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By HW

December 4, 2007 9:04 AM | Link to this

Attention UGA fans!!!

Remember Boise St v OK last year

Do not under estimate the Rainbow Warriors

Hawaii wins 49-42

HW

By CommadoreDAWG

December 4, 2007 9:08 AM | Link to this

first

By Johnny Danger Dawg

December 4, 2007 9:08 AM | Link to this

LSU vs. Ohio State could be really boring. Tony said it “could be a blowout for LSU,” so why did he rank it the fourth hottest game?

By Johnny Danger Dawg

December 4, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this

Oh, also Michigan will get dominated by Florida. Might be a decent game for a half. When the Gators get up by 20, I think everyone will tune out except Gator fans.

By dawg-for-life

December 4, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this

There is no way hawaii wins this game.They are going to find out what its like to play with big boys.Dawgs 42-hawaii 13.

By Dawgsig

December 4, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

Tech is in the 25th ranked bowl and the Dawgs are in the best. I love it!

By TideOwnsYou

December 4, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

Alabama / Colorado last? That’s rediculous. Sure their records aren’t that great but both teams have won National Titles in recent times years and have been to the top of the mountain many times.

By Eric 2

December 4, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this

I’d rather watch an oil change at Super Lube than watch Georgia Tech vs Fresno State.

By JB

December 4, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this

I would like to see: UGA vs. USC Missouri Vs. Hawaii LSU Vs. Oklahoma Ohio St Vs. Fla. ( rematch) VT vs. Kansas WVA vs. Oregon Auburn vs Arizona St. Tenn. vs Texas Clemson vs central Fla.

These would be fun to watch !!!!!!!

By bdawg

December 4, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

By far the best matchup has to be Tech vs Fresno in the humanitarian bowl. I couldn’t be more intrigued with such a clash of the titans on blue turf!

By S. F. Head

December 4, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this

Alabama / Colorado last? That’s rediculous. Sure their records aren’t that great but both teams have won National Titles in recent times years and have been to the top of the mountain many times.

**Wonderful!! Let us know when The Bear sends in David Palmer and Jay Barker. Maybe your D can stop Darian Hagan and Eric Bieniemy.

((((SNORE))))

C’mon dude. No one outside of Greenbow, Alabama gives a crap.

By Cal

December 4, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this

Each of the BCS bowls has one interesting team in it. Too bad none of them are playing each other. Wouldn’t UGA/USC and OK/VTech be more interesting? Who cares about Illinois, Hawaii, Kansas, and WVU? UGA/OK would be fun too.

To me, the most interesting game looks like the Cotton - Ark/Mizzou. Will a mid-level SEC team beat a top Big 12 team?

By edawg

December 4, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

Whoever thinks a hawaii team that had one of the weekest schedule in the whole country actually thinks they can beat georgia really should stop drinking this early. Go to Charter or get help somwhere

By West Cobb Dad

December 4, 2007 9:41 AM | Link to this

VT vs. Kansas in the most interesting for the fact of seeing if Kansas is for real or not. The BEST match up is the Peach Bowl (oops, Chick-fil-a Bowl). Two pretty evenly matched teams that slug it out to the last possession. The ONLY reason UGA didn’t go to the Rose Bowl to play USC was because it would garner more attention and ratings than the LSU blow out game.

By ABB

December 4, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

I know I won’t be watching the Sun Bowl - I’m afraid Oregon’s outfits will burn holes in my corneas.

I WILL be watching the Sugar Bowl. Too bad Hawaii won’t be as intimidating as they used to be with the rainbows across their chests…

By disgruntled fan

December 4, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

Barnhardt is trying to suck up to the Sugar Bowl and kiss and make up with UGA fans by rating this game # 1. I am a big Georgia fan who did not miss a game this year and I am boycotting this game in person and on TV. I am not one of the delusionals who thinks we should be in the NC game. I simply think it is amazing that you can seperate all of the best teams and create zero compelling matchups when you could have had three or four epic games. Barnhardt is overrated as an analyst. This game is garbage. Boise State only beat OU last year because OU DID NOT CARE ENOUGH. Same could happen to UGA but it does not make the game exciting. BCS is awful and the Rose bowl committee must have comprimising pictures of the big wigs at ABC/Disney because the rating on that game will be nothing outside of the Chicago and LA markets.

By DAWGFAN

December 4, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

Sean Bailey and Thomas Brown have a HUGE going away party…dawgs offense gets the job done and wins big…the young pups on defense can play

By MURPHY

December 4, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this

IF THE BSC WANTED TV RATING,S THEY SHOULD HAVE PICKED THESE GAMES:

SUGAR BOWL: WEST VA VS HAWAII-THIS COULD HAVE BEEN 100 TO 101 IN SCORE.

I WONT DE A DEAD HORSE BUT UGA VS USC WOULD HAVE BEEN A TERRIFIC MATCH UP.PROBABLY THE MOST WATCHED BOWL?

TONY IS TALKING ABOUT FLA BEATING MICHIGAN TO SET UP A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RUN FOR 2008, ARE THE DOGS GOING TO BE IN THE MIX FOR 08?I KNOW OUR SCHEDULE IS MURDER.

Eric 2-GREAT COMMENT-I AGREE !

By G8TRH8TR

December 4, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

HW DO NOT FORGET how UGA destroyed Boise St two years ago when everyone was calling for an upset.

UGA: 36 HI: 21

By DWG

December 4, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this

Herbstreit keeps reporting that the Rose Bowl passed on UGA. Is this true or did the Sugar have first rights to us? I thought that since the Sugar lost it’s rep to the NC that they had first pick of the available SEC team thus making UGA unavailable. Can someone clear this up for me?

By Playoff

December 4, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this

We need a playoff!!!! The bowls are a joke outside of the ones that start around December 20.

September 20, 2008 all NCAA fans should wear black and walk out at half time to protest the lack of a playoff system. We’re calling it Playoff Saturday!!

Pass the word

By GaCracker

December 4, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

No Tony, the Dogs ain’t interested in playing Hawaii unless it’s in Honolulu in September! I wish the seniors would say they aren’t going, and maybe the rest of the team would follow suit. Spit in the eye of the BCS!!!

By LydiasDad

December 4, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

They’re all completely worthless. We learn nothing from them. The “championship” team may not even truly be the best. It’s just another weekend of games.

By Jim

December 4, 2007 10:03 AM | Link to this

Herbstreit is the one that was leading the charge against Georgia playing in the NC. He continued to talk down the lack of the SEC championship as the reason why UGA shouldn’t play in the NC.

We need a playoff system.

By DWG

December 4, 2007 10:03 AM | Link to this

People on here saying they’re going to boycott the game are a bunch of babies. Look, you play the hand you’re dealt. If the team has your kind of attitude we’ll get blown out of the stadium. Ya’ll are probably the same fans that wanted to fire the entire coaching staff after the UT loss. Get over it and support the team. Let’s hope we can bring another Sugar Bowl trophy back to Athens. Go Dawgs!

By ugavi24

December 4, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this

I agree that none of the bowls are great match-ups. The LSU-Ohio State game will be a joke again just like the national championship last year. USC-Ill game is horrible. USC will wipe the floor in this game by at least 3 touchdowns. The VT-Kansas game does not peak my interest. We all saw what happened to Kansas when they played a worthy team. The UGA-Hawaii game will be a joke in my mind too. The WAC is terrible. No one can play defense and thats why they score so many points. Georgia’s defense will give Brennan fits. Finally the OK-WV game. This could be a decent game but still it’s not something I look forward to watching. The best game possible for the BCS games would have been USC-UGA. Instead they put a 3 loss team in for tradition. This years BCS is by far the worst match-ups in the history. I could really care less about any of them!!!

By Herbstreit is Gay

December 4, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

Herbstreit will get his one day. His personal vendetta against UGA will come back on him when the Dawgs are dominating the next few years. I hope LSU kills his wussy Buckeyes.

I can only hope that he gets caught with a male hooker and catches AIDS.

By mcdawg

December 4, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

since the rose bowl punted-i have to give them a lame not just tame -Sugar is the sweetest, Citrus come close,Peach bowl got it right-Fiesta perhaps— Holiday bowl should be good-Music City got it right as did the Cotton-but Gator and Orange blew it (not impressed by VT at all)-BCS well i’ll pull for LSU but generally speaking pretty weak given the stakes

By LovemyDAWGS

December 4, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

I absolutely had to post this for all people who think Terrence moore is an IDIOT! Best writing I have seen to date on old Terrence! Thanks Saxon Dawg!

For the love of English, stop Terence before he writes again Reply

People criticize Terence Moore because of his views. It is certainly true that he is nearly always completely incorrect, whether he writing his own name or trying to button his vest.

However, I come to you today to proclaim that even if I loved his sporting opinions, he would still be the most horrendously stinking writer in this language since my dog ate and failed to digest a crayon. Terence Moore carves out prose in a way that can only be compared to Charlie Manson on the loose in Sharon Tate’s home.

I submit for your approval these samples from his current essay, unhappily found in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. This is, of course, his second attempt in as many days to taunt the Georgia fans for being left out of the BCS championship game. I challenge anyone to clearly understand this sentence upon first reading:

“So all of this wringing of hands right now around Southern Cal, Oklahoma and definitely between the hedges over the BCS placing Ohio State and LSU in the national championship game is substantiating a non-playoff system that always has been more heavenly than satanic.”

