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, November 2, 2007
Everything is still possible for Dogs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
TGIF and hope you guys have a great weekend planned. You might want to start with coming to Athens for the Georgia-Troy game because it won’t be on TV and it promises to be a doosie. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Georgia won 24-23 or lost by a similar score. I’m not saying the Bulldogs’ level or vice-versa. It’s just that where the game falls and in the grand scheme of things I think it’s going to be hard for Georgia to come out and play real well and, conversely, I think the Trojans will be motivated like it’s their national championship game. All that said I still think the Dogs will take care of business but I wouldn’t show up expecting a blowout.
Sorry about no blog yesterday. I actually did one but, in my slammed state yesterday I forgot to notify our online folks to post it. Consequently it never saw the light of day. It was short and lame anyway. I was trying to come up with a cool nickname for Knowshon Moreno. I’ve seen “Special K” and “No-Mo” among others so I thought it’d be fun to see if we could come up with something better. Feel free to weigh in on that if you must.
Today I wanted to do the very thing that coaches absolutely hate for people to do and that is to look ahead. The Bulldogs have four games left and, believe it or not, every goal they had in the preseason is still possible. That’s amazing to me considering how badly they playeed against South Carolina and Tennessee. Losing to the Gamecocks at home — and I still think the Dogs were the better team — at this point will prove to be the bothersome splinter Georgia just can’t get rid of.
But, looking forward, the Dogs could very realistically run the table (acknowledging that Auburn will be a war as usual). Of course they would still need Tennessee to lose to either Arkansas, Vanderbilt or Kentucky in order to make it to the SEC Championship Game. But not making it to the Dome might not be the worst scenario for Georgia.
Think about it: Should LSU handle Alabama Saturday, run the table and represent the West in Atlanta, the Tigers would remain the highest-rated team in the SEC and a favorite to win the SEC title. I don’t think LSU would be a good matchup for Georgia or any other East team for that matter.
So maybe the best scenario is for Georgia and Tennessee to tie for the Eastern Division title and then for the Vols go to Atlanta and get their butts kicked by LSU. The Dogs already are the second-highest rated team in the league. If LSU somehow gets a berth in the BCS championship game, it’s not unrealistic that Georgia would also get a BCS bid and land in a very good bowl.
Granted, a lot has to happen between now and then, not the least of which is Georgia taking care of business against Troy this weekend. I’m not being delusional here. I still see the Bulldogs as a very flawed team and one that’s extremely fortunate to be where they are at the moment. But they are where they are and crazy things happen in this game, especially this season.
What do y’all think?
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