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, October 2, 2008
Vols or Vandy? Which looms largest?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So which of Georgia’s next two games concern you more?
Tennessee? Or Vanderbilt?
The politically correct answer right now, I guess, is Tennessee because, well, that’s the next game. And of course the Vols were the last team, before Alabama, to beat the Bulldogs.
But if Vanderbilt ever looked like a respite in the Alabama-Tennessee-Vanderbilt-LSU-Florida stretch of Georgia’s schedule, it no longer does.
Vanderbilt is unbeaten (Tennesee thrice-beaten). Vanderbilt is ranked No. 19 nationally (Tennesee unranked). Vanderbilt beat South Carolina by the same margin Georgia did (seven points). Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss, which beat Florida a week later.
Mark Richt had some interesting things, I thought, to say about Vandy on the SEC teleconference Wednesday.
“Your fans don’t want to hear you lost to Vanderbilt. And then they don’t want to hear Vanderbilt is a heck of a football team. But they are a heck of a football team,” Richt said. “They do have athletes; they do have speed; they do have what it takes to win.
“We played South Carolina, and South Carolina had just gotten beat by Vanderbilt, and everybody is like, ‘If Vanderbilt beat them, you guys should certainly kill them…’ I’m sure everybody was expecting Florida to kill Ole Miss because Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss…. But we got out of that South Carolina game by the skin of our teeth, and of course Ole Miss pulled the upset.
“Vanderbilt is not some kind of one-time lucky deal. These guys are legit.”
First, though, a week from Saturday, Georgia has to deal with that other team from Tennessee.
A few links for your perusal:
CBSSports.com’s Dennis Dodd finds it amazing that Vandy, Duke and Northwestern have combined for one loss, while Florida, Georgia and USC have combined for three.
SI.com’s Andy Staples on the effect of boos on Tennessee recruiting.
After Alabama’s big win in Athens, Sporting News’ Matt Hayes and Dave Curtis ask themselves if Alabama can run the table. No, they decide.
