarkRichtFan
December 2, 2007 10:36 PM | Link to this
To gt lover:
I was at your ancient stadium sitting in the middle of the west lower deck a week ago. Half of the fans wore red. There certainly was not one voice among those who wore yellow. The diversity of opinions among the Tech fans even before the game began was striking. Essentially, all of the fans dressed in yellow were highly disgruntal for one reason or another.
The coach who is stupid enough to take the Tech job is doomed. The only hope he has is to win big, and it is not going to happen for the first 4 or 5 years. Tech idiot fans are not going to be that patient.
Your best opportunities to beat Georgia were last year and this year. We were young. We should be loaded for at least the next 3 years. We also have the number 2 ranked recruiting class lined up. Tech will likely lose some of its best recruits due to the uncertainty of the change in coaches. Coaching transitions are never easy!
I am particularly struck by the irony of the ONLY thing that made all of the Tech fans happy on 11/24—the only unifying factor. Tennessee beat Kentucky in 4 over times for its 23rd straight win over UK to deny Georgia a chance at the SEC and National Championships. Tech has a lot in common with Kentucky. They cannot beat their number 1 rival. Tech’s drought against Georgia is now 7. Imagine if it were 23! Tech’s punishment for its misguided Tennessee over Kentucky mania is that its drought against Georgia will continue for years. The rain drought in Georgia will be a distant memory and Lake Lanier will be full before Tech beats Georgia again.
Since you guys cannot and will not beat the Dogs for awhile, you can only take pleasure from our other setbacks. Now, that is really sick!
As Georgia’s streak over Tech builds, think about how much pleasure you got from Kentucky’s loss to Tennessee in 4 over times in 2007. I know I will remember the Tech fans lack of empathy for their Kentucky counterparts! Surely, Tech’s drought against UGA won’t reach 23 years, but 10 or 12 years is probable.
By Z Dawg
December 2, 2007 10:36 PM | Link to this
It’s OK that Georgia didn’t get in the title game. When they do win their next National Championship, I would prefer that there be no controversy whatsoever about it. GA didn’t win the SEC because it took half a season to get an extremely young offensive line the experience necessary to start playing to their potential. They came together quite well down the stretch because of the level of talent they have and the incredible coaching prowess of Stacy Searels. Georgia is going to be a pre-season top 3 team next year and might be #1. Our schedule next year is a tough one, but that will leave no room for doubt when they run the table and arrive at #1 in the final BCS poll next year. Even one loss probably wouldn’t be enough to keep them from making the title game next year due to their strength of schedule. And then, of course, there is 2009 which will return a senior Stafford, junior Knowshon, an O-line full of upper classmen, the GA-bound #1 receiver prospect in the nation A.J. Green, and our always potent defense for a repeat National Championship. So I’m OK with not going this year, because even if we won, some Tech or FLA fan would always talk trash about not winning the SEC this year and that would get annoying. Go Dawgs.
By Gator Hater
December 2, 2007 10:36 PM | Link to this
What kills me about so many opinions here is the lack of objectivity. I’m not a Georgia grad or booster. What bothers me is that this can happen to every team. The BCS is not a “system”. It is a lame popularity contest. The credibility of such a “system” to pick a number one team is shot to hell. The BCS has consistently refused to make a conference title a requirement to be considered for the NC. It should not be a defacto requirement of voters.
If a team like LSU could lose the top position twice and then be voted up 5 spots to number two just because they won a conference championship, then this “system” has no credibility.
Ohio State didn’t play a conference championship. They played a weak non-conference schedule. They didn’t win their conference with a head to head contest between the two best teams. If record is enough to get you in the NC, then Hawaii should be playing for it.
By UGA_Grad
December 2, 2007 10:37 PM | Link to this
UGA nation: Don’t worry, we will get there in the next couple of years. This is just a warm-up for Stafford and company. That being said, here are my thoughts…
1) The BCS either needs to make winning your conference championship a requirement or not. A couple of years ago, Oklahoma lost the Big 12 championship and played in the title game. You can’t have it both ways BCS.
2) If the purpose is to match up the best 2 teams in the country through 12 games, then UGA belongs there. UGA had a much tougher schedule than UT. Look who UT beat. UGA was their only decent win.
3) I would have loved to have seen LSU vs. UGA in Atlanta. An 11-2 SEC championship team in UGA would have made the title game. LSU lost to Kentucky and Arkansas, and UGA lost to USC and UT. That is even.
