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Everyone but BCS saw Dogs maturing

By Jeff Schultz | Wednesday, January 2, 2008, 12:59 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Jeff Schultz

New Orleans — It had been five years since Georgia ended its season with a win in the Sugar Bowl. Mark Richt was in only his second season. He had already won an SEC title. We now can consider that foreshadowing.

The Bulldogs ended another season in New Orleans on Tuesday night. They often toyed with an unbeaten but overmatched opponent. The same team that looked so lost early in the season appeared mature and resolute at the end. Feel free to consider it foreshadowing.

This season, they were very good. Next season, they should be the next level up.

Presumably, this time the BCS will notice.

If the Dogs wanted to make a statement about playing in the wrong bowl game, they did so. They led Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl 24-3 after their first four possessions. They led 38-3 when the game wasn’t even three-quarters old, though it already was clear that Hawaii would be four-quarters awful.

It was another nightmarish result for the BCS, which was not to be confused with the nightmarish result in the Rose Bowl earlier in the day. Southern Cal smacked Illinois in the Rose Bowl 49-17. Georgia was on the way to doing much the same to Hawaii. Once again, the system created muck, not magic.

There are many who believed that the Bulldogs and Trojans, not LSU and Ohio State, should’ve been matched in next week’s BCS title game. Nothing that happened on New Year’s Day will change those sentiments.

Hawaii brought a perfect record to New Orleans. They also brought hula dancers, the “ha’a” dance and band members with war paint. If window dressing and pageantry counted for anything, the Warriors would’ve led before the kickoff.

That would’ve been their only lead.

After zipping through the season 12-0 against a schedule most would consider soft — the toughest opponent: Boise State — Hawaii looked out of place in a BCS bowl. Coach June Jones had admitted concern about how his players would react to being on this stage (“This is a Sugar Bowl for Georgia, but it’s a Super Bowl for us.”), and his worries were justified.

From the outset, the Bulldogs looked at home. Hawaii merely looked in awe.

The Warriors were penalized twice before their first official snap, first for delay of game, then for a false start. Colt Brennan, who threw 38 touchdown passes and finished third in the Heisman voting, looked rushed and nervous on his first two pass attempts. Hawaii’s first possession ended with a punt, after which the Warriors’ Keenan Jones drew a personal foul for hitting returner Mikey Henderson early and illegally (helmet to helmet).

Henderson suffered a concussion. That would be the closest Hawaii came to having its presence felt. The Bulldogs’ first four possessions of the game went touchdown-touchdown-field goal-touchdown as they built a 24-3 lead. They were bigger, deeper and better.

Hawaii’s defense had no answer for Knowshon Moreno, who had two early touchdown runs of 17 and 11 yards. (Actually, in that sense, Hawaii fit right in with the rest of the SEC, which also didn’t have an answer for Moreno.) Hawaii’s offense and Brennan didn’t have an answer for Georgia’s defense, which in the first half sacked the quarterback five times and forced two turnovers.

If the Bulldogs were still upset Tuesday about being snubbed by the BCS, they did what good teams do: They vented on the field.

Consider this another step in the maturing process for a young team that had some early season hiccups, then closed the regular season with six straight wins. The youth that was so painfully apparent in losses to South Carolina and Tennessee, and in a narrow escape at Vanderbilt, looked remarkably stable in New Orleans.

Growing pains shouldn’t be a problem next season. The Dogs return 17 of 22 starters next season, including the quarterback (Matthew Stafford), the running back (Moreno), three-fifths of the offensive line (which started three freshmen this season) and all but one defender in the front seven (end Marcus Howard).

For a fan base that sometimes has difficult maintaining perspective, it’s hard to imagine Georgia fans keeping their feet on the ground heading into next season.

But it’s hard to imagine any projection being excessive. Maybe this time the BCS will notice.

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By MissouriDawg

January 2, 2008 1:22 AM | Link to this

Great game. Our entire defense was so strong. The pundits will find some way to rationalize USC ahead of us for the preseason next year, but if this team can stay focused, we should be as good as ANYONE.

By Top Dawg

January 2, 2008 1:22 AM | Link to this

This was a complete game for the Dawgs and will give us a good jumpstart into the ‘08 season.

By The SC Big Dog

January 2, 2008 1:26 AM | Link to this

Thanks Jeff, but the BCS will still be blinded by the glitter of Tinseltown and the citrus smell from south of the border! The Dawgs will probably have to run the table to play in Miami a year from now. I’m looking forward to the ride!

By JayBird

January 2, 2008 1:28 AM | Link to this

Great performance tonight. Sets up an exciting 2008 season. Go Dawgs!

By Gadawg59

January 2, 2008 1:29 AM | Link to this

Its great to be a Georgia Bulldog.

By A.T.IST UGA

January 2, 2008 1:29 AM | Link to this

Well they closed Chips blog. Faith may build character but our win and success was due to hard work and preparation. Effects of faith and prayer are purely placebo. If Hawaii had won it would not have been due to their spiritual dance anymore than prayer was responsible for our win. Execution and preparation win games.

GO DAWGS!!

By mustangdawgfan777

January 2, 2008 1:29 AM | Link to this

Well, well… guess the BCS and the rest of the nation can finally begin to see what is going on down in Athens, GA. I’m so sick of being underated and said to be a “second tier” team. I have nothing negative to say to Hawaii, because I believe the DAWGS would have beaten USC, LSU, Ohio St., or anyone else the BCS could have matched them with. Anyways, another very successful year for UGA and we can all give thanks to God for allowing us to be DAWGS!

By HunkerDown

January 2, 2008 1:29 AM | Link to this

I think college football fans were cheated by the BCS - that’s clear. Keep Hawaii and let them play Illinois and match UGA with USC - those are interesting matchups. Those are appropriate matchups. These two BCS bowls today … these games were autrocities. I don’t even feel good about this win because it was such a lopsided victory. All it proved was that UGA and USC are top-tier programs that could outclass 2nd-tier programs … duh. Pending a LSU victory, here’ s my top five for next season … #1 UGA/USC, #3 OK, #4LSU, #5AUB

By dawgdawg

January 2, 2008 1:30 AM | Link to this

first!

By ATC

January 2, 2008 1:31 AM | Link to this

The defense was relentelss. I felt sorry for Hawaii. The game meant a lot to them and they looked so over matched. The only negative for Ga was the passing attack that looked inconsistent. Who would thought we would be so good after the Tennesee game. Go dawgs.

By BCS Slave

January 2, 2008 1:32 AM | Link to this

The BC$ is naturally biased. The media votes for their favorite team…their alma mater…or the team they watch the most. The coaches naturally vote competitively. They vote for their team to be number one and opponents to be 10 spots too low.

The BC$ will only take notice when we get rid of the biased media and coaches voting in it.

By Moe

January 2, 2008 1:35 AM | Link to this

IT will be great if USC plays GEORGIA next year for the national title

By stendec

January 2, 2008 1:37 AM | Link to this

LSU may win national title. OSU is and has been only pretender! One significant win in a season should not propel team into title tilt. Used crooked referees to STEAL last national title from Southern (not SEC) squad. Dawgs would not be defeated this night BY ANYONE. Gripes about UGA fans and players unwarranted. Has anyone looked at arrogant Southern Cal players this season? Talk about REALLY bad sports! Terrible sports with a capital “T”. Fine job SEC. Except for gagging Gators and Hogs first of many losses once Putridwino era commences). Urinated in uniforms when challenged by Yankee teams! Shame on you both!

By stendec

January 2, 2008 1:38 AM | Link to this

LSU may win national title. OSU is and has been only pretender! One significant win in a season should not propel team into title tilt. Used crooked referees to STEAL last national title from Southern (not SEC) squad. Dawgs would not be defeated this night BY ANYONE. Gripes about UGA fans and players unwarranted. Has anyone looked at arrogant Southern Cal players this season? Talk about REALLY bad sports! Terrible sports with a capital “T”. Fine job SEC. Except for gagging Gators and Hogs (first of many losses once Putridwino era commences). Urinated in uniforms when challenged by Yankee teams! Shame on you both!

By RY

January 2, 2008 1:38 AM | Link to this

I ACTUALLY STARTED FEELING BAD FOR COLT WHAT’S HIS FACE. TURNS OUT HE IS NOT A GOD AFTER ALL.

HOW ABOUT THOSE ANNOUNCERS MAKING IT QUITE OBVIOUS THAT THEY WANTED GEORGIA TO LOSE OR HAWAII GIVE THEM A GOOD GAME. THE SCORE SHOULD HAVE BEEN 55-3. WHAT AN A@@KICKING!!!!!!

By dawgmom

January 2, 2008 1:39 AM | Link to this

Yet another example of how the BCS system is broken. Great game by a top-notch team. Pre-season #2 at worst. GO DAWGS!!!!

By Scott

January 2, 2008 1:39 AM | Link to this

What a great show of sportsmanship we saw tonight. Especially Brian Mims! What a guy. This win is nothing dawg fans should be proud of. Mark Richt should be ashamed. You wonder why no one except other dawg fans like you? Tonight’s game should tell you loud and clear. You play a team that’s 12-0 from a weak conference, you pound them in the ground and rub their noses in it. UGA players acted disrespectful to a team that deserved better. They were chosen to be in the game just like you. They were very excited just to play in a bowl game and UGA did everything they could to embarrass them. SHAME ON RICHT!!! For what? To make a point to the BCS. Well, he did. The point is that next year you’ll have a team that isn’t happy with the bowl they’re chosen for unless it’s the national title (which they did NOT deserve to be in this year). You’ll have a team that’ll run the score up before half time causing fans to leave the stadium and viewers to change channels. Yep, that’s who I’d want in a bowl game I’m sponsoring! Yep…that’s the University Of Georgia.

By Hit on Mikey

January 2, 2008 1:39 AM | Link to this

That was NOT called as a personal foul aganst that piece of sh1t Keenan Jones for a helmet to helmet hit on Mikey. It was a violating the halo foul that was called. They should have called 2 fouls, another for the helmet to hemlet hit. I also believe it was intential, possibly called by one of the coaches as a sick motivational tool, and Keenan Jones should have been ejected for it. Mikey could have been seriously injured.

By TheItalianDawg

January 2, 2008 1:41 AM | Link to this

Wow! just Wow! go Dawgs!

By ruben

January 2, 2008 1:41 AM | Link to this

I’m sure T.moore will have an article up in a few minutes saying UGA still sucks and the delusional fanbase has no argument that we are even a top five team. Can you please fire him?

By Shamed dawg fans

January 2, 2008 1:41 AM | Link to this

for all those watching fox and watching tom, sorry t-H-o-m, i APOLOGIZE for SHAMING not only the college football world, but the entire nation of Americans for not only beating those rainbow idiots, but stomping them by 31 points. We as UGA fans should all be ashamed and sacrifice the future UGA VII as reparations for beating a team that had no business cleaning up for our second string team.

By Jeff

January 2, 2008 1:42 AM | Link to this

Jeff Shultz, you are 100 percent accurate. UGA and USC are the 2 best teams and should have played for the BCS Championship. I have never been so in awe of Georgia’s defense and team as I was in this game. Hat’s off to the whole UGA football team. They looked like total world beaters. I would also like to say that I was proud to see Miss State, Alabama, Auburn, and Tennessee win their games and make the SEC look strong. Go Dawgs and SEC!

By Drew W.

January 2, 2008 1:42 AM | Link to this

Great game by UGA, but bulldog fans need to realize that this is not the NFL. Being hot at the end of the season does not count for beans in college. If you wanted to play for a championship so badly, perhaps you should have started by winning your division in the SEC. You would have had your shot at LSU in the Georgia Dome. Instead, you will have the entire offseason to cry right next to USC that you were robbed.

By stendec

January 2, 2008 1:46 AM | Link to this

Scott, you are are idiot! Go back to your pathetic Ohio State blog! What were the Dawgs supposed to do? Keep the game close for your sake? Hawaii’s? Television? Tell that to F+++++G Southern Cal! People like YOU simply do not get it!

By gastr1

January 2, 2008 1:47 AM | Link to this

Georgia should have at the very least been in the Rose Bowl against a legit opponent like USC.

BCS= No SEC-Pac 10 matchups allowed, apparently.

BOO!!!

By mustangdawgfan777

January 2, 2008 1:47 AM | Link to this

Please no one make any comments to anyone like Mr. Scott above. He obviously wishes his team were “like” us. Being jealous is not the way to go Mr. Scott…I’m sorry buddy.

By hop

January 2, 2008 1:47 AM | Link to this

DAWGS MADE A STATEMENT THAT EVEN THE NATIONAL PRESS CAN NOT DENY. THE TOUGH SCHEDULE MIGHT WORK IN OUR FAVOR , AS THE DAWGS PROVE THEY CAN BEAT AND HANDLE ANYONE.

DAWG FANS HAVE MUCH TO BE THANKFUL WITH A TEAM LIKE WE HAVE NOW. COACH RICHT AND HIS STAFF PROVED THEY ARE IN AN ELITE GROUP AND MAYBE, THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY.

By rj

January 2, 2008 1:48 AM | Link to this

Go Dawgs!! I think Kirk Herbstreit might be on the USC payroll.

By TN Jeff

January 2, 2008 1:51 AM | Link to this

Great game but suffered through listening to the idiot announcers. when they commented on the game they were usually wrong about the calls. They praised Hawaii excessively for not giving up. THen accused GA of running up the score. someone needed to inform these idiots that GA already suffered from watching 2 teams ahead of them in the polls lose games and then instead of moving up 1 or 2 slots, GA dropped down 1 spot. GA needed to win BIG.

By Chris B

January 2, 2008 1:52 AM | Link to this

Sounds like Scotty boy is a Tech or Gator fan and isn’t wearing his happy face. GO DAWGS!!!

By gastr1

January 2, 2008 1:52 AM | Link to this

I like what Colt said before the game…

“No one can stop us…In the last three years no one has stopped us.” (even though they lost 63-17 to USC and 42-14 to Michigan State in 2005).

Consider yourselves stopped, baby-horse-boy.

By chemdawg

January 2, 2008 1:52 AM | Link to this

Let me clear things up real quick for those complaining about “sportsmanship.” UGA “went for it” on 4th down by throwing to a well defended route with its second string quarterback. They handed Hawaii the ball rather than taking the points. Think for yourself rather than just regurgitating what the AWFUL fox announcers had to say. The fox announcer dude was a frigin UT GRAD, ok? It’s not hungry hungry hippos, it’s football and there is no little league mercy rule in the Sugar Bowl.

By Cuz

January 2, 2008 1:52 AM | Link to this

Give up on the BCS, another year, another list of ho-hum bowls. Sorry Hawaii, you ran into a buzzsaw painted black. You told me we never faced a team like yours. You had pride, you just do not play in the big leagues. We had the second and third string defense in the fourth quarter. Florida will not next year, be prepared to lose by 65. You did great in going 12-0 in your conference, but your greatest win was against a 4-8 team. That should tell you something.

If we want to play in the MNC, we need to go undefeated as we did in 1980, nothing else will give us the respect. Yeah our first six games we were not so good. Our last six, no one in the country played better. Our coaches had the class to not say we should be playing next Monday. Marcus Howard had no problem after thanking God to say, we are the best in the country. I believe him.

Thanks Dawgs for a great season. The wins the losses, you played like true Dawgs and I am proud of you all. See you in 2008.

By BCS Slave

January 2, 2008 1:53 AM | Link to this

Scott,

LOL! Yeah, UGA “ran the score up before half time”! LOL! Hawaii didn’t deserve to be in that game. They were outmatched in every way. UGA was bigger, stronger, and faster. And did they play with a chip on their shoulder? YES! Why? Because they were robbed by the BC$. If the voters put Georgia at number four KNOWING they would not play in the conference championship, then how could they knock them down a spot after the conference championship? Yes, UGA did deserve to play in the NC more so than Ohio State or LSU. They were ranked higher than LSU and Ohio State didn’t even play a conference championship.

If UGA ever wants to compete in the NC, they have to play with a chip on their shoulder every game next year. They have to run up the score as often as they can. They have to win the beauty contest.

Scott, if you want UGA to be sweethearts, then write emails to the BC$ and get them to revamp it. Get rid of the media and coaches voting. That is where the problem really lies. Our players work hard to play for the national title. They deserve better than the crappy BC$.

By BW

January 2, 2008 1:54 AM | Link to this

“run the score up before half time” - now that’s funny!

By Scott

January 2, 2008 1:54 AM | Link to this

To Shamed dawg fans, that’s the attitude everyone hates about UGA. You’re being so disresoectful to a team that went 12-0 in their conference. Did the dawgs do that? Hell no they didn’t! They didn’t win their conference either. So show Hawaii some respect.

By ugagal

January 2, 2008 1:56 AM | Link to this

For the record, UGA stopped crying about being robbed of its chance at a BCS title about three days after the bowl selections were announced. At that point, the team resolved to stop talking and start showing folks just how good a team we really are. Some would complain that a 41-10 beatdown was a little excessive. I do not. The BCS voters have shown us that it’s not just enough to win against teams you should beat; you must decimate them to get any significant movement in the BCS rankings. And remember, we inserted our second string offense and defense with 10 minutes remaining in the game.

I think it’s a little early to book our tickets to Miami for next year’s championship, but I am fully convinced that this authoritative win makes the case for our status as a preseason Top 5. And that should give us a chance to earn our way into the championship. Beating Hawaii so convincingly was the first step in that process.

By March Hare

January 2, 2008 1:58 AM | Link to this

Don’t be like that Drew. Why not just accept the obvious and forget the rhetoric?

Great win for the Dawgs and… call it a slap in the face of the BCS Neanderthals. (The system ain’t broke… it’s never worked to begin with.)

To the anti-Dawg forces… just go away.

By DawgGrad

January 2, 2008 1:59 AM | Link to this

Scott… what are you a Gator fan? Or is it possible that you are just that stupid?

Wow… if I’m not missing anything… USC just put 1 more point on the board then UGA did against their opponent (who also came from a weak conference) and nobody is whining about the Trojans running the score up or protesting a bad officiating call in the first half of the third quarter… or a kicker getting hit in the back by a linebacker and hitting back…

Scott… are you a Techie?

GO DAWGS!!!

By shannon

January 2, 2008 2:01 AM | Link to this

Shame on georgia? huh? Uga did exactly what any team would have done, beat the crap out of your opponent. Mercy is for high school kids not at the college level. if Hawaii was blowin out ga should they be expected to show mercy? No! So why should ga do that. If this game was even close everybody would be talkin how sorry ga is as a program.

By BCS Slave

January 2, 2008 2:01 AM | Link to this

Drew W,

Your lame arguement has NO merit. If LSU was a better team than UGA, then why were they ranked 7th while UGA was 4th? It is the BC$ that is flawed here.