No writer who ever worked for me would ever submit such a tortured sentence and receive a second chance. Yet this scribe has worked for two decades or thereabouts in his present position. Are there no copy editors at the AJC? “More heavenly than satanic” is just horrendous composition. He is constantly using extreme, exaggerated terminology as a substitute for style.

And from the “What-the-hell ????” department?

“Just like those same Penn State folks could claim that, if Nixon were a dog instead of a human, he could have been a mascot instead of a president.”

If you understand anything about that sentence, we need to get you into detox. It may be reminiscent of the poetry of Ezra Pound, but you’re not supposed to achieve that accidentally.

Now for the taunting highlights. Terence, as most of us know, has been taunting the UGA football program and its fans ever since Coach Richt disappointed him by letting his players…um, taunt. Terence writes:

“Here’s why Georgia folks should kiss the hand of the BCS instead of spitting on it: Nobody ever can prove that Georgia isn’t better than LSU, which the Bulldogs aren’t.”

This the best ya got, Terry? A flat, talk-radio-style statement that goes undefended, and which fails to insult because every football pundit knows it is wrong? It’s pretty well established that we wouldn’t have lost to Arkansas a week ago. At least to those of us who can keep from getting Penn State, Richard Nixon, and dogs all tangled up in the same string of rhetoric.

More Terencian verbal flatulence:

“That’s why Georgia folks can feel good about themselves. They can whine forever over their perception of getting robbed of a national championship by the know-nothings involved with the BCS system.”

His alleged point in all this savage disembowelment of the English language: BCS controversy and confusion are GOOD things for everyone. The fact that Colorado and GT split the 1990 championship is a GOOD thing, in his addled mind, because it made both campuses happy, happy, happy!

This guy earns a salary. Sign me up. I should be good to go as, say, a brain surgeon

By Merritt

December 4, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this

Apparently Oregon State is the hottest of all teams. I noted in Tony’s article about bowl matchups they are playing in both the Sun bowl and the Emerald bowl. Their coach deserves a raise.

By GW

December 4, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

I don’t see many folks staying up late on a Thursday night after the New Years’ hangover watching Kansas-VT in the Orange Bowl. All other matchups appear decent with entertainment potential except the Rose by the 4th quarter.

By Makemyday

December 4, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

You people who say Boycott the Sugar Bowl are complete idiots and I hope you DO stay home so someone who WNATS to go can use your ticket! On the way home from Knoxville from the UT game, any one of you would have jumped at the chance of a BCS bowl. As a matter of fact, none of you would have believed we would be playing in the Sugar Bowl, so get over it and shut the HECK up!

By bdawg

December 4, 2007 10:26 AM | Link to this

As bad as the BCS is a playoff would be terrible for out of confrence matchups and instate rivalries such as Ga/GA Tech or Fl/Fl State. If a playoff system was intalled you would have to throw out about every bigtime out of confrence game and also shorten the season.NO team with a shot at the supposed playoff would schedule anything but cupcake games out of confrence for fear that their team would be too beat up having to play an extra three football games around finals time.

By scribe

December 4, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this

If you really want to change the system. Please do not watch this garbage. This is the only message the NCAA and the monopolistic espn will understand. BOYCOTT THE BCS

By disgruntled fan

December 4, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

DWG, Those boycotting the game are not “babies”. Spending money in New Orleans and watching the game on T.V. only allows this wretched system to continue. I have no problem with the greed of the BCS. What I do have a problem with is that you can be greedy and fan friendly at the same time and they don’t get it. Look at the NFL (greediest entity in the world but knows how to identify a champion, have high TV ratings and fill stadiums). A USC/UGA matchup makes the fans, the network and the BCS happy.So would USC/OU or UGA/OU. Of course the only solution is a playoff with 8 teams. Sure # 9 is gonna be p** but that’s too bad… I give a great deal of money to our great university and will continue to do so. I am simply stating that I am not going to recognize the bowl games as meaningful in any way. The system is a farce and I am not going to participate in it. I will be at every game next year just as I was this year. Until there is a playoff system, I will attend no games after the SEC championship and that is my prerogative.

By Larry

December 4, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

All the BCS bowls look like yawners with one team probably dominating the other. I think the best bowls will be the Chick-Fil-A, the Capitol One, and the Holiday.

By dawg man

December 4, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

How will Colt pretty boy be able to throw when UGA D-Line pushes the HI line 8 yards back every play? Also how will they score when TB and KM are running the ball every play? UGA 45- HI 17.

By dawg man

December 4, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this

Oh, by they way didn’t UGA Torch Boise State Year before last? WAC is wack Just ask Whitney!

By gtdave

December 4, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

As much as I hate to admit it, the greatest show on Smurf Turf is going to be horrible. Who wants to go to Boise for New Years Eve? I think Michigan/UF will be a good game if Henne and Hart are healthy, that game could be in the 50’s.

By aw

December 4, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

UGA’S game in the end will not make one bit of difference. If yall win, it wont matter because you beat a WAC team. If you don’t win big or if you lose it will justify why you were not in the National Championship.

Hell, even your coach agreed you shouldnt be in the title game because you didn’t win the SEC.

By dawgman

December 4, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

Les Miles gets a shot at the Buckeyes who have cleaned up on his (beloved) Wolverenes. Here’s his shot to humiliate the hated Bucs. And he will. Fun to watch! Second choice for best matchup is Auburn-Clemson. Must miss bowl is USC-Illinois, then Ga. Tech -Boise State…unless Miss I-D-ho performs at halftime or in Tech locker room.

By Bucks Fan

December 4, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

I love reading all the comments about how LSU is going to slauter Ohio State on Jan 7. If you all remember everyone was saying the same thing about Miami when we won the Natl Champ in 2002. Hell, everyone said OSU would steamroll FLA last year and that didnt happen. I think both teams have shown they have weaknesses and this years LSU team is no where near as good as last years FLA team. I believe it will be close but OSU gets redemption!!

By nopigs21

December 4, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

I’m a GT guy and our bowl looks like a stinker. I think the best game will be Clemson v. Auburn then Kent v. FSU. I’m also really interested in the UGA v. Hawaii game as the david/goliath game.

By LydiasDad

December 4, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Everyone admits the BCS is a joke, yet all of you will sit and watch them, and BCS will do the same thing next year. It’s your own fault. Quit watching this crap, and let the BCS folks know you’re sick of it!

By Frontman

December 4, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Here’s the skinny on the bowl selection process, since the AJC hasn’t thought it relevant yet: There are tie-ins in 4 bowls to conference champs - the Sugar to the SEC, the Orange to the ACC, the Fiesta to the Big 12, and the Rose to both the Pac 10 and the Big 10. The conference champs must go there unless they are playing in the national championship game (NCG). When one of the bowls with tie-ins loses at least one of its reps to the NCG, that bowl gets to pick a replacement team subject to a few limitations. In this year’s scenario, both the Sugar and Rose lost teams because it’s LSU-OSU in the NCG. When more than one bowl loses a rep, the order to pick replacements is: the bowl losing the #1 team picks first, and the bowl losing the #2 team picks next. This means that, since OSU was ranked #1, the Rose Bowl got to pick first. Rather than pick the highest BCS ranked team on the board (UGA) to play USC, the Rose Bowl chose to go all the way down to #13 and pick Illinois just so they could have a B1g 10 - Pac 10 matchup. The Sugar picked next and took UGA because they were from the SEC and were also the highest ranked team left. Now there are only 3 slots left to fill, in the Orange, Fiesta, and Sugar. Based on (believe it or not) the time slots of the games, the picking order was: Orange, Fiesta, Sugar. Also at this point, the available teams were WVU, Hawaii, and an at-large team. The Orange, picking first, chose to ignore Missouri and picked Kansas, at the same time locking Missouri out of a BCS games because of the two-teams-per-conference rule. That left two teams, WVU and Hawaii. The Fiesta chose WVU as the more attractive of the two teams. Since the Sugar got last pick, it got Hawaii. There it is - simple, huh?

By UGAFAN

December 4, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

Thank you for dissecting the torturous prose of T. Moore, LovemyDAWGS. The man has some serious issues when it comes to our DAWGs and writing a cohesive and understandable article. And I would concur with many of the posters that UGA vs USC would have been the number one match-up to watch. But I’ll still watch the Sugar Bowl and rout my DAWGs on!

By dawgfan07

December 4, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

Read the BCS rules—USC could only take us if the Sugar gave us up—and there was no way they would give up UGA to take another team.

By BucksSuck

December 4, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

The Buckeyes have NEVER beaten an SEC team. NEVER. That stat will remain after the NC Game. Ohio State is a complete joke. They play One Top 25 team all season and that qualifies them for the NC Game. That proves the BCS is a complete joke. 2 idle weeks and they move from 5th to 1st. With the a schedule so weak it rivals Hawaii. Ohio State should be barred from the NC Game for life because they never show up. Especially against the SEC.

By peter

December 4, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

terrence moore is a complete idiot. did anyone else waster their time reading that hatred he wrote today?

