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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Monday, January 14, 2008
USC, UF getting more love than UGA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As most of you already know, Georgia has gotten a lot of nods as the super early preseason No. 1 football team in 2008, including one from own Tony Barnhart. If you sincerely believe those prognostications, then you should put some money down on it in Las Vegas because you can get some pretty good odds right about now.
I say that not because I’m promoting gambling, but only to point out that the guys in Vegas seem to believe the odds are better for somebody other than Georgia to win the BCS national championship next season. In most cases they cite the Bulldogs’ treacherous schedule as the main reason UGA will come up short.
An outfit called sportsmemo.com has made the Bulldogs 10-to-1 odds to win it all. That’s not bad but it’s also behind Southern Cal (3-1), Florida (6-1) and Oklahoma (8-1). For what it’s worth, defending champion LSU comes in at 12-1, as do Ohio State and Texas.
Bodoglife.com also has the Trojans at 3-1. That group has Georgia, Florida and Ohio State all at 6-1 - the lowest odds I could find on the Dogs - followed by LSU (10-1), Texas (12-1), West Virginia (12-1) and Virginia Tech (15-1).
In fact, most of the gambling sites I looked at had at least a team or two ahead of the Bulldogs and Florida was usually one of them. If it comes to pass that the Georgia and Florida are as good as everybody thinks they’re going to be, can you imagine how big that game World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party is going to be in October?
Anyway, Southern Cal was pretty much the consensus pick to win it all, according to the many sites I visited (and I looked at enough to get bleary-eyed). Based on the odds, they seem to figure they’ll play Ohio State or Gators.
So, once again, despite the early annointment by some some national scribes, Georgia doesn’t seem to be attracting similar love from the guys that put money on such things.
Who do you think is right? The Dogs definitely have a difficult path to the BCS title game. Then again, it is a championship-caliber schedule if you can negotiate. Is it way too early to even be thinking about?
What do I think? Ain’t touching it, fellas. Having reported on this game for a couple of decades now, I’ll just say it’s a long spring and summer before football season arrives and there is oh so much that can happen between now and then.
By the way, the BCS title game is in Miami next year. Wouldn’t that serve the Rose Bowl right if USC and Ohio State played in Miami?
Oh, and for what it’s worth, ticket and hotel packages are now available for the 2009 BCS game. True Believers may want to know.
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