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By GEWJ

August 16, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Go DOGS!!

By Obnoxious Georgia Fan

August 16, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Couldn’t care less. Bring on the season. The wait is agonizing.

By Manny

August 16, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Who cares who’s number 1 before the season starts? Now if Georgia is number 1 when the season finishes…

But all this does is put a target on their back. It’s a negative, IMO.

By AtlMike

August 16, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Sounds exactly right! UGA is America’s Team and #1 in the country! Go DAWGS!

By Roswell Ed

August 16, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Just can’t wait till Auburn whips their tail.

By brian

August 16, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Earn it.

Go Dawgs!

By Roswell Ed

August 16, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

I missed the story.

Is this the ranking of off season arrests?

2 weeks and COUNTING!!

I can’t wait.

By TYLER

August 16, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

I LOVE THIS as a non bulldog! Ranked 1st, higher they fall and wouldn’t all these teams they play love to beat a # 1 team.. Georgia will lose atleast 3 games this year.. enjoy it now puppies………

By dawggirl

August 16, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

I agree about the target. We’re going to need leadeers to step up and learn to focus only on one game at a time. Let Florida start concentrating on Nov. 1st already. We’ll worry about that when it gets here.

By Allen

August 16, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Georgia plays seven (7) of the top 26 teams in the AP poll —- far more than any other team —- and 5 of those 7 on the road!! Brutal schedule.

By zinoDawg

August 16, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Dawgs are going wire to wire. Making my hotel reservations for January in South Beach!

By Van Halen

August 16, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

read it and weep nerds

By Milton Jeff

August 16, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Earn It!!!

By atlgamecock

August 16, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

No. 1 in the preseason polls…BIG WOW !!! Enjoy it while you can (Georgia Southern ???…Snicker,snicker…)You Dawgs will be coming to OUR house on the 13th of September and that National Championship bark will once again be nothing more than a whimper when you leave the Capital city…Just like LAST year !!! Once again, enjoy the pipe dream for a little longer…GO GAMECOCKS !!!

By Chuck Norris

August 16, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

It all comes down to the FL game. We most likely have to win that game to win the east. Without that there is no title shot. Now more than ever whole season comes down to that one game. Have to hope our one loss comes to a SEC west team that we can avenge in title game. Assuming we dont go undefeated…

By JacketFan

August 16, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

The concept of student-athlete has gone out the window at UGA.

Yeah, load up with a bunch of borderline students and thugs. At least GT players has some character about themselves.

Go ThUGA!!!!

By Zeb

August 16, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

Roswell Ed, doesn’t the Auburn paper have a blog you can go to??? You’re not pi$$ing anyone off any more, you’re just annoying……kinda like a mosquito.

By atlgamecock

August 16, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

DREAM ON CHUCK DREAM ON !!!

By AllVOL

August 16, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this

Wish that I was on ol’ Rocky Top, down in the Tennessee hills. Ain’t no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top, ain’t no telephone bills.

GO VOLS!!

By Coyote

August 16, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

It will be very tough to hold the #1 spot with the schedule Georgia plays. No other title contender has to face nearly as many ranked teams and the games aren’t sequenced very well either. But what the heck, every fan wants their team to be respected and starting high will make it easier to climb back into the picture after a loss. I don’t think anyone expects UGA to go undefeated. But this team should be at least as good as any of the 3 UGA teams that have won the SEC East this decade, so just focus on that. Win the division and we’ll see where the chips fall in the end.

By TC

August 16, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

I can’t wait until these over hyped puppies lose. Bank on them losing to Florida, Auburn and LSU.

WAR EAGLE!

By Fat “Phil” Fulmer

August 16, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

That’s where I had them ranked too

By Alpharetta Fred

August 16, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

Roswell Ed,

Let’s see how the number of arrests equals out by the end of the season (even though Georgia’s season will likely last 2-3 weeks longer than Tech’s annual Humanitarian Bowl ending).

And does the number of arrests apply to coaches as well?

By Krusty Booger

August 16, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

GO DAWGS!!

By fes

August 16, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

you people are delirious. with the brutal schedule down the stretch, you’ll be lucky to qualify for a bowl. enjoy it now because you are going down like a wh0re on prom night.

By Ray Goff

August 16, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

It’s going to be a long year for thUGA fans.

I didn’t think they could be more arrogant, but I was wrong. Keep worrying about UF, UT, AU and GT. It’s SC, VU and KY that are going to ruin your day.

By Pago Flyer

August 16, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

I feel more confortable with PLAYBOY’S ranking..# 6!

By Dennis Erickson

August 16, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

These dogs are going down in arizona. They have no idea what is waiting for them.

D erickson is the real deal. the most innovative offensive coach after schnelenberger.

this dude has won at wasu, osu, um, and now asu.

Dawgs get slaughtered this aint hawaii.

By Steve

August 16, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

Enjoy the ranking while you have it because with your schedule, q-back and coach, you won’t have it long. My bet is the Chihuahua’s will lose at least two games.