By ReggieATL

December 4, 2007 11:20 AM | Link to this

I really hope Terence Moore mentions Joe Hamilton in another column. Who would think that small talk with an obscure sports figure could generate so much print.

Classic Terence Moore idiocy: “here’s why Georgia folks should kiss the hand of the BCS instead of spitting on it: Nobody ever can prove that Georgia isn’t better than LSU, which the Bulldogs aren’t.”

Wait, you just said it can never be proven. Then conclude it to be so. In the same sentence. ARRRGH! The illogic makes my head spin so!

By toopier

December 4, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this

Frontman, you are wrong about the Rose passing over GA. The Rose was not allowed to pick from the SEC because the Sugar lost an SEC team. Look it up.

By Gary

December 4, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

Terrance Moore…so Auburn was undeserving of the title game at 13-0 because of a soft schedule? What about Ohio St playing no one currently in the top 25 in the nation and playing Youngstown St., Akron, and Kent St. this year. You think Ohio St. is deserving of a title game?

By ET

December 4, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

UGA v. Hawaii should be a good dress rehearsal for the UGA v. Georgia Southern opener next fall, assuming Coach Hatcher is still at Georgia Southern. Will UGA “black out” Georgia Southern, too?

By sbh

December 4, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this

Terrence moore is an idiot. He can’t write and misses the point of the controversy completely. Everyone knows that LSU should go to the awful championship game before the dawgs… the point is that this system rewards two mediocre teams and disregards eight other roughly equivalent teams. By offering a pass in saying that the BCS somehow got it right is insane.

BTW, what was his point about the 1990 championship? It was so poorly written I couldn’t really understand it. Was he trying to say that the BCS saved us from split championships? Ummm… 2003?

By Jay Freyensee

December 4, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

I just think Mark Richt is setting a bad example for his players, fighting for something they don’t deserve. Georgia got whipped by Tennessee, they did not play for the SEC title, they did not win the SEC title. Although some people say that he is getting paid to say “we deserve a shot at the National Championship”, he is also getting paid to teach kids the meaning of life, and the lesson he is giving is “we deserve a shot at something we did not earn.”

By asand211

December 4, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

The best thing about bowl season is hearing the dawg fans whine about how they received the shaft. You have two losses, one to a pitiful South Carolina team and the other to a mediocre Tennessee team and that latter beat the brakes off you. LSU is a better team and if they weren’t they would not be where they are and the conference champion. Your shot at LSU would have been in the conference championship which the dawgs were not good enough to make.

By RSat Penn

December 4, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

I rank the Alamo bowl best to watch. Both teams underacheived this year. they will both be loose and will try anything to win.

By deanh

December 4, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

I quit reading Mr Moore stuff about a year ago. UGA will win the SUGAR bowl this yer. I’m sure GA will remembers the last time they played. GA got upset by West VA. It won’t happening again. Coach Mark will have them ready to play this time around.

By Pitbull

December 4, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

It is really very easy to understand why the BCS bowls turned out like they did; to sell tickets.

The Rose Bowl will sell out with USC there.

The Sugar bowl will sell out with UGA there.

The Fiesta Bowl will sell out with OU there.

The Orange Bowl is in trouble as VT has to go and Kansas is a long way from Miami.

It is all about filling up the stadiums, not the matchups. Get a hint, folks.

By college fan

December 4, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this

The Sugar Bowl is The National Championship Game and The Number One Bowl! If an undefeated Hawaii team with the best offensive machine in college football beats what most people around the country believe is the best team right now in college football, then Hawaii Is The National Champion! By the same token if Georgia beats undefeated Hawaii decisively then Georgia is The National Champion!

And this from a Southern Cal fan from Wyoming! Georgia got SCREWED!

By Mark

December 4, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this

I, too, do not understand Terence Moore’s ranting against Georgia or Georgia Tech for that matter. To him, all teams are secondary to Notre Dame. The article he wrote last year about the Tech/Notre Dame game of the seventies and the conduct of the Tech fans was one of the most erroneous and biased articles I have ever read.

I have not heard that many Georgia fans complaining about not being in the NC game. Many just questioned dropping from 4th to 5th when two teams above you lost.

As for the bowls, our own Chik-Fil-A bowl did it right and they have the best match up. Florida-Michigan is good also. The Sugar Bowl is a no-win situation for the Dawgs. If they win, people will say, “It was just Hawaii.” If they lose, people will say, “How could you lose to Hawaii?”

The Humanitarian Bowl actually sounds like a nightmare.

By DWG

December 4, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this

Jay, there’s nothing wrong with what Richt is doing. You stand up for your team and lobby to get them the best shot at a championship. YOU say they don’t deserve it. That’s YOUR opinion. There is no rule against a non-confrence champ going to the BCS NC game nor should there be. What if UT, Oregon, BC, WVU, etc. all win the conf. title and finish outside of the top 5? The goal of the current system is to get the 2 BEST teams a chance to play each other. Of course this year it didn’t even work with only including conference champs. A playoff system is needed now more than ever because of the parity in college football. And I know Richt has said he agrees that a team should win it’s conference title to be eligible, but until that rule comes into place he’s going to fight for his team just like they fight for him on the field.

By Hal

December 4, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

UGA never gets screwed their fans just look that way.

By Mark

December 4, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

asand211…

Richt was simply campaigning when he said the Dawgs deserved a shot since they had been #4 and numbers 1 and 2 lost. I have heard few Dawg fans whining….just wondering…about slipping down a place when two above you lost. I think it is more fun to hear non-UGA fans getting on Dawg fans for something they are not doing.

By Frontman

December 4, 2007 12:03 PM | Link to this

Check your facts and I think you’ll find you’re wrong, Dawgfan. The Sugar gave up LSU to the NCG. They were not obligated to take UGA, but did so for the reasons I gave - they were from the SEC and were the highest ranked team available. It was a win-win for the Sugar. The Rose fouled things up for you guys by choosing Illinois over UGA.

By laughing at uga

December 4, 2007 12:03 PM | Link to this

daggie fans are so lame. Easily one of thw worst bowl games is uga vs the mighty rainbow warriors…what a joke. No one cares about this game other than ga. fans. If ga. wins they probably drop even further in the polls…if they lose, goodbye top 10.

By trailort

December 4, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

Get serious. I am Tech fan and would pull for Iraq against Georgia, but Hawaii is a joke. The hounds would destroy them with their fourth string.

By MURPHY

December 4, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this

MARK,

I WONT COMPLAIN WE DIDNT GET TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. MAYBE PLAYING AND BEATING HAWAII WILL BE GOOD FOR OUR PROGRAM BUT I DONT THINK WE COULD TOP THE RESPECT THE SEC AND UGA COULD GET FROM BEATING A USC OR OU FOOTBALL TEAM. IF WE WOULD HAVE BEATEN EITHER OF THESE TEAMS WE WOULD HAVE POSSIBLE BEEN PRE-SEASON #1 NEXT YEAR.

By Greg

December 4, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

Mark, You have to be kidding me! “I have heard few Dawg fans whining….just wondering…about slipping down a place when two above you lost.” That has to be the most hilarious statement I have ever heard!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

By Will

December 4, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

Good Bowls, Ga v Hawaii, Arkansas v. Missouri, Auburn v. Clemson, all BCS except for the Rose, they deserve to have terrible ratings. The National Championship Game will probably be boring unless LSU tries to throw it away like every other game they have played in the past few months. The game will be twice as long as a normal game because of the endless commericials and TV timeouts and will end after one in the morning, making work on the eighth really painful. Bad Bowls: Tech v. Fresno State (Big surprise here) UT v Wisconsin, Miss State v. UCF and every other Bowl before Dec. 30.

By The Truth

December 4, 2007 12:19 PM | Link to this

Herbstreit is still mad that The Dawgs whipped his hapless little Bucknuts in the Citrus Bowl in 1992. Man, you and Spurrier sure do know how to hold a grudge. Too bad it won’t matter next year when the Dawgs steamroll everyone on their way to a undisputed national title.

By JDW

December 4, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

Frontman you are correct that the Sugar did not have to take UGA, but the Rose could not unless the Sugar gave them up and that was a non-starter. Check your BCS rules

By Vince

December 4, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this

Tony, Again…you’re such a HOMER!

By Johnny Danger Dawg

December 4, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

USC will beat Illinois, but it might be closer than people think. This USC team is not as dominant as the 2004 or 2005 teams. Pete Carroll’s excuse for 2 losses is that Booty was playing hurt against Stanford and had to sit out the Oregon game. But USC threw 2 touchdowns in each of those games which is EQUAL to Booty’s 2-TDs-per-game average. Booty ain’t no Matt Leinart.

By blazer

December 4, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

PEACH IS ALWAYS GOOD! AUBURN VS CLEMSON

TEXAS TECH VS VIRGINIA

ARKANSAS VS MISSOURI

By daddyb

December 4, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

To all of you “Die-Hard” UGA fans out there. It’s not that you didn’t win the SEC Championship, you didn’t even win your OWN DIVISION!!! Quit using this as an excuse for the title match. You had 2 losses - GET OVER IT. You’re never happy, and I guess you never will be!