But the lamest thing you’ve said…that how you do at the end of the season doesn’t matter? LSU won a conference title, while Ohio State didn’t even play for one (and they got in). Funny thing is that the BC$ does not make a conference championship a requirement…hence OS’s opportunity to play in the NC. Of course, that standard doesn’t apply to Georgia, or Kansas. Oklahoma though, could lose their conference championship game a couple of years ago and still get to play in the NC.

Drew, you would be funny if what you said wasn’t so sad.

By Scott

January 2, 2008 2:02 AM | Link to this

mustangdwagfan777, you made me laugh so hard I spilled my beer. I’m just glad me team shows class and they could beat your slobbering dawgs any day. The only good things about the dawgs is UGA VI and Hairy Dawg.

By physicsDawg

January 2, 2008 2:03 AM | Link to this

“Scott”, that’s a funny name to give a little girl. You should go cry to your book club or your knitting class. “That’s why girls don’t play the game.” I agree that that POS #29 should have been ejected for taking Mikey Henderson out of his last game as a senior, with the helmet to helmet hit. I really did start to feel bad for Colt Breenan, by the time he was pulled out of mercy. Just maybe he was taking the beating that was due to #29, Jones. In regards to “Scott“‘s other claims, I saw a lot of hitting at the end of plays, and jawing going on, by both teams, in the first half. Hawaii dishing it out plenty. But in the second half, I noticed at whole lot of Georgia players picking up Warriors after a play; and a lot of good-will talking going on. The Dawg I noticed leading by example was Kelin Johnson, a fine young man. Hawaii fought proudly, and was laying some big hits of their own. And you can’t put in the subs in the 3rd Quarter against a team still fighting like that. I suppose you averted your eyes while our subs failed to score any points in the last few attempts.

By chemdawg

January 2, 2008 2:03 AM | Link to this

Hawaii showed their respect with a blatantly malicious helmet to helmet hit on a 155 lb return man (after which they celebrated!) Why does UGA have to apoligize to the teams it beats this year when they show less class than UGA?? I hope Mikey Henderson has a successful career outside of football and does not suffer any lasting effects of Hawaii’s classless showing.

By Cuz

January 2, 2008 2:05 AM | Link to this

Screw you Scott and the horse you rode in on. You pathetic piece of loser trash would have to get on your grandmother’s shoulders to kiss Mark Richt’s butt. Knocking down a great team and their fans makes you look like the idiot you are. This is football, not a office picnic sack race. Get with it, or go away and go back to your Dungeons and Dragons group. Oh and Spock wants his fake ears back.

By Rod

January 2, 2008 2:07 AM | Link to this

The Rosa Bowl committee is holding the BCS, college football and its fans hostage. How can that dumb azz committee do that? The BCS can only pick the 2 so called top teams in the BCS poll. If the BCS would take control of making all the match ups in the BCS bowls instead of the stupid tie ins we would at least see better matchup. Way to go Dawgs you made DawgNation proud. Who would win Falcons vs Dawgs?

By Bobby

January 2, 2008 2:08 AM | Link to this

I thought that UGA did show Hawai’i the proper respect by practicing hard for them and not overlooking them - hence why they were able to score on their “tough defense.” But then again that’s just my view of it…

By BCS Slave

January 2, 2008 2:09 AM | Link to this

Scott, The “attitude” you hate is no different from that of the Gators fans, Vols fans, Tiger fans, or any other top tier teams fans. We think our team is the best…duh. As for being “disrespectful” to Hawaii because they went 12-0 in their conference…LOL. When they do that in the SEC, I’ll respect them. You have to EARN respect, and Hawaii didn’t do that playing the weak schedule they did. Hawaii couldn’t compete with the 2nd tier teams in the SEC. That is the apparent fact.

By Charles N. Carter

January 2, 2008 2:10 AM | Link to this

WIN YOUR CONFERENCE…Beat a SAD SACK South Carolina team, DO NOT get your A$$ kicked by Tennessee (the same team that got hammered by a bottom rung Pac 10 team in CAL)

And then AND ONLY then can you talk about a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP !!!!

You could not even win your OWN CONFERENCE !!!!!!

By Chris B

January 2, 2008 2:11 AM | Link to this

Just what is your team Scott, the sorry-as* Falcons. Hawaii will getrespect when it belongs to a real conference.

By mustangdawgfan777

January 2, 2008 2:13 AM | Link to this

HAHAHAHA…beam me up Scott(y). Ur one funny dude. Have a good night and may u dream of DAWGS destroying ur team (whoever that may be since u must be pretty ashamed of them since u have failed to mention who ur team actually is).

By Richt Rocks

January 2, 2008 2:16 AM | Link to this

Great season, I can’t wait to see the Dawgs in 2008 and look forward to getting some more Sportscrack.com shirts!

By totedatball

January 2, 2008 2:17 AM | Link to this

I could hardly enjoy the game after seeing this Hawaii kid Keenan Jones try to make a selfish, personal, and individual statement by hitting Mikey Henderson on the punt return. . What a cheap, cheap shot. I would have benched that kid as fast as I could. From that moment on I was almost preoccupied with just wanting the Dawgs to grind through Hawaii and leave them in ruins. They did. And I am sure that aside from robbing Mikey Henderson of his last game, this hit energized the Dawgs to deliver the pounding that Hawaii took. Great job Dawgs. You have come a long way from the Carolina game. You deserve the accolades. Hawaii appeared not to know how to lose. So, when getting beat up, Brennan just kinda got shell shocked and numb and did nothing to lead his offense to rally. Somebody with kleenex needs to tell him that losses do occur and that a big loss like this can actually make him a better QB.

By Scott

January 2, 2008 2:19 AM | Link to this

I’ll be fielding insults under the pseudonym of Charles N. Carter from here on out.

kisses

By Stephen

January 2, 2008 2:19 AM | Link to this

Lets not forget, that USC, OK, FLA will all be very good next year. FLA will figure a way to NOT be a 2 man show with Tebow and Harvin. (of course those guys didnt give up 41 points to Michigan)…anyway, Tough Schedule in 2008, but dawgs should be very good. We will see. what you think Jeff???

By Fan123

January 2, 2008 2:20 AM | Link to this

What did Georgia really accomplish? They beat an overmatched Hawaii team and did not even win the eastern division? They did ok, but most people are still ranking the dawgs too high. Next year will be interesting, but something always happens. When will Georgia ever get the chance to play another national powerhouse like Southern Cal., Ohio State, or Texas. That is what UG needs to really put the program on the map.

By Carlton M. Herndon

January 2, 2008 2:21 AM | Link to this

Naw, rj, “Herbie” played for the Bucksnorts er..Blackeyes.. aww you know what I mean. He’s also the clown who fumbled in his own territory and allowed Dawgs to win that particular bowl game. (94 or 95 Citrus Bowl methinks) Anyway, he’s about as unbiased as Jesse and Al! Oh, by the way: Yo Scott did ya catch that USC game today? How ‘bout the G8er’s when T-Bone stays in the entire game to pile it on against the likes of Florida Atlantic? You obviously don’t think much of the Dawgs; maybe Fox is hiring more embiciles to compliment those two idiots that were on TV tonight. Speaking of T-Bone, I am curious. Since he won the “Hosed Man” and all.. just how many of his TD’s were against SEC opponents? Also heard he gave Mr. Brennan advice about the ‘Dawgs defense. Colt must’ve thought Tim’s mullet was screwed on too tight ‘cause it doesn’t look like he took it too seriously.

By BCS Slave

January 2, 2008 2:21 AM | Link to this

scotty,

You almost spilled your beer? I guess little girls in tu-tu’s can drink beer these days. Who is your team? Are you ashamed to name your team? LOL. I know why you won’t name them…because: A) it is Hawaii; B)It is Georgia Tech; C)it is another high school team.

Scotty, LOL.

By Cuz

January 2, 2008 2:22 AM | Link to this

Charles Carter, are you talking the same Tennessee team that beat the mighty Big 10 Wisconsin Badgers? You show how big an idiot you are by your post. Go to bed, bagging groceries tomorrow will be tough, it is Senior Wednesday.

By Gokhan

January 2, 2008 2:22 AM | Link to this

THE ANNOUNCERS WERE P** ME OFF!!! They talked so much sh!t!

By Damn good Dawgs

January 2, 2008 2:26 AM | Link to this

MERCY? You got to be kidding me?

Hawaii 63, N. Colorado 6 Hawaii 49, UNLV 14 Hawaii 66, Charleston Southern 10 Hawaii 48, Idaho 20 Hawaii 50, New Mexico St. 13

That looks like running up the score to me. Georgia was just force feeding Hawaii some of its own medicine.

GO DAWGS!!!

WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!

By BCS Slave

January 2, 2008 2:29 AM | Link to this

Scotty/Charles,

LOL, changing your name and making the same BC$ is a beauty contest. Conference Championships have nothing to do with that. History proves that. The BC$ is not consistent. One year you need a conf. championship, another season you don’t In the same season one team jumps five spots in the polls because it wins a CC and another team moves to number 1 when they don’t play and didn’t even have to play in a CC. So one team needs the CC and another doesn’t. UGA was ranked four and didn’t play in the CC but unlike Ohio State, they drop a spot in the polls and get passed over by LSU. LOL

By chemdawg

January 2, 2008 2:30 AM | Link to this

My favorite part of the fox coverage was watching the pregame hogwash about how Brennan was a true competitor and a reformed convict. Then we got to see him pitch a fit after his team scored a touchdown by the backup QB. I think his tantrum culminated in some tears but the fox crew kept taking the camera off him to denigrate UGA and Mark Richt.

By jdewayneatl

January 2, 2008 2:38 AM | Link to this

Just as the entire Bulldog nation wanted to prove to the BCS nation that the Georgia Bulldogs were worthy of playing for the National Championship, or atleast a bowl game against a high profile opponent like a USC or even Oklahoma, the BCS and EVERYONE outside of Bulldog nation wanted the Georgia Bulldogs to flop just as much.

By Bryson

January 2, 2008 2:39 AM | Link to this

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Scott, i must admit, you’re a funny man. Im rather curious, how can u accuse a team of running a score up before half time? They’re playing a game and scoring as many points as possible because there’s two more quarters to play against a team that has a habit of making late comebacks. That doesn’t even justify what you’re talking about though. 24 to 3 going into half isn’t running up the score, its just a team playing like a championship team. Shame on Mark Richt? he could have left in all the starters and ran the score all to hell just like Spurrier would do but he didn’t. He put in his 2nd and 3rd string players and let them play the game. A backup quarterback throwing a td pass on fourth down at the 8 yard line? so what? its a game. You play until the whistle blows, you don’t back off because a team that shouldn’t have been playing on the stage that they were can’t keep up. Thats not the players fault or the coaching staffs fault, thats just the fault of the bcs making another horrible match-up. I feel horrible for Hawaii. All their fans traveled to a game they thought they had a chance to win and the players were excited and instead of a good game they were completely destroyed. It wasn’t right but making up bs reasons to try and bring Georgia down from a strong win only shows that you’re just being childish. Also, how did Georgia act disrespectful? Because they beat them? What fantasy world are you living in? Its football, there are no give me’s. And Mims? Psh, the defensive player that had a late hit on him was reason enough. He deserved what he got. He should actually be ashamed that he got pushed down by a kicker. Do I think we should have been in the national championship? No, not really. I wanted to be there and by the ranking system we should have been but we were passed over because we didn’t play the sec champ game so we couldn’t go. I think we should have played the rose bowl against usc. That would have been a hell of a game and it would have determined in many eyes one of the best teams in the nation. So, to close, FOX commentators are morons, the bcs was spawned by satan, and you’re a complete idiot. GO DAWGS!! SIC EM!!!! WOOF!!!!

By gastr1

January 2, 2008 2:41 AM | Link to this

All the good people who keep coming on these boards trying to help us undertsand why we are so reviled, so hated—

we care why again? You know, the teams that are hated are the ones that win. Who gives a crap if somebody hates us?

But thanks for illustrating how horrible UGA and all its fans are. You are right, we should all go be Tech or UF fans, I guess.

Just save it, bozos.

By 59bulldawg

January 2, 2008 2:45 AM | Link to this

Ten things I think after watching the Dawgs demolish Hawaii.

  1. This game should have kicked off around 7:00 pm.

  2. Hawaii’s much-heralded game might benefit from a rushing attack and a decent defense.

  3. Those who expected a BCS replay of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl failed to recognize that Boise State beat a very mediocre Oklahoma team. It was an anomoly … not the beginning of a trend. Hawaii should have played Navy or Georgia Tech in the “Who Gives a Crap” Bowl.

  4. Thom Brennaman’s criticisms of Mark Richt were unwarranted and absurd, and show just what a biased dumbass he really is! Like the Hawaii team he favored, he was overmatched in this game. But even more … if Brennaman’s comments are representative of the media mentality toward Georgia, it goes a long way in explaining why the Dawgs were overlooked for the BCS Championship Game. Did he really expect Richt to send in his subs and ask them not to play hard as well? What a complete idiot!

  5. Georgia should have played Ohio State in the BCS Championship Game or at least USC in the Rose Bowl. I’m not saying who would win but either would have been more competitive than this match-up. Illinois and Hawaii were both over-rated and the BCS and Bowl VIPS must be blind or stupid or both not to have seen these mismatches before they were played. I wonder if the Rose Bowl Committee is still happy with its selection of Illinois?

6.The BCS System remains a joke and should be renamed the BS System for all the relevance it has to crowning the best team in the land national champion. After this season we need a college football play-off system more than ever!

  1. I hope this victory clinches that big offensive lineman for us in Ohio (Sanders?) and causes A.J. Harmon to reconsider his choice for college. Come on over to Athens men!

  2. The entire coaching staff and especially Willie Martinez should be congratulated for preparing this team to play and having an excellent game and substitution plan.

  3. So what will the verdict be tomorrow on the talk shows and in the sports editorials? Were the Rainbow Warriors, the team whom most of the country wanted to win, over-rated or was Georgia, the team screwed over by the BCS, overlooked? No doubt the powers that be will conclude the Warriors were over-rated and find a way to factor that in to Georgia’s final ranking … thus screwing us over one final time! Over-rated or not Hawaii should expect a similar whipping when they open next season against the Gators in the Swamp! There are NO easy games when you play an SEC team!

  4. I’m excited about this team’s chances for something great next season … but man do we have a tough row to hoe! Next season’s schedule is probably the most difficult in recent memory, and we’ll need to play each game with the same level of intensity exhibited tonight if we intend to compete for a national championship. And a NC is certainly NOT a foregone conclusion by any stretch of the imagination. If it comes, it’ll take a great deal of planning, effort and execution, as well as our share of good fortune. I don’t know what the future will bring but I do like our chances. But win or lose I will always pull for my alma mater. Thanks Dawgs for another wonderful (and at times somewhat frustrating)season. It’s great to be part of the Bulldawg Nation.

By gastr1

January 2, 2008 2:46 AM | Link to this

I mean, what kind of sad sack loser gets on a home-team board to try tp rag it and its fans after an a*-kicking like that one? Don’t you have a better use of your time, Scott?

At least show up after we lose! Today you’re going to be busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kickin’ contest!

But again, thanks for explaining to us why we should not root for our team. You are so right, we’ve all been so misled, rooting for the wrong team all these years… I’ll switch to your team tomorrow.

heh heh. Loser.

By DrugDawg

January 2, 2008 2:55 AM | Link to this

Crow will be served up on ESPN radio tomorrow, as Colt Brennan was picked over and over again by many on ESPN to have the biggest game of any player in any bowl game. So much for “analysts”. As the Heisman Trophy winner found out earlier this year, it is difficult to run or throw as a QB when you are getting knocked down, hurried or sacked on every offensive play. The Dawg defense had the answer for Mr. Brennan and Hawaii’s “no one can stop us offense”. Colt Brennan may in fact be a wonderful person and a great QB if he is given time to do the things he wants. I wish him the best. The BCS needs to get this Boise State BCS buster thing out of their system of picking teams. I know the Sugar Bowl was hoping for a repeat of the Fiesta Fiasco of last year. The Sugar Bowl was tabbed by ESPN radio as the game more people wanted to watch than any other. The Dawgs could have easily put up 3 or 4 more TDs on the Warriors. Hawaii was undefeated, but they didn’t play anybody in the regular season. A much better match would have been UGA vs USC or Missouri. If Moreno had been 100%, the Dawgs could have easily scored 60 tonight. I liked the look of the Dawg defense tonight, they were good, and did exactly what they needed to do to win the game. Go Dawgs!

By DrugDawg

January 2, 2008 2:56 AM | Link to this

Crow will be served up on ESPN radio tomorrow, as Colt Brennan was picked over and over again by many on ESPN to have the biggest game of any player in any bowl game. So much for “analysts”. As the Heisman Trophy winner found out earlier this year, it is difficult to run or throw as a QB when you are getting knocked down, hurried or sacked on every offensive play. The Dawg defense had the answer for Mr. Brennan and Hawaii’s “no one can stop us offense”. Colt Brennan may in fact be a wonderful person and a great QB if he is given time to do the things he wants. I wish him the best. The BCS needs to get this Boise State BCS buster thing out of their system of picking teams. I know the Sugar Bowl was hoping for a repeat of the Fiesta Fiasco of last year. The Sugar Bowl was tabbed by ESPN radio as the game more people wanted to watch than any other. The Dawgs could have easily put up 3 or 4 more TDs on the Warriors. Hawaii was undefeated, but they didn’t play anybody in the regular season. A much better match would have been UGA vs USC or Missouri. If Moreno had been 100%, the Dawgs could have easily scored 60 tonight. I liked the look of the Dawg defense tonight, they were good, and did exactly what they needed to do to win the game. Go Dawgs!

By keith

January 2, 2008 3:04 AM | Link to this

All I had heard from the so called football experts was how Hawaii was going to move the football up and down the field on GA. I didn’t know they was talking about them punting all game to do it! I am so sick of hearing every week how GA. is going to get beat. Lee Corso you are a freaking idiot picking Hawaii to upset GA. But then again you do it every week. GA. showed the world it’s not always how you start a season it’s how you finish it. I hope LSU get’s the sh!t kicked out of them and I usally pull for the SEC but Les Miles lost my respect by running his mouth about GA.. His team already proved one time they are not #1. Go Dawgs

By birdman

January 2, 2008 3:16 AM | Link to this

I agree, that cheap shot on Mikey Henderson p** me off so much. He had to sit out the last game off his career, and was dangerous as a returner and receiver. That special teams player (who showed absolutely no class whatsoever and should have been ejected) should be ashamed of taking that opportunity away from him. Great season to Mikey though, one of the outstanding offensive players of the year in my opinion.

And just a great, great season for the Bulldogs. Obviously the more talented team and I know that the BCS system is terribly flawed, but Georgia just flat out showed up, especially defensively. And as Marcus Howard said about the forced fumble and recovery in the enzone, “That was probably my favorite sack of my career.” I’d say it’s the best play for the Bulldogs; really puts an explanation point to where the team should have been ranked in the polls.

