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Like many die-hard college football fans, I began the countdown to this season the instant the clock ticked off its final seconds to end my team’s last game. My beloved Georgia Bulldogs finished the season strong, and they were receiving a lot of post-bowl love and mentions of “pre-season #1.” Over the ensuing months, I’ve driven pretty much everyone I know ...
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The eagerly-awaited preseason BlogPoll is out and I am pleased to report that it’s not just jaded overworked reporters and crusty coaches with tunnel vision who have Georgia ranked No. 1 . . . attractive, socially well-adjusted college football bloggers who own their own homes, regularly receive physical shows of affection from the opposite sex, and author postings while fully clothed ...
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Totally not college football related, but this morning I heard the truly regrettable news that Leroi Moore, saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band passed away yesterday as a result of complications from a June ATV accident. Many don't know that it was Moore who actually brought a skinny college bartender with a South African accent together with a group of Charlottesville, Va. ...
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It’s almost here. College football season is almost upon us. Can you believe the first game is this Saturday?
You read that correctly . . . this Saturday.
As reader Cookin’ and Smilin’ brought to my attention (a few days ago, in fact . . . I told you I was behind on my e-mail , but I’m working on it, honestly, I am; bear with me), Valdosta State and Fort Valley State will square off ...
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I have a confession to make: I really don’t care that much about the national championship.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I want Georgia to win it. I’d certainly rather have Georgia win it than anyone else, just as I would rather have the Bulldogs win anything positive than have someone else win it instead.
Although I don’t buy the notion that a national championship is "mythical" (because ...
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To me the best thing about this time of year is that you literally can't follow all of the college football news that's out there. It's just endless. This must be what trips to Ryan's Steakhouse are like for a Tennessee fan wearing Cabela's new elastic waist Realtree pants with built in thigh ventilation. No limits, baby. Gimme some more of them fried chicken drumettes.
I can't blog about ...
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The season is getting close and time is getting short and there are preseason predictions to make and games to preview and outcomes to predict and I am being bombarded with posting ideas when along comes Doug Gillett with his season-opening BlogPoll roundtable so here goes:
1. In his "visiting lecturers" series posted on Every Day Should Be Saturday over the past few months, Orson Swindle ...
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The word around the campfire is that there will be a two-day delay in the release of the preseason BlogPoll due to an e-mail snafu. Drat.
Speaking of e-mail, if you sent me one, no, I’m not ignoring you; between the weblog and the rest of life, I am ludicrously behind on e-mail, for which I beg your indulgence. It’s on my list of things to get caught up on before the season starts. ...
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After way too many weekends during the offseason that produced bad news for the ‘Dawgs, Georgia got the best news of all this weekend (although Dr. Saturday put a bit of a damper on it with his take ):
The Associated Press has the Red and Black ranked No. 1 .
Paul Westerdawg has the balloting broken down by voter , but the highlight for me was Mark Richt’s reaction, which deviated ...
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Yesterday, at the invitation of Garnet and Black
Attack ’s C&F;, I began compiling my first S.E.C.
Power Poll ballot, on which I ranked the bottom six coaches in the Southeastern Conference . Now I turn to . . . The Top Six Coaches in the ...
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Earlier this year, I was invited by Garnet
and Black Attack ’s C&F; to participate in the
S.E.C. Power Poll , the first installment of which will be forthcoming shortly, here on the eve of the season. For the preseason installment of the poll, ...
I put more thought into my preseason BlogPoll ballot than most Americans put into their votes for president of the United States (as evidenced by the fact that John McCain and Barack Obama are the nominees of the two major parties). On Thursday evening, after much deliberation, I formally exercised the franchise as a BlogPollster, officially entering the following top 25:
Rank Team ...
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As reported by our SB Nation colleagues at Corn Nation (see? another Big 12 blog with "Nation" in the title ! it’s like their corner of the blogosphere was carved up by Woodrow Wilson in a hotel room in Paris!), Trev Alberts recently counted down his top five college football weblogs. Take a look:
As has been noted in this space previously , Trev is a traditional media guy who ...
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As promised (though a bit later than planned), I'm pleased to present this way, way too detailed profile of the latest University of Georgia football commitment, Dartmouth, Massachusetts tight end/defensive end Arthur Fontaine.
Fontaine originally committed to the Boston College Eagles, but admitted soon thereafter that he had ended his recruitment too soon. He visited Georgia last ...
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As you know, the passing of Uga VI on June 27 set a somber tone here in Bulldog Nation for a summer that has been anything but celebratory in spite of the high expectations for the Red and Black, in light of a series of unpleasant intervening events in the first 48 days of what we now know will be a 64-day interregnum.
This has gotten me thinking.
I believe there should be an Uga and ...
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Football season is almost upon us. Seemingly the entire membership of the United Nations ( Burnt Orange , Double-T , and Rock M . . . for crying out loud, there are more Big 12 blogs with "Nation" in the name than there are Big 12 stadia with "Memorial" in the name!) is talking about poll voting, Brian Cook is getting philosophical upon that very subject, and I earlier this week issued the ...
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Heaven knows, we in Bulldog Nation could use some good news after the way this week started , so here (for what it’s worth) is the best I can do under the circumstances:
On Tuesday afternoon, I attended the weekly meeting of the Henry County Kiwanis Club in McDonough, where the featured speaker was Vince Dooley. Coach Dooley was scheduled to appear at a book signing at Park Avenue Bank ...
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The official word is out on Trinton Sturdivant's
knee injury from yesterday. And the news is very
bad. Sturdivant tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) medial collateral ligament (MCL) and the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in his knee. It's ...
Circumstances sometimes converge in such a manner that they appear to be pointing inevitably in one direction. So it is with recent events on-line.
No, I don’t mean Orson Swindle’s laughable effort to suggest that the 2008 Georgia Bulldogs couldn’t beat the Russians . (Please. If the ‘Dawgs faced Russia this year, it would weaken the Red and Black’s strength of schedule.)
Rather, I am ...
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The e-mail from MGoBlog ’s Brian Cook arrived in my in-basket at 2:38 this morning. (Dude, get some sleep already!)
The 2008 preseason BlogPoll will be coming your way in a week. The ballot I intend to cast remains unchanged from the updated version I posted on August 4 .
As was the case a year ago, I take a Burkean approach to my BlogPoll ballot ; that is to say, the judgments ...
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S.E.C. Power Poll: Ranking the Coaches (Part II)