Go Hawaii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By georgiagirl

December 4, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

Number one-laughing at Uga you are just a jacka@@, plain and simple.

Number two-Any fan that boycolts their team are and will always be bandwagon fans. Now is the time that you stand by your team and show the jacka@@es, like laughing at uga and TM that they are just BIG A@@ES, poor babies have nothing better to do than put down UGA fans. Can’t get a date or something.

Number three-Be there for the BULLDOGS NATION and show your support. The hell with what the rest of the nation or ESPN jerks think of UGA. We are a good fan base and boyclotting only hurts the team not the jerks at ESPN or on this blog. And that what they are just jerks with no life. Now is time for the Bulldogs Nation to stand up and stand behind your team. UGA will take this game to heart and come out fighting like a Great Bulldog team. Because they have had enough of the jerks and a@@es putting us down.

GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO BLACK AND RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SIC-EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Not Important

December 4, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this

Terence Moore is such a fool. He would rise quickly in the Atlanta city government.

By ARdawg

December 4, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this

What a crying shame for college football fans every where. In this, one of the most exciting seasons in recent memory with so many #1’s and #2’s getting knocked off during the year, we have to settle for such bland bowl match ups. I hope they prove me wrong and all of them turn into exciting match ups but right now all I see on the richter scale for entertainment is the Chick fila, Orange and Cotton

By ARdawg

December 4, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this

JDW

Uh, I could be mistaken but I believe the Rose committee has first grabs at the BCS teams

By Same every year...

December 4, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

If one thing is consistent, every year THE BEST OVERALL BOWL GAMES ARE THE EARLIER GAMES BETWEEN THE AVERAGE TEAMS. Miss those games and you’ll miss the best games.

By jc_atl

December 4, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this

Ummm …saying the Tide won a recent national title is a bit dubious - it’s been 15 years Bammers, and you had to forfeit wins from the very next season due to NCAA violations. Two 6-6 teams is not an exciting game. I don’t want to visit Shreveport and I don’t want to watch it on TV.

By Mike

December 4, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this

The best matchup will definitely be the Chic-Fil-A bowl. They always seem to get the right combination.

As a Dawg fan, I have to say the Sugar will be the next most interesting for me. Given that UGA sometimes comes out flat, especially against teams they are supposed to beat, Hawaii might run up a few points before we react (hope not). This could either be a great game, or if UGA comes out fired up, it could be really ugly…We’ll wait and see.

As for the others, not much is intriguing, but I will definitely be watching as much as possible…Last college football til next fall. I will miss it!

By Drake

December 4, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

I’m really confused about the argument that, “You don’t have to be a conference champion to play in the title game”. Does it say anywhere you have to have a meaningful winning streak (being “hot) either?

By Mark

December 4, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

* Boycott the BCS. Don’t watch the games, don’t buy Tostitos, don’t use FedEx, don’t use Citibank, and don’t buy a new Nokia phone. Money is the only thing that can make a difference.*

By ARdawg

December 4, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this

Mike

I’m looking for the Dawgs to come out fired up and put Hawaii out of reach early. Too much to prove. I know Hawaii has a excellent QB and some excellent receivers but they haven’t seen the defensive quickness and pressure Georgia has become know for. Richt will have them ready and looking to play everybody. It’ll be fun to watch because I’m a born and bred Dawg fan. But I don’t expect it’ll be exciting

By PC

December 4, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this

Sun Bowl selection of Oregon is a sympathy selection, at best. They finished the PAC 10 season by losing 3 straight games. Granted, they didn’t have Dennis Dixon to carry them on his back. But the Bowl selection of the 4th place team in the Pac 10 is not putting the best Pac 10 team available on the field. Shame on them for making the offer.

By JB

December 4, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

To everyone blasting the Dawgs about Whining….Do you think a Georgia team would get 3 shots at the national title ? No. LSU has been # 1 twice this year and now will get shot Number 3. Do you think a Ohio State or USC team would not have been put in the game if they were 4 and two teams in front of them lost ? No. Who did Ohio St. beat in a Conf. Championship game last Saturday ? nobody.That’s the game they all wanted and by george they got it.

By disgruntled fan

December 4, 2007 1:14 PM | Link to this

Well said, Mark. Plenty of other snack foods out there, plenty of overnight carriers, plenty of mobile phone makers, and plenty of banks that don’t need middle eastern money to bail them out. Saving my money for the Georgia/ASU next year in Tempe.

By Greg

December 4, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

I am tired of people whining about bowls. If they were really mad, they would not watch the bowls until a playoff is instituted. The big college presidents are not going to change to a playoff system, because the BCS assures the bowl money will come back to big schools. Do you really think they are going to allow a more qualified school from a smaller conference to steal some of their money from the BCS pie? Of course not, unless the fans stop watching which they won’t because they are mindless drones who whine and do nothing to change the bowl system.

By ARdawg

December 4, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

Drake

It’s a non-sequitur. It’s not a rule but it really doesn’t matter. It’s just something pundits can use to further their agenda i.e. the team they want to see play. It didn’t matter in 03 when Oklahoma lost it’s conference by being blown out. Now it some how matters that Ga didn’t win it’s conference. I’m an SEC fan but I don’t see how LSU leaps over Oklahoma and USC with their late season loss to an unranked team. That is what use to matter. Doesn’t seem to anymore.

By ET

December 4, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Derek Dooley and Louisiana Tech lost to Hawaii 45-44 in overtime.

LSU beat Louisiana Tech 58-10, and Ole Miss beat Louisiana Tech 24-0.

Those hoping for the monumental clash of the century will be disappointed.

By DawgByte

December 4, 2007 1:21 PM | Link to this

TideOwnsYou

“Sure their records aren’t that great but both teams have won National Titles in recent times years and have been to the top of the mountain many times.”

Uh, hellooooooooooooo there is a reason for the ancient history! They don’t schedule bowls or even rate the interest of match-ups based on anything other than what you did this year. As a Tide fan just be happy you got a bowl bid instead of South Cackalacky. BTW - get ready for another Georgia beatdown next year in Athens. How many is that in a row against Bama? I hear 3 singing in my ear!

By pfffft

December 4, 2007 1:33 PM | Link to this

im lovin the belly achin from the big dawg fans. awwww we wanna play USC or OK. just cause you were 4th a week before the season ended and all the points from the conference champs were totaled. its like saying we were leading at halftime we should have won. give it up you got the sugar. and stop saying we wont buy potato chips or such, like a few hundred dawg fans can cripple the system. give me your tickets to the game, any of them, ill go. now i applaud your passion for your team but they didnt make the NC game based on the whole season of work. 1 game, vandy. you win that and you are favored over OS. but as it stands you got the sugar and a wac team they better take seriously. they will score on your D. the dawgs better not show up like WVA did with pitt or it will be embarrassing after all this trash talk. honestly i dont know how any of the 2 loss teams can claim to be the best in the nation. 1 loss maybe you had a bad day. 2 loses, naaaw. take the game given and use it to build on for next year. but for the love of god stop belly achin.

By Blind Homer

December 4, 2007 1:37 PM | Link to this

Rose picked first because they lost the #1 team to the NC game. They should have taken UGA and now will have a terrible game unless the losers at home to Stanford reappear. Everything before December 31 is pathetic.

By Frontman

December 4, 2007 1:51 PM | Link to this

JDW, please enlighten me. The rules obligated the Sugar Bowl to take the SEC champ (LSU). Once LSU went to the NCG, and the Rose Bowl picked before the Sugar, I see nothing in the rules that prevents the Rose Bowl from selecting an SEC at-large. The Sugar is not required to have an SEC team once the SEC champ goes to the NCG, and there is nothing that says one bowl has to ask the permission of another to take an at-large team. Sorry, but I think if you check the rules, you’ll see I’m right. Convoluted? Sure. But… the bottom line is - the Rose Bowl picked Illinois over Georgia, setting everything in motion. The Sugar couldn’t do anything about it. However, knowing that they were going to get the last pick, and knowing that it would be Hawaii, the Sugar condemned UGA to playing Hawaii by selecting them.

By Colton

December 4, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this

The best bowl will be the Chick-Fil-A Bowl. Clemson and Auburn are very evenly matched and it will be fun to watch.

By Scott

December 4, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this

Let me get this straight: People would rather watch two 6-6 teams play in a meaningless bowl game instead of watching a bowl game that advances one team to the next level of a playoff system? Is this the argument that Mr. Slive is trying to foist on us by telling us this current system is fine? Very few of these games will be worth watching outside of the campuses of the respective teams. And the ratings will prove that. Do they really believe there will be a national audience for USC/Illinois outside of California and Illinois? The same goes for quite a few of these games.
Now to something I haven’t heard, though someone may have mentioned it somewhere along the line. Am I the only one who thinks that Les Miles’ “we’re undefeated in regulation” is the most asinine statement in the history of college football? By his reasoning, the 1991 Braves should be co-World Series champs because they lost in extra innings. The BCS people should have eliminated LSU based solely on that ludicrous statement! If only there were a way to boycott Tostidos, FedEx, Nokia, and Allstate, we might someday get a playoff. Till then, it’s obvious that they just don’t care what the fans think.

