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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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Coaches drop Dogs to No. 2
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So Georgia’s reign at No. 1 lasted one week. The Bulldogs fell to No. 2 in both the USA Today/Coaches’ and Associated Press rankings, which were released Tuesday. Southern Cal, which won 52-7 at Virginia Saturday, leapfrogged to the top spot. Georgia defeated I-AA opponent Georgia Southern 45-21.
Anticipating this, I had a chance to talk to coach Mark Richt shortly before the poll actually came out.
“That wouldn’t surprise me,”he said.
Asked if it’d matter to him, Richt said, “No, I don’t care. It’d probably be a blessing I’d think.”
The USA Today/Coaches’ poll is part of the BCS formula that determines what two teams play for the national championship. The AP, a poll of writers and broadcasters, does not.
I talked to several players at the press luncheon today and they, too, didn’t seem to concerned about it. Keep in mind, this was also before the rankings were actually released.
“The rankings right now are not too important,” said sophomore center Chris Davis. “I mean, it feels good to be No. 1 and you want to stay No. 1 the whole year. But it all depends on where you’re ranked in December. We’re just worried about Central Michigan eight now. It’s a good team that has the capability of beating us. So we can’t look at polls or this and that. We have to focus on Central Michigan and getting better.”
That was pretty much the same thing said by Matthew Stafford, Reshad Jones and Knowshon Moreno, who I also asked about.
I heard from a lot of you when I said this was a possibility. What about now that it’s reality? Were the Dogs wronged?
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