By Scott

January 2, 2008 3:18 AM | Link to this

Chemdawg, the only difference is that the Hawaii team actually has REFORMED convicts. UGA’s are just plain old thugs that haven’t reformed. I thought a comment about convicts was pretty funny coming from a dawg. HA

Here’s why DAWG fans suck. You’re all here making fun of a team that was obviously not on the same level as UGA. They were put in the bowl game just like UGA. The dawgs didn’t want to be there. They thought the Sugar Bowl was beneath them. Hawaii was thrilled to be in the game. You won. No matter what the costs you won. You can make fun of the quarterback and the team’s accomplishments all you want to. I didn’t see Georgia breaking any of those records. It must feel great to make fun of people that aren’t like you. (Thank God they aren’t)You people need to get over yourselves. UGA and their fans suck and always will. That’s why everyone (even the media) hates you.

Whoever said Richt quit blabbering about not being in the national title game is crazy. Just tonight in the pregame show he was talking about it and has every time he’s had a microphone in front of him.

And for the record, I am still Scott. The person saying he was me is not.

By gastr1

January 2, 2008 3:21 AM | Link to this

“It’s not like they’re some big great team or anything.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

By gastr1

January 2, 2008 3:23 AM | Link to this

Scott—

Thanks again for showing me the light.

UGA fan

By yawn

January 2, 2008 3:23 AM | Link to this

The Warriors have more class than the UGAlies.

By gastr1

January 2, 2008 3:25 AM | Link to this

Scott,

Thank you, thank you for explaining why UGA and its fans are so reviled. Darn it! I have been rooting for the wrong team!

Thanks again, Scott.

By 59bulldawg

January 2, 2008 3:27 AM | Link to this

One more thing Scott … if you don’t appreciate the Dawgs sticking it to the Rainbow Warriors and totally destroying your feel good sports story of the year, then talk to the folks who pick the bowl teams and cast their votes in the polls. I understand you standing up for your team but you’re just flat wrong! It’s not Georgia’s place to validate your views of Hawaii belonging on the same field as a top tier SEC team. In fact it’s their obligation to themselves and their fans to disabuse you and others of that notion and make the strongest case possible that they themselves should be highly ranked. We didn’t want this matchup with Hawaii and were very surprised that it even came about. But we didn’t have the luxory of picking who we played because we were not the media’s (read ESPN’s) darlings. As a matter of fact it was almost as if the BCS folks were hoping Hawaii would win to provide cover for them jumping LSU and others over us in the polls. And don’t think the Georgia players and coaches didn’t realize this either. In fact this was a no-win game for Georgia UNLESS it was a blow-out and frankly I’m happy that it happened. I have the utmost respect for Coach Jones and what he’s been able to do at Hawaii but for all he’s done, his team’s not yet ready for prime time. Frankly, after watching this game tonight, I don’t think Hawaii could beat Appalachian State. I don’t wish Hawaii ill … I just think if you have a beef with the fact that Hawaii was over-matched …your beef is with the BSC and Bowl folks not Coach Richt and the Georgia football team. Competition against a top tier team can be tough and being the feel good sports story of college football will only take you so far if you don’t have the requisite top to bottom talent to play them. And at this moment Hawaii is just not in the same league as Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Southern Cal, etc. As the old saying goes, “If you can’t run with the big dawgs, stay on the porch.” Well Hawaii would have been better off if they had stayed on the porch.

By Frank

January 2, 2008 3:27 AM | Link to this

GEORGIA now you know how AUBURN feels. YOU can go undefeated next year and still not play for the championship. Don’t believe me asked AUBURN.

By gastr1

January 2, 2008 3:27 AM | Link to this

Dear Scott,

I am a UGA who needs to get over himself. What advice can you shed, o enlightened one?

Thanks, Mistaken Follower of Sugar Bowl Victor

By gastr1

January 2, 2008 3:33 AM | Link to this

A good time for losers everywhere:

Post on Hated Home Team Board After Big Win, Sure To Be An Exercise in Fruitless Frustration.

Do you all do this for a living? Why else would you bother— who do you think you’re converting? Do you envision some wishy-washy Dawg fan being converted by your sage observations, the “a ha” moment?

I’ll play: Just like realizing after your preaching that I didn;t like the Bulldogs, I also remebered that I really don’t like pizza after eating it all these years.Can I have some more of that Kool-aid, brother?

Good thing we have you to show us the way!!

By gastr1

January 2, 2008 3:35 AM | Link to this

Troy is better than Hawaii, no doubt.

By T-Bone

January 2, 2008 3:44 AM | Link to this

Scott, Is your bagina itchy?

By T-Bone

January 2, 2008 3:44 AM | Link to this

Scott, Is your bagina itchy?

By Scott

January 2, 2008 3:45 AM | Link to this

Hawaii is not my team. I just watched the game. I don’t think it was a good match up either. But that’s pretty much my point. It was kinda like the bully on the playground. I have to get some sleep. I drank too much beer watching the stupid game. It went on way too long with all the penalties and challenges. And some of us actually work for a living around here. So goodnight all. Enjoy blabbering about how you were cheated out of the title (you weren’t) and how you’re Number 1 and all. Dream on. Woof (yawn) Woof (Big yawn) Woof (Bigger yawn)

Dawgs Suck!

By jason

January 2, 2008 3:47 AM | Link to this

Just have to say, I didn’t think UGA was trying to run up the score. I thought we went pretty vanilla in the second half. Alot of generic runs of 3yrds or less. I saw a defense that was WOW. The whole “D”. Did you notice how scared the HI WRs were ? You catch a 5yrd pass and if Kelin or Reshard doesn’t hit you; then it was #33,35,12, 52. No wait was it #95,56,38,96. The freakin DL was getting downfield and hitting WRS. That is when they were not hitting Colt. That sack for the fumble/ TD was the best sack I had seen all year. Straight out of the playstation. Seriuosly, I saw alot of jawing coming from HI.#29, and #84 specifically. I hate that UGA players did drop to their level a little. Reshard Jones needs to grow up. That late hit that Gamble was all his.

By chemdawg

January 2, 2008 3:52 AM | Link to this

Scott, Colt Brennan is a convicted felon, and after watching his selfish tantrum, it’s silly to think he’s “reformed” and truly rooting for his “football family”. Fox went overboard, and no amount of sunset shots or symphony music can sell that dude as sincere. On the other hand, you seem convinced UGA players are thugs. Can you name a UGA football player that is a convicted felon?

Scott, I’ll sum it up for you here. UGA played a terrific and merciful game against an inferior team that showed it’s true colors in the Mikey Henderson hit. Go dawgs! Can’t wait to start next year.

By scott

January 2, 2008 4:00 AM | Link to this

you dawgies should be scared when tech comes to town next year. we will take our superior talent + our new ex navy coach and run the ball all over you with our super spread offense. i cant wait to see the look on your face when we ENGINEER a great victory! toodles!

By Scott

January 2, 2008 4:10 AM | Link to this

Ok, ok, ok… I am startin to see why UGA is as good as they are. Im tired of sittin on here just tryin to make all ya’ll mad for no just reason. I am a college football fan who can’t find a better team that UGA to root for; therefore, I have to stoop as low as to talk trash about UGA. The truth is… I never got to go to school at UGA when I really wanted to and I just get so jealous that UGA is successful in athletics and academics. I don’t really have a favorite team because no other can compare to the greatness of the University of Georgia Bulldogs. Please, everyone forgive me for my ridiculous comments. I know its not a suitable excuse, but I’ve been really drunk and I’m starting to sober a bit and see the TRUTH… the DAWGS are the BEST team and UGA is the best university and athletic program in the nation.

By Scott

January 2, 2008 4:22 AM | Link to this

Ohh…and I am being completely honest when I say I’m sorry for bothering ya’ll. And I’m not tryin to be smart. Thank ya’ll for not gettin to angry with me. Night everyone and congratulations to ur DAWGS! GOOOO DAWGS SIC EM’!!!!

By David

January 2, 2008 4:55 AM | Link to this

Stendec, yes, Ohio State is a major fraud this season, and they don’t deserve to be playing for the championship. But you are DEAD WRONG about the 2002 game vs. the U. The interference call made by the field judge in overtime was totally correct, and for you and all of the U fans to still be complaining five years later is pure BS. It has been proven over and over again to be the proper call.

By Mark W

January 2, 2008 4:57 AM | Link to this

Simply put to UGA fans,

Stop complaining, win your conference and then the SEC championship, then maybe you have an arguement, and only then

By Dawgs

January 2, 2008 5:10 AM | Link to this

Scott you are very funny. Everyone hoped for a miracle like last year and received what happens 99 times out of a 100. Buster Douglas was knocked out. Goliath decided to wear a helm so that stone just bounced off. We really ran that score up didn’t we? 41 Points is less than what we did to Auburn.

Just because you can form coherent sentences and sound intelligent doesn’t mean you actually are. But of course you know that don’t you?

I do feel sorry for Colt though. Poor boy took more hits than Rodney King.

By Michael

January 2, 2008 5:16 AM | Link to this

Techsters should just put their heads down or start talking their normal BS about academics. DAWGS will smoke them in 2008.

It’s not about graduation rates, it’s about money. The NCAA just uses the academics thing to trick us into thinking it’s amateur athletics. In the NFL does anyone criticize whatever school the linement or QB’s went to or dropped out of? Or in MLB that many of them never stepped into a college? Academics and NCAA football is a farce. If Tech fans can’t take it, then beg your school to go to a lower division. Dawgs, Trojans, Hurricanes, Gators, etc. are pros and are for real.

By drew

January 2, 2008 5:31 AM | Link to this

Nice exhibition game. Unfortunately, I didn’t watch it (I don’t give a rip about exhibition games) or any of the other “exhibition games” that make a mockery of a championship. By exhibition, I mean games that have no meaning.

Boycott the BCS until a playoff system is devised!

By firechangailey.com

January 2, 2008 5:37 AM | Link to this

The BCS was RIGHT! It’s about the WHOLE SEASON - not just the end. The BCS did the right thing here!

UGA DID NOT WIN THEIR CONFERENCE - YOU SHOULD NOT BE EXPECTED TO GO TO THE BCS CHAMPIONSHIP UNLESS YOU DO SO!

Their win wasn’t that convincing. Hawaii is/was a one dimensional team.. It’s not that hard to defend against that! The “win” didn’t prove they deserved to make the national championship. Jeff you are clueless as usual.

By Nikki

January 2, 2008 5:46 AM | Link to this

Wow! Great game, Dawgs!! I didn’t appreciate that one talking head ragging on CMR for the playcalling late in the game. If you knew he was preparing for next year with some of those calls then leave it at that. CMR had long put in 2nd and third stringers.

By ET

January 2, 2008 5:55 AM | Link to this

Challenge of pass completion call up 38-3 in the final seconds of the third quarter and with the game stretching after midnight will not win Mark Richt crucial swing votes in the polls from coaches or writers next year either. Apparently the lesson learned after the Florida incident, which probably cost UGA a position or two in the final pre-bowl polls this season, did not register. There is a “gentleman” factor which Coach Richt should talk about with Vince Dooley between now and September.

By Quincy C.

January 2, 2008 6:06 AM | Link to this

The BCS noticed that uga was not the SEC champs….that is all that matters!!

By 24%

January 2, 2008 6:25 AM | Link to this

24%. Worst among all schools playing football. 24%. Worst among all 64 teams playing in bowls. 24%. Who care? Right? Who cares if only 24% of black athletes get a degree? Who cares?

By Wayz

January 2, 2008 6:26 AM | Link to this

Georgia proved they have a fine football team and that they were better than Hawaii. But from watching the game, it showed that Hawaii was really over-rated.

Georgia wasn’t good enough to win their conference or even the eastern division of their conference. So this talk of wanting to be in the national championship game is pretty pointless.

By John

January 2, 2008 6:26 AM | Link to this

To all the UGA fans whining about not being in the MNC BCS game, and to the BCS in particular:

  1. You did not win your conference. No matter how good you were this year at the end of the season, you did not win the East, which meant no SEC Champ game. If you can’t win your conference, then you do not deserve to play for the MNC. See: Chokelahoma (OU), 2001.

  2. Auburn, 13-0 in 2004: Wins them all, to include SEC game and championship, and their division, and gets left out. Until someone else in the SEC or another major conference (WAC, Sunbelt, etc. do not count)goes unbeaten, and does not go to the MNC, then nobody has a right to whine about not being in the MNC game.

Fair is only fair. Ya’ll did very good in busting-up the BCS divided by C = B.S. and exposing a pretender who had a weak schedule in a weak conference who had no business in the Sugar Bowl. However, it is time for the B.S. to stop. Playoff is needed.

By John Clarke

January 2, 2008 6:29 AM | Link to this

Yes, I am going to really enjoy wearing my Dawgs tee shirt today, so all of the local “Capon” (U of SC) supporters can see that big “black G” in the front. They really gloated back in September, but as you know Spurrier’s criminals set at home for XMAS. Not even the many “Alpo Bowls” wanted them.
Yws, UGA got screwed by the national media but primarily due to that 16-12 loss to USC because loosing to those Spurrier led bums is a death knell to any national championship aspirations. I do expect a 49-0 UGA victory over USC nest fall.

John Clarke, Lexington County, SC.

By chan

January 2, 2008 6:43 AM | Link to this

So-Spurrier beats you, Tennessee whips your a*, you get lucky a time or two-yeah every body else sucked too, then you beat an unproven in a bowl someone else should have played and you WAANABE 1. Tigers and Vols earned their spots. The black still dont cover your green. Buy Richt some pompoms.

By Alex M

January 2, 2008 6:49 AM | Link to this

what will T?errance find to fault us for now?

By USC #1

January 2, 2008 6:53 AM | Link to this

USC Trojans clearly #1 after an impressive win!!

By Bob

January 2, 2008 6:55 AM | Link to this

Want to play for the National Championship - then WIN YOUR CONFERENCE. Heck, try to win your division.

That’s your rules that somehow applied last year, but shouldn’t if it’s UGA.

Otherwise, shut up.

By GMAN

January 2, 2008 6:56 AM | Link to this

The Dawgs made a very clear statement for all to see, we will not be denied next year. Hawaii wasn’t deserving of a trip to the Sugar Bowl. They were taken to the wood shed by the dawgs. Geoegia was bigger, faster, and stronger. Maybe we;ll finally get the recognition we deserve.

By GMAN

January 2, 2008 6:56 AM | Link to this

The Dawgs made a very clear statement for all to see, we will not be denied next year. Hawaii wasn’t deserving of a trip to the Sugar Bowl. They were taken to the wood shed by the dawgs. Georgia was bigger, faster, and stronger. Maybe we;ll finally get the recognition we deserve.

By George

January 2, 2008 6:56 AM | Link to this

Scott By your comments I can tell your not a DAWGS fan. But what is worse I can tell your are a very sad fan of some team who got beat, Gators maybe. Georgia played football, what did you want for them to DO let Hawaii score more. See the whole concept of football is to WIN We did that and if you didn;t like that you should not have watched. GO DAWGS

By John

January 2, 2008 6:57 AM | Link to this

You can’t have it both ways GA people. Either HI sucked or GA was good. If HI was that bad, then you should have scored more than 41; if GA was that good, you should have scored more than 41. Which is it?

By HornetFan

January 2, 2008 6:58 AM | Link to this

Georgia deserves to be No.1?! Are you kidding? Losses to Tennessee and So. Carolina and victories over “powerhouses” like Troy and Western Carolina…and Hawaii, don’t add up to a champions resume. The four teams left…LSU, OSU, West Virginia and Oklahoma all have better claims….as does So. California. Sorry, Dawgs … wait ‘til next season.

By realistic

January 2, 2008 6:59 AM | Link to this

No one saw us mature? The experts saw UGA mature into exactly what they are. A decent football team not worthy of even being considered for the top spots or bowls. The people who live and die UGA will never quite get reality. You guys live in yur fantasy world and believe the college athletic starts and finishes in the trailor park town of Athens, GA. Congratulations to the actual school, footbal team and alum. You won your bowl. You were in the right bowl with a team you could beat.Whoopi we beat HI.! Be happy you did not play OK or USC or the article this morning would have been reversed. Why did the BCS not see this coming about OK or USC.

By get over it

January 2, 2008 6:59 AM | Link to this

If you can’t win your conference…Heck, if you can’t even win your DIVISION then don’t cry about the BCS rankings. Take care of business and stop whinning! Typical UGA tears.

By Big Ed

January 2, 2008 7:09 AM | Link to this

Well we found out a couple of things. USC and UGA are two of the better teams. Florida was overrated so it takes some of the quality out of the UGA win over them. Let’s watch the rest of the bowls before we crown anybody in our own minds. If UGA wants more love from the BCS then schedule a worthy opponent on the road more than 100 miles from Athens. Show the rest of the nation that you can beat a quality non conference team. One more thing. Don’t start whining if you are not the number one team in the preseason polls next year. You may end up playing a WAC team in a bowl game again.

By Steve

January 2, 2008 7:09 AM | Link to this

Before Mark is appointed Coach of the Year, didn’t his players have a “few” arrests this season? It seems that SEC fans are always quick to blame coaches at other schools for arrests, etc.

By ryan

January 2, 2008 7:12 AM | Link to this

Colt who??? More like Colt 45, brown bagged and empty. Dawgs for the National title in 2008!!!

By ryan

January 2, 2008 7:12 AM | Link to this

Colt who??? More like Colt 45, brown bagged and empty. Dawgs for the National title in 2008!!!

By uf75

January 2, 2008 7:15 AM | Link to this

Was that GHSA 2A officials working the game? Right off the bat, bad officiating put UW in quick sand. I saw late hits on UW quarterbacks and receivers, numerous missed uga holding calls and a uga player 3 yards off-sides and not called, then hit the qb late out of bounds. This is the SEC baby, thugry doesn’t play well here. Stunts by MR like this will cost uga dearly next year. WELCOME to Jacksonville puppies, it is gonna be uga-ly. But, what can you expect from MR, he came from Miami.

By Russell

January 2, 2008 7:35 AM | Link to this

Congratulations to the Georgia Bulldogs. No matter what anyone says your football team played outstanding football the last seven games of the season. Georgia is that good, really. I am a Gamecock fan, but must admit Georgia is playing outstanding football, and anyone in their right mind can understand why Georgia has high goals for 2008. Congrats again to the Bulldogs, your football team represented your school and the SEC with class. You guys really are good!!

By Randy Parker

January 2, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this

What did Georgia do this year that Va. Tech didn’t do? Where was their “quality” road win? The Dawgs are strong, but so are the Hokies. We can’t wait for Thursday night. The Dawgs and Hokies were the two hottest teams at the end of the year. A big difference is that Va. Tech played - and won - one more game than the Dawgs by winning their conf. championship.

