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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Which game matters the most?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bulldog fans have pretty much nothing but questions as we wait for Saturday’s renewal of the South’s oldest football rivalry.
Will Mark Richt finally try to take some pressure off his battered freshman quarterback by committing more to the running game? Will Georgia alum turned War Eagle defensive guru Will Muschamp counter that with more men in the box to try and force Matthew Stafford to throw the ball to his banged-up and not very reliable receivers? Will Richt immediately abandon the running game the first time the blocking fails and we get stopped for no gain? Will Georgia’s defense play like it did in Jacksonville or like it did in Lexington? Can the Dawgs finally make a key fourth-quarter stop? Can the Dawgs hold on to the ball? Is this the game where Auburn’s underperforming offense finally gets it together against an SEC foe (just our luck)? And what about Gordon Ely-Kelso giving placekicking a try for the first time since high school? Any chance he could end up the hero?
While we ponder those questions, another came up recently when a Bulldog pal at work and I were discussing Georgia’s football woes. A co-worker who went to another school asked us if we could have JUST ONE win out of the remaining games, which would we choose? We didn’t even hesitate. We’d rather beat the Jackets, we both said. With the Dawgs out of the SEC race, the home-state rivalry means a lot more, even if Auburn does sign much of its team in Georgia. Life in “the envy of the nation” is always happier when the Trade School types have been put in their place.
So what do you think? If we could only have one of them, would you rather squash the insects than beat the former Alabama Polytechnic Institute?
BULLDOG BITES: I see where the basketball Dawgs will be honoring teammate Kevin Brophy, killed in an auto accident last summer, by wearing a “Do It for Broph” patch with his No. 3 on it this season. They’ll also wear “Do it for Broph” spirit bracelets that will be sold in order to raise money for the Kevin Brophy Memorial Scholarship Endowment. Let’s hope all fans attending games at the Steg buy one and help out! … Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since that wild and woolly Georgia-Auburn game where Uga took a lunge at an Auburn receiver (resulting in one of the all-time great UGA sports photos that many of us have framed) and the Dawgs came back from a 21-point deficit and won it in overtime 56-49. I just wish we’d seen even the tiniest sign that this year’s team was capable of such a comeback. A showing like that in Auburn would certainly ease the bitterness over the Vandy-Kentucky losses this season. We can dream, can’t we?