By Mike

August 16, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Enjoy it while you can. Because the winner of the USC Ohio St. game will be #1 after week three. Wins against Ga. Southern and Central Mich. will mean nothing. Want to be a big dog. You need to play the big dogs.

By 5thgendawg

August 16, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

dawgs will win there 6th national champ this year. may lose one somewhere, but nc will happen. we have the best talent in col football because ga has the best high school football in the country. i know, i played in cobb and would have been a Dawg but blew out my kneww softmore season. GO DAWGS

By Cuz

August 16, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Most fans do not expect the 2008 Dawgs to go undefeated. But when you start out high, it is easier to get back in as long as you don’t lose at the end.

Put up the signs in the weight and locker rooms. EARN IT!!

By Obnoxious Georgia Fan

August 16, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Poor poor haters. You’ve just go to feel sorry for these clowns. So much wasted energy.

By thwuga

August 16, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Can they keep the ranking while being forced to use the no-huddle offense all season???? Criminals aren’t allowed to knowingly associate with other criminals-HA!

By Gator Actual

August 16, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

I’m just trying to figure out how they can play football if all the players are in jail?!?!?!

I can see it now, 25 probation officers at the game on the side lines!

By TN Gal

August 16, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

Being a Big Tennessee Fan its sad that TN isn’t higher, but I can honestly say I’m happy for Georgia. I have been in Georgia for 11 years and although my heart still lies in TN, I follow the DAWGS and want to see them to do well (except with TN of course), so I’m happy for them. Good luck with your season. Can’t wait to meet the new UGA (who I’m a huge fan of by the way-LOVE LOVE LOVE UGA).

By Milton Jeff

August 16, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

JacketFan: Tech student/players set such high standards too. If your not going around raping girls then your posting pathetic never been kissed ads on craigslist. Joe Hamilton??

By Huh?

August 16, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

“Enjoy it while you can. Because the winner of the USC Ohio St. game will be #1 after week three. Wins against Ga. Southern and Central Mich. will mean nothing. Want to be a big dog. You need to play the big dogs.”

Like Youngstown State and Ohio? We would have scheduled them but they are a little tied up the firt two weeks of the season. Congrats to Ohio State for playing ONE tough game this year. That’s very impressive. Lets just hope they don’t embarass themselves like they usually do. Want to be a big dog. You need to BEAT the big dogs, not just talk about it like Ohio State.

By BullDawg Rick

August 16, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

Long season…

Toughest sked in the country…

Stay healthy…

Great chance to play in Miami the second week in Jan!!

Let the Big Dawg Eat!!!

Mike.. Btw, after OSU - USC game NEITHER play a big game… Dawgs win, Dawgs will be there (& PLEASE PLEASE let it be OSU.. They are the most overrated team in the country.. SEC, Baby!!)

By Pete

August 16, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Unbelievable !! Only in America. Ga. rated No. 1. A team who consistantly plays their first 2 or 3 games………at HOME against teams like North Dakota State Teachers College for the Blind……….and for this , they are No.1 ?????? I have less than ZERO respect for a program as lame as that. Beyond pathetic.

By TCR

August 16, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

OVERRATED!!! But at least the Georgia fans will have a sense of false hope to hang onto.

By DawgCrappy

August 16, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Unless Crazy Herschel can regain his last year of eligibility, UGAy will never win a second MNC. That’s pathetic! Even Tech has four MNCs.

By A question for the haters

August 16, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

If preseason prognostications are as meaningless as you so often point out, how are you so confident Georgia is going to lose a bunch of games this year? What makes your prognostication any better than anyone elses? I say Georgia goes 13-1 this year. Please show me in you’re crystal ball where I am wrong morons? You’re talking out of both sides of your mouths and making fools of yourselves. Georgia football owns your soul. Just accept this and move on before it destroys you.

By GoGaBulldawgs

August 16, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

GO DAWGS!

By Jim Donnan

August 16, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

The Dawgs have the toughtest schedule in the country. LSU won the national title with two losses. The Dawgs can win the national title, but there is no way they will go undefeated. They have guaranteed blow out wins over Vandy, Ga Southern, Central Michigan, Kentucky, and Ga Tech. Sorry Techies, new coach, but the same result. The road games against Arizona State and Auburn will be extremely tough. The games against Tennesse, Alabama and Florida are no picnic. It will be hard to make to the SEC championship without two losses.

By Cupcakes anyone?

August 16, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

August 30 Youngstown State

September 6 Ohio

September 13 at No. 3 USC

September 20 Troy

September 27 Minnesota TBA

October 4 at No. 13 Wisconsin

October 11 Purdue TBA

October 18 at Michigan State TBA

October 25 No. 22 Penn State

November 8 at Northwestern TBA

November 15 at No. 20 Illinois

November 22 Michigan TBA

By P Dawg

August 16, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

Mike, you have got to be the most retarted blogger I’ve ever wasted time reading. Please tell me who has a schedule tougher than UGA’s. Do you want us to play a top 10 team every week? It’s pretty pathetic of all you UGA haters getting on these UGA blogs just to talk nonsense. Jealousy will get you nowhere! Who do you pull for anyway? Or are you too ashamed to tell? I have a feeling it’s someone that UGA picks on every year.