By TampaGator

January 2, 2008 7:45 AM | Link to this

Even though Georgia played a team that probably would win maybe one game in the SEC (if they were lucky),Georgia and USC are still the two best teams in the country, and certainly have the two best defenses in the country. Oklahoma is a close 3rd. The NC game will between the 4th and 5th best teams in the country, at best. Missouri would probably beat both of them. If the Gators are to have any chance against Georgia next year, they had better figure out how to play some defense…their play on the “D” side of the ball against Michigan was embarrassing.

By ericMann

January 2, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this

My hat’s off to the entire bulldawg team, and we all knew we had the offense, i was a lil’ worried bout the D. Coach Martinez, you sir did an outstanding, excellent, greatest job of running that defense, congradulations, sir! Preseason pole we should be no. 1 but will be 2 behind those so called premidonnas the condom men, Thanks for a great Bulldog season, GO DAWGS!

By Factoid

January 2, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this

Uf75 you mean like confronting the Michigan players before kickoff and then losing? Is that what you mean by thugry?

By ThomBrennamen

January 2, 2008 7:54 AM | Link to this

I just want to reiterate my view that the dogs and their coach were mean and unsportsmanlike in the game verses Hawaii. I felt like Georgia Coach Ricth was excessively unkind in his coaching approach. I just don’t understand why every player should not get a trophy at the end of the game.

By Maj

January 2, 2008 7:56 AM | Link to this

Great game, but UGA and USC should’ve played each other. Shame on the Rose Bowl committee who kept w/ tradition and put a weak Big Ten team against USC. I wanted so bad for UGA to beat USC this year.
ON A BETTER NOTE, CONGRATS ON TIMMY AND THE GATORS ON LOSING TO A UNRANKED WEAK BIG TEN TEAM AS WELL IN THE TOILET BOWL!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

By Neil

January 2, 2008 7:57 AM | Link to this

Come on Schultz…

The BCS was blind to UGA? Or didn’t notice? Gee… a team that didn’t win it’s own division goes to a BCS game. Yeah… the BCS was so blind on this one.

And come on UGA fans… you really think you deserved more than what you got this season?

Just be happy that you won the sUGAr Bowl and hope that you guys can go undefeated or lose one and win the SEC title. Then… then you can talk about National Championships.

By Maj

January 2, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this

Randy Parker, Lets not forget that LSU spanked VT this year, very very badly. UGA wouldn’ve spanked them as well, just like last year. Stop whining, the ACC is weak.

By TG

January 2, 2008 8:02 AM | Link to this

It’s really worse than simple mismatching and setting up teams to be crushed by overpowering opponents. The BCS nearly got to or three (including Colt Brennan) Hawaii players literally killed. The media’s dislike of Georgia (for whatever reason) just about got some teenage kids KILLED!! Shame on you Lee Corso…calling for Hawaii to win this game. It’s not even funny! This was almost equivalent to what would have happened if they sent a state champion high school ball team to play the Dogs. The score did not even tell the story! Richt and his crew sent players out of the game with tails between their legs. Shameful, Shameful, Shameful! Illinois and USC wasn’t much better. This was media driven! We need to stop letting the pundents lead us around by our ears!!!!

By nwd

January 2, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

To Scott and his BS…Georgia went to New Orleans to win and win big, thus proving they were NOT where they should have been. Brennan and the rest of his rainbow bunch should have expected a crushing…that’s what happens when you play with the big boys. He needed to “put on his big boy panties and deal with it”. If you want to be critical, what about the horrible ILLEGAL hit that took a player out of his last college game. The truth be told, you are probably a GT Nerd who is still “sour grapes” over what GA did to you…7 years in a row. Why don’t you put on your big boy panties and deal with it.

By Dr. Kermit P. Soileau

January 2, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

Congrats to the Dogs from an LSU fan!! Ya’ll did a great job showing the sportsworld what it means to play in THE best conference. I pulled for ya’ll to pile it on Hawaii. UGA should start next year in the Top 5 with a good shot at the title. Great job!

By Maj

January 2, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

Neil, I think everyone agrees, the BCS should see that the best teams play each other outside the BCS game itself. I agree this year has been crazy, but no doubt it shound’ve been UGA v USC in the Rose Bowl. What a game that would’ve been!! The BCS is all about $$$ anyway. Again shame on the bowl selection committees in the Rose bowl. They get the first pick of teams after the BCS game is set and they fumbled the ball. * GO GATORS!! Muahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! Losers!!!*

By GoOberDawWG

January 2, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

Nashnul champs babee Now ah kin wave my finger in evrybuddys face an tell evry budy to kiss my ice cuz ahm a WEINER

By Gus

January 2, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

So the team that couldn’t win their own division of their own conference and beat up a hapless team that needed OT to beat La. Tech should be in the BCSNC? mmmkay.

UGA certainly showed they’re the most ghettofabulous team in the country last night fa sho. You needed quite an effort to show you”re more classless than USC. Congrats on that one.

By AntiDawg

January 2, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

Dawgs are constantly legends in their own minds. Never a threat for a National Championship. Lots of bark and excitement as they lick themselves, but forever mediocre and without class. Sometimes silence is golden.

By JP

January 2, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

LSU may not really deserve to be in the Championship, but I’m still proud to be a Tiger fan. Go LSU!

By Dave

January 2, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

Before listening to the Fox announcers, I had no idea that UGA should feel honored to walk on the same hallowed ground as the Hawaii team. Nor did I realize that June Jones trip to New Orleans was akin to the Second Coming! Based on announcers’ comments, CMR and the UGA team should be ashamed of themselves for being so mean to the sandlot team from the islands. Wow, if one didn’t know better, one might think that these announcers were a little biased. This year’s Sugar Bowl pairing proved what some folks already knew.

By nwd

January 2, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

No, Scott, YOU suck.

By SoFlaDawg

January 2, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this

Just Wondering.. Dawg Fans are always bashing Willie Martinez .. Well guess what boys he is 1 of the best def. cords in the country and tonite he proved it. lets give him some credit…GO DAWGS !!!!!

By k martin

January 2, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

i’ve been bashing the dogs all year - especially after losing 6 straight games to SEC East opponents - but you guys have righted a listing ship…

I am disappointed that you got stuck with Hawaii, it was a no win game for the dogs. if you lose, it’s an upset, if you win, you were supposed to.

oh well, I guess spurrier will have to ruin yet another season for you guys next year as well

go cocks!

By Christopher

January 2, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

Kudos to the BCS. The BCS is about getting a decent 1-2 matchup and then insuring the rest of the pork ($$) gets spread out amongest all the host cities for our bowl games.

BCS and bowl games are and always will be about $$!!

By Col. Angus

January 2, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Congrats to the Dawgs on showing Hawaii what its like to hang with the big boys. That being said, quit complaining about the NC. You may be playing about as good as anyone in the country, but you don’t belong there. If you lose 2 games and get to the BCS you should feel fortunate. Any other year you would be hosting the Capitol One bowl. Save your vitriol for next year. You will be a preaseason #1 or #2 and everyone will be gunning for you. Your brothers at Auburn can tell you what its like to be stacked and have those enormous expectations thrust upon you. They fell on their face. What will UGA do? You want to be top tier? You want to be feared? Go out and PROVE you’re the best. You will have the schedule to prove it, all you have to do is go out and do the work.

By dr soul

January 2, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

A decent win for a mediocre team only rising to look ‘as a team’, late in the season, does not make one a national championship team… just be proud you even got a bowl and do not demean your institution any further by letting these ‘rednecks’ blog in so much..

By derek

January 2, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

Uhh I agree with all or at least most of what you say here Jeff, HOWEVER, Did you forget Missouri, who was number 1, lost to only one team and stomped on Arkansas, a team that beat LSU (SEC Champ by the way). Left out of a BCS Bowl, what a farce! PLAYOFF

By Durwood

January 2, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Georgia had a great year and is set for a run at the national title. But to suggest they should have been in the game this year is a joke. They must win their conference first and not get stomped by Tennessee.

By TigerFan

January 2, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

With better coaching (see LSU), UGA would be playing for it all, instead of going down in history as an SEC also-ran. Go Tigers!!

By Rosezee

January 2, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

*JUST WATCH - - - *

The same morons who argued that UGA should NOT play in the national championship game will now state that UGA should have!!

By Rosezee

January 2, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

*JUST WATCH - - - *

The same morons who argued that UGA should NOT play in the national championship game will now state that UGA should have!!

By Mike

January 2, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Jeff,

If you have seen BCS interviews about their system, you will see that they did take notice. They will take notice that they sold out the game and had a good TV audience. They could care less that the product that they put on the field is crap. They only care about the money. As long as the money keeps coming in, they won’t change a thing.

By ginger

January 2, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

I for one will not be ashamed or defend our right to play FOOTBALL!! The Dawgs did just that!! As for Brian Mimbs kudos to him for not taking crap off a lame late hitting defender!! SHAME ON HAWAII for allowing that defender and the Jones kid to even be on the field they were an embarassment to the team and the program. I Proud to Be A Georgia Bulldog and I will not defend my right to celebrate, talk a bit of smack and be overly joyed if only for a day or so!!! So…Jeff and the rest of you Losers,get off your whining and your nay saying and find another place to play if you don’t like it!!!

g

By Colt reality

January 2, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

I hope the bowl season has shown the Falcons that using such a high pick on the consensus first-round quarterbacks would be a waste. Just say “no,” to Brennan, Brohm, Ryan and Woodson. Say “yes,” to Jake Long in the first round and “yes,” to Erik Ainge or John David Booty in the second.

By Regular Joe

January 2, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Georgia should have been playing USC in the Rose Bowl, no doubt about that. Maybe now some of you people in love with the Cowherds and Beano Cooks of the world will fight for some kind of a playoff.

Should Georgia be in the NC game this year, no they shouldn’t, and you all know that, please stop crying about it. Georgia has a great chance next year, if they prove on the field they are the best in conference.

Most of the bowl games were bad because they are based on what the commentators, bowl committees and sponsors like, not the fans. I would bet some viewer and attendance numbers are down.

By James

January 2, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Jeff, the bowl committees in Pasedena and New Orleans should be blamed for these match-ups not the BCS. The BCS only deals with the top 2 teams. The rest are old time politics.

By Chesapeake Jacket

January 2, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Clearly, the BCS matchup selection process included significant influence from the Rose Bowl to maintain their traditional Pac-10/Big-10 matchup. Had the Rose Bowl not insisted on their traditional matchup, I suspect that some of the BCS pairings would have made more sense; perhaps a UGA/USC Rose Bowl with Hawaii playing Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl.

With that said, I would think that if you cannot win your conference, you should not play for the national championship.

By WFC

January 2, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

GT fan here (let’s get that out of the way.) Congrats to the Dawgs for a fine 2007 season.

UGA got jobbed by the BCS which should be called “the made for TV” system. UGA should clearly have been in the Rose Bowl vs. a team with comparable talent, Southern Cal. They weren’t because TV wanted a “traditional” Rose Bowl (Big 10 vs. PAC 10) and a “novelty” game—- UGA vs. Hawaii. TV ended up screwing themselves. UGA vs. S.Cal would have been a competitive game as would Illinois vs. Hawaii.

Rain on your parade footnote: rumor has it that Moreno is off to the NFL.

By nice skirts guys

January 2, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

How about those pathetic anouncers, they acted like UGA was the bad guy, beating up on the defenseless Rainbow Warriors. This is football, not hula dancing, Thom Breneman needs to grow a pair.

By Big Dawg

January 2, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

I don’t believe we improved our final rankings last night. It was a Joke of a game. Hawaii couldn’t beat Valdosta State and our kids acting like it was the Super Bowl. I luv MR but I was also a shame. I still luv my dawgs but I wasn’t happy with what I saw. Next Year BCS will not remember this game. Bet on it. Now rip me up. God is Great.

By Rugger2

January 2, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Yes it was a great game for Georgia and the SEC. But its time to quit whining about the BCS. Georgia did not win the SEC. If you can’t win your own conference how can you consider yourself eligible to go for the big prize. Again, if we had a legitimate playoff system we could decide the issue on the field, not with some distracted sportswriter’s opinion.

By Mike

January 2, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Let’s see…where to begin…on the first falkse start penalty, the typically thugs on defense continued to the QB after everyone else had stopped and slammed him to the ground…the penalty on the first punt was for interference and replay showed the ball passing through Henderson’s hands Before the bone-crushing hit…the fumble was ruled out of bounds at the 10 yeard line when the replay, what little there was of it, showed the ball being stripped at the 10 but still in play near the 5…the Fox network did as horrendous a job as the officials who stripped the Warriors of any opportunity to be in the game in the first quarter…what a joke! The bulldawgs (dogs?) beat up an over-matched opponent and they think they should play for the national championship…get real…they continued theri thuggish ways hitting the QB after every play and nary a peep from the officils…

By B

January 2, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

The Best Bowl so far has been the PEACH_BOWL? or chicken bowl.

By RU Kiddin'

January 2, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

How do you Dawg fans figure that you have any right to be playing for a national championship? You didn’t even play in the SEC title game!

You were beaten by SC and Tenn and if not for a typical Vanderbilt blunder, they would’ve gotten you too.

Hawaii is a team that almost all SEC teams could have beaten. Don’t get so high and mighty over beating a second rate team.

By Kevin

January 2, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Georgia’s strength and conditioning program showed up last night, period.

By XXXX

January 2, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

Now that the second shift employees have had their say all night long, this game was a laugher. Did anyone watch the second half ? If so, why? It is very clear that the BSC will do nothing until a gun is pointed at their head. For example, GA should have refused to play this game. A change will require that a top 10 team takes a stand. Missouri also deserved a better game than it got from AR. Another laugher.

By joyce GA dawg

January 2, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

I am tired of hearing how Coach Richt should be ashamed for running up the score. Knowshon got 9 (!!) carries. Stafford played 3 quarters. If GA wanted to win by 60 it would have been a walk in the park. The real shame should be heaped at the feet of the BCS. Hawaii should have played the fighting (?) Illini. And look at Mizzou. The BCS really screwed this post-season up.

By Big Al

January 2, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

No excuses accepted for 2008 Dawgs!!!

Georgia will easily be a top 5 team entering the football season next fall. If Georgia does not win the national championship with the talent assembled, I do not want to hear the multitude of excuses that Georgia fans usually have. I am already hearing how tough the schedule will be. The road trip to Arizona State will be tough. Hah!!

No excuses accepted next fall.

By ginger

January 2, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

I for one will not be ashamed or defend our right to play FOOTBALL!! The Dawgs did just that!! As for Brian Mimbs kudos to him for not taking crap off a lame late hitting defender!! SHAME ON HAWAII for allowing that defender and the Jones kid to even be on the field they were an embarassment to the team and the program. I Proud to Be A Georgia Bulldog and I will not defend my right to celebrate, talk a bit of smack and be overly joyed if only for a day or so!!! So…Jeff and the rest of you Losers,get off your whining and your nay saying and find another place to play if you don’t like it!!!

g

By Donald

January 2, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

I really dislike UGA. I pull for Pac 10 teams being from having gone to school at a Pac 10 school. That being said… I got to give credit, when it is so righteously due. Georgia looked most impressive thus far from all of the bowl teams. So. Cal looked not quite as good, but pretty solid too. I think the fact that ILL is better than HAW had something to do with that. Overall, college football fans were robbed once again of the opportunity for the real national champion to be determined. I am going to be hard pressed to think that the winner of the LSU-OSU game is the undisputed champ after those performances last night by the Bulldogs and Trojans. I know that the BCS takes into account the body of work for the whole season, but I wish it pro-rated more heavily a “hotness” factor, or how strong a team is down the stretch. If the Buckeyes win, then I am going to be so ticked off. B/c we all know, even those fans in Columbus have to admit, that if USC demolished Illinois, and OSU lost to ILL at home?! USC just may beat OSU. Pity to USC if OSU wins. Playoff please! I feel bad for UGA too. Now what? They have to wait until next fall to prove that they are arguably the best team in the country?! What a terrible taste to leave in our collective mouths after the most exciting college football season ever.

By XXXX

January 2, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Georgia looked terrific. Now what? Next year is “the year”. Right ? The nat champ is finally in UGA hands. Right ? All UGA has to do it take it. Right ? The best recruiting class in the country. A defensive unit that has finally jelled. An NFL QB. More running backs than they can use. A great coach. Should be a piece of cake.

By GE

January 2, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

I love football but this my-team-is -better-than-your-team crap sucks. The only thing I want to see is for the good players with talent to go to the NFL and get paid and leave the plantations before they get hurt.

By nwd

January 2, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Mike, PLEASE get spell checker before you write another post that is almost unreadable because of the errors. You must have graduated (HA) from that superior school…Georgia Tech. It isn’t Georgia’s fault that they were paired with an under-matched opponents. You, along with Scott, need to “put on your big girl panties and DEAL WITH IT!!!!!

By Gen Neyland

January 2, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

I’ll not pull a Petrino and bail…The Sugar : Ranked up there with the Rose and Cotton for the football fan watching. Outside of the faithful from Athens, a pitiful game, a pitiful matchup. I tuned it out after the first quarter… It’s Good To Be A Tennessee Vol.

By JD

January 2, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

I have a message for all of these UGA fans, get real! I haven’t heard anyone outside the state of Georgia say that UGA and USC should have been playing. Instead what I have heard is that Oklahoma and USC should be playing. I was born and raised in Georgia, but I find it hard to cheer for the DAWGS because of all of their delusional fans. People down here think the SEC champion should automatically play for the BCS title. How delusional is that? I watched Arkansas get smacked down by Missouri and Florida essentially get embarrassed by Michigan, that game was not as close as the score. So after Georgia beats an obviously overmatched Hawaii I have to listen to these delusional fans talk about how they are going to win the Ship next season, get real. Earth to Athens, UGA is not a top 5 program, hell they aren’t even a top 10 program, but maybe its the Pabst Blue Ribbon that makes the people in Athens so delusional. I’ve got to move from Loganville before these delusionals spray paint my house Red and Black.

BOOMER SOONER!!!

By George

January 2, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

I agree that UGA “should” have been in the Rose Bowl, but you folks are kidding yourselves if you think the Dawgs should have been selected for the NC game! What you do in the season DOES matter…. UGA lost twice. They lost at home to a mediocre South Carolina squad and they got whacked by UT. I like the Dawgs, but they didn’t even win the eastern division of the SEC!

By Neil

January 2, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Now… what if UGA went to the Rose Bowl and got stomped by USC?

Just enjoy being Sugar Bowl Champs ending the season on a great note and work on EARNING a national chamionship next season.

By null

January 2, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

They certainly were in the wrong bowl game. There is no WAY Georgia should have been in a BCS bowl. They were also set up against a crappy opponent. They should have been in the Cotton Bowl against a decent Big XII team probably.

By TheBigBone

January 2, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

The dogs defeated an inferior team which was outmatched in every position, coach, band and conference. So what!! It is 2008 and we will see what happens in September. Life is a long song so find some other tune.