4) As UGA nation, lets get ready for Hawaii, and cheer on the SEC in the title game. When we take care of business in New Orleans, we will set ourselves up for a preseason top 3.
5) We have next year to look forward to. Tough schedule, load of talent, and an exciting opportunity. I WANT IT NEXT YEAR, WHEN THERE WILL BE NO DOUBT!!! GATA!!!!
By Go to school
December 2, 2007 10:38 PM | Link to this
Anyone ever notice that the people who are the loudest and nastiest on this blog are also the people who can’t spell? How about looking up “there and their,” and “your and you’re” before you hit the send button. I’d take it a lot more seriously if I weren’t laughing so hard at your stupidity.
By Lapdog
December 2, 2007 10:38 PM | Link to this
I am not as upset about not getting in the champioship game as I am about who did get in. LSU and Ohio State, are you kidding me? Oklahoma, Southern Cal, West Virginia (with a healthy QB), and Georgia, and probably Florida, were all better teams than LSU and Ohio State.
By Reality Check
December 2, 2007 10:39 PM | Link to this
Here’s an idea:
Forget the “in-season” polls. Just wait until the season is over, pick your top teams from the conference champions and then decide who gets to play for the national championship. The “in-season” rankings mean nothing anyway. Right?
Wait, that’s what they did this year. Nevermind.
By engdawg
December 2, 2007 10:39 PM | Link to this
Dawgfans were beat over the head every five minutes by the commentary on ESPN declaring that an LSU and Ohio State matchup was the only logical choice. And now, look who’s playing for National Championship, exactly the two that ESPN harped on every chance they could. There needs to be some rule written into the BCS about these commentators who basically pushed forth their agenda. Here is a small group of people on ESPN who became the most powerful people in all of college football. They basically highacked all the voters into choosing Ohio State and LSU. I really don’t want to see LSU play again. I really don’t want to see any of the matchups in the BCS. And, I’m not really all that excited about Hawaii. As far as watching this year’s BCS, or anymore for that matter, wake me up when we get get a playoff. I’m out of here. BOYCOTT!
By Bob
December 2, 2007 10:40 PM | Link to this
Lets face it, if Ohio State doesen’t win, whoever beats them will not be considered unanimously the national champ because most the time, like in this years case,the system doesen’t work.
By Ga#LSU FAN
December 2, 2007 10:40 PM | Link to this
Winning the SEC Champioship = Convincing
Not playing in Sugar Bowl = Sugar Free
Playing in the BCS Championship = PRICELESS
By Dose of Reality
December 2, 2007 10:42 PM | Link to this
Many Georgia fans seem to think that rules and logic should be applicable to everyone but them.
Georgia didn’t win the SEC, they didn’t even win the SEC East. They’re a pretty good team, and they’re playing in a BCS bowl against a weak opponent. But to complain they should vie for the national title? Ridiculous!
Bradley, you should know better, but I guess you’re willing to sacrifice journalistic integrity to be popular. What a shame.
By Gator Hater
December 2, 2007 10:42 PM | Link to this
The news media types are just full of crap. LSU is no more deserving than any team that was ahead of them. They want to make conference championships a requirement, yet Ohio State didn’t play for one. They are full of crap. This BCS is nothing more than a popularity contest.
By Amy
December 2, 2007 10:43 PM | Link to this
Your situation is worse than Auburn ‘04? They were an undefeated SEC champ! You have got to be kidding me!
You could have ended the argument by beating one of 2 teams LSU defeated. You could have won your division. You had the same opportunity that LSU had to play in the Georgia Dome last night. You could have earned the chance to prove ON THE FIELD that you are better than LSU.
That you weren’t able to earn a spot in your conference title game is no one’s fault but yours. But I guess it’s easier to sit back and make the claim that you’re the best without having to back it up.
Tennessee ran you out of the stadium - LSU beat them with half of the team on the sidelines or playing hurt. Go sell your sob story somewhere else.
By Chuck
December 2, 2007 10:45 PM | Link to this
Point blank. Had UGA beaten South Carolina at home, they would be in the BCS title game.
They simply did not get it done.
By maya lucia
December 2, 2007 10:45 PM | Link to this
cheers…..i hoist my guinness to you all you dawg fans tonight……this bcs is a joke…..
By anon
December 2, 2007 10:46 PM | Link to this
It is not a requirement. 42-30 a* bag!!!!
