A Message to the Georgia Dawg Pound: Settle Down!

 
Ok Georgia fans, now that I have your undivided attention, please listen up!  No, I don't really want you to settle down, on the contrary.  I think you guys should keep up the intensity until the final second of the BCS Championship game ticks away.  No, this is not a lecture. This is, however, some sage preseason advice from some rabid LSU fans that were in your shoes exactly one year ago! So, last year your Bulldogs didn't make it to the SEC Championship game even though you swore that they were the best team in the SEC East, right?  Then another SEC team makes it to the BCS title game, thus placing your Dawgs in the Sugar Bowl where they routed a Hawaii team that probably didn't deserve to be in a BCS Bowl.  Now almost every "expert" has UGA ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 in their preseason polls.  Sound familiar?  It does to LSU fans, right down to their Sugar Bowl beat down of a Notre Dame team that probably didn't deserve to be in a BCS Bowl to cap off the ... (link)

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