By Ralph Harmon

January 2, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

Buffalo Chip Suckers Bulldog Canned Supper

By nwd

January 2, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

To all those people griping about Georgia running up the score. How many posts did you write when Hawaii was scoring in the 50 to 60 point range of most of their games? If Richt had wanted to run up the score, he could have made it MUCH worse than it was. Bottom line…the dogs crushed the Hawaii team and piled on the sugar to top it off.

By UGA V

January 2, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

To 24%: you have to actually earn a degree in college. That means that it is ultimately up to the individual.

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

All you haters can suck my d. UGA proved you all wrong, suckers. HAHAHA. Now, you talk about bad sportsmanship, just look at the trash your spewing. You are the biggest losers for coming to this board with those weak arse arguments. As I said before, no win game for UGA, if we win, they were like *moron RUKiddin’ above. If we lost they would have been like “told you so”. All you haters on this board can now EAT IT. You do not want any. Go climb back in your holes and you had better hope we don’t see your squad next year.

GREAT GAME GATORS, i guess you don’t want any of Appalachain St. HAHAHA.

GREAT GAME TECH, you suck too, but we already knew that.

By fulldawg

January 2, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

I don’t know Jeff about the BCS not taking the blinders off. They appear to be just as oblivious to he fact as ESPN is with all their Tebow lovefest.

Go Dawgs!

By Cheerwino

January 2, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Christopher is right in that the BCS is all about the 1-2 match up for the Championship. The BCS doesn’t want the other match ups to compete with their big finale. USC can’t play UGA ‘cause then the winner would have a legit claim to the NC. That’s why we don’t usually see 3-5, 4-6 match ups in the other bowls. The conference politics ensure this happens.

By Jay

January 2, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Here’s a few thoughts to all you UGA fans who feel “under appreciated” and screwed for not having a chance at the title game. Beat a 6-6 South Carolina team “between the hedges”. Don’t get drilled by Tennessee. Win your conference for pete’s sake—if you are not even one of the 2 best teams in your conference, then I don’t think you are one of the 2 best teams in the nation. Just a few thoughts for next year if you want to be taken seriously in the national title discussion.

By Richard

January 2, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Who were the idiots Fox had as announcers? It wasn’t until Georgia had scored two touchdowns that they even recognized that there was a second team in the bowl. Everything was “Hawaii this” and “Hawaii that”. They even critized Richt for coaching his players to score up until the last minute. They even made fun of our mascot, UGA! The Hawaii team looked and acted like thugs. Two of the players on the field have criminal records. The Georgia players had and have class. The band shined like never before - Hawaii’s band just played, Georgia performed. Hey Fox Atlanta - tell your network that they need some class if they want to be the “sport leaders”. Congrads Georgia on a job well done. You made me proud to be from Georgia!

By scott

January 2, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

it wasn’t even a dawg fight lol hawia community colege din’t belong in a bcs bowl espn was being bias in thier comentary aginst a team they know was more superior than this hawia community colege . i just hated georgia didn’t score 60 points . i tell you the media and bcs really got this one wrong agian they though hawia community colege would upset the dawgs wasn’t happening . espn and the bcs want give georgia any respect they have to take it next season .can’t wait until it start .that will make for great fun . go dawggggggggg!

By George

January 2, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Can we finally stop with the “SEC is SO much better than all the other conferences!” bull crap?

Michigan BEAT Florida ( So much for that SEC speed… ) Missouri BEAT the crap out of Arkansas. ( And Arkansas beat LSU… )

GO BUCKEYES!!!

By smart

January 2, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

To Scott you must e a Tech fan. Ha way to go UGA you did what you are suposse to do win and win big. It’s not your fault they placed you with these pretenders. Next year Number 1 go dawgs!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Dumbdawgs

January 2, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Typical UGA style of article! Don’t focus on the fact that we won focus on that we should have been in a bigger, better, more powerful bowl game! Whatever, as the season has shown for every division any given day can change the dynamics of a team. Each team has two faces, the powerhouse and the shy kids…which team shows up is the true question. We all know the SEC is a bigger powerhouse than the other divisions but don’t belittle the season of Hawaii or Illinois because UGA is still crying over spilt milk!

By mr nice

January 2, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

TO ALL THE HATERS: AT LEAST UGA WON IT’S BOWL !!!!!!

By Darrin "The Vent King"

January 2, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

I am only responding to this blog to let it be known as a Gator fan, I have actually been impressed with UGA this year. You boys played your azz off. For the 1st time in 15 years, you guys actually have me concerned about next year. Doormats no more, you guys should be proud. That dam Mark Richt raked my nerves all those years at the much Gator-despised FSU and now it looks like he’s about to spend the next five or six doing that again with these Dawgs. Congrats on your BCS win. We’ll be waiting 4 ya in Jax next year!

GO GATORS!!

By BigNCDAWG

January 2, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

How bout that kickoff return by Remarcus Brown.. Great to see a little used backup do that.

By GA_Tiger Fan

January 2, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Congrats on the big win over Hawaii, however your argument of not playing in title game is completely invalid. Of course you didn’t play in or win SEC chamionship game, but that point aside look at the records of LSU and UGA when BCS made selection; LSU 11-2, UGA 10-2. LSU had the better record and deserved to be in title game. Now OSO on the other hand DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE THERE! GEAUX TIGERS

By Dave In Tampa

January 2, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

What a great Win! Yea, we clocked them pretty good, but I’ve been reading some post that make no sense. Why do people want to bash Colt? He is a great QB. It was not his fault that he has no line. He could have done well playing for an SEC team with a good line. I don’t understand why people have to bash him. I think it’s awesome that our defense stopped a great QB.

I hear people saying, “We got screwed and should be playing for the NC.” Sorry gang, let’s look at facts. If we beat SC and Beat LSU in the SECCG we are in. We did not win the SEC. We don’t belong in the NC game. Personally I want to earn the right, not handed the game(LSU), to play in the NC game.

I’m a lifelong Dawg fan so I’m not knocking what we did this year. I’m very proud of our team this year. Who could honestly raise their hand and say that they expected us to win 11 this year? The bar is set very high for next year. Now, for us not to be in the NC game next is because we beat ourselves. It’s going to be fun and I can’t wait!

Go Dawgs!

By skozoze

January 2, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Congrats to the Dawgs. I watched the entire game and thought they played well. I’m an Illinois fan/alumni, and was embarrassed by the Rose Bowl. It would have been awesome to watch UGA play USC but that will never happen in the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl committee doesn’t want a competitive game for USC - they want their “home team” to stomp on somebody, which is why they picked Illinois. Illinois had a good season (Ohio State anyone) - vastly improved, but they are a young team and of course, USC stomped all over them as they should have. I saw some ugly sportsmanship from USC, but I don’t think they ran up the score any more than UGA did. Teams are supposed to score when they can. The announcers were saying as late as half time that Hawaii could easily come back - so what was UGA supposed to do - let them? To those who are criticizing Richt’s third quarter challenge - he was right (Jones wasn’t on his dispute). It’s his job to challenge bad calls. I don’t think Illinois or Hawaii were overrated - I think they were mismatched; I think both could have won different matchups. And to the guy who thinks the Big 10 is a weak conference … hello??? Anyway - way to go Dawgs.

By JamesD

January 2, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

This was a great way to end a great season. CMR took a young team and pulled out 11 wins and did it in the SEC.

On a more serious note, anyone trying to put down the Dawgs please get help. Is this really how you spend your time? That’s really sad and pathetic. What’s even more sad and pathetic is that you don’t realize you’re sad and pathetic.

Yes we know, win your conference!! You lost to SC!! Your thugs!! You showed no class against HI!! You’re over rated!!

I think that covers it. Now go away. We could care less about the criticisms of fans from teams we can or did beat this year. We don’t care what you think or feel. You’re a loser for being on the UGA Boards in the first place. Please let it be known anybody repeating any of the above statement from now on is a complete f******* moron.

Yes, we do think our team is great. Yes we do think we have a shot at winning in all next year. UGA is our team. This is our Blog. This is the definition of supporting one’s team. If you have a problem with a fan showing support and encouragement for their team or the college they attended you have issues.

I hope everyting is clear now. You’re a loser if you attempting to insult people who have no regard for you oppinion in the least bit. You’re a loser if you keep posting statements that have already been posted. You’re a loser if you read this entire post. Hell, I’m a loser for even responding to you losers.

Please don’t respond. I don’t care what you think. If you do respond, Please use the Handle Loser.

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

George, your a fool. You know what they say, keep your mouth shut so we don’t know your an idiot, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

Have your squad beat an SEC team, then talk smack. Look at the overall SEC record.

Game, set, match.

By Scott

January 2, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Wow,

I was so drunk last night. I can’t believe that me, a loser Tech fan, came to these boards. I was just upset that my Tech team lost again in some inferior bowl game. I’m a d-bag and my posts prove it.

By RU Kiddin'

January 2, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

NC Dawg you’re pathetic! You know good and well that if Hawaii was an SEC team they would have been a cellar dweller. You guys didn’t prove anything yesterday by beating an overrated team with one of the weakest schedules in the country. Get over yourself!

By John

January 2, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

The season is OVER, shut up already, you didn’t make it to the BCS and you WON’T next year so quit crying about it and GROW UP.

By dave is right!

January 2, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

I hear people saying, “We got screwed and should be playing for the NC.” Sorry gang, let’s look at facts. If we beat SC and Beat LSU in the SECCG we are in. We did not win the SEC. We don’t belong in the NC game. Personally I want to earn the right, not handed the game(LSU), to play in the NC game.

By rblack

January 2, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Win your conference then you can talk about the BCS. Morons

By vesaversa

January 2, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

wow the haters are really out today mabe i should say the tech fans who team got blown out of thier bowl game , georgia did what they had to do it wasn’t the dawgs who place this hawia community colege in the suger against them . now espn and all the media who was pulling for this upset of the dawgs wasn’t happening . thank to all the haters this morning it show how classes you really are. how bout them dawgggggggg

By FLA DAWG

January 2, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Only when enough teams decide to defect from the BCS and just create a playoff system of their own (May I suggest the entire SEC! We are 5 - 2 in postseason!)or sue them will we get a playoff system.

Auburn got royally screwed a few years ago, Georgia & USC got the shaft this year.

Why do we sit back every year and allow these BCS BOZOS to play GOD with the top teams in college football!?

The Dawgs deserve to be ranked No. 2 after the BCS Championship Game but will likely get 4th place (LSU, USC, OSU, UGA). The BCS will NEVER rank two SEC Teams 1 & 2 at the end of the year.

By hroth

January 2, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

You beat a weak WAC team, great accomplishment! Win your conference and then talk about BCS championship.

By dave is right

January 2, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

I hear people saying, “We got screwed and should be playing for the NC.” Sorry gang, let’s look at facts. If we beat SC and Beat LSU in the SECCG we are in. We did not win the SEC. We don’t belong in the NC game.

By SEC is KING

January 2, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

George Michigan played a great game and showed well for their conference. Beating Arkansas is not a great accomplishment.

The real question is what’s the Buckeyes’ record in Bowl games against the SEC? Can you say 0-8? Soon to be 0-9 with a serious butt whipping for an exclamation point. The Buckeyes’ are overrated as usual and it will show in a few days.

The SEC is 6-2 in Bowls games this year and Soon to be 7-2.

By GoHawks

January 2, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Amen Schultzie. UGA should be in the NCG.

By Spike

January 2, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Did one of those idiot announcers really say midway thru the tird quarter this game was “a shame for America” because of the beating UGA was putting on Hawaii? And how about that “analyst” Mark May on ESPN picking Hawaii to win, then after the game claiming New Orleans was our “backyard” and Hawaii traveled 5000 miles to this game, blah, blah, blah. Idiots. Is that the best FOX and ESPN can do?

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

RUKiddin’, you sir are pathetic. Who is your squad, Tech, Fla? Your just a hater, I understand, you little b***. Go to YOUR team’s board and rant and rave. You comments prove my point all along, no win game for UGA.

I am not saying that UGA should have been in title game, like most of you are accusing UGA fans of saying. We should have been in ROSE. That is obvious, and to deny is ridiculous.

Later suckers, good luck in 2008, your going to need it if you see us again.

By kool$kat

January 2, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Spurrier ruined your season…na na nanana…funny hearing the doggies whine about being left out of the NC game…too bad. Woulda enjoyed seeing LSU or the Buckeyes obliterate the bullpups…uga sux! No way 3rd place team in their half of conference deserves a title shot!Beating a WAC team proved nothing. Richt lacks sportsmanship, challenging a call that was meaningless was ignorant and uncalled for. Ga. players took cheap shots on Hawaii players all game long and were not flagged. One cheap hit by Hawaii was flagged. Whine pups! Go sniff some other dogs poop!

By LSU/OSU Fan

January 2, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

I would just like to take a moment to thank Vandy and UK for not “finishing the drill” against UT late in the year.

If not for your lack of effort, LSU and OSU would be in for some serious trouble.

Also, thank you to the BCS for screwing the #4 DAWGS out of the NC game after #1 and #2 fell.

By Hal Greer

January 2, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Not only did Georgia not get any respect this year,but ranking Barry sanders ahead of Herschel is an ABSOLUTE JOKE.A transcendent player elevates his team,ala Herschel.Barry Sanders never won big games and ran against a weak Southwest Conference.Herschel NEVER lost an SEC game(which everyone knows is the king of college football)Nuff said

By the other scott

January 2, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

for the idiot (scott) ga . tech fan go dawggggggggggg they really beat up on that hawaii community colege . what happen to tech lol

By Get your facts straight!

January 2, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

“(Actually, in that sense, Hawaii fit right in with the rest of the SEC, which also didn’t have an answer for Moreno.)”

Check your facts, JS, before you make uninformed statements like this. I seem to remember Tennessee smacking UGA’s running game right in the mouth… including UGA’s golden-boy Moreno. He carried 13 times for 30 yards. That’s not exactly what I’d call “no answer” — 2.3 ypc.

But then again, I guess using fact when discussing UGA has never been a strong point of any of the AJC writers. Too much pro-UGA sentiment around here for anything to be taken seriously.

I will agree with one thing (I can’t believe I’m saying this, either). That UGA team played some inspired ball and looked like a team that deserved a shot at playing for the title. Both UGA and USC looked that way, in fact. Which is why D-IA college football needs a playoff. Just like every other sports in college athletics and, more appropriately, every other division of college football.

By aj

January 2, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

great game dawgs! let’s hope lsu gets the job done and solidify a great sec bowl season! go dawgs!

By ChampDawg

January 2, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

I’m a big UGA fan and glad we won… but, UGA is beginning to look and act like a bunch of thugs (i.e Miami) and what the hell’s up with Stafford? He still is less than impressive to me. When he is going to live up to his billing? He may have “an arm” but his QB abilities are really lacking? Is he gay?

By Villa Rica DAWG

January 2, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

I cannot wait until August 30th. We will not make the same mistakes as we did this year.

By the way, where were Florida and Arkansas yesterday? Thanks for dropping two for the SEC!

By jammer

January 2, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

I predict Colt Brennan will go early in the NFL draft….SOMEBODY NEEDS A GOOD WATER BOY!!! Welcome to REAL football Colt…SEC style!!!. wooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

By dean

January 2, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

BCS=Beauty Contest Suckers The SEC has proven that they are once again Superior to all of the other Conferences. Hawaii was dominated!!! They need to go back to their HIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE (WEAC) where they can dominate! As for the BCS They will continue their TRADITION of ignorance picking teams and placing them where they want as if it were a beauty contest. PLAYOFF SYSTEM PLEASE!!!! Take your TRADITION and, Well, You know!!!

By Gene

January 2, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

It was a great season for the SEC and college football in general. It is over now, and Richt, Governor Sonny, and all of the whining 8th grade drop outs should put it behind them, ‘cause it ain’t going to change. Last night’s game turned out about like everyone expected, in spite of being the worst televised of all the bowl games with the most commercial delays and endless yapping by the announcers including Fran Tarkington, who really needs a haircut. The game clearly proved that UGA deserves to be fourth or fifth in the country, which is exactly where they will end up. I am sure that Spurrier enjoyed it as he personally kept Richt out of the conference championship and out of national title consideration. In terms of next year, Moreno may well be a finalist for the Heisman, but so will Tebow, and the Bulldogs’ gangsta image is not going to help him in comparison. Georgia will have a good team next year, but so will Florida, Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee, and Georgia will have the usual arrests for assault and drunk driving that Richt and Mike Adams will have to work hard to cover up. There may be an FSU-like reckoning for academics too when the NCAA looks at “Rap Music Appreciation.” And, of course, the “Evil Genius” will be waiting in Columbia with his silly little smile.

By JamesD

January 2, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

John

The season is OVER, shut up already, you didn’t make it to the BCS and you WON’T next year so quit crying about it and GROW UP.

What an intelligent and insightful post. UGA fans are upset to find out from the great psychic John, were not going to win the NC next year.

I dub you King LOSER.

Do you really believe we care what you think? You are a perfect example of what I was taking about earlier.

Sad and pathetic

By Chris

January 2, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

I am not a basketball history fan, but didn’t the major college teams decide at one point to create their own playoff? The NIT is the ‘old’ championship system. Everyone just decided to play in the newer format and now it IS the national title game. That’s what needs to be done in college football.

By Lex Luthor

January 2, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

When I saw them put 10 in the box and get abused, I knew it was over.

By Haters

January 2, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Every team this year took a loss, so why do you idiots keep saying teams do not deserve a NC shot?? You make as much sense as the BCS, I guess the haters on here either got beat or didn’t even get a bowl game, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA We should have played USC, that is what should have happened, Hawaii and Ill or some other team should have played the Sugar Bowl. There is nothing saying in the BCS dumba55e5 that you have to win your division to get a title shot so please stop using that same old line. Ohio is another over-rated team that will get slapped Monday in the face again.

By JamieNAtlanta

January 2, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

The SEC is the best conference in the US. LSU is SEC CHAMPS they go to the big game. I’m sick of all you BullDAWG fans crying. If you wanted to go to the big game you should have beat Tennessee. I can’t remember didn’t you get beat in overtime? Oh no that’s right you got your butts kicked by the Vols.

GEAUX TIGERS!!!!! UGA FANS ARE SORE WINNERS AND LOSERS

By mickeel

January 2, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

The dawgs should be ashamed of their victory celebration. They were suppose to win against a team in a much softer/smaller conference. They celebrated like they beat somebody like USC, LSU, or Ohio State. In order to play for the national, win your own SEC championship game. LSU beat TN which baffled uga like uga baffled the Warriors. Quit crying about what should have been and start winning from the beginning to the end to be recognized like a championship team is. The most of hated fans in the SEC is uga. The fans will hate anybody thats not for their team which is stupid. They wants to be in the spotlight with Florida and LSU and they are not. They are lacking consistency in winning. The shameful stunt on the field against florida, the coach on the sideline becoming a cheerleader,,,etc. They had to blackout just to play a team like the Warriors and think they should have been playing for the nationals. They didn’t even play for their OWN championship game. TN romped them the way they romped the warriors. Start winning from the beginning to the end and then maybe you will be considered a national contender like the floridas, USC, LSU, Michigans, Buckeyes, etc.