By Steve

August 16, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

Quote:

dawgs will win there 6th national champ this year. may lose one somewhere, but nc will happen. we have the best talent in col football because ga has the best high school football in the country. i know, i played in cobb and would have been a Dawg but blew out my kneww softmore season. GO DAWGS

End of quote:

Yes, you would have been right at home with going to Georgia. By the way, you spell the word there - their and the word softmore is spelled sophomore. Kneww is actually spelled knee. Yes, you would have been right at home in Athens.

By n

August 16, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Every year since 1980, the Bulldogs think it’s going to be their year. We’ll see…

By Tara

August 16, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Keep on Dreaming Georgia Fans! At the end of the season, you won’t be undefeated nor number one!

By Big Ben

August 16, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Georgia is a JOKE! Enjoy your first or second week as number before you start to decline on the polls.

By Cruising

August 16, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

haha - Georgia fans enjoy while you can because at the end of the year - you won’t be number 1!!! Go Everyone but the Dawgs!

By Georgia Fan

August 16, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

I like to break down Georgia’s schedule in to three categories: Contenders, Pretenders, and Laughers. Contenders are teams that could knock us off this year. Pretenders are teams that everyone says could knock us off but really can’t. You can go ahead and put the laughers in the W column.

Contenders:

Alabama -this has more to do with the timing of this game than anything else. No, it does not make Saban the greatest human being that ever lived. He is still the most overrated coach in all of college sports.

Tennessee -will once again be a solid team and there is no question they’ve got our number lately.

LSU -its at Tiger stadium. Nuff said there.

Florida -if they beat us it won’t be because of some revenge factor. That is nonsense. It will be because their defense grew up, Tebow isn’t doubling as a fullback, and they stopped playing like a soft team.

Auburn -hard to imagine we’ll pound them in to the turf three years in a row. I’ll take an ugly win.

Pretenders:

South Carolina -its going to take a little more than 16 points to get it done this year. Georgia won’t beat itself this time around.

Arizona State -this is admittedly an exciting matchup from a purely entertainment perspective, but at the end of the day Arizona State won’t have the depth or team speed to hang with Georgia. It could be errily similar to last year’s sugar bowl.

Laughers:

That would leave everyone else as a laugher. I really don’t know much about that Johnson guy. No one does really. But whatever magic he’s able to work at Georgia Tech won’t have much effect this year. There are too many things working against Tech. It is overwhelming.

By c

August 16, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

As if UGA fans weren’t already obnoxious enough to be around….!!!

By catlady

August 16, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

This pretty well guarantees that they will “blow up” and lose to one or more no name schools. I don’t know about the schedule, but they won’t be number one by October 1. Georgia players seem to get the big head really easily and think they are “all that.” If only Richt could sequester them for the fall semester!

By p

August 16, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

I guess knowing how to spell isn’t required for admission to UGA!

By Tired of EARN IT

August 16, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

Look Cuz, I have news for you… Mark Richt (and his coaches) do not read the blogs and they are NOT going to post EARN IT within any facility. I believe that Mark has done a fine job of motivating the team and does not need a “daily blogger” to make policy. Do MOST of us a favor and drop the EARN IT crap.

By truthteller

August 16, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

Georgia will suffer at least 3 losses…

By 5thgendawg

August 16, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

steve i may have mis typed some words. But my point is the same. Dawgs will win there 6th national championship this year. Now go back to your geek friends on the tech boards.

By np

August 16, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Yeah, why earn it when you can play a crappy schedule and have dirty refs in your pocket. It’s all irrelevant if Richt can’t keep his players out of jail anyway.

By limpdikdog

August 16, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

1-Dawgs will beat Cocks by 14 2- Will beat Auburn by 10 3 Will beat Gators by 20 4-Will beat Tenn by 17 5 Will beat LSU by 7 6- Will lose to Bama by 3 7- Will beat Tech by 28 Every other game is meaningless and should be conceded to the Dawgs.

By Bob

August 16, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

The Dawgs need to focus on waking up each morning and getting better. They have not arrived and they will not arrive unless they quit the off-field shenanigans and quit listening to pollsters blow sunshine up their rears, and get to work proving they are not hype, but substance.

Hunker Down You Hairy Dawgs!

By Bob

August 16, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

The media says Florida is going to win the SEC. How are they going to “handle the hype” with one of the worst defenses in the conference? Why is nobody talking about this?

By Bob

August 16, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

Florida’s 2007 conference rank in every major defensive statistical category:

Scoring Defense: EIGHTH

Total Defense: SEVENTH

Rush Defense: FIRST

Pass Defense: DEAD LAST

The media has annointed them the team to beat in the SEC. How are they going to handle these expectations with that defense? Why is nobody asking this obvious question?

