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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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Return to No. 1 could be a while
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, but there’s a good chance Georgia will not regain the No. 1 ranking until after the bowl games even if it goes undefeated this season.
The fact is, if Southern Cal beats Ohio State on Sept. 13 (the Trojans have a bye this week) they’re very unlikely to lose again. As long as they don’t it will be difficult for the Bulldogs to overtake them.
If Georgia also manages to go undefeated it will have negotiated a much more difficult schedule. But that doesn’t necessarily mean pollsters will adjust accordingly, not if they still believe USC is the more talented squad. Here’s the remaining schedules side-by-side:
Date —USC —Georgia
9/6— off —Central Michigan
9/13 —Ohio State — @South Carolina
9/20—off—@Arizona State
9/25,27—@Oregon State—Alabama
10/4—Oregon—off
10/11—Arizona St. —Tennessee
10/18 —@ Wash. St—Vanderbilt
10/25—@Arizona—@LSU
11/1 —Washington—Florida (Jacksonville)
11/8—California—@Kentucky
11/15—@Stanford—@Auburn
11/22—off—off
11/29—Notre Dame—Georgia Tech
12/6—@UCLA—SEC Champ.
As you can see, the Dogs appear to have the tougher slate (who really knows until we get well into the season). But strength of schedule is an undefined intangible in human polls and not directly accounted for in the BCS formula.
The best news for Georgia is it would be no worse than No. 2, and No. 2 is all that matters with the system such as it is.
Now some links:
CMU QB blogs
Not that one. Dan LeFevour’s backup, senior quarterback Brian Brunner, puts up a weekly blog on the school’s website called Blogging with Brunner. Say this for the kid, he has a good vocabulary.
Games were shorter
According to a study done by cfbstats.com and wizofodd.com college football games were shorter as a result of the new 40-second clock. There also were fewer plays so, effectively, fans were getting less action for their buck.
And finally …
Mark Richt launches website
That’s right, the Bulldogs’ coach has joined the ranks of most of his brethren and launched his own website markricht.com. He’s supposed to have a weekly blog but, unless I missed it, he hasn’t started that yet. Be patient. It takes time to download because there’s a lot of bells and whistles on it it such as music and videos. Overall, though, pretty cool.
PRACTICE UPDATE BELOW IN COMMENTS.
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