By D

January 2, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

without a playoff system, no team in college can afford to start off slow, that’s what the Bulldogs did. that works in the NFL where a team can gel throughout the season and then be where they want to be going into the playoffs and awork to earn a spot in the title game. that does not work in college because of the BCS. but like an ol’ coach told us one time after we were whining about the outocme of a game and the season, he told us to “shut up and play, and don’t ever leave the game so close that someone else can determine the outcome of your season”, i.e. referees and sportwriters. if you want to be in the title game, keep the patsies off of your schedule, win every game and win every game by 15 or 20 points. that’s how to screw the BCS. yes it’s hard, but it works the same for every team, so no one team is getting the shaft. so quit whining Bulldog fans and beat Tenn., beat S.C. and win your division and don’t start slow, this is the BCS and it’s not fair, so don’t give the BCS ammo to shoot you down. the BCS sucks and there should be a playoff system and in the end teams that are #5 in the polls shouldn’t be playing teams that are #10 in the polls in the last game of the season, that was stupid. but like Al said, ‘just win baby!’ it takes care of all the BS and gets you what you want.

By FanMan

January 2, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

People can complain all they want about what an injustice it is that the Bulldogs are not in the title game yet the facts remain this: they not only did not win their conference, they didn’t even win their division within the conference. If you cannot get to your conference championship why should you be able to play in the National Championship game? Also, don’t compare this to basketball as that sports has a true playoff system. The fact remains, you beat Tennessee or South Carolina you are in but the fact also remains, the Bulldogs did not. End of story (but it won’t be:-)

By Nerds

January 2, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Gene you come to this blog and blast UGA, who is your team??? To scared to mention or not really much to talk about? Gangsta’s, are you serious? Tebow got beat down and looked like crap against Michigan, they will be beat several times agian next year. The rest of the teams have an average team so what are you talking about? Put a zipper on your mouth and stop spewing so much Shi7 about something you do not know anything about.

By karin

January 2, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

THE Ohio State University GO BUCKEYES

By COCKY

January 2, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

GEORGIA HAS ALREADY PLAYED USC THIS SEASON (AND LOST). GO COCKS

By jlaneusmc

January 2, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

A couple of points on last night’s game: 1. We haven’t had that much speed at LB since Boss Bailey and Will Witherspoon back in ‘00. When you can overun and overpursue and still get tackles for loss, that is scary. 2. Matt Stafford needs to work with some pro-level QB coach and become more mechanically consistent. His erratic footwork is causing balls to sail and miss wildly. Ok against HI but will cost us against SEC teams.
3. CMR needs to keep the pressure on before the half. In hindsight D was in total control, but we had a chance to get one more score with almost 2 min to go before half and ran it 3 straight times and gave ball back to HI. We did the same thing against Bama earlier in the year and let them back into the game. 4. Fox should contract with ESPN/CBS crews to do their BCS coverage. What a painful telecast from the nauseating pre-game human interest stories to the endless “Prison Break Promos”…somewhere there was a college football game played last night.

By Ken

January 2, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

Dawg I salute you but all the supporters, have you forgotten that your team failed to win the SEC and did not even play in Conference championship? At least UGA got awarded a BCS game! Look at Mizzou! Beat Kansas and Illinois and ended up in a 2nd Tier Bowl! Did BCS not want three Big 12 teams in BCS bowls? (OU, Mizzou & Kansas) Talk about conspiracy. When all is said and done, Big 12 may be the best conference this year. Texas spanked ASU. TX Tech beat UVA. OU should beat WVA. Mizzou spanked Arkansas. Kansas in Orange. My 2008 preseason #1 is Boomer Sooner. Sam Bradford is a better thrower than Tebow.

By George

January 2, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

Hey SEC is KING…

You said, “beating Arkansas is no great accomplishment.”

Well, LSU could NOT accomplish that feat at home!

So what does that say about the SEC when their champion can’t even beat Arkansas at home?

Now granted, OSU lost to Illinois at home, but at least Illinois played a close game against Missouri. Look what Missouri did to Arkansas!

Go Buckeyes!!!

By Bubba Gump

January 2, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

The whole premise of this article is stupid! Since when does “maturation” figure into the National Championship? If this were a factor, Michigan would win hands down. Based on the record, Georgia will end up no higher than 4th, which is generous considering that Vanderbilt nearly whipped them. If bad sportsmanship were factored into the standings, UGA wouldn’t be in the top 10.

By michaelgee

January 2, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

woof woof woof

UGA Champions of the Sugar Bowl, big deal.

If you are that great, why did Spurrier and Fulmer wipe the floor with you?

Mark Richt has no class at all, he was cheering and working the crowd as they beat another overmatched opponent.

Where was all this bravado when UGA was being walked on by Spurrier and the Vols

UGA, might own Hawaii, BUT South Carolina and Tennessee OWN UGA.

UGA couldn’t even win their end of the SEC, what a joke when you beat up on an overmatched team. Shut your yaps.

LOL! silly puppies, go back in your crate and just shut up.

By Gene is 100% on the Money

January 2, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Gene, you are absolutely right. I can’t stand to watch ThUGA play because they have no class. Every play they celebrate. I can’t believe Mark Richt doesn’t teach respect and class but his players show none of either.
Moreno is a great player but has no respect for the game. He will probably flunk his “Rap Music Appreciation” class and be arrested for a bar brawl and test positive for steroids. Until Richt teaches his players to respect the game they will be a black eye for the state of Georgia and the NCAA. Maybe that’s why the black jerseys are so good…it fits the “black eye” image.

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

First, as I have said before, I don’t think UGA should have been in National Championship game. I really don’t think many UGA fans feel that way. All the haters are accusing the masses of feeling this way. Simply not true and your fan base would be acting the same if not worse than our fan base in the same situation. You are not holier than thou.

Mickeel, consistency in winning? I think you need to check the record. UGA has been as consistent as anyone since Richt has been coach. Asinine statement, moron. I don’t mind being the “most hated” fans because that means we are kicking your a*.

You know I actually like it when intelligent fans from other teams give their opinions. However, those fans are absent today, probably because they are intelligent and know now to come on this board after that a* kicking and continue to spew their hate is just stupid.

Finally, all these people who say, UGA lost to so and so and they dont deserve it, well, neither LSU or OSU deserve it either, both had bad losses. And this, “you didn’t even win your conference” is so old. This insane comment doesn’t come out during March Madness does it? All of you who say this are f*** stupid.

Have a great day a*****.

By val38

January 2, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Coulda, shoulda, woulda, didn’t - you know Geaorgia is screaming we should be playing for #1, but the facts are still true - they should have beat South Carolina (didn’t) - they could have beat Tennessee (didn’t) - DIDN’T when their division nor conference - they would have went to the championship bowl if they would have taken care of the three above. The best two teams are playing for the Championship and no I am not a fan of either. Stop complaining and learn from your mistakes Georgia!

By Big Dawg

January 2, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

Maj

Again shame on the bowl selection committees in the Rose bowl. They get the first pick of teams after the BCS game is set and they fumbled the ball.

While I agree it should have been GA vs USC as Hawaii and Illinois had no business playing against either school. You are incorrect about the Rose Bowl Committe as it was well known that they would have liked to have matched USC against Georgia but their hands were tied by the Sugar Bowl Committe. The Sugar Bowl Committee would have had to have passed on Georgia, as that under the BCS rules they had the right of first pick because LSU who would have been the automatic pick for the Sugar had they not have been chosen to play in the BCS NC game. Either way all true college football fans got screwed again this bowl season as it would have been much better match ups with GA vs USC or Oklahoma, Missouri vs Auburn etc instead of some of the pathetic match ups yesterday.

Anyway the above poster posing as me needs to get his own handle. Go Dawgs

By Gene

January 2, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

Here is Pete Carrol’s post game statement. This comment demonstrates something that Richt lacks. Class. “The last thing I’d want to do is sit up here and lobby for some recognition for our season,” Carroll said. “We did everything we could with what we had.”

By D

January 2, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

hopefully next year, the Bulldogs will concentrate more on winning, than on dancing and fashion, that’s what will win you a National Championship, not disrespectful dancing and the color of your shirt. come to play in the Fall, don’t wait til Winter before turning it on. this world doesn’t owe anybody a damn thing, so forget about your sense of entitlement, and go out there and win games, win your division, win your conference, and try to win with dignity and remember this is football not figure skating, leave the fashion statements and shaking your money maker to them, unless you think some judges are going to give you the National Champinship based on style points!

By GADAWG47

January 2, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

It was a great game. I wish someone would have knocked Keenin Jones’s block off. That was a dirty, nasty, lowdown, helment leading hit that he put on Mikey. All night I was hoping someone would ring his bell. The Defense played great. The O was good, but there should have been more points on the board. I could not believe that Sean dropped that pass from Cox on the 4th and 7 play. Cant wait until next year.

Gooo Dawgs….Sic em!!!!!!

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

George,

The more you post, the more stupid you become. Put down the keyboard right now and go back to your babysitter, you crybaby.

OSU couldn’t beat a mediocre Illinois team and your lucky you didn’t have a conference championship game.

Every team had bad losses, that is why a playoff is needed, where it only matters who is playing best at the END of the season. UGA is clearly one of the best teams playing at the END of the season.

Michaelgee, you don’t want any right now I guarantee it. Your lucky you caught us at the beginning of the year, with 3 freshman starting on the OL and Moreno not playing much. We will see you next year.
South Carolina owns NOBODY. Look at the records you f*** idiot.

By John

January 2, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

It’s pretty obvious that neither Illinois nor Hawaii should have been in the BCS. Georgia-USC in the Rose Bowl would have been better than anything else on Tuesday.

By Falcon Fan 89

January 2, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

I feel so badly for June Jones…it is the classic case of the studious, nerdy type that everyone sorta laughs at and makes fun of…you’d so badly like to see that guy finally get his due once in a while against the bigger, tougher, stronger bulley. But last night was just further evidence that the “run and shoot” cannot beat good teams with half-way decent defenses, period.

It was like watching the 95 Falcons all over again where they were just hopelessly overmatched against the niners, and so forth. Sure Hawaii was at a HUGE personell disadvantage, but the bottom line is that their style of offense wouldn’t allow them a chance anyway.

There is merit to that offense scheme every once in a while, but if you do it constantly, it just doesn’t work…it does not allow you to control the game. At best, it gets you quick scores, but keeps your defense on the field way too much. At worst….well…you saw last night…with no threat of the run, the defense can just tee off on the QB before any of the 5 WR’s can run their route.

By FootballFan

January 2, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Win your division, win your conference and then there is no problem.

if there was a National Championship of Whining the winner would be UGA

By FLA DAWG

January 2, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

For Dawg Haters out there - Most Dawg Fans do NOT think we should be National Champs this year. Two losses in our Division / Conference. We accept it.

We are simply venting about the bias and faults of the BCS bowl selections. How does OSU move from 3 to 1 while UGA moves from 4 to 5 when BOTH TEAMS were idle the same week? I believe LSU deserves to be there. But if UGA was jumped and dropped then what about OSU? There does not appear to be an equal treatment. A clear bias exists. OSU played a fairly easy schedule but had one loss and is rated No.1. Well, Hawaii played a soft schedule, had NO LOSSES and wasn’t even in the Top 10! Then there are the bowl games themselves - USC vs ILL = Blowout, UGA vs Hawaii = Blowout.

If you don’t see the problem then it is obvious your team has not been highly ranked enough for you to experience it.

By boots

January 2, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Jeff, excellent exclamation point on last night’s game. The DAWGS are that good, and we DID get snubed by either the NC game or the Rose Bowl. Everyone, including Hawaii, was the worse for it. Anyway, we started the year with three freshmen OL, a QB getting his first full-time season underway, a freshman RB as our emerging RB, and a defense that returned 3 seniors. We lost our best defensive player to grades over the Summer and our receiving corps had left many questioning how many fingers each man had the year before. Our schedule was as tough as ever including an away game playing the defending national champions in their home state.

I’d say an 11-2 year, with a dominating BCS win should wake up a few of the lone hold-outs in the BCS. For example, you guys are quoting an expert as saying the Dawgs are a possible “dark horse for the 08 championship game.” Huh??? Darkhorse? Oh, and the Fox coverage of the game sucked.

By the Judge

January 2, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

UGA has become the new University of Miami, disrespect, unsportsmanlike and arrogant.this will come back to haunt UGA in the end, because discipline is important in any sport. and NC Dawg, I wanted to let you know that two wrongs don’t make a right, and using a bad example as a good example doesn’t work either. if other teams aren’t perfect, it doesn’t mean that your team can be imperfect too and still desreve to go wherever they please like the national championship. without a playoff system you have to win. losing one game at the start of a season in college football could cost a team a chance at the national championship even in september. you have to win and you especially have to win in your own conference. without a playoff system the whole season is looked at, not where a team is at the end of the season. so once again, tow wrongs don’t make a right and a bad example is not a good example. the only thing that counts is winning.

By NextYear

January 2, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Just to prep you whiners for next year… In 2008, UGA is going to lose three games (in Tempe, in Lexington, and in Baton Rouge). You might as well prepare yourselves now.

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

VAL38, we aren’t complaining, we are celebrating. Unfortunately, you losers want to come over and crash the party and when we respond to your dribble, we are complaining. So sorry, you are pathetic, your arguments are old and invalid and you obviously have nothing better to do than come here and try to fan the flames. Get a life and a job and move on. Seeya next year sucka. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Go Dawgs!!!!!!!

By Chuck

January 2, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Since it doesn’t look like Colt has a prayer in the NFL, I already know what his next job can be: TheRapist

Just ask the girl at the University of Colorado he burglarized and criminally trespassed on.

By fan11

January 2, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

wow,way to run the score up on a over rated hawaii team that looked like acc Duke.

By edward

January 2, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

The BCS was not responsible for the mismatches in the Rose and Sugar Bowls. Both matchups were the result of conference tie-ins.

By JP

January 2, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

BCS is a TOTAL joke. Missouri, USC, and Georgia flat out proved it! Not to mention Michigan, Texas Tech, East Carolina, Texas, Oregon and Auburn all beating higher ranked teams. This is why I just can’t get into College Football.

By Greg

January 2, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

A great win for the Dawgs and a tremendous example of not folding when things go wrong (Tennesee game). I can’t help but feel bad for Mikey Henderson. I’ve never seen a more obvious spearing in an effort to injure a player than the first Hawaii punt. I was amazed that Jones was not removed from the game. If he’d been in the NFL, he would have been suspended for several games and fined harshly. I continued to be amazed at Jones’s attitude and lack of realization at what he’d done and what could have happened througout the remainder of the game. I enjoy incredible hits probably more than most, but I couldn’t get over how that cheap shot took away Mikey’s final game of his career, and how Jones continued to play throughout the game. I have to believe June was distracted at that time and that the jumbo-screen didn’t show a replay. I’m really glad for Mikey that he was able to walk away. Go Dawgs! Have a great off-season!

By michaelgee

January 2, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

NC Dawg, Michaelgee, you don’t want any right now I guarantee it. Your lucky you caught us at the beginning of the year, with 3 freshman starting on the OL and Moreno not playing much. We will see you next year. South Carolina owns NOBODY. Look at the records you f* idiot.

Too bad the season started BEFORE you were ready. What wil the excuse be next year?

UGA is the World Champion CRYBABY

If UGA could have beat South Carolina it would have. The season starts at the same time for all schools, IF UGA WASN’T READY blame RICHT.

UGA the same old JOKE they always have been. Whine puppies whine!

Don’t worry NC DAWG, you get yet another shot at Spurrier, too bad he OWNS UGA and will do it again in 2008. Please check UGA’s history against the World’s GREATEST HEAD COACH, Steve Spurrier.

Maybe Spuurier should be in prison with Michael Vick, seems like Steve Spurrier has killed more BULLDAWGS than any man in America, LOL!

By Haters

January 2, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

The only people crying on this blog are the UGA haters who have to use B.S. to prove no point. UGA is a respectful team, they apologized for the FLA stunt, which was not a big deal, and they have shown alot of enthusiasm in thier last games. SO what if they dressed black out for the bowl game, why are you crying that UGA is trying to play thier best. SHUT the He11 up, Tenn sucks, thier best game was agianst us, they barley beat a wimpy Wisconsin team. Judgem, you are an idiot, comparing UGA to Miami are you freakin serious, take your nerdy Tech or crybaby Fla a55 off this blog and go talk about your own sorry losing season.

By John

January 2, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

For all those UGA haters, why should bulldog nation feel bad for beating up the Warriors? Wasn’t it a BCS game? Georgia wasn’t trying to make a statement, otherwise they would have played their starters throughout. This game should have ended 63-3, but Richt decided to put his 2ND STRING squad in the game. If the Warriors can’t stop the 2nd string well then thats there fault. This is FOOTBALL, i guess Tech fans don’t understand that.

Scott, you are a complete tool. Obviously, you took the time to jump on the board and bash the UGA fans, but you forgot to realize we just won the Sugar Bowl, Tech just got…..ha…ha…ha….ha beat by Fresno State in Idaho.

Listen I’m happy with team playing in the Sugar Bowl, this season is a prelude to next year. To all the sore losers that came on the board to share their opinions, well remember jealousy is hard to overcome. Thats why we forgive you douches.

The announcers were comical last night. Maybe GA should have let the Warriors come back, what a joke!

Early Top 5: 1.Oklahoma 2.UGA 3.USC 4.Florida 5.Mizzou…………………….111.GA Tech(hey look scott tech is ranked!)

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Judge, I sure hope you aren’t really a judge, because you make no sense. It is perfectly acceptable to point out that no team deserved the NC game. Case is closed and you are guilty of being a baised idiot. Your sentence is to watch UGA destroy every opponent next year, should be a tough year for you.

By Dave

January 2, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

There is a way to solve all these problems. It’s not up to the BCS, the computers or “Tinseltown.” All they had to do was win. They lost two games to two not so good teams and almost lost a third. They didn’t even win their little division. Couldn’t even make their own championship game and a win over Hawaii does not a champion make. Next year, if they win they will deserve a shot. But if they loose two games, don’t whine and talk about how good they are.

By FAN11 of what?

January 2, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

Anything we would have done you would have came on here and complained about UGA. So get off the blog and go on your own and cry about why your tem lost, and sucks. And what your team won’t do next year. GO DAWGS!!!

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

Edward, those bowls could have gone the other way, those tie ins aren’t like the old days. It’s a fact.

By dawginalabama

January 2, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

Congrtulations UGA players and coaches!!! Man, did we come to play ball!!! WOW-WEE…

All you silly negative, haters, complainers, and gold diggers (get on your own teams blogs)… don’t pop an artery dude… this is fun time college football, now get a life and enjoy others success as well as yours… Go Dawgs and Go SEC in 08… it will be quite a year!