By What a Joke

August 16, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

What a joke. Time and time again we have seen his teams get beat at a crucial point to bust their season. A team of mostly thugs will never have the discipline to go the distance.

By Bob

August 16, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

what a joke.

Now that is an appropriate name.

By A

August 16, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

No where to go but …

By TwoBigTechs

August 16, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

All I can say is THANK GOD the mutts are ranked #1 in another poll and I truly wish they could’ve made it a clean sweep!

When does the ‘pre-season National Championship’ trophy get awarded and where is the parade in Clarke County?

1980 is 28 years ago. About 365 days from now, you’ll be saying we haven’t won it in 29 years!!!!

4 Titles > 1 Title 1990 is a helluva lot more recent than 1980

Just simple math

By T'ville Dawg

August 16, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Someone has to begin there, it only matters if you finish there. Like CMR says,”it’s better to start there if you stumble you won’t have as far to get back to the top.”

By 5thgendawg

August 16, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

To twobig techs,

first, you’re a geek with all of your friends on north ave. uga produces all of the big business leaders in the world. secondly, the Dawgs have won 5 natinoal titles. The simple math is that that is one more than tech.

By vern

August 16, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Is this really the first time ever UGA has been ranked #1 to start the season? That’s pathetic. Indicative of a small time regional program that’s clearly out of its league. I see 4 losses including an ambush in the desert to start the season. Then they lose to the Vols who have hung 86 on the dawgs in 2 years, then they lose to Fla. which now wins 18 of the last 21, they definitely lose to LSU in baton rouge, then they drop one they shouldn’t lose to either Auburn, Bama, South Carolina, Ga. Tech, or Kentucky. Even Vandy has a chance since they beat the dawgs 2 years ago and should have won last year except they fumbled the ball away at the UGA 10 yard line. Who celebrates by stomping on the Vandy logo anyway after beating them? Its Vandy for Pete’s sake! Those are all games that UGA could easily lose. Actually that looks more and more like 5 losses. Naw, I gotta give the dawgs credit. I think they only lose only 4. It’ll be similar to when Auburn started out No. 1 in 2003 and stumbled to a 9-4 record, which is still good. Good team but not a great team. A team that one year ago stomped on the Vandy logo because you are excited over beating Vandy clearly can’t handle the expectations of winning an NC.

By T

August 16, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Georgia will finish 9-3 … wont win the SEC, wont win the SEC East.

By Jim

August 16, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

“No where to go but …”

We don’t have to go anywhere. If a preseason ranking gets the haters in this much of a hissy fit, imagine what it will be like if we FINISH #1? They’ll have to set up a suicide hotline or something. It could get ugly. My lord what a bunch of babies.

By Kendawg

August 16, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

Why all the UGA haters on this blog? Oh, I forgot. They don’t have any preseason recognition of their teams, so they have to use an UGA blog to take out their frustrations.

By vern

August 16, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

What planet are you living on my friend? The dawgs have 5 nat’l titles? That’s news to everyone including dawg fans. They won it in 1980 and that’s it. Some dawg fans think they got screwed out of the 1942 title but even if we give them credit that’s still only 2 ncs. What imaginary world are you living in that you think UGA has 5 national titles? And please point out all the imaginary years that UGA won these titles! Unbelievable!

By crystal

August 16, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

Auburn is a joke. You jealous hicks just can’t get over the Blackout. Thats alright, we will come to the trailer park and put a pounding on the little bird and the tiger with the pansy name. Which one is your mascot? I think you all must still be confused!

By Obnoxious Georgia Fan

August 16, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

We’re #1!!! We’re #1!!! We’re #1!!!

Raise your hand if you can say this about your team. raises hand

By Michael

August 16, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

It is killing these people that AMERICA thinks UGA is better than whatever team they root for. Deal with it.

By TwoBigTechs

August 16, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

5thgendawg……

1st off, don’t compare personal accomplishments, you can’t compete son! Trust me on that one or ask around.

I’ll admit to slighting you the 1942 season. Honest mistake. I wasn’t born then.

Still 4 is greater than 2 and I challenge you to prove it otherwise. Use the link for reference: 4 IS GREATER THAN 2 ALL FRIGGIN DAY LONG

By GT610

August 16, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

Whoever said all of the big business leaders come out of UGA is way off on that one. Your no where near that recognition. GA State beat you in Newsweeks poll this year they are ranked number 5, UGA isn’t in the top 10 in part time MBA’s. Plus GA State has produced the CEO of Bank of America and CEO of Hershey’s chocolate for two examples.

Oh yeah, you’ll never make it.

By Lucy

August 16, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

Boo!!!