By Jon

December 4, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this

Yet again the Chick-fil-a (Peach) Bowl is one of the best bowls in the country. It will yet another sellout for the game. Other bowls trying to sell tickets should use the Chick-fil-a as a model: Take 2 teams from geographically close conferences!! Unlike the Boise Blue Turf bowl taking ACC teams.

Go Clemson

By TrueRedDawg

December 4, 2007 2:03 PM | Link to this

No true fans will boycott anything. The people ranting were never going to the game anyway because they can’t afford it—can’t find tickets—or are too lazy to get up off teh couch and head their truck toward the east. They are like the so-called Tech fans who sold out their own stadium to the enemy on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. They aren’t real fans and the team doesn’t need them. The true Bulldog Nation will turn out in force and take over Bourbon Street. See you at Pat O’Brien’s on New Year’s Eve.

By Bowl'ed Over

December 4, 2007 2:38 PM | Link to this

Obvious bias here….your ratings are a joke.

By Uggga

December 4, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this

The Hawaii vs UGA game is just an opportunity for NFL scouts to take a look at Colt Brennan against some real talent

UGA 42 HW 28

By Michael

December 4, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this

The Dogs are going to a quality bowl — in the Sugar. I’m sure there are many good teams that would gladly change places with them. so Dog fans, quit complaining and be glad you’re team is going to a BCS bowl. Get em next year…

By steve

December 4, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this

16 TEAM PLAYOFF SYSTEM !!!

By pffft

December 4, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this

lol i buggered up 1 thing. i was having so much fun bustn on the whiners and another friend from SC. i confused the vandy one. u barely beat vandy. i meant the sc loss.

By jcfromindy

December 4, 2007 3:20 PM | Link to this

ANY BOWL WITH GEORGIA PLAYING IN IT.

CRY BABIES, GO SUCK ON YOUR BOTTLE! AND WAIT FOR HAWAII TO CHANGE YOUR DIAPERS. DOGS AREN’T READY FOR PRIMETIME!!!

By Go ILLINI!!!

December 4, 2007 3:25 PM | Link to this

This guy said: “BCS is awful and the Rose bowl committee must have comprimising pictures of the big wigs at ABC/Disney because the rating on that game will be nothing outside of the Chicago and LA markets.”

Of course, Chicago and LA are two of the largest markets out there, dimwit. I can tell you that the Illini nation will tune in…and its a bigger school than Georgia.

By Techfan

December 4, 2007 3:29 PM | Link to this

Honestly, the only thing that makes the Humanitarian Bowl remotely interesting is to see how different Tech plays with Tenuta at the helm. Otherwise, it’s one of the worst bowl matchups.

By toopier

December 4, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

Frontman and others: C. When two bowls lose host teams, then the bowl losing the number one team may not select a replacement team from the same Conference as the number two team, unless the bowl losing the number two team consents. this is from the BCS rules.

The Rose is stubborn and may have picked Illinois anyway, but they could not pick GA for a USC-GA matchup. No one knows the rules, including the writers at AJC. They started 2 weeks ago by saying that GA could not go to the Sugar. Obviously wrong. Not only could they have gone to the Sugar, but if WV or Missouri had won, they could have played LSU in the Sugar. THAT would have been a good game.

By The Murf

December 4, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this

Barnhart is the biggest homer at the ajc, what a surprise he has UGAy first

By JAMES STEWART

December 4, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this

To the techie fan. no coach no team no bowl lose money lose to Georgia every year. cost tax payer too go to loser bowl

By GTforever

December 4, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this

It’s going to be great when all these blowhard UGA fans are crying in their warm beer after they LOSE in the Sugar bowl.

By auburn suxs

December 4, 2007 4:03 PM | Link to this

All you HW fans will be gone off this board just like Boise ST. You have not seen a team like this…. You can call the score all you want but in the end it will be the DAWGS….We will take this pill and remember it next year.. UGA has to go undefeated next year then we don’t have to worry about the voters voting in their best friends aunt’s sisters team…. The BCS is a joke, we need a play off system and UGa and the coaches have been preparing for it ,by letting so many young guys play, so I say bring on the play off , because I will no longer believe the BCS can give us a true champ…. GO DAWGS SIC” EM RUFF RUFF …

By zvon

December 4, 2007 4:03 PM | Link to this

I didn’t know Oregon State had 2 bowl games. Is that a first? Check your list Tony.

By Aggie10

December 4, 2007 4:16 PM | Link to this

I don’t really care much, but this is way too homerish a list for me. Does anyone else think it’s weird that, with the exception of 6-6 Alabama being last, ALL the SEC teams playing are in the top half of these rankings?

Example: No one gives a crap about Miss. St. vs. UCF, and that’s #7? Come on… Not to mention #1 being Georgia vs. Hawaii, in an Atlanta newspaper… The BCS national championship should always be the most interesting game. With the controversy always surrounding it, especially this season, the point where the entire topsy-turvy season comes to a head is not even in the top 3. Get real.

By GODAWGS

December 4, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

If you have to win your conference to go to the BCS NC game, then I never want to see Notre Dame in there until they join a conference. PERIOD

By gt2bama

December 4, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

Just like all other AJC columnists, MCB merely shows his bias for the SEC by ranking each of its conference games (except bama, which must be on his disappointment list this season) at the top of his list…as most things published within the AJC, the MCB list is meaningless.

By gt2bama

December 4, 2007 4:36 PM | Link to this

GODAWGS - Unlike UGA and the rest of the SEC wannabes, Notre Dame is in an elite class of its own.

By CG

December 4, 2007 4:44 PM | Link to this

I like “Playoffs” suggestion “September 20, 2008 all NCAA fans should wear black and walk out at half time to protest the lack of a playoff system. We’re calling it Playoff Saturday!!”..see 9:53am posting. Everyone who is sick of this mess year after year let’s start the petition & get this thing rolling. The only people truly holding this thing up are the Big 10 & Pac 10 & if they don’t want to abide THEN LET THEM SECEDE!!!!

By 7straight

December 4, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this

GTForever will disappear after Georgia beats Hawaii by 5 TDs. He was the same dork that was on here guaranteeing that they would beat Georgia two weeks ago…and last year…and the year before that…and the year before that… What a loser!

By 7straight

December 4, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this

GTForever will disappear after Georgia beats Hawaii by 5 TDs. He was the same dork that was on here guaranteeing that they would beat Georgia two weeks ago…and last year…and the year before that…and the year before that… What a loser!

By Julia

December 4, 2007 5:19 PM | Link to this

Blah, blah, blah!! GO DEACS!!! (Wake Forest rules!!)

By ARdawg

December 4, 2007 5:19 PM | Link to this

I guess from only a math and engineering major from tech would a 3-9 record qualify as “elite”

By ARdawg

December 4, 2007 5:36 PM | Link to this

Aggie 10

Don’t get your panties in a wad. Atlanta Georgia is actually in the heart of SEC country. I doubt very seriously the columnist in the Dallas Morning News or LA Times are going to do much raving on the bowls hosting SEC teams. It’s a regional thing.

To answer your other question that is a no. Outside of LSU fans you most likely won’t witness much excitement concerning the BCS NC game. Quite the opposite was true last year when the Gators were in it. Most in the SEC felt they deserved a shot. Not many believe LSU should have a 3rd opportunity. It’s not sour grapes from a Georgia fan, I don’t personally believe they did enough to go but thats another topic.

By trojanfan

December 4, 2007 5:36 PM | Link to this

Just clearing something up for all of you that didn’t bother to read the rules. The Rose Bowl couldn’t have chosen UGA…plain and simple…here’s a copy of the rules straight from the BCS site…

“3. If a bowl loses a host team to the NCG, then such bowl shall select a replacement team from among the automatic-qualifying teams and the at-large teams before any other selections are made. If two bowls lose host teams to the NCG, each bowl will get a replacement pick before any other selections are made. In such case, the bowl losing the No. 1 team gets the first replacement pick, and the bowl losing the No. 2 team gets the second replacement pick. If the Rose Bowl loses both the Big Ten and Pac-10 champions to the NCG, it will receive two replacement picks.

A bowl choosing a replacement team may not select any of the following:

A. A team in the NCG; B. The host team for another BCS Bowl; C. When two bowls lose host teams, then the bowl losing the number one team may not select a replacement team from the same Conference as the number two team, unless the bowl losing the number two team consents.”

Feel free to check it out for yourselves at http://www.bcsfootball.org/bcsfb/eligibility

So if you think the Rose Bowl passed on UGA, you’re wrong…you can blame the Sugar Bowl for that awesome matchup against Hawaii.

