UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Friday, October 19, 2007
SEC stats say Dogs are mediocre
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I was perusing the SEC stats today and I found an interesting trend when it comes to Georgia. With a few exceptions the Bulldogs rank right about the middle of the conference in almost every statistical category.
In fact, Georgia leads the SEC in just two stats, though they’re both pretty good ones — net punting and red-zone offense.. Conversely, they’re not on the bottom rung in anything either. Unless I missed something, being 10th in kickoff returns si about as bad as it gets.
In everything else, Georgia tends to falls right in the middle, usually between fourth and seventh. That is the case in the most important categories such as scoring offense (7th), scoring defense (4th), passing offense (7th), passing defense (5th), rushing offense (7th), rushing defense (5th), total offense (7th), total defense (4th) and turnover margin (7th).
With seven games under their belt, the Bulldogs (5-2) head into the last third of their 2007 schedule, which of course will begin with Florida in Jacksonville next Saturday. With all that data to consider is there any other conclusion to draw than Georgia is a middle-of-the-road/mediocre team this season? Is there any reason to think the Dogs will slip up and beat the Gators for the first time since 2004?
And speaking of the Gators, I’m not a gambling man but if I were I think this is one of those times I’d bet the house on them rolling Kentucky this weekend. After that big win over LSU, I’m thinking the Cats finally woke up about Wednesday after and said to themselves, “Man, we’ve got Florida in here Saturday.”
What do you think is the best scenario for Georgia in that game, that the Gators roll or that the Gators go down? With the Dogs having the week off, the best they can hope for is a good, old fashioned knock-down-drag-out. But I don’t see anything that tells me that’s going to happen.
Let me hear what y’all think. Let’s light up the board today. Whatever’s on your mind, let’s talk about it.
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