By vern

August 16, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Hey Obnoxious Georgia fan,

Did you already win the 08 BCS trophy or is the #1 ranking only preseason? Please let me know when and if you do ever win the nc and break out of the 1 club. You know what that is? That’s all them teams with one nc! Ask your friend 5th generation where he gets that imaginary 5 ncs from? Never heard that from a uga fan.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

August 16, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

Well, sufferin’ nabobs of glory! We’re number 1 now. For God’s sake let’s not play any games and get the Uga leavin’s kicked out of us. Call off the season. Let’s quit as chumps! You know we can’t win if we actually have to play the games. If we actually do play, can we recruit some more criminals? Some of ours are facing sentencing soon.

By 5thgendawg

August 16, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

Verm

Great name.

You need to learn your Dawg history before posting such stupid things.

Here is a quote and link to the source. Five Bulldogs teams have been declared national champions, in 1927, 1942, 1946, 1968, and 1980.

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1994

as i mentioned in a post earlier today: i know about Dawg fotball because I would have played for them, but I blew out my knee in my second year of high school.

By GoNumber7

August 16, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

Is anyone going to any of the big games? Oh and if the Dawgs were to go undefeated It would be a miracle

By steve

August 16, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

Cant wait for football season!!!

By vern

August 16, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

I’m neutral in this so I don’t care but as I’ve always understood it GA. Tech has 5 ncs and UGA 1. But some UGA fans think that UGA deserved the 1942 title. If so then Uga then has 2 ncs but I’ve always understood Tech to have 5. BTW, I don’t hate the dawgs, I think they have a very good team, just not a championship team. They will lose 3 or 4 and still have a good season. I just don’t like delusional people who think UGA has 5 ncs and delusional people who think UGA has already won the 08 title. A poll only means something after 14 games have been played. Its nice to start out no. 1 but it means nothing. Ya haven’t actually won anything. But congrats on the ranking. Its like the 5 ncs that 5th generation thinks the dawgs have. Its imaginary and not real. If you’re no. 1 at then end of the season only then is it not delusional and imaginary.

By Obnoxious Georgia Fan

August 16, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

vern,

So I take it you are not raising your hand, correct? I’ll try to remember to do that, but if Georgia wins the NC you’ll have probably jumped off a bridge before I get the chance. I must ask. Why so bitter?

By Mike

August 16, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

You are trying to bite UGA in the a$$ because they are ahead of you. All teams want to be ranked #1 - UGA is ranked #1 and will be for a long time,get used to it because after winning it all this year, we will do it all over again next year.

By AC in Boulder

August 16, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

It’s good to be the king. Nobody should worry about what fans of all the lesser schools think. It is only jealousy that causes them to write the petty little posts about the mighty Georgia Bulldogs. We are number one in all the land! Nobody on the schedule really poses that much of a threat. Lsu and Auburn come the closest, but we own both teams. Ahhhhhh. Excellence feels good. Let the reign begin!!!

By Kendawg

August 16, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Aside from the #1 ranking, what we need to be concerned about is Tennessee. We haven’t beaten them for awhile, and, as they showed last year, you have to beat the Vols to win the East.

By Jeffrey

August 16, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Worthy? Any team is worthy at the beginning of the season. Who cares at this time of the year. Come January is when it counts. I say GA ends up 16th in the Final Poll. The 2 to 3 losses they will experience will do them in.

By vern

August 16, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Hey obnoxious Georgia fan, I’m not bitter. I think UGA is a good football team. I just think its kinda silly to proclaim them nat’l title champs in the preseason. That’s all.

As for 5th generation he’s just typical of the delusional fan that every program has. His source is simply not credible. No one at UGA recognizes 5 nat’l titles. Ask any UGA fan. Also, he foolishly uses a Georgia encylopedia source rather than an independent source. That’s like an Alabama fan saying that they have 17 ncs when in fact they only have 12 in 1 of the 2 major polls. 3rd party magazines such as the sporting news do not count. It has to be in one of the 2 major polls at the time. For example, the sporting news proclaimed Auburn the 2004 nat’l champs in a feel good story because they didn’t get a chance to play for it all. Does that mean they really shared the title because one pub declared them champs. Nope! That’s the logic that 5th generation used to give UGA 5 titles. I guarantee that in the years other than 1980 that those mythical titles were not given by either the UPI or AP. And for him to say UGA won it in 1968. I’m calling absolute BS on that one. I don’t remember who won it but I absolutely guarantee it wasn’t UGA. It was moe like USC or OU, BAMA, someone who was actually dominant in the 60s. I don’t know where he gets that fairly tale 1968 title from. Same with the 1927 and 1946 titles. No one of serious note recognizes UGA as the 1968 nat’l champs or for those other years either. 5th generation should use something a little more credible than a homegrown georgia publication. What an idiot!

By KJ

August 16, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

1st off, don’t compare personal accomplishments, you can’t compete son! Trust me on that one or ask around.

I asked around. Apparently TwoBigTechs is the senior 3rd shift customer service rep at Geek Squad, and has 2 citations for punctuality in the last 4 years alone. Word also has it that he kissed a girl on the cheek once.