By TampaGator
December 2, 2007 8:43 PM | Link to this
Unlike pro baseball, in college football, only champions get the opportunity to play for championships. Georgia was the 3rd best team in the SEC. Why should they play for the National Title? Win the SEC and you go…period. And you should…and, this year, it is LSU. PERIOD.
By Brad
December 2, 2007 10:46 PM | Link to this
It’s simple. The LSU coach did a better job of lobbying for the big show that the GA coach. No one can ever just sit back, and think they are going to ge what they deserve.
By andy
December 2, 2007 10:46 PM | Link to this
Herbstreit finally got the match up he thought Ohio State could possibly win OU vs. LSU what a great championship game. He has been politicking for LSU for two days on ESPN!!!
By B
December 2, 2007 10:46 PM | Link to this
Great Job Mark, you are right on. Go dawgs!
By Top Dawg
December 2, 2007 10:47 PM | Link to this
Mark: Excellent column. Les Miles gives me the creeps. First, he is a TERRIBLE coach, squandering more talent in one year than most teams do in a decade. Second, what a LUCK call against Auburn at the very end as time ran out!!! That was a joke. Did you see the interview with him on the field at the end of that game? Responding to the reporter’s questions, did you see the look on his face? That turkey (Miles) had no clue that he almost blew it big time. Third, his foul mouth with a microphone on national TV (when my kids are watching) makes me want to grab the remote and hit the mute button.
There is no reason in the world that LSU should not blow out Ohio State in New Orleans … except that LSU has the Mad Hatter as its head coach. Personally, I am looking forward to seeing that clown in Baton Rouge on October 25, 2008. Book it.
By Gen Neyland
December 2, 2007 10:47 PM | Link to this
Bradley
This column plays to the choir. You’re better than this..(?) My guess is Hawaii feels dissed to a degree, but they will welcome the opportunity to be the Boise State version of 2007…Get over it Dawg fans and prep for the Sugar…
By jdawg
December 2, 2007 10:47 PM | Link to this
ok maybe the dawgs didn’t deserve the championship game, but over the last six weeks they have been a better team than lsu. The dawgs should have been picked for the Rose Bowl, then there would have been at least one good bowl game, but some dumb a* thought the country would rather see a traditional matchup of pac10 v. big10. Who wants to watch that crap? Dawg fans, we can b*** now, but it will all be better when we are drinking hurricanes, tasting sugar, and looking at t** on bourbon street. Go Dawgs!
By Lee
December 2, 2007 10:47 PM | Link to this
I don’t think the Dawgs should be playing for the NC. I’m more p1ssed off they got shafted on the Rose Bowl invite.
By gtlover
December 2, 2007 10:48 PM | Link to this
I am sorry for all my blabber about UGA. I come from the ACC and can not find a coach for my program. Hell, even Edsall from UCONN snubbed us. UCONN I tell you! It is rough here on the flats. We even suck in Basketball now. Oh well, Ig uess I will become a baseball fan now. I apologize dogggies and concede my arguments comments are weak andirrational. But not much more than the other GA haters on here and the national media. You are the better team and deserve better than you got. Back to cybersex blog for me. Go Dawgs!
By Chad
December 3, 2007 7:20 AM | Link to this
You did not mention that both VT and Oklahoma also jumped the Dawgs. This isn’t an LSU over Georgia thing, it is an everyone over Georgia thing! Win something and then complain.
By Kenny
December 3, 2007 7:20 AM | Link to this
Computer polls, what a sham! One had VTech as #1 and another had UGA as #10. They must be either using an abacus and saying it’s a computer or their computer is programmed by a Tech graduate…..VTech number 3 in the final standings…..they did not beat a single top 20 team and played in the weakest conference.
By Lamar
December 3, 2007 7:25 AM | Link to this
I agree that Georgia got screwed, but there is a silver lining in the bowl lineup…Tech gets their butts kicked by some more Bulldawgs !!
By jimdog
December 3, 2007 7:31 AM | Link to this
Last year Florida was in danger of being shut out of the NC. Florida’s coach hit the airwaves, explaining to everyone that would listen why Florida should get a chance. I know it not right, the coach should not have to campaign for votes, but that is the way it was. Where was Richt since Saturday. In sale terms, he got the customer to the table, but was not able to close the deal!