By chazz

January 2, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

What is with us (the UGA fans). Great season and great team. All accolades deserved. But, Christ start blabbing about a national title. 17 will be back next year, and they will play an ungodly schedule. Get behind the players and stop projecting. It is one game at a time.

PS Hats off to the Hawaii fans… down 38-3 and going nuts when they put up seven in the fourth. Half of the Bulldog nation want to fire Richt because he only won ten games. I love UGA, but we are jerk fans.

By Mike

January 2, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

Some observations from the Superdome last night..Hawaii brought the ENTIRE state with them..they were there in force and really were behind their team until the end…it didn’t look like any of them left despite the beatdown they just took..only gripe I have with them was when we broke out our U-G-A chant they countered with L-S-U chant…I thought that was kinda stupid and plain SOUR GRAPES…This was TRULY a TEAM victory..I thought the ENTIRE team was zoned in on beating Hawaii and not about the BCS snub;not about being passed over by the Rose Bowl ( who also got what they deserved ) or even looking towards the off-season and 2008…and that is a what GREAT coaching does for a team to do what UGA did last night! There was NO indication that UGA was trying to run up the score ( proof of that was how both teams came together after the game and genuinely were very respectful ) … the debate will continue about who deserves to play for the Nat’l Title but one thing is certain..its very hard to imagine a TEAM put on a display better than UGA did last night in ALL phases of the game..certainly AS GOOD but not BETTER…its time to decide it on the field and not by the BCS.

By Jonesie

January 2, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

In rebuttal to comments made by Scott on January 2, 2008 1:39 AM.

It’s evident that you’re not a UGA fan and you must be upset that your team didn’t get to play a team like Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl. Find your own teams blog for this kind of crap and keep it off of the UGA blog. You pretty much made yourself look like an idiot. Georgia didn’t choose to play Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl, the BCS made the choice and as far as Brian Mimbs taking a cheap shot, well it looked to me like he was merely repaying the favor. Coach Richt expected what any other college football coach would expect from his players, play the full 4 quarters. I think he should be applauded for not running the score up any more because it definitely looked as if the Dawgs were called off towards the end of the third quarter. Well enough of my rambling on because as you can see I am definitely a UGA fan, so please find another blog because there are plenty of them out there exactly for people like you!

By KrisG

January 2, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Hey football fan - make a rule. If you spout that “win your division win your conference” crap, make a rule so that it applies to everybody. We’ve already had two teams zip right past that into national title games, fair or unfair. Until then, the rules will only apply SOMETIMES in this beauty contest scene run by degenerate gamblers. “Win you conference Win your division” without a rule in the books is just like “racial profiling.” You just CANNOT selectively enforce laws then act like someone is crazy if they get suspicious. Don’t think we should be there? Fine, your opinion. Insult and patronize us for even thinking we should’ve been given a shot? $%^! you, wait’ll your team gets bounced by selectively applied non-rule.

By the way, not surprised Terrence Moore has nothing to say. He’s still trying to find the negative angle on it… Good luck TM.

By Vince L.

January 2, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

in UGA’s defense, without a playoff system and having the stupid BCS system, it’s sad, but running up the score is necessary. if you beat down an opponent it rates higher with the BCS. another reason why a playoff system is needed. the BCS encourages poor sportmanship in this way. with the BCS system Georgia definitely does not deserve to be in the championship game, but it gave them a better chance of getting close and enabled Bulldog fans to come up with conspiracy theories and find every excuse in the book to claim they are the real champions. things like ‘another team screwed up too, so we should automatically be National Champions because of that’. when actually the BCS system helped the Bulldogs. with a playoff system, and the fact that GA didn’t win their division or conference, they would not have been in the BCS mix at all. that’s how playoffs work, unless you have stupid wild card teams. but if college football ever ges to a playoff system, they won’t have wild card teams like the NFL.

By td

January 2, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Thanks for keeping the SEC in a win column. Looks to me like Georgia is imitating LSU last year. At the end of last season LSU could beat anyone BUT - you have to take care of business during the season or don’t sit and gripe about it. Georgia didn’t win the East and didn’t make it to the Championship game so don’t cry over spilled milk. Make it a lesson learned for next year. I think the BCS got it pretty correct this year other than maybe Oklahoma should be there instead of Ohio State.

Georgia got screwed by the Rose Bowl. It should have been Georgia vs. USC in the Rose Bowl.

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Michaelgee, I AM SO SCARED. Can you come hold me? USC will continue to be 6-6, with the greatest coach in america. He ain’t at Florida anymore. He is going to wish he was still at the Redskins after a few more 6-6 seasons. Par for the course. Your going to beat us 1 out of every 5 games or so, so enjoy. It must be sad that beating us in the beginning of the year is the highlight for the best coach in america. Your a fool. Get a winning tradition before talking smack.

By OSU Fan

January 2, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

GO BUCKEYES

By Doggonegadawg

January 2, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Before I get to my real comments, “NextYear” are you drinking Drano or just doing crack? In case you haven’t looked Kentucky loses just about everybody as does Ariz. State, and LSU. And in case you forgot we are really shaking in our shoes over LSU. Just like the last two times we played them (49-16 and 35-14), yeah, UGA won both. Where are you coming from and who moved the rock?

As for Hawaii, now they understand what five straight years in the top ten recruiting will get you. A good old fashion butt kickin’. This is how we play ball on the mainland. As for Mark May’s comment on Gameday Final about this being a home game for UGA and Hawaii having to travel 5,000 miles, I have but one thing to say. The Dawgs will kick your butt, just as badly, on the big island. Just tell us when and where. As for fan11, run up the score? We pulled our staters at the end of the third quarter. After all, Mark Richt is no Pete Carroll.

By irish buceye protagonist

January 2, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

The Championship game has NOT yet been played. When that game is played we will know which team is the National Champion. Sorry. Only two options: LSU or OSU. The rest of you can just sit back, put your feet up, watch the boob-plasma-screen and relax and enjoy the show. Hey Odell? How’s the appeal coming?

By FanMan

January 2, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

To KrisG:

First of all, if you are referring to my post I did not say a team had to win their conference. I am saying if you cannot at least win your division within the conference then you have no complaint about not playing for the national title. Lets don’t read more into it than was there. That said I am not aware of any two teams that played in the title game yet did not win their “division” within the conference. I am aware of teams not winning the conference title game getting to play for the national title but that is not the same thing. Enlighten me please as to who played for the national title that did not win their division and if I am wrong I will stand corrected. While you are enlightening me, how about dropping the racial rhetoric. This is about sports, not race, yet I can tell from your “$%^! you” statement that you are quite worked up about something that wasn’t even said. Time to take a chill pill and get that big chip off your shoulder.

By FLA DAWG

January 2, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

edward,

The BCS is not bound by traditional conference matchups - they could have easily chosen a UGA / USC pairing - and one heck of a game it would have been!

By NWGA Dawg

January 2, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

The worst part of the game last night was the horrible production; and I don’t refer to the announcers because I never heard one syllable from them. I listened to the excellent insight and analysis of the Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network while staying on beautiful St. Simons Island. I heartily recommend turning down the TV volume and following suit. Most analysts today are very shallow, unprepared, and fall down while trying too hard to find an “angle.” The angle in this game is that U of H was going to display it’s marvelous offense to the nation in the first BCS appearance by the Warriors. Instead, most of their offense was on punts. From the first play it was apparent that it would be domination. I thought that perhaps UGA would not have been quite so pumped as they were. I knew Hawaii would be because (again due to excellent coverage by the ‘Dawgs radio crew) Scott Howard, fresh from a basketball trip to the 50th state reported that a member of Hawaii’s media said that this (Sugar-BCS Bowl game appearance) was the “biggest thing since statehood…” While I think that’s hyperbole on the part of the Hawaii newspaper, we knew that Hawaii would be jacked coming into New Orleans. Ultimately the ‘Dawgs were just as excited—and it showed.

Congrats to the ‘Dawgs! They did what they should have done. If they had a hard game or struggled against UH, then all of the pundits would have been validated. As someone said above: there’s a lot of crow on ESPNs plate today. ESPN is a product and not a very good one. I don’t watch that insipid “Game Day” show. It’s all dumbed down to the lowest common denominator as is all television. Anyone with the intelligence of a nit can predict what they’re going to say.

Oh well, to avoid pontificating too much on TV analysts, UGA-haters-losers and other non-factors; Go ‘Dawgs! The team played “lights out” and put themselves in a good position for the 2008 campaign.

GATA they did indeed! Happy New Year!

By GrayDawg

January 2, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

God, I love football, but this whole blog stinks. Why did I waste my time?

1 if you do not like UGA go to your team blog (if there is one) 2 we must win our conference if we want to play for the NC. (Stop crying). 3 LSU was undefeated in regulation so they deserve this. (Stop crying). 4 BY GOD, learn to spell words correctly. 5 if you don’t have anything new to say, SHUT UP.

GO DAWGS Tough schedule next year. LSU then UF.. Ouch

By michaelgee

January 2, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

Mark Richt was trying to make a point at the expense of a kids health, that made me dislike Richt. Richt showed zero class last night.

Vince Dooley nor Erk Russell would have pushed the issue by inciting the fans as his team pummelled an opponent. If you have a team OVER MATCHED by that much, what is the point in injuring players and pumping the crowd even more.

That was p_iss poor sportsmanship on UGA’s part. I was disappointed in Richt and UGA.

I see their point about having hurt feelings for missing the NC Game BUT they should have beat Tenn and South Carolina and then they would have been in THE game.

What UGA and Richt did last night was the equivalent of beating a defenseless woman or child

Hey Richt, beat Spurrier next time and the BCS MIGHT let you play.

Evidently the slapping Spurrier and Phil Fulmer gave you made you tense up, you lost your credibility last night

By Doggonegadawg

January 2, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Michaelgee: Which BCS, or Jan 1, or any other undercard bowl did the Gamecocks play in? Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn in the yard every now and then. Just shut up. And for your information UGA did win the SEC East (co-champions). The difference is your started 6-1 and lost your last five straight. UGA started 4-2 and won their last seven straight. Getting it straight is the point. Are you straight now?

By rhall

January 2, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

If the “BSS” uses the same formulas for their final poll we should be able to at least finish in the top five after that victory.

By MSU Dawg

January 2, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

From the other SEC Dawgs, congrats UGA! Talk about domination. SEC proves once again to be the finest in the land. Hers to every year crowning an SEC champ and an SEC Heisman.

To Scott (or whoever you are) there is no such thing as “running it up before halftime”

“Showing UH respect?” UGA showed respect by giving their best effort

“some of us have real jobs”- You are on a computer at 4:30 Am drinking beer.

Again, way to go Georgia. My #1 preseason for next year. Lets geaux tigers, keep this SEC train rolling

By T

January 2, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

** Please lets not get carried away. Georgia beat a team that went into overtime to beat La. Tech, last second win against a hapless Washington team, won in overtime against San Jose St., …. I think you get the picture.

Hawaii should not have been in the Sugar Bowl to begin with… and the score from last night proves that.

All this win means is that Georgia beat a team that shouldnt have been there in the first place…

Jeff… even you could figure this one out… then again, maybe not !

By MSU Dawg

January 2, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

From the other SEC Dawgs, congrats UGA! Talk about domination. SEC proves once again to be the finest in the land. Hers to every year crowning an SEC champ and an SEC Heisman.

To Scott (or whoever you are) there is no such thing as “running it up before halftime”

“Showing UH respect?” UGA showed respect by giving their best effort

“some of us have real jobs”- You are on a computer at 4:30 Am drinking beer.

Again, way to go Georgia. My #1 preseason for next year. Lets geaux tigers, keep this SEC train rolling

By NRC

January 2, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

For everyone that couldn’t stand the FOX announcers last night, here’s a useful link:

(http://msn.foxsports.com/feedback)

Just pick TV as your message subject and then you can say anything you want about the coverage for last night’s game.

By KJ Sampson

January 2, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

UGA was unsportsmanlike by “running up the score?” That’s silly, given Hawaii’s reputation for being able to score a lot of points very quickly. For 2.5 quarters of the game, I kept expecting Hawaii to suddenly turn it around and close the gap. UGA wasn’t running up the score, they were playing with RESPECT, and that means not letting up one bit. Hawaii was just overmatched, completely. Although I’m a Dawg fan through and through, I both hoped and feared Hawaii would give us a game. But as was the case with my other alma mater, Missouri, the BCS made sure that my hopes were dashed and my fears allayed.

BCS, stop doing whatever substances that are clouding your collective judgement.

By WallyBob

January 2, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

I can’t understand Scott’s argument that UGA should have shown “more respect” for Hawaii’s 12-0 conference record. I guess some people don’t understand that this game was a team-on-team match up, and not a conference-on-conference contest. Which of the other eight SEC teams in bowl games (FL, AR, TN, Auburn, AL, MSU, KY, LSU) would Scott rather have seen as a more respectful choice to play Hawaii?

By J.D.

January 2, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

Hey Scott the whiner! What a loser you are. Your dribble makes no sense whatsoever. What was Georgia suppose to do let Hawaii score so your little feelings didn’t get hurt? Grow up and get use to the fact the Dawgs will be in contention for the national title for the next few years.

By UKman

January 2, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

i think the dogs should be glad they didnt play USC.if they would have won the sec,then ,yes they should have played in the big dance.

By Breaking News!

January 2, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

this just in! the United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon has issued a press release stating that the whole world is not, and I repeat, is not picking on the University of Georgia football team. there will be a press conference at 4 pm est. however the representative from Kazakhstan did make a couple of taunting gestures.

By Doggonegadawg

January 2, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

Seven straight to end the season over five ranked teams. Can any other school make that claim? Sic ‘em.

By Gandalf, the Grey

January 2, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

Without a SEC title, they got the bowl they deserved.

They won, but they had nothing to gain, everything to lose….

I expected a bit more class, Richt is a cowardly bully.

By headknocker

January 2, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

What a great game!!! I won’t even start to come down until next fall, then I’ll get pumped all over again thinking about the prodigious talent coming back in the fall. If we were in any other conference we would be a LOCK for the Nat’l Championship game next year in Miami. As it is we have to go through Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn and Florida (not to mention Vandy, SC, GT, and those others who hate us). That’s OK because it is clear the only path for the Dawgs is through the conference championship. That should be our only goal for this coming year. Win the SEC and dare them to leave us out of the Championship game. If they do the little credibility they have left will be shot.

Oh yeah- to Teck: HA HA

By HaHaHaHa

January 2, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

UGA played 8 home games this past year, many of them were against teams equivalent to high school teams then gets told to shut up when left out of the NC game. Do a better job next time and play tougher opponents and the BCS may let you play. Your team looked good only when it blew out the ‘nobodies’. Your team then gets a cream puff bowl opponent who almost lost to Tenn Tech, San Jose State and 4-8 Washington. Of course you were going to blow them out. Duke could have scored 41 against that tiny and very slow defense. The funniest thing is you guys think you team is a god send. Wait until after you 7 away games next year and see where you stand. I bet it will be in the high 20’s or out of the rankings all together. Get a clue fellows, you won’t get close. That is for the first tier teams. Not UGA and all of the other second tier programs.

By What we learned

January 2, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

After watching the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl yesterday, it is clear two things need to happen before the next season.

  1. Find some nerd to make the computer rankings work, because it’s obvious coaches and media should not be allowed to vote in polls. Ohio State’s only loss was to a team that got smacked by USC. LSU lost the #1 ranking TWICE to an Arkansas team that got spanked by Missouri and a Kentucky team that ended its season 8-5.

  2. Eliminate all historical tie-ins between conferences and bowl games. The Sugar Bowl can survive without an SEC team and the Rose Bowl can survive without a Big Ten and/or Pac-10 team. Just pick the best teams to create the best matchups.

Whoever wins on Jan. 7 will be called “National Champions” but they won’t be the best team in the country.

By Doggonegadawg

January 2, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

Hey Michaelgee: This is the BCS and the Sugar Bowl. Is Mark Richt responsible for the health and well being of the other teams QB? If his physical well being was in question June Jones is responsible to make that call and he did by taking Brennan out of the game. UGA cannot ask its players not to play at less than 100%. Please go find some rec league that emphasizes altruistic play, and please get off this blog. This is Div 1 ball we’re taking here. Oh yeah, they still don’t understand what that is in Columbia. Have you looked at Spurrier’s record on compassion for the other teams players well being? You are ridiculous.

By the Judge

January 2, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

I guess they teach this in school at UGA, but for KrisG, the UGA logic(boy that’s got to be an oxymoron) that two wrongs make a right is not sound thinking. just because Oklahoma or anybody else din’t deserve to get to the title game and went there unfairly in no way means that any other team deserves to go for the same reasons. things to remember that will helpyou out in the new year, two wrongs don’t make a right, if every other team jumps off a cliff your team shouldn’t do the same, and a bad example is not a good example. study those things and it will help you in life most every day. win, win , win, nothing else matters. if you lose games, you jeopardize your opportunity at the title game, no matter who you are.

By headknocker

January 2, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

To Scott and T -

Shut the hell up. You play the team on the field. To suggest that they let up or play half speed because the other guy can’t keep up is an insult. That nonsense about “respect” is beyond absurd. In high school football you have divisions. If the 5A winner played the Single A winner would it have been fair? Well that’s what you saw last night, only the BCS apparently doesn’t realize that the WAC and the SEC aren’t equivalent. If they had locked the WAC out they would have complained that they were “unfairly” locked out of the BCS. The exact scenario has happened in the past with the WAC. The only choice available is to play the team that shows up. T - I think the UGA fans coaches and players made it quite clear after the season that they felt they should be playing a bigger team than Hawaii, the BCS disagreed so UGA played the team that showed up. You think we shouldn’t get excited because Hawaii wasn’t good enough!!! Geez- several “experts” picked Hawaii to WIN. If the Dawgs had only won by 7 you two would have been the first to blog that the low margin PROVES Georgia didn’t deserve the accolades they have recieved (and doubtless will continue to recieve through the off-season). So -STFU

By Doggonegadawg

January 2, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Hey HaHaHaHa: What BCS formula are you using when you say UGA should schedule tougher opponents? Please tell me which of these ranked teams that UGA beat does not count?: Oklahoma State, Alabama, Florida, Auburn, Kentucky and Hawaii. And the two losses were to ranked teams. Who do we need to add to make it legitimate in your eyes?

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

this is all great!!! We have more confirmation now that ever before that most fans from other schools are completely stupid and jealous. Please keep it coming, this is truly making my New Year a great one. JUDGE- saying the same thing over with less clarity makes you look even more stupid. God help us if you really are a judge (which I doubt, although with our skills you probably are one of those liberal judges). I will be holding my breath for your next words of wisdom. Please continue..

By J.D.