By Mike

August 16, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

P Dawg, you are without a dout a Ga. grad. Do you really think that Ga will stay #1 after week 3. Ga. will have played nobody in the first 3 weeks. USC or O St. will be #1 you can bet your Buger King 401k on it.

By vern

August 16, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

Hey 5th gendawg,

I went back and looked up your imaginary titles. I see that you claim the 1968 title after finishing 8-1-2 including losing your bowl game. The LITKENHOUS poll proclaimed you nat’l champs even after losing your bowl game. The @$*& what poll? The LITKENHOUS poll according to the article!!! You have got to be freaking kidding me! Where was the UPI and AP ranking? Those were what counted. Also, the article say they won in 1927 even though they lost their final game to Tech. Really? What credible poll awards a nat’l title to a team that lost its last game? Must have been the AJC poll. As for 1946 and even 1942 it doesn’t mention what specific polls annointed the dawgs champs. Must have been the AJC poll or the Litkenhous poll again. Dang sure doesn’t sound like it was the AP or the UPI or it seems like the article would have mentioned those 2 polls. Take your delusional Litkenhous poll and go lay down in your 8 by 8 PADDED cell. And don’t hyperventilate with that tight straightjacket on!

By 5thgendawg

August 16, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

vern So I called you’re bluff and put up my source for the Dawgs five national titles and you can’t handle it. Not much more I can do than that.

You obviously did’t go to UGA or you would be smarter than that. Sorry you can’t handle the facts that UGA has the best football team in the country most of the time and is as good in schoolwork as the ivee league schools. Too bad.

By Gamecock Henry

August 16, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

In the waining moments of the 4th Qrt., Williams Brice we be the loudest place in America with the slamming of car doors from UGa Fans! You UGA Fans think it wont happen but the Gamecocks are very confident that it will be two in a row over the mutts. It will not be an 18 - 0 in Williams Brice this year. Your Freshman Kicker will choke when he hears the rowdy rabid Gamecocks . Uga receivers can’t catch and all Gamecocks will need to do is slow down Moreno. Bring it on UGA!!!!!!!

By dan

August 16, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

I listened to Mark Richt and he bascially said to his team that “if being ranked 1# is something that will make you play better, then it’s a good thing. If it’s something that’s going to make you be lazy, then it’s a bad thing”. This tells me that he has his team focused, regardless of what some may think. If you dawg haters are expecting the Dawgs to overlook someone, you’re fooling yourselves. If a team beats UGA this year it will be b/c they just outplayed them. Perspectiveness comes from coaching, and Richt has been apart of enough 1# teams to know how to prepare his troops.

By bigredandblackdawg

August 16, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

The Dawgs are considered the primere football team in the country because of our winning tradetion. That tradetion goes all the way back to our earliest teams and will continue in 2008. Anybody that doesn’t believe that has never been to Athens on game day to hear all of us crazy fans hollering and barking for them Dawgs.

By DisneyDawg

August 16, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

This is the ranking that we, as fans, have been yelping for since before the Sugar Bowl. Now it’s a reality. I hope the Dawgs are up to it. I truly believe they’re the best team out there. I can’t wait.

By boots

August 16, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Not only is it a sign of being the best team in the country to be ranked #1 in the major polls, but your blog site is jammed with wanna-bes (and wanna-bees / jackets) slamming your team, players and school.

Like everyone else, I am ready to get it going and anxious for the season to begin. Glad to be #1 and am happy to be there than left out of the top 25. Of course the Dawgs deserve it. They finished #2 (and should have been #1) and returned practically everyone. Our team will prove it this year. Btw, our team is 80% sophmores and freshmen. This will be the decade of the Dawgs. Go Dawgs.

By JT

August 16, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

I love all you J-E-A-L-O-U-S DAWG haters out there. I can’t wait for the season to start, so the butt kicking can begin. You can write some great trash talking blogs, but you know UGA is going to destroy you. The underlying reason is because we’re more talented and so hungry. The schedule is tough, but we’re tougher. No one believes that we deserve the # 1 ranking, so we are going to show the nation what a true # 1 team looks like. Get ready for total domination. GO DAWGS!

By Attention Geeks

August 16, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

It is pretty obvious you Tech fans have an inferiority complex. This is evident due to the fact that you are jumping onto the UGA blog. Let’s see… we have the “Donald Trump” of Tech graduates informing us of his personal accomplishments… reaching level 5 of Dungeon and Dragons is not held in high esteem on this blog… better try the Tech blog. Secondly, we have the typical Tech guy who proudly states that Tech has 4 NC titles. Congrats… you beat out Yale and Army on three of those titles. The most recent title of 1990 was accomplished in the… let’s see, was it the Orange Bowl, no, the Sugar Bowl, no a 3-loss Virginia team played Tenn in the Sugar that year… oh yea, it was the freakin’ Citrus Bowl. Tell me… how does the ACC Champ go to the Citrus? When was the last time Tech play in a “major bowl”… I believe you have to go back to the 1960s. To be fair, Tech has won the NC title more recently than UGA and look at how they built off of it. Boise, Boise Boise.