By HWH
December 3, 2007 7:31 AM | Link to this
As a UGA fan, I, for one, will not complain about UGA in the Sugar Bowl. After the Tennessee debacle, I thought the chance of Georgia going to any decent bowl, much less the Sugar, was dead on arrival. Those Bulldog fans complaining about the Sugar Bowl need to rethink the season. So far as the NC game, neither LSU nor the Luckeyes deserve to be there. Southern Cal should be playing Oklahoma. Lastly, the team that really got screwed was Missouri.
By rfsbkr
December 3, 2007 7:33 AM | Link to this
For all of you that think that you have to win your conference, what About VT. LSU lost last week. Does Lsu Look like a championship team, NO. If last weeks rankins don’t matter, what about Oklahoma, USC, VT. None of these teams lost last week. Justify that. Missouri lost and the team that they beat is in a BCS game and they are not. What a sham this BCS is. Anyone who is on the panel should be ashamed.
By Markthetiger
December 3, 2007 7:37 AM | Link to this
Forget LSU for a moment. Shouldn’t you be just as upset that Oklahoma jumped Georgia? And if the mighty #4 dogs are now the disrespected #5 dogs why is there no mention of whatever team jumped them to get to #4? Three teams were voted better than your precious pups, not just LSU. LSU could have lost and you pups still would be left out of the NC game. So get off of LSU and beat Tenn and SC next year if you can. We did.
By Truth
December 3, 2007 7:38 AM | Link to this
Bradley, you are an idiot. Georgia IS NOT co-champion of the Eastern Division. Tennessee owns that title. Are you smoking something?
By Enought UGA Crying
December 3, 2007 7:38 AM | Link to this
This article is total crap. Auburn was undefeated you idiot. Bradley, you and other AJC Sports writers weren’t smart enought to see this coming. LSU earned it, GA did not. STOP YOUR CRYING AND FOCUS ON THE UPCOMING LOSS TO HAWAII.
By Brian
December 3, 2007 7:40 AM | Link to this
At the end of last year LSU was the best team in the SEC but Florida earned the confrence title on the field. Georgia had its chance & failed. Stop crying & enjoy the Sugar Bowl. LSU did.
By laine
December 3, 2007 7:40 AM | Link to this
at least georgia lost to two teams that were ranked at the time they lost unlike loser state university just goes to prove its not who you know its who your head coach will blow guess les has nice lips
By gtdave
December 3, 2007 7:41 AM | Link to this
Winning by 7 when the line is 7 1/2 is the lamest argument I’ve ever heard. But what more would you expect from a major Homer! Hey Kenny - if you would actually look at the rankings, VT beat 3 top 20 teams. (Clemson, BC, and UVA). That’s two more than UGA. Check your facts before making ignorant statements! Not only that, UGA’s one victory was over a team whose heisman QB was hurt and couldn’t run.
By Tiny Bubbles
December 3, 2007 7:42 AM | Link to this
aloha!
By Steven C
December 3, 2007 7:42 AM | Link to this
UGA got screwed worse than AUBURN in 2004???!!! A team that went UNDEFEATED in the toughest conference in America and WON the SECC by beating UT twice, destroying them once in Knoxville???!!! You’re off your meds again aren’t you, bunkie? While I agree with much of what you say…the CONTINUING disrespect for the Tigers flat out bewilders me. Steven C Duluth, GA
By Fill Fulmer
December 3, 2007 7:43 AM | Link to this
Georgia got more than it deserved! LSU made it to the NC game and thus TENNESSEE should be playing for the SEC in the SUGAR BOWL. Thats right, the team that kicked JAWJAs sorry a* up and down the field, should be in the Sugar Bowl. So shut up mutts and enjoy your fortune, for your team certainly didnt earn it
By LSU Tiger
December 3, 2007 7:43 AM | Link to this
Isn’t this is the same guy that wrote that lame piece about UGA not having to “fear” LSU in the SEC title game that UGA didn’t qualify for, because they didn’t win their division. Look, I’m all for the SEC doing well, and I wish the Dawgs the best of luck in the Sugar Bowl, but somebody needs to get this clown some cheese to go with his sour grapes whine.
By John Major
December 3, 2007 7:43 AM | Link to this
Thanks Mark. Apparently, you really just need to check with the committee to see if they like you enough.
BTW, the Michigan comparison to last yaer is not apt. Michigan had lost their last game. Georgia hasn’t lost since three weeks before Halloween!
