Monthly Archives: November 2011

Mama, I got dem cosmic rematch blues.

Honestly, I’m not getting some of the anger being directed towards LSU and Alabama potentially facing off again in the BCS title game.  Check out this tweet from Chris Fowler: Latest chapter in the supreme comedy of the BCS system: … Continue reading

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Filed under BCS/Playoffs, College Football

Winning the double positive, Georgia Tech edition

Here’s something I posted last week: … After the opener, Georgia hasn’t lost a game in which it’s come out ahead in explosive plays and not finished behind in turnovers.  Given Georgia Tech’s undeniable prowess in explosive plays (now there’s … Continue reading

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Filed under Georgia Football, Georgia Tech Football

Monday morning buffet

Dig in.  Everything tastes good this week. Pat Forde flays Urban Meyer’s credibility. The NCAA is opening a real Pandora’s Box with its Penn State inquiry.  Not that I’d expect anything less from Mark Emmert. Illinois becomes the first team … Continue reading

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Filed under Gators, Gators..., Georgia Football, Georgia Tech Football, It's Just Bidness, Mike Leach. Yar!, SEC Football, The Adventures of Zook, The NCAA, Urban Meyer Points and Stares

Dawg Stat Watch, Week 13

And so we reach the end of another regular season – at least as far as pre-SECCG regular seasons go – and the final DSW is in the books. Here’s how they wrapped things up: Hold opponents under 17 points … Continue reading

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Filed under Georgia Football, Stats Geek!

SEC Power Poll, Week 13

With this last regular season power poll, I’m going to repeat something I did last year and include the net conference per game yardage numbers for each team.  There should be a rough correlation between the net numbers and won-loss … Continue reading

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Filed under SEC Football

We’re behind you all the way, Coach.

Hey, anybody heard from Tommy Lowhorne Lawhorne and Bob Bishop lately?

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Filed under Georgia Football

Observations from the armchair, Georgia Tech edition

Yeah, I wasn’t there yesterday – my first missed Tech game since 1999.  My usual ticket sources dried up, I was hearing ridiculous sums for scalped tickets and there were rumors about a bunch of counterfeit tickets being offered, so … Continue reading

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Filed under Georgia Football

A Rocky, Rocky Flop

It may take a few days for the magnitude of how awful Tennessee’s loss was yesterday to sink in. Then again, maybe not.  And you’ve gotta love this: Roark, a senior receiver from Acworth, Ga., didn’t even warm up at … Continue reading

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Filed under Because Nothing Sucks Like A Big Orange

Spurrier’s new foil

Fulmer is long gone, so Dabo will have to suffice. "We aren't LSU, and we aren't Alabama. But we sure ain