By The Ohio State Buckeyes

August 16, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Do not worry puppies half of those teams in the top 25 will not finish in the top 25. So do not sweat the small stuff!

Wait the THE OHIO STATE BUCKEYE COME A calling this year!

Doomsday for the puppies!

By vern

August 16, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Hey 5thgendawg, Thanks for putting up your source. It was great to see the @#%$&* LITKENHOUS poll awarding you nat’l titles even after losing your bowl game. Thanks for that credible source LMAO. And thanks for nameless polls that supposedly awarded you nat’l titles in the other years even after you lost your last game. You have no credibility. No wonder all your fellow brethren stick to 1 nat’l title. Incidentally, your comment that UGA has the best football team in the country most of the time has got to have even the most hardcare dawg fans laughing their butts off. You’ve won 2 sec titles in the last 28 years, no nat’l titles, your biggest rival has beaten you 17 out of 20, but yet you say that statistically you have had the best football team in the country most of the time. That most be news to LSU fans who’ve won 3-4 SECs and 2 nat’l titles in the last 6 years. That must also be news to USC which has 2 nat’l titles in the last 4 or years. It must be news to all the other many programs that have had more nat’l and conference titles than you have in the last 28 years that UGA is actually the best football team in America MOST OF THE TIME. I’m glad u were at least modest enough to note that the dawgs are the best team in the country only MOST OF THE TIME instead of all the time. Where and how does UGA produce idiots like yourself. I guess its the fact that UGA is obviously on par academically with Harvard, Yale, and all those other “ivee” league teams as you you mention. I’m certain all your UGA brethren agree fully with you.

By Fools Gold

August 16, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Ha! another year of false hope for the puppies. Any Wagers when the Fire Bobo,Willie and Mark Richt crowd will appear on these blogs? This team has a vanilla passing attack and a defense that has big breakdowns even against weaker opponents. Ho hum another year of Fools Gold for the dogs of thuggery.

By fred

August 16, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

My #1 worry will this team be ready for South Carolina?. M/R must get them ready or our season is over as far as the BCS is conserned.

By DirtyDawg

August 16, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

Arrogant? I’ve been called a lot of things as a Georgia fan, but arrogant ain’t one of ‘em. Drunk and obnoxious, maybe, but definitely not arrogant. Oh I’ll rub your nose it when we kick the crap out of you after you’ve been trying to rub my nose in it before the game…but arrogant? Besides, the gaytors retired the title of ‘Most Arrogant’ years ago - that’s what makes it so sweet when we beat ‘em - two out of the last four and the most all-time.

This is one Dawg fan that doesn’t appreciate the pre-season rankings since it means that either the ‘jinx is in’ or otherwise mediocre teams will play their butts off to beat us, or both. Either way it makes a tough schedule all the more tougher. One thing I do believe though, this is the year we, and a bunch of more SEC teams, set Steve Superior’s mind back to calling it a career.

By Lee Corso

August 16, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Two things I’m sure of: 1. Ohio State will be in the BCS Championship game. 2. Ohio State will lose big to an SEC school in the BCS Championship game.

By DisneyDawg

August 16, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

Vern, if you don’t care about the NC’s for GT and UGA why keep harping on it? Personally, I can remember GT winning theirs in ‘90 and UGA in’80. None of the players at either school can say that. I love the past more than most (degree in History) but it’s not going to effect this year at all on the field. Let’s concentrate on the present.

And I don’t recall anybody but the AP anointing them as arbiters of who is official National Champion until the creation of the monster that is the BCS, and now they’re not even a part of that.

By Jason

August 16, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

JacketFan At Georgia I learned in basic English grammar that a plural subject should be followed by a plural infinitive:

(I Quote you) :At least GT players has some character about themselves.” Is this the reason so many goof balls graduate from the North Avenue Trade School? Geez, and I finally graduated from Georgia (albeit after 6 years). Jason in Duluth

By DAWG Fan

August 16, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

Hey Ed from Roswell,

We will see if Auburn beats the DAWGS this year! If the Dawgs Win, it will mean we kick your tail THREE YEARS in ROW!! Go DAWGS!

By 1953dawg

August 16, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

Ha Ha Ha!!!! Doesn’t it hurt this pathetic paper that UGA is ranked #1 by both polls. All this pathetic paper can do is doubt how good their state university program is. Sorry you losers can’t print anything positive about the Dawgs being ranked #1. This is the most pathetic paper in the country, instead of backing your state university, all you idiots can do is question if they are deserving. Do all UGA fans a favor, and don’t worry about UGA, and don’t write anymore blogs about us,instead write about your favorite loser progams Ga.Tech, Auburn, Fl.and Tenn. and leave the best program in the SEC the past 7 years alone. We don’t need your pathetic loser writers such as lardass Tony B, Terrence racist moore, or Chip the ignorant Towers, questioning our program. Write about a program that has no chance in winning a conference championship,Ga.Tech, Auburn, Tenn, Fl., and lastly South Carolina.