By ARdawg

December 4, 2007 6:02 PM | Link to this

trojanfan,

That makes sense to me but wasn’t both the Rose and Sugar already committed to take the #2 team of conference if they were BCS eligible (if the first choice was in NCG) ? Meaning when #’s 1&2 lost last weekend, Illinois moved up as the #2 Big 10 and BCS eligible. Georgia finished as the #2 highest ranking SEC team and BCS eligible meaning Sugar bowl had dibs on them (if they choose to abide by it)

By gobucks4life

December 4, 2007 6:06 PM | Link to this

the OSU vs. LSU game will acually be something worth watching… ya the SEC always talks about how great there confrence in if they win its because there great if they lose its because there in the SEC give me a f*** break LSU has lost 2 games and the rest that they won werent even blow-outs…the’ve had no blow-outs all year. and i live go to alabama so i know the SEC and alabama should have beat them and i know from living here that there not that good.i also think everyone is forgeting the OSU has two of the best safety, the best linebacker, two of the best wide recievers, and one of the hottest up coming running backs in the NCAA. so watch for a close came… 28-21 OSU oh ya and to all yall who think you know whats going to happen Jan 7th, wasnt PITT supposed to get rapped bit WV? GOOOOO BUCKS!

By ARdawg

December 4, 2007 6:06 PM | Link to this

to clarify: If Illinois hadn’t moved up to BCS eligibilty, The Rose Bowl would have been free to choose Georgia because the Rose had first pick because they lost the highest rated BCS NCG opponent. The Rose bowl was bound to conference alliance because big 10 had a qualifier (Illinois)

By GTGreg

December 4, 2007 6:23 PM | Link to this

Nice research Tony… Tech in Boise for the second time in 3 years? Since the last time we played in Boise we’ve played in the Champs Sports (Citrus) bowl, the emerald bowl, and the Gator bowl. 2nd time in 5 years does not equal the 2nd time in 3 years.

By trojanfan

December 4, 2007 6:53 PM | Link to this

ARdawg…

What you have stated is incorrect. Read the rules again, the Rose Bowl could only have taken UGA if the Sugar Bowl consented, which they did not…therefore, the Rose Bowl decided to then stick with their traditional Pac 10/Big 10 matchup. The Bowls are only contracted to take the conference champion, if said champion is playing in the NCG, then they are free to choose a replacement following the guidelines I stated earlier. Even if the Rose Bowl wanted UGA, the Sugar Bowl would have had to consent… something they wouldn’t do if they wanted to make any money. I hope this clears things up…there’s really no “if that” or “what about this”…what I’ve said is directly from the rules found on the BCS page.

By Steve

December 4, 2007 11:52 PM | Link to this

gobucks- You have got to be kidding with your “no blowouts” description of LSU. A 48-7 win against an Orange Bowl-bound Virginia Tech certainly qualifies. “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” is going to be the new slogan for the BCS voters/national media after another Buckeye thrashing at the hands of the South’s Elite Conference.

By ja

December 5, 2007 1:22 AM | Link to this

I don’t know why everyone is upset that OSU played such a weak out of conference schedule. LSU played MTSU, La Tech, and Tulane which are all pretty weak as well. Pretty sure OSU would have dominated them as well.

By byjosh

December 5, 2007 6:55 AM | Link to this

You have the liberty bowl rated over the Rose bowl. Come on dude. You’re nuts for sure!

By oldfaithfuldawg

December 5, 2007 8:17 AM | Link to this

OSU-LSU. Smarter Buckeyes win late, dull. GA- HW. Dawgs escape in 4th. Frustrating. USC-ILL. Trojan bulldozier. WVA-OK. Sooner stomp. KAN-VT. Hokies give D lesson Again, the Chic Fil A has the best matchup of the bowl season in Clemson v Auburn. A slugfest that any football fan will enjoy. Auburn by a “nose”. Mcfadden over Daniels. Great game. Gators chase Carr out of FL. Tenn sleeps and misses loss to Wis. Expect one bowl record to be smashed as 924 fans show up to watch Tech muddle through Smurf Bowl.

By DawgFan

December 5, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this

No one cares what Tony Barnyard thinks, he’s horrible

By gdawginkalamazoo

December 5, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

About the only exciting BCS bowl will be maybe WVU v Sooners. But after PITT ? beat WVU Sooners may roll. VT will eat Kansas alive (see VT shutting down BC offense). USC how many will they win by is the question. UF v UM Carr might not want to coach this one. Chick bowl will be good very good. Akansas will show Missouri.

gobucks4life, you forget the X factor in this game. Miles is a Michigan man and HATES YOUR GUTS. Think he was gutsy/nutsy with half of his calls this year? Wait till your game. He will pull out all the stops and probably be even stupider than he was during the regular season. Try to embarrass OSU? He will make sure Carr and Michigan will know what they are missing out on.

By jim

December 5, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

What at Homer! Everyone in the SEC knows that the Hawaii game is joke. If UGA wins they were suppose to and if they don’t it will be like Troy beat them. I really thought you above that Tony…I guess not. This should get a good laugh from other parts of the country (mainly every other state besides Ga).

By Nick

December 5, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

I won’t be surprised if Hawaii puts points and yardage up. Especially in the first half. I think UGA’s defensive staff has been really good over the Richt years at making halftime adjustments (generally). But Hawaii’s virtual lack of a running game will telegraph every play to the D, especially later in the game. Georgia will figure it out and although give up some points (maybe 21-28) and some passing yards (300+) will also get 3-4 picks with Colt flinging the ball 50-60 times a game. Hawaii fans will have fun anyway I think. They seem like a fun bunch! But Dawgs win 48-28.

By junkyarddawg81

December 5, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

Boycott Crappy System = refuse to watch the Mythical National Championship.

Let’s make LSU-TOSU the lowest rated bowl game ever (even lower than the blue rug game) and maybe they will get the message.

Oh’ to have a play-off system in place! If little schools can do it I sure the big boys can too.

How about this? Final rankings to be determined at conclusion of regular season games. If conference chooses to have Champ game, must be played 1st Sat in Dec (no advantage, no harm in polls).

Top 32 ranked teams are set in pools with 1 - 8 being top seed of each pool, higher ranked is home team. All games played 2nd Sat in Dec. Home team to pay visitor’s expenses + $$$, TV revenue shared equally.

Next round is played the following Saturday with higher seed being home team. Home team to pay visitor’s expenses + $$$, TV revenue shared equally.

The Elite 8 games to be played on New Year’s Day. Each team’s expenses + $$$$ paid and TV revenue shared equally.

The Final 4 games to be play the Saturday that falls 7 or more days later.

So, there is the how, now for the where.

The Orange, Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, Cotton, & 6th bowl will host these games. (The 6th bowl would be determined in a bid process from existing bowls or a new location. Bid would be based on guaranteed $ amount). Bowls will rotate locations for the Elite 8 (1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6, 4 v 5) and Final 4 games (1v4, 2v3). Bowl committees will draw for which bowl gets which match-up.

Other bowls stay intact and can select teams not in the 32 or those eliminated in first two rounds.

True National Championship Game to follow on the following Saturday (this extends current bowl season by one week +/-) The location of the TNCG to be rotated among the 6 bowls listed above with no bowl having a Final 4 & TNCG in the same year.

OK there is the plan - someone make it happen PLEASE!

By bamadon

December 5, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

Georgia will beat Hawaii by 2 or 3 touchdowns. Bama beat the Hawaii team last year when Mike Shula was coaching the crimson tide. I do not think a 6 and 6 team like Bama deserves to play in a bowl game. I will watch the weed eater bowl and pull for Bama to win. ROLL TIDE AND MERRY x-MAS EXCEPT ROSWELL ED!!

By bamadon

December 5, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

Georgia will beat Hawaii by 2 or 3 touchdowns. Bama beat the Hawaii team last year when Mike Shula was coaching the crimson tide. I do not think a 6 and 6 team like Bama deserves to play in a bowl game. I will watch the weed eater bowl and pull for Bama to win. ROLL TIDE AND MERRY x-MAS EXCEPT ROSWELL ED!!

By Ray Goff

December 5, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

UGA will blow out Hawaii just like they took care of West Virginia.

By woody

December 5, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

Remember when big bad Georgia got beat by West Virginia?

Thats was funny.

By here_we_go

December 5, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

By TideOwnsYou both teams have won National Titles in recent times years and have been to the top of the mountain many times.

1990 and 1992 …recent years?

By UGABulldawg24

December 5, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this

Hey “disgruntled fan” who wrote at 9:43 this morning -

you call yourself a “big Georgia fan” who didn’t miss ANY games this year, yet you say you will boycott our game against Hawaii??

Some “big” fan you are. It’s not our fault we got shafted by the Bull Crap System. You ought to be willing to watch our beloved Dawgs if they played in the Toilet Bowl!!

Either watch the game and pull hard that we smoke the Rainbow Weenies, or change your name to “bandwagon fan.”

By A Tech Fan

December 5, 2007 4:44 PM | Link to this

I would rather stay home than see Tech play in the Humiliation Bowl.

By JCinDuluth

December 5, 2007 6:02 PM | Link to this

The DAWGS have an uncanny ability to play down to a lesser opponent and getting their clocks cleaned. This could be another one. Don’t take the Pineapples too lightly, DAWGS! I believe GA will win but it will be oh-so-close! Perhaps 28-24. For a more formidable opponent, the DAWGS would roll indeed. A DAWG (61) fan, but a realist.