January 2, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Hey B&K did someone pee in your corn flakes this morning you whiner? What has your racist crap got to do with the game? You want to see a racist go look in the mirror you hypocrite! The Dawgs won and they won BIG just so little whiners like yourself couldn’t say they didn’t win by much. We didn’t run up the score if we wanted to run up the score we would have left our first string in and it would have been 60-3. Now all you little whiners complaining about Georgia and it’s greatness get use to fact we will be in contention for the national title the next few years even though the press/media,coaches and the BCS system will do everything they can to keep us out. I predict two perfect seasons in the next two years. Whine on that for a while you crybabies and sore losers!

By GTfan

January 2, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Congrats to a classy coach and a very talented team from a GT fan. The win was deserved. Hopefully next year the match-up will be more equal. There shouldn’t be as many mismatched bowl games as there was yesterday. Best of luck next year.

By GTrazer

January 2, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Wait, does anyone other than Schultz actually think that the NC game should be USC vs. UGA? ‘Cause that’s the first I’ve heard of that.

By the Judge

January 2, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

I repeat things cause I was always told you have to a UGA fan something several times before it starts to sink in, you see ya’ll have a lot of entitlement issues. but anyway, two wrongs don’t make a right, what happened with Oklahoma in the past was wrong. so using that same logic won’t make it right for any other team to go to the NC. oh yeah, and a bad example is not a good example. and like in another post, if there was a playoff system, UGA would not have even been in the mix for the BCS championship. they would have only taken division and conference champions. oh yeah and did I mention, two wrongs don’t make a right. now go make sure your shirt matches your shoes and the rest of your ensemble, you want to look good when your dancing like a fairy, this is football Nancy!

By headknocker

January 2, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Hey Judge-

If you really are a JUDGE you should understand the concept of precedent. All the UGA fans are saying is that the BCS should be consistent. If OK gets into the title when it doesn’t win the conference championship why can’t the Dawgs? All we want is a little consistency.

By the Judge

January 2, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

calling me a liberal cause I don’t automatically agree with you and then you probaly say you are a patriot and are for freedom, doesn’t sound like it. plus if I’m a liberal I bet that means you voted for George Bush, now who’s the stupid one?

By Braves Fan 79

January 2, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Congrats to Hawaii for a great season, as someone who loves underdogs i was rooting for them to make it close. Plus i like June Jones because i remember his old Falcons days…so ive enjoyed watching Hawaii’s exciting offense for years now.

The USC and UGA game should prove to everybody that college football will never be right without a playoff system! This system is a JOKE..and ruins it for the fans, and the players!
Ive been saying this for years, glad others are finially jumping on the bandwagon… As it stands right now…. COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS A JOKE!!

By VA Dawg

January 2, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

Why do Dawgs haters visit this blog? They all should be ignored because most of their arguments are ignorant. LSU has two losses including their final regular season game. Previous non-conference championship winners have played for the NC. Lee Corso is an imbecile and Herbstreit is worse. Holtz and May don’t deserve discussion. If UGA doesn’t get cocky and overconfident, next year should be very enjoyable for Dawg fans. This game was a no win situation. Preferably, I would have scored as many as possible, but I understand the class of Coach Richt. Dawg haters need to go away. I don’t visit Gator, Cocks, Vols, Sooners, or any other team blogs.

By SG

January 2, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

BCS is only designed to ensure that 1 plays 2. I agree, the other bowls have been less than interesting so far, and I would have rather seen UGA play USC, but that’s hardly the BCS system’s fault. You really think “There are many who believed that the Bulldogs and Trojans, not LSU and Ohio State, should’ve been matched in next week’s BCS title game”? Then why did every poll have those two teams listed 1 and 2? UGA was #4 and #5 in all polls, with just a single first-place vote in the AP poll. The “many” must have been limited to UGA and USC fans. A playoff system is the only hope for meaningful change and interesting games.

By JayB

January 2, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

This blog gets longer and longer and the thing that interest me is the amount of banter from NON-UGA fans. I realize that FL and GT lost their respective bowl games but stay off OUR blog. Fellow fans let’s be realistic. If there was a playoff we would either play in the Championship game or win it all. But there is not. We are stuck with this system and it will probably never change significantly. That said, we have just about everyone returning, a top 3 recruiting class (hopefully we can snag that cornerback from Miami) and we should begin with a Top 5 (maybe Top 3) ranking. This will be one of the best UGA teams ever. Next year is THE year. We have waited and the time is now. Also, I would PERSONALLY like to apologize to Coach Martinez. I bashed him and I am man enough to admit when I am wrong. Oh yeah, Hawaii may have been overmatched but they were a really good team. Their problem was that they played a GREAT team. GO DAWGS!!! (I am the REAL Jay… so you other BUMS stop posting with my name).

By FanMan

January 2, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Yeah, like the opinion of the New York Times is worth anything and I don’t even know what they had to say one way or the other.

By NC Dawg

January 2, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

next year we should all wear black socks to the football games and have the team do a line dancing exhibition after every score!

By TDF

January 2, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

Sounds like Jeff is saying that it does not matter what happens during the regular season. If a team loses two games and didn’t even compete for the conference championship, then they should still play for the national title. If that’s the case, then let’s just skip the regular season and go to a round-robin playoff beginning with week one.

By Jumbo

January 2, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

LSU fan here and I wanted to congratulate the Dawgs on a dominating performance last night. I think the final polls will be as follows if OU beats WVa:

LSU/Ohio State OU UGA SoCal LSU/Ohio State

If OU loses then I think UGA will finish 2nd. However it wouldn’t surprise me if the pollsters move SC in front of the Dawgs.

I think UGA will be ranked 2nd or 3rd in the preseason in August.

By Braves Fan 79

January 2, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Unfortunatly for all the hardcore UGA fans next year a PAC 10 team will go undefeated …probably USC…and a team will go unddefeated and win the weak Big 10 and end up #2. Meanwhile UGA will loose 1 game where something goes wrong and will once again be left out of the championship game…even thou they will probably better than USC or OSU!

And once again the BCS will prove to be TOTAL CRAP!! How could ANYONE be a UGA fan and still support a no playoff system!?? How could anyone be a College Football fan and still support a NO playoff system!?? Shoot how can ANY sports fan be a fan of ANY system that year in and year out produces NO TRUE CHAMPION!!

By NC dawg

January 2, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Judge, thanks for the comfirmation of your liberalness and your incompetence, just as I suspected. And yes, I would vote again for GWB over John Kerry anyday. Lets not make this a political debate, you don’t want to go there. However, please continue with your silliness…..

By the way, your point still makes no sense, but keep stating it. Maybe next time I will get it.

By LaughingAtUGA

January 2, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

So you defeat an overmatched opponent, an opponent that Appalachian State would have beaten, an opponent that many a Dawg fan said was not worthy to play in the Sugar Bowl, and suddenly you act as if you defeated the #1 team in the country? Next year you are the hands down favorite to win the MNC? If you believe all that crap, not to mention Jeff “I’m still high from New Year’s” Shultz’s embarrassingly gushing article, then I have some Florida swampland that would peak your interest.

UGA fans must remember that any SEC team would have whomped poor Hawaii - I’d be willing to bet that Ole Miss would have been able to tag 41+ on the Warriors. Enjoy your win while you can, because when September rolls around, the SEC schedule will bring the whiny Dawg fans back out in droves. chuckle

UGA fans should be p** off that they only scored 41 pts and only outgained an overmatched Hawaii by 28 yards. But I can only hope that the UGA football squad is living under the same illusion that their fans are obviously captive to.

By UGAOSUFAN

January 2, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

Boy, I was so thrilled to watch my DAWGS last night from the comfort of my OHIO home. I love the Bulldogs and the Bucks and I was really wishing it would be them in the Sugar Bowl this year. OSU wasn’t expecting to play in N’orleans this year. We thought we were going to the Rose Bowl. Stop your belly aching, next year Georgia will be ranked 1 or 2 for sure. Then you will hold your own destiny for the BCS title. It wil happen. All you are so sue LSU will win. We will have to wait and see. I will be cheering the my the Bucks though and you will be sitting there whining about how unfair life is……. remember you didn’t win the SEC so of course LSU would be the top pick from your division. Though I would like to see a title game for the BIG Ten too, but it would be the same 2 teams every year.

Love you guys, and Michigan SUCKS

By headknocker

January 2, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

in other words we want things to be consistently wrong.

By Shoulda coulda woulda

January 2, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

The only statement the mutts made is that they would have won the WAC! I hate to break it to the delusional mutts, but beating a team whose toughest opponent was Boise State doesn’t scream national championship material.

By Rob L

January 2, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

Those announcers were ridiculous last night… A shame CBS didn’t have the rights to that massacre.

By UGA-SeaOfRednecks

January 2, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

UGA & Texas would have been a much more enjoyable matchup. As for whining…UGA lost to South Carolina and Tennessee during the reg season…deal with it. YOU DID NOT DESERVE TO PLAY IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!

By the Judge

January 2, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

don’t like Kerry either, don’t like politicians at all, independent if anything, people who believe in politicians probably believe in the tooth fairy, too. both sides play us against each other and people keeep buying into it, the whole while this country slips a little every year because of it. I am a honorably discharged veteran, how ‘bout that, a patriot that’s actually done something for their country, and I’ll never use God, the flag or children to manipulate anything for my own personal gain. we should all be Americans first and political party memberrs last. but I understand how it goes, in the past few years, anybody that doesn’t automatically fall inline with the BS will be labeled a wimp, a traitor, a fool or a wimp. and that to me is not America.

By N.C. dawg

January 2, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

there is no im-poster. I am the real NC Dawg, as my many posts validate. But for you,(the other NC Dawg), I will change. I will now be N.C. Dawg to avoid confusion. I certainly don’t want someone else having to argue for me.

By braint

January 2, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

Just like Illinois had no business playing in the Rose Bowl, Hawaii had no business playing in the Sugar. And watch, LSU is gonna roll Ohio State. Bigger , stronger, faster, and Ohio State played no one this year. USC and Georgia should get their shot at LSU for the National Title. Is it that difficult to understand? No one plays in December so set up a playoff. It could be the “Sugar Bowl Semi-Finals”, etc. Switch up the Title name every year. What is the problem?

By Still443

January 2, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

Please, would everyone get off of Hawaii’s back? They’re definitely one of the top I-AA Teams in the nation…. I think Ga.Southern will make a much better showing against Georgia in next season’s opener.

Hate to break it to you Shouda coulda woulda…, but Georgia would have beaten anyone last night, no matter who they played. You’re the one that’s delusional if you think otherwise.

By Why I Hate UGA Fans

January 2, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

You move to ATL or pretty much anywhere else in GA and the Dawg fans expect you to adopt their team…why? Probably because your state has only 2 schools that are even recognizable to the rest of the country…

By 59bulldawg

January 2, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

I’m not going to argue against the fact that if Georgia had won all of its games, much of its current unhappiness with the media driven polls and BCS System would be mute. I think, perhaps, sometimes the better team loses and most certainly sometimes good teams don’t always play well early in the season. I think Tennessee is a good example of this. They’re as talented as anybody in the nation but got whacked hard against Florida. Then they humiliated us … but despite other setbacks they eventually played in the SEC title game where they outplayed LSU and would have won but for the play of their quarterback. But they overcame even that and bounced back well to beat a very good Wisconsin team in their bowl game. Georgia is another example of a team that traditionally does not always play well against good competition early and if we ever win another NC we’ll most certainly have to get over that hump. But using the excuse that winning the conference or at least playing in the conference championship game is a prerequisite for playing in the NC game is ludicrous. That might apply in most years but this past season was unique in that so many of the top 15 teams not only moved up and down but did so often on a weekly basis. Georgia should have been selected to play Ohio State in the BCS title game … not LSU who, depite playing an extra conference game, also had two losses, was less consistent down the stretch, and jumped over the Dawgs from several spots behind in the final regular season polls despite the fact that Georgia didn’t lose. And Georgia’s claim is just as strong as that of Ohio State who had one less loss and played a much weaker Big 10 schedule. The BCS folks certainly didn’t seem to hold it against Ohio State that it’s conference doesn’t have a championship game. True Tennessee whacked us pretty good in Knoxville and SC beat us early in Athens but the conference championship meant less this year than usual because of the comparable records and rankings of the teams involved as compared to Georgia. I’m not debating the fact that Tennessee and LSU should have played in the SEC championship game. They both won their respective divisions and Tennessee won head to head against us. But both teams were ranked lower than the Dawgs when they squared off against each other. Then when Missouri and West Virginia, and I hope I remembering this correctly, the number one and two teams in the nation lost, the number three and four teams, Ohio State and Georgia, should have assumed the top two spots. LSU was number five in the AP and number 7 in the Coach’s poll. It’s almost as if the polls sudenly realized … oh s** … maybe we should rank LSU ahead of Georgia because LSU actually won the conference title game. Although that makes some sense in most years I don’t remember the conference championship being a prerequisite for playing in the NC game especially when the records of the teams being compared are so similar. Yeah I know this line of reasoning has weak spots but it’s no worse than the reasoning that LSU or Ohio State belong in the game more than Georgia, and certainly just as logical as this flimsy BCS system with which college football is currently shackled. Please understand that I’m not claiming outright that Georgia is the best team in the land … only that in the system devised for crowning a national champion, truly exceptional and in my opinion questionable poll rankings and BCS calculations derived the Dawgs from a shot at playing for the NC. Thanks to that, the BCS title game, which was designed to settle the question of who is the true champ, will settle nothing. This unfortunately is not an aberration but instead an unfortunate trend. No matter how much they tinker with it the BCS will never have the finality of a playoff system. Not only does my team get screwed but the ultimate winner of the BCS championship game will forever be plagued by skepticism. College football needs a playoff system tailored somehow to the bowl system already in place. But whether you are friend or foe to Georgia football, complaining about the current system of crowning a national champion in college football should not be construed as whining. Georgia’s claim to thinking it should have been in the BCS title game is equal to some, better than most, and just as good as those who are actually in it. Georgia may or may not have beaten Ohio State or Southern Cal or Oklahoma but then again we’ll never know for sure will we? I do think that either of those matchups would have been more competitive and certainly more interesting for all sports fans than either the Rose Bowl or Sugar Bowl matchups we got thanks to the BCS and Bowl Committee folks. Unfortunately for college football, and this year especially for Georgia, the BCS is simply FUBAR!

By N.C. dawg

January 2, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Judge, thanks for your service and I do agree with you about the politcal atomsphere. My “labeling” of you is in response to your posts, which I disagree with. You can be a liberal and be a nice person, heck I am married one (but she is converting, haha). I will forgive you now, but your guilty sentencing from earlier still applies, enjoy watching UGA in 08 dominate.

By GODAWGZ

January 2, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

The national championship is a myth. The DAWGZ are the national champions as far as I am concerned. Just beat the only undefeated team in the land by 31 points that’s good enough for me!! WHAT??? I am sorry, I don’t hear any arguments…

By FanMan

January 2, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

TO: Dr Morpheus

Just for the record I was a Dawgs fan until all the whining started. You see, I learned a long time ago to separate emotion from fact when making arguments and in this case the facts support UGA being in the Rose Bowl but NOT the BCS title game. As stated earlier, when you don’t win at least your division you have not won anything so why do you think that team would deserve to play for the national title? Look at it this way. The Dawgs lost to SC and what bowl did they play in? Oh, sorry. The also lost to Tennessee who lost in the SEC title game and then struggled to beat a so-so Wisconsin teamin their bowl game. How does that make UGA the team to play for the title? Maybe they do not teach Logic at UGA because to my way of thinking it does not make UGA the team to play for the title. By the way, I got an A in college Logic as well as in Probability and Statistics. Also, just because someone has an opposing view does not mean they are “hating” on anyone. One more thing, my school won their bowl game so I am very happy and that clears up any thought I might be Tech grad. :-)

By Hey there

January 2, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

I know a lot people feel with UGA schedule next year, which is really tough, Won’t go undefeated. I don’t think you’re going to see anymore undefeated teams in the BCS anymore. There is too much parity in College football. UGA definately won’t go undefeated in the SEC, but neither will anyone else. So the top rankings next year will be very important.

I think it proves after what happened to LSU this year, that UGA needs to stay close to #4 or #5 and make it to the SEC title game. you win that game ranked no worse than #5, you will get to the BCS title game even if everyone ahead of you wins.

By Kent

January 2, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

Georgia looked pretty good beating a non-BCS conference team, but for all their post game posturing (‘We’re #1 and everybody in the country knows it’)let’s not forget one point: they’re not even #1 in the SEC.

By val38

January 2, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

NCdawg - I am not a Georgia hater. I live and work in this wonderful state and support all the teams from our state. (Shout out to Valdosta State for winning the national title!) I was just stating the facts about Georgia’s season this year. They had two upsets that hurt them and everyone in my part of Georgia is complaining about not playing in the title game, so I am just listening to the Georgia graduates and fans aroung me. Your anger you display in your entries with nasty language and name calling is terrible.

By Villa Rica DAWG

January 2, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

I cannot wait until 8/08!

DAWG haters, go away.

By Carl Wolerski

January 2, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

I’m not a DAWG fan, but they will be undefeated in 2008! WOW! They will play for and win the BCS championship game in 2009!

Will Knowshon leave for the NFL after this coming year?? He’ll win the Heisman and UGA will win the Championship!

Any thoughts on this? Knowshon leaving for the NFL is our only hope for the rest of the SEC East!**

By N.C. dawg

January 2, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

Val38. I think this “everyone” is complaining about not being in the NC game is being blown way out of porportion. I know a lot of fans, not a single one of them truly believes we did enough to get in, me included. However, none of the other teams did either. My “anger” is directed at these jackasses on this thread who are jealous and ignorant and I apologize if I confused you for one.

By wildbill

January 2, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

The DOGS were the class team of the day. GREAT JOB all around. I also liked the coverage of UGGA and the pic of him getting after the Auburn player some time back. Yep, the dawgs are the complete package, coaches, players, mascot, and the prettiest cheerleaders in the USA. The band is great too.

By chazz

January 2, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Addendum:

Spurrier would have put up 70 points against Hawaii, made no apologies in doing so, and probably complained about the officiating in the process. Richt could have run up the score if he wanted. Instead he was giving a lot of guys a chance to play well in a bowl game. Besides, Hawaii is a still a team that can score 30 points in a quarter if you go soft on them.

By Bob Mills

January 2, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

For the first time since joining the Bullog Nation in 1993, I felt sorry for a team having to play the Dawgs. Hawaii is a wonderful state for vacationing, but I wouldn’t want my son to play football there if he’d ever have to face Georgia. Hello, Beach Volleyball; Aloha, College Football.

By I Told You S0....

January 2, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

Hey all you DAWG editors out there: Quit responding to that SCOTT character. Have you given any thought that he has been “set up” to make out these stupid statements and think about this - IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE AJC WRITER WHO STARTED THIS BLOG. Someone had to do it just to get under our skins. Who else better than JS? So just let it go - DON’T RESPOND…Thanx.

 

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