By BE#3

August 16, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

UGA Haters,

It must suck to be you. Because it’s GREAT 2 BE A GEORGIA BULLDOG!

Your daddy, UGA VII

By hop

August 16, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

once and for all, the nc title is a joke!

a school can claim a national championship when at least one poll votes it as #1.

yes, it is a joke and so is the bcs!

By GATOR CHOMP

August 16, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

Stop dreaming u flead out mutts the Mighty Gators will be #1 before its all said and done “BOOK IT LOSERS” GO GATORS!!!!!!!!!!

By BE#3

August 16, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Lee Corso is a genius!

By vern

August 16, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Does big red black dawg actually believe UGA is the premiere “tradetion” (his spelling, not mine) in the country. That must be news to the USCs and LSUs of the world who’ve actually won national titles in the last 28 years. And what winning tradition exactly is it that put them there? Was it the winning tradition of 2 SEC titles in 28 years with no nat’l titles? Or is it the winning tradition against your biggest rivals like Fla. where you’ve won 3 out of the last 20. Or is it the tradition of letting Tenn. vols hang 86 points on you over 2 years in blowout beatdowns including. Is this the tradition that makes you the PREMIERE program in the country? Or r u just plain freaking stupid? Boots must be stupid also. He thinks that out of the 4 classes freshman through senior that 80% of the players all fall into the 2 underclasses. I guess Georgia only signed 5 or 10 players in each of the junior and senior classes as opposed to signing the standard 20-25 players each class. They must not teach statistics or basic math at UGA for boots to come up with a BS stat like that. U boys just aint to bright are ya?

By The Ohio State Buckeyes

August 16, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

You Georgia (and other SEC fans) kill me. There is something called tradition and you wouldn’t know it if it hit you in the head. Speed is overrated and you cow tippers better enjoy your status while you can. Try scheduling USC, Michigan, Penn State and Wisconsin every year. LOL. Come January, we will dominate you like we did in the 1860’s.

By Buckeyes vs SEC in Bowls

August 16, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

0 - 9… what makes it worse is that So. Carolina beat’em in back-to-back years. This represents two of the three SC bowl wins in the history of their program. Don’t hold your breath, Buckeyes, Vandy will not be bowl eligible this year… so the beatings will continue…

By KJ

August 16, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Wait the THE OHIO STATE BUCKEYE COME A calling this year!

We can only hope.

0-9 vs. the SEC in bowl games… and counting.

By Lucky Fumble at Vandy

August 16, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

VANDY VANDY VANY what a joke. NO TDs against the lamecocks, and two years in a row of getting their a*******es kicked by Ole Rocky Top. Go Figure? Also calling a big win over a truly overrated Hawaii team is the prelude to being #1 ha… what a real joke!

By Woodstock Woody

August 16, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

Talk about being overrated. Auburn at #10 is totally ridiculous. They have no quarterback and a new offensive scheme. You gotta score to win and Auburn won’t. UGA will embarrass Auburn for the third year in a row. I see Auburn winning 5-6 games this year. Tiger fans should be content with that.

By bigredandblackdawg

August 16, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Vern, You have to be the only person in the world that would question the Dawgs position as the elite football program in the country. It doesn’t mean we’ll win the national title very year - but we’re alwasy in the mix. Also, you question UGA’s school reputaion? Check the facts, it is harder to get into school at UGA than most of the ivy league schools. Maybe not Harverd, but Uga is definately harder in school classes than the ivy league schools like Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Just check the facts before you look like an idiot again.

By JT

August 16, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Good call Ohio State Buckeye. I hope we face the Ohio State Choke-eyes in the championship game. You guys are terrible. You guys benefit by playing in a weak conference. If Georgia played in a weak conference we could have easily been in the national championship game two years in a row. The only difference is, we wouldn’t choke. You guys didn’t even deserve the last national championship you were handed. Miami beat you guys. Ohio State benefited by a horrible pass interference call. They need to put an asterisk in the record books on that game. You guys suck. The Dawgs will destroy you. It’s an SEC tradition. GO DAWGS!!!!

By Robert

August 16, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

GEORGIA NO. 1…This is a little silly. They may be some rankings of preseason No. 1, but they CAN NEVER DELEVER… Go figure…

By AC in Boulder

August 16, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

It’s a sign of fear and respect that fans from lesser schools like Ohio St. and South Carolina would go to the trouble to come on our blog. Ohio St. is the SEC’s annual little whipping boy. Cute team. If they are lucky enough to make it to national championship game this year against us then it will no doubt be another cakewalk. South carolina? They are a traditionally bottom tier team that poses absolutely no threat. Last year’s upset was the second biggest fluke of the season after app st. over michigan. It’s good to be the king. Let the reign begin!!!

By crystal

August 16, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this</