By atlgator

December 5, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this

I hear ya Gobucks4life…I think that’s your moniker…yeah based on recent history against the SEC, that’s a good bet…and that tough out of conference schedule….NOT!!! You haven’t beaten an SEC team in 30 years or so in bowl games. I have no problem with your school…but I do have a problem with distorted reality. Your conf was down this year…you lost at home to Illinois. You beat and average Michigan team 14-3…a team that was beaten at home by App State and Oregon like they stole something. We heard all about that vaunted defense last year too and they looked like they were in cement. You simply don’t have the athletes to beat LSU. LSU played in a TOUGH conference and will be healthy. I see another beatdown in the champ game. I personally saw you guys with your tails between your legs in Glendale last year. At least you can get wasted in the NO b4 your LONG ride back to Columbus…

By Bandwagon Fan

December 5, 2007 6:35 PM | Link to this

All Bowls are a JOKE this YEAR!!!!! GO PODUNK U!!!!!!

By atlgator

December 5, 2007 6:39 PM | Link to this

To dawg fans….handle your biz and rep the SEC. This aint the Big 12! Of course I can’t stand yall…and we will see yall in Jax nest year…but Folks forget how you beat Boise State a couple of yeard ago like 56-7 or something like that. You guys already know to be ready based on the West VA game a few ago as well. I see a beatdown coming. I can see Moreno & Brown running wild which will open up the play action for Stafford. Hawaii hasn’t been hit in the mouth yet…do what you do dawgs…

By ARdawg

December 5, 2007 6:42 PM | Link to this

Colt Brennen and the Hawaii receivers are good. Putting up those kind of numbers against anybody is proof of that. The defense is respectable against some very suspect offenses.

The problem for Hawaii is that Georgia isn’t a Washington, Nevada or a Boise. Georgia is a very good football team with a defense that can annihilate a one dimensional offense. For an opposing defense Georgia’s offense can annihilate with in the air and on the ground attack at will.

Georgia is one of the best teams in the country right now and will be on Jan 1st. They’re good, they’re p** and they have something to prove. Georgia will put this game away early, before halftime. Take Georgia and give up the points no matter how many.

Think WVA if you want to and lose your money. This will not be Hawaii’s biggest game yet, rather one they’ll hope to forget. Georgia by 26+

By atlgator

December 5, 2007 6:42 PM | Link to this

Oh…and we got Michigan….they did real well against the spread offense this year…LOL

UGA & LSU…handle your biz…we will do the same.

By atlgator

December 5, 2007 6:45 PM | Link to this

WHat’s dumber than the BCS is listening to clowns like Corso actually try to justify something so ridiculous.

By ARdawg

December 5, 2007 6:46 PM | Link to this

Ohio ST has never beaten an SEC team in a bowl game. Possibly never beat one ever if memory serves me right

By ARdawg

December 5, 2007 6:57 PM | Link to this

atlgator

You can mark my words, Hawaii’s welcome into big time football will be a very rude awakening for them. The DAWGS will do what they do and take care of business. I’m with you even though I don’t like the reptiles. We do have a conference rep to consider. Good luck to your Gators and good luck to Tebow. He deserves a Heisman

By dandydawg

December 5, 2007 7:37 PM | Link to this

I was seriously thinking about attending the Sugar Bowl, but something kinda of happen…..(I gotta work the next day!).

But anyway Gooooo Dawgs! And yes, Tebow will and should win the “He is man” (Heisman) trophy! He is an awesome player……

By dandydawg

December 5, 2007 7:41 PM | Link to this

atlgator,

I think we all may need to help out Tennessee. They are usually the weakest link in the bowls. So.. Let’s all say…”GO VOLS!, PLEASE!

By boots

December 5, 2007 8:12 PM | Link to this

What is clear to me is that this system is not based on finding the two best teams at the end of the year (or the ones who have had the best year over the course of the Fall). It is also not about pitting the two best teams against each other to find compelling games.

It is about $ - that is it. Nothing other than cold hard $$$. My sons could have picked better & more consistent match-ups. OK v. VA Tech. GA v. USC. LSU v. OH State. AZ State v. MO, Hawaii v. KS, WV v. FL, TN v. IL. GA Tech v. App. State. These games would be a lot more interesting.

By boots

December 5, 2007 8:35 PM | Link to this

dandydawg: Tebow is a great player… except when he is playing Georgia. Seems like we are handling his “unique style” pretty well so far. He should be glad the Heisman vote is not based on the world’s largest COCKTAIL party.

By Above the fray

December 5, 2007 9:30 PM | Link to this

It has come to my attention that Jim Rome (whoever he is) is an arse. Have a nice day.

By ARdawg

December 5, 2007 9:32 PM | Link to this

Boots

Good point but there’s no denying the athlete that kid is and against the toughest schedule in the country. I’d have to give him the nod for the best college player in the land even though it turns my stomach. I doubt he’ll win it though

APP ST and GT?….Give me GT +17??

By AJC Sports Supervisor

December 5, 2007 9:36 PM | Link to this

I have completed the annual reviews for the AJC Sports Columnists and I regret to announce that 4 were given “Below Expectation” ratings, two were “Clearly Below Expectation” and Terrence Moore has been terminated for cause (incompetence and unnecessary flame fanning). Please send in your comments about me assessments to this posting.

By Shameless

December 5, 2007 9:39 PM | Link to this

If you vote for me, I’ll ensure Georgia is in the BS Championship match next year. Hillaryous.

By Laundryman

December 5, 2007 9:43 PM | Link to this

I am unable to get the blue stains out of Tech’s uniforms each year following their bowl game. I believe we need to go back and use the Virginia Tech/GT jerseys.

By hook or by crook

December 5, 2007 9:49 PM | Link to this

The only chance HI will have in the Sugar Bowl is to do exactly what WV did two years ago…jump out front fast enough and far enough and hold on for dear life. I don’t think they can get far enough ahead on this crop of Dawgs. Even if they manage three touchdowns, (and I doubt it), GA will grind them down and by the fourth quarter they will understand what the SEC is all about.

By Curious

December 5, 2007 9:52 PM | Link to this

I’ve been out of town for the past seven years. Can anyone tell me how the annual Georgia-Tech football games have turned out?

By Consonant

December 5, 2007 9:58 PM | Link to this

I agree. The vowels’ alltime bowl record is well below .500.

By boots

December 5, 2007 10:07 PM | Link to this

App State can take the Jackets by 17+ only if Reggie Ball comes back for the game. However, it IS Christmas time and I am feeling generous. I think App State, being accustom to playing in a higher elevation, would be more comfortable in the COLD temps of Idaho in late December (or is the bowl before Dec 15 - I can’t remember). Anyway, sure, I will give you Tech + 17 points v. App State.

By the way

December 5, 2007 10:12 PM | Link to this

Curious: Tech 0, GA 7

By uga rulz

December 5, 2007 11:01 PM | Link to this

I cant believe bark madley said we dezerved the championchip game. we didnt even win da west. tenesea did. osu maid it to their conference champiansip game and won. they be da bestest.

By outoftown

December 5, 2007 11:05 PM | Link to this

I’ve been out of town for the last 26 years. How many national championships has UGA won since I’ve been gone. You know how demanding the janitorial business is. Gawd, I’ve been running the JoGA for the last 26 years and my UGA grads need help in cleanibg toilets.

By datsmidog

December 5, 2007 11:07 PM | Link to this

mydawgs wil beets dem hawaiiins. dem beech bums neer panama citie willl go downs likes my trailer in da hurricanes.

By ugaisgoawd

December 5, 2007 11:11 PM | Link to this

bark madley and richt were spotted in massachuetes gttin hitched 2 days ago. i thought he wuz goin for dat fsu spot but jimbo got dat job. jimbo is a big name. he beatz dem hatcher dudes.

By sec dabomb

December 5, 2007 11:26 PM | Link to this

UGA deserves to be in the World Championship Game. We only lost 2 games in the best conference. Seriously, the SEC won half the games it played against teams in BCS conferences. That means we are da bomb. Boo YA

By gtsux

December 5, 2007 11:30 PM | Link to this

gawd we gonna loose ours trailers to da surferz di year

By ARdawg

December 5, 2007 11:35 PM | Link to this

I couldn’t bet on GT + 17 against APP ST even for Pizza at halftime AND free beer

By pizzadude

December 5, 2007 11:51 PM | Link to this

i would bet on gt for sum pizza. pizza gtez dem touthles hoes dawg.

By nodiggity

December 5, 2007 11:55 PM | Link to this

Dude, UGA is not good. Watch the first half of the hillbilliy (Tennessee) game and tell me they deserve to play for the title. Get a real coach nad maybe it will happen. I hear Gailey is available. Richt is a classless loser lie poppa bowden. Philosophy would be take out the QB and the rest will take care of itself. Just repent and repeat.

By tman

December 6, 2007 12:22 AM | Link to this

I wanted to see USC run the ball down the dawgs backs, Next year it will be USC vs Oklahoma in BBS championship. The parity is so good There is no way an SEC team can go undefeated. Georgia will be very good but they will lose 2 games in that brutal scedule. Florida and Tennessee most likely or LSU

By Tman

December 6, 2007 12:36 AM | Link to this

It amazes me that fans refer Tennessee players as hillbillys The only white guy on the team is from Oregon(Ainge) and I have never seen a black hillbilly or redneck. SEC football is 90000 screaming white fans pulling for their black teams to beat each other The players dont get paid so it is almost like a plantation mentality

By AZWarrior

December 6, 2007 1:48 AM | Link to this

I feel kinda sorry for Georgia …. they don’t want to be in this game with Hawaii. Lose this game to a WAC team, and being in the mighty SEC, they will never live it down, especially since the game will be played in the SECs own backyard. NO ONE is expecting Hawaii to win, so relax - there’s no pressure. It would go down as one of the most embarrasing losses in SEC history - in NCAA Division I college football history. But that won’t happen - you guys are favored to win by at least 50 right?