By David
December 3, 2007 7:46 AM | Link to this
Assume for a moment that Auburn or Alabama or some other SEC West team found itself in UGA’s position. They stumbled early but closed out the season strong, yet still managed to finish strong. UGA loses to Auburn or Tech to close out the season, but plays for and wins the SEC championship and has an argument to play for the MNC. They finish with the same number of losses overall as the #2 team from the West. The West team is on a hot streak while UGA has looked vulnerable. Who plays for the MNC? And who among you doesn’t believe that UGA fans will be livid with rage if a team which didn’t win the conference jumps over them into the title game?
Yes, the BCS is a horrible, horrible mess. But UGA fans need to accept the hypocrisy of their argument.
By Jackson
December 3, 2007 7:48 AM | Link to this
Calling all TRUE BULLDOGS—let’s rally and have an EXCESSIVE CELEBRATION on Bourbon Street!!—-we owe it to the 2007 Bulldogs who went 10-2!! The Jan. 1st 2008 sUGAr Bowl Victory will be the start of our undefeated 2008 season with Stafford and Moreno leading the charge! Let’s also CELEBRATE that we don’t have Les “loose cannon” Miles or Urban “crybaby” Meyer as Coach! Mark Richt is a class act!!
By Elliot Garcia
December 3, 2007 7:49 AM | Link to this
No team that loses a football game by 21 points deserves to play in the National Championship game!
By BullDawg Rick
December 3, 2007 7:53 AM | Link to this
OK…
Had time to digest this joke called the BcS.. As a UGA fan, I am pleased that during a rebuilding year we are going to the sUGAr Bowl. It’s the selection process that’s very off kilter.. We get Hawaii?? (not to slight the Rainbow Warriors) Why are the BcS matchups so ‘off center’?? Why not a Oklahoma - UGA or SoCal - UGA matchup?? OK - WVa is a joke!! I’m still laughing at the SoCal-Illini matchup.. Kansas & not Mizzu in the Orange?..
Crazy that one team can be ranked third, the other fourth.. When first (Mizzu) & second(WVa) lose, third(OSU) goes to one & four(UGA) goes to five?!?!?! sixth(VaT) goes to four, seven(LSU) goes to two, nine goes to three(Homa) WTF, over?!?!?
I have heard that UGA fans are upset at the LSU folks for the Bengals getting the Natty game.. I DO NOT lay blame on the Tigers!! I am only glad that they beat UT & the SEC gets 2 BcS bids & the Dawgs & Tigers get to show the nation & the BS… errr BcS folks where the BEST football is played!! That be the SEC baby!!!
Crazy that SOS is not taken into consideration.. Play Youngtown St, Kent, 4-9 Washington, Akron, lose late in the season & a beaten down little 11 and you get a second chance at the Natty… LSU getting not one, not two (losing late in the season) but three chances to play for all the marbles…
Really makes sense doesn’t it??
The powers that be want it this way so college football can be “discussed” (CUSSED) year round!!
Go SEC & Go Dawgs!!
By Big Ed
December 3, 2007 7:53 AM | Link to this
I have a lot of respect for Mark R. but he was pathethic on the bowl selection show last night. Now I know why there are over 500 whiners on this blog. He totally disrespected his opponent in the Sugar Bowl by spending all his time complaining about the BCS system. His last coment was an oh by the way we are proud to be associated with the Sugar Bowl as if he was sincere. Show some class. UGA came in third in the SEC at best. No what if’s change the facts. M.R. better do a good selling job to his team because we have seen plenty of examples in the past where teams thought they deserved better and got blown out in their own bowl game.
By Ronnie
December 3, 2007 7:54 AM | Link to this
Georgia totally got screwed over by a bias ESPN crew that constistantly said that GA and USC are the 2 best team at this moment, but that GA did not deserve to be palying for the National Championship because they did not win their Conference title. BS! If the Conference title is required then require all “auto” bid conference to have a conference championship game. Otherwise, pansy schedules like Ohio State will be rewared every year. ESPN idiots (Kirk and Co.) always have their favorites and no matter what will make sure that they get more than they deserve. Hell “IF” the system truely worked, then Hawaii, who beat Boise State, Nevada, San Diego State, and Washington (big Pac 10), should be playing sorry Ohio State for the title. The BCS has never been a true indicator of the best teams AND never will. Money drives everything and until the Commissioners and Coaches tell ESPN to shove it, and finally go to a playoff system like every other NCAA sport, then Division 1 football will remain a joke regarding their “National Chumpion”!
