And there is whining coming from here, too. I’ll at least try to justify mine with a little bit of logic. Everybody who’s listened to me talk about college football knows that I am no fan of the BCS. I refuse to accept the apology that, “it’s the best we’ve got, so we have to deal with it.” I think that it’s a huge conspiracy from the powers that be (Presidents, ADs and League Commissioners) of the BCS conferences to hog an even bigger piece of the college football money pie. But that’s all for some other time. One that I’ll probably get into later in the season as my frustration with the “system” grows. What I want to cover right now is the first poll and just what I think of the “B-no-C-S.”

I have no complaints about the first 2 teams. Texas and Bama have proven it on the field and deserve their positions. Texas has run an incredible gauntlet and acquitted themselves very well, and they’re led by the Heisman Trophy front runner (Colt McCoy). I’m tired of hearing that they’re playing teams that aren’t that good or that the Big 12 isn’t as great a conference that popular opinion says it is. Guys, it is. No doubt whatsoever. I have, and still do, maintained that the Big 12 is the second toughest conference in CFB and that it’s the only conference that belongs on the same field with the SEC. History has proven that it’s certainly not the Big Ten (those last 2 NC games have spelled that out well enough). And here’s the thing about both of these teams – they will have to win their conference championship crowns on the field. So they’ll have to play their way into the NC game. read this entry »

Well, Georgia is without a game this week so we’ll do a quick wrap up of the Bama debacle and what’s ahead for the By God University of Georgia Bulldogs. Then lets do a quick overview of the rest of the country and take a look at a couple of good matchups this week.

Talk about a tale of two halves last Saturday. I will still give Bama all the credit in the world – they came out and punched us right in the mouth FIVE STRAIGHT POSSESSIONS and left us for dead. And I’ll give them Dawgs a lot of credit – they didn’t roll over and die like they did last year in a similar situation at Tennessee. I tell ya – one more defensive stand on Bama’s field goal drive in the second half, or one missed tackle on the ensuing kickoff and we would’ve had ourselves a brand new ball game.

For that matter, take away that roughing penalty on the first drive (the one that deleted that fumble) and maybe things are different. And ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have ourselves a merry Christmas…. Kill yourself with penalties, have a few bad breaks (missed catches and the fumble by AJ) and that adds up to a momentum killer. Knowshon wasn’t much of a factor, either, at least not after the first drive. Give Bama’s D-line the credit there, and for keeping pressure on Stafford.

All in all, a spectacular first half by Bama and nearly the same from Georgia in the second. The difference came down to the Dawgs not being able to keep the game from getting away in the first and Bama being able to put the game away in the second. But like I said way back before the season started, I expected a loss before the break. There’s still plenty of time and the schedule is favorable, especially if the season keeps to the same script as last year (remember the last week of September last year?), to book that trip to Miami. Now that we see that we’re not the titans we thought we were, I hope that there’s some soul-searching and retrospection that leads to some quality wins for the rest of the season.

So let’s see here, what teams lost last week? USC (Oregon St); Clemson (Maryland, who lost to Middle Tennessee St earlier); Florida (a choker to Ole Miss at the Swamp); Wisconsin (Michigan, who gutted it out); Weak, I mean Wake Forest (Navy, a true system program); Georgia (Alabama, the most complete team I’ve seen play); Illinois (Penn St, probable Rose Bowl participant). Those last two weren’t REALLY upsets, although the Bama game could have been seen that way. Penn St was the higher-rannked team. Oh, and UT lost to Auburn in the TO bowl. Sorry, had to include that one…. read this entry »

The By God University of Georgia Dawgs football team opened the season with atop the college football polls (both the AP and USA Today). This is as much a reflection of the team they’re returning as the monkey-stomping they put on the LAST undefeated team last season, Hawaii, on New Year’s Day in the Sugar Bowl. It was also something of an apology to A) the Bulldog Nation for leaving us out of the National Championship Game and B) the rest of the college football world for sticking us with 2 wholly uncompelling matchups in the Rose and Sugar Bowls.

Let me address something right up front – I don’t think that, under the ShopVac abortion that is the BCS System, Georgia belonged in the National Championship game. They didn’t even win their division, let alone the BEST conference in all of college athletics. But they were no doubt one of the 4 best teams in the country at bowl time (National Champion LSU, the Buffalo Bills of college football – Ohio State, and Southern Cal) being the others. This wasn’t supposed to turn into another BCS rant, but to hell with it – might as well start now. read this entry »