No worries Dawg fans, surely you will not be lulled into apathy by the fact that you COULDA been playing for a national championship with mighty #1 Ohio State, but now have to settle for a lowly WAC team that had the 2nd worse SoS in the NCAA. Enjoy your Christmas and party hard on New Years Eve - WooHoo - you’ve earned it!! You will surely be able to get UP for this titillating and hard-nosed football game against a worthy WAC opponent that barely beat some no name WAC teams. Take a couple of weeks off and relax - you will blow out these wanna-be Warriors for sure.

After all, recognize that you blew out might Vanderbilt 20-17 and powerhouse Troy by 10 (44-34). You even won Alabama by 3 pts. And that impressive 6 game win streak - holy moly - that included Troy, Vandy, Ga Tech, and a couple of ranked teams in the #11-#25 range.

I would take it easy on these Hawaii Warriors - you wouldn’t want to be accused of running up the score against these posers.

By Ted Turner

December 6, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this

South Fl is playing Oregon, not Oregon State

By Rex

December 6, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this

I also remember Boise State vs. Georgia in 2005…

Georgia 45 Hawaii 10

By Rex

December 6, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this

I also remember Boise State vs. Georgia in 2005…

Georgia 45 Hawaii 10

By Wes

December 6, 2007 11:11 AM | Link to this

It’s fun reading all of the people on here pretending to be dumb UGA fans and speaking redneck-speak like “gawd we gonna loose ours trailers to da surferz” and stuff like that. But just so you know, GT fans and anyone else making fun of the dawgs or southerners in general, there’s no other word for that kind of action than racism.

And just for the record, I pray and expect that Georgia’s going to wipe the floor with those posers from out West.

By snapshot

December 6, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

All I can say is South Carolina and Tennessee. Go Hawaii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By ARdawg

December 6, 2007 3:47 PM | Link to this

snapshot

You are obviously another bug poser. Have you bought yourself a new GT parka for the trip to Boise? Oh thats right! You still have yours from years ago. How many Humanitarian Bowl patches do you have on it now?

By realistic

December 6, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this

My, my so much anger in the Dawg nation. I am neither a Tech or Dog groupie however, the Dawg rant is quite humorious. The “Experts” non bias professionals got it closer to right than wrong. The Dawgs as much as you love them lost 2 games should have lost to Vandy and without the help of hopeless SEC officials should have lost to the terrible Jackets. After all UGA only defeted 2 ranked teams this year. I understand your blind loyalty however, that does not make you good. The Dawgs are an above average team with average depth and a very weak secondary. The team from HI will most likely surprise your beloved and way overrated Dawgs. I can not wait for your demented and sophmoric excuses after the Sugar Bowl. This will be quality entertainment! Good luck in the game and maybe you can keep the fan base that attended your fine University offt the blogs. These morons only justify the Tech people’s remarks about the Dawg Nation. Thanks again for the demented humor!

By JR

December 6, 2007 6:21 PM | Link to this

Everyone should go to http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/12/06/ultimateplayoff.eliteeight/index.html and vote for UGA.

By jay jarrell

December 6, 2007 7:48 PM | Link to this

Funny how Barnharts top 4 picks are s.e.c. games.Must be a big fan eh?

By Southside Drug Rep

December 6, 2007 8:03 PM | Link to this

Clempson vs Awbarn in the Georgia Dome? Omigorsh…if you thought the hairspray and polyester fire threat was huge during the SEC Championship Game you haven’t seen anything yet. And yes, the Clemson fans will show up in Atlanta with $2 bills (again) stamped with that gay tiger paw to show their economic impact. Thanks guys. Clemson wins and then they swap coaches!

By TechCrybaby

December 6, 2007 11:09 PM | Link to this

I’m going to play it straight. UGA will coast over the Warriors. No sense trying to insult the Dawgs if you’re serious about football. Georgia has a great team, and will win the Sugar Bowl with great ease.

Tech USED to be great. We still could be, in these changed times of post-1966. But to do it, we’ll have to broaden our curriculum, because not every top football player wants to study engineering. It wouldn’t “ruin” Tech, to add more football-friendly courses, such as UGA has.

Recruit, recruit, recruit, - depth.

By WFC

December 7, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this

I LOVE bloggers like “Rex” who post their predictions (UGA 45— Hawaii 10). As my Dad used to say: “put your money where your mouth is.” I’ll take Hawaii +35 for $100,000. I need a down payment on a condo I want to buy on Tybee island and $200,000 should just about do it. I’ll have a cashier’s check on Monday. You do the same. I’ll have my lawyer set up an escrow account to hold the money. Hit me up at: bearcasey@comcast.net.

By Doug

December 7, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

Go to www.SI.com and vote for Georgia! We are about to lose to Oklahoma in the elite 8 virtual play-off.

By timmythebrave

December 7, 2007 9:41 AM | Link to this

vote for richt at www.coachoftheyear.com

By GA all day

December 7, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

Umm “WFC”, I’ll see your $100K. Me and Rex will split the condo while your new residence will be the shelter off Peachtree and North. What a fool

By NCDawg

December 7, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

What I’d like to know is the Hawaii opponent this year with the best pass defense, how good a defense it was, and how did Hawaii perform against it.

My gut level is that if Brennan and his receivers are as good as everybody says, then our key is going to be pressure from the D line.

By Will

December 7, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this

I think the best bowl game is going to be South Carolina vs………………..wait a minute, the lowly chickens didn’t make a bowl this year!! Evil genius I think not.

By dadgum

December 7, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

NAVAL ACADEMY RELEASES INFO THAT JOHNSON IS ADDRESSING THE TEAM AT 11:30 AND WILL BE LEAVING FOR GT!!!

GOOD JOB RAD!!!!!

By trailerlover

December 7, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this

The most exciting thing about the Sugar Bowl is that the UGA fans will be cleaning up New Orleans when they leave. Can you imagine how happy FEMA will be when they steal all of their old trailers?

By You Got To Be Kidding?

December 7, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this

Barnhart, you sux all the way to the trailer park in Athens. What a F%#in’* blowhard. #1 Bowl Game. WTF?

ALOHA BOY

By GT Fan Jeff

December 7, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this

Tony, Tony, Tony. GT is NOT playing in Boise for the second time in three years. GT played there at the end of the 2003 season, and has not been back there since. These are very basic facts and would not require much research on your part, but I guess one should not expect that from members of the AJC staff, huh?

By Listen Up

December 7, 2007 9:40 PM | Link to this

Quote of the year:

“Hawaii should not be playing in the Sugar Bowl. They should be playing in a bowl where they belong.

“The BCS Championship Game… .

“The truth is, the SEC doesn’t play anybody of note. The conference has perpetuated this myth of invincibility by refusing to play anybody of note in the non-conference schedule, then living off the legend of being a tough conference. But the truth says otherwise when the SEC ventures outside the South, because they get beaten badly. Kind of like the Confederacy.”

— Adam Rank, aol.com’s The Fanhouse

By HawaiiNoKaOi

December 8, 2007 3:17 AM | Link to this

Hawaii is patient: DC at UGA is shaking right now.

By No Longer Concerned Jacket

December 9, 2007 1:18 AM | Link to this

One Bowl matters - LSU vs Ohio State, PERIOD. The rest are entertainment for fans.

The money doesn’t matter. It’s circulated throughout the conference member schools.

It helps recruiting and it helps the returning players, an extra opportunity to play and more practice time, but that’s it. Coaches can’t tell recruits where they are going, they can only tell them where they have been. Every BCS school has a chance, if they win, but look at Missouri. They beat two fo the schools in this years BCS, ouch!!

UGAg has seven in a row. It is what it is, but why don’t you ask that blue chip RB in Screven Co., GA where the Sugar Bowl or Humanitarian Bowls are played. My house says he has no clue.

By Kyle

December 10, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

I can’t help but wonder how many of these UGA fans don’t actually go to the school and are just obnoxious fans who had to settle for GA Southern or Kennesaw because the academic requirements to get into UGA were too high.

By Kyle

December 10, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

I can’t help but wonder how many of these UGA fans don’t actually attend the university, but instead had to settle for GA Southern or Kennesaw because the academic requirements to get into UGA were too high.

Go Jackets!!

By UGA Drools

December 11, 2007 9:03 AM | Link to this

UGA Sucks. Enough said.

By Michael House

December 13, 2007 7:31 AM | Link to this

hawaii is powerful

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By lsu fan

December 14, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this

fu@# uga, usc, ou(we already spanked that a*) UGA couldn’t quite make it to the SEC champ. we would have knocked yall out of the running then, and as far usc it would be a pleasure to spank that a* u bunch of over rated bunch of b***…see ya next year, I know well be here….go TIGERS!!