By raymond
December 3, 2007 7:56 AM | Link to this
I don’t like what happened but Richt better get a hold of his players and get them focused on Hawaii and get over this situation.I don’t want to live through another night like the West Virginia game. As for all you Tennessee fans who are taking your shots, your going to the Outback Bowl and playing at 11am. I’m sure that is where you wanted to be.
By EJ Moosa
December 3, 2007 7:56 AM | Link to this
Georgia Does Not Belong in the SEC
If you choose to participate in a conference that has a championship game, then you must abide by the results.
To cry and complain that they are better than everyone else without winning the championship only makes them look like sore losers.
Richt and company knew what needed to be done at the start of the season if they wanted a National Championship: Win the SEC. Ask Richt if he thinks Georgia would have the right to play for a National Championship had they lost the SEC Championship game. No? Well his team did not even deserve the right to win or lose that game.
If you are going to be in a conference, you better be willing to support the results of that conference.
http://ejmoosa.blogspot.com
By Typical
December 3, 2007 7:56 AM | Link to this
If the tables were turned and UGA won the SEC-Championship and didn’t make it to the title game, you UGA fans would be raising holy hell that the “conference champions” should be in that game.
Preach crazy somewhere else - we are full of it here.
Geaux Tigers!
By Brother Vince
December 3, 2007 7:57 AM | Link to this
The joke is that Ohio State was just univerally accepted as the #1 team. Their crowning achievement was beating a horrible Michigan team. They beat YSU, Akron, Northwestern. Yay! They beat #21, #23, #23, & #25, Yay!They beat only ONE team that is still ranked. Their SOS doesn’t compare to UGA, LSU, OU, VT, but it is close to USC. Using what ESPN is claiming as “the rules”, Oklahoma and even VaTech have a much better claim to play LSU than Ohio State. Ohio State is being rewarded for taking no risks.
By G8TR
December 3, 2007 7:58 AM | Link to this
The difference between Richt and a coach with class is that once the votes are in, he’s gracious about the outcome. Richt could not stop complaining and offering his lame (and widely ignored) argument for UGA, even after the game (poll) was over. What a bunch of whimpering puppies.
By 82DAWG
December 3, 2007 7:59 AM | Link to this
Will UGA find it withing themsleves to get up for a game against a team we would consider an off week during the regular season? This will be the biggest game in the history of Hawaii and apparently one of the biggest disappointments in the history of UGA. This sounds like a really bad scenario for us.
By Money talks
December 3, 2007 8:04 AM | Link to this
I agree 100% that it’s a total sham LSU is playing for the national title. However, Georgia doesn’t have near the gripe that Oklahoma has. Oklahoma convincingly beat the #1 ranked team on Saturday….for the SECOND TIME. Sure, Oklahoma has lost two games, but it was ranked #4 going into Saturday. With one more win over Georgia, and that win being against the #1 team, Oklahoma should have jumped Georgia and taken the #2 slot to play in the national title game. On thing is for certain….the best team in the country will not be playing on Jan. 7.
By Steve
December 3, 2007 8:04 AM | Link to this
Georgia didn’t get shafted, they lost two key conference games and that’s that. As for the BCS being a flawed system, let’s not forget the days before the BCS. For example, in 1997 (one year before the BCS) we had #1 out in the Rose Bowl (Michigan) and #1 over in the Orange bowl (Nebraska). They never had the opportunity to play one another. If that system was in place today we’d have Ohio St. in the Rose vs. USC (good game btw), Oklahoma in the Orange, LSU in the Sugar. At least with the BCS several dozens of people who follow college football get a vote on #1 vs. #2. Georgia lost out when Tennessee beat Vandy and Kentucky. The moral of the story, do not depend on others, if you want to win an NC, do it like UT did in 1998 and go undefeated (sorry Auburn, you deserve one as well). UGA is very lucky to play in a BCS bowl, be careful or Hawai’i might give you a fight!
By chris
December 3, 2007 8:04 AM | Link to this
HAHAHAHAHA TO THOSE YOU WHO LAUGHED AT AUBURN IN 2004
WAR DAMN EAGLE
By SomeGuy
December 3, 2007 8:05 AM | Link to this
Another season, another BCS travesty. How many more travesties before there is a critical mass of support for junking the BCS system and implementing what every other sport has including lower-division football? That is, a playoff system? Folks, the BCS will never improve. Oh sure, it will be tweaked here and there but no amount of tweaking can fix that which cannot be fixed since it is based on a faulty premise - namely, that polls, no matter how “scientific”, can accurately determine the two best teams in the country. If they could then save everyone the trouble and let the polls determine the champion. No, the issue must be settled on the field with a playoff system. There’s no fairer way to do it.
By Braves Fan 79
December 3, 2007 8:05 AM | Link to this
Why are GT fans coming on here talking trash about how the system works, blablabla. You know GT could of gone 10-1 or even undefeated…and STILL been left out of the title game! Just like any good team can be left out in this BS System!!
Im a GT fan myself, but what happened to UGa was wrong! So we should be punished jst because Kentucky couldnt score on the 1 yard line against Tenn?? Because no one can tell me that UGA wouldnt of beaten a half hurt LSU team in the sec title game!! This isnt about hating a team, or the fact UGA was only co champs of the eastern conf. This is about a FLAWED, TERRIBLE system that DOES NOT WORK!! Ive been saying this for years!
Good article Mark, Terrance Moore and all you other idiots that still think any team, in any sport, should be “voted” into the title game…ARE IDIOTS!!!
By E Aldrich
December 3, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this
And why exactly is Ohio State in it again. What is a good solution for this conundrum? If this is subjective, what is objective?
By GMAN
December 3, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this
What a difference a week makes in the minds of voters!! Simply put UGA got the shaft, there’s no doubt UGA is the hottest team in the nation. What justifies a team jumping from #7 to #2. Could it be that the BCS folks like the fact that LSU would fill the Super Dome. Well let me remind you anytime UGA plays there we pack the place to the rafters. UGA was screwed royally but we need to get over it and move on. Like aprevious poster stated UGA will start next season #1 and be there at the end of the season as well. Hawaii doesn’t deserve to be in a major bowl, remember the Rutgers, and Penn State teams getting screwed, so why is Hawaii being treated differently? They’ll be luck if they have a 1,000 fans thre, the rest will be DAWG fans. We deserve a better opponent!!!!! As for all the DAWG haters posting on this site, it’s not your beef so bug out!!
By Haters
December 3, 2007 8:09 AM | Link to this
Man look at all the loser Fla. fans still spewing thier garbage over their beating this year. Get over it losers you lost. I beleive we should not be in the National Championship, but we did get screwed out of the right bowl.
By Braves Fan 79
December 3, 2007 8:09 AM | Link to this
Can anyone believe the PAC 10? the pusy ahletic confrence! What a bunch of wimps, to choose a weak Illinois team over a monster UGA team!
I guess they dont want the SEC to show them up!
By Tommy B
December 3, 2007 8:09 AM | Link to this
Bradley
You might be the biggest vilage idiot walking the face of the earth. UGA should be grateful they are playing ina BCS bowl. How in the world can you say “Georgia is SEC East Co-Champion” when they LOST to the team they were “co-champs?” Not to mention by 21 points (that’s 3 touchdowns since you are an idiot).
LSU wins by 7 when they are 7 1/2 point favorites over Tennessee. They did it without there best defensive player (who happened to be out because of an illegal chop block) and they did it with their backup QB. Let’s see, USC lost when Booty went down, Oregon lost when Dixon went down, OU lost when Bradford went down, West Virginia lost when Pat White went down. Flynn goes down and LSU WINS!
Look at LSU’s 2 losses, 2 games in TRIPLE overtime.
My suggestion to you is go to the local mall in your area. See if you can go by a CLUE and make sure you stop by a pharmacy and buy a box of Kleenex you pathetic excuse for a man.
By Damon
December 3, 2007 8:09 AM | Link to this
Is the BCS system flawed? Yup no doubt there. Is UGA one of the top 5 teams in the country? Yup no doubt there either. A playoff system will not be implemented cause people will loose money, thats just a fact so lets look at this another way. Write letters, complain, etc to the NCAA to have all conferences in the BCS have a conference championship game period. OSU is in this game for BS reasons and shouldnt be there. SEC, ACC, Big 12 are doing it the right way…maybe its time the other conferences follow suit.
Now this isnt an answer to the BCS but if a team wins their conference and their conference is part of the BCS then by all means they should play in a BCS bowl game or national championship. If the conferences do not meet the NCAA requirements for a conference championship then they cannot play in the national championship or BCS bowl game till they do no matter how long it takes.
As for UGA whine and complain all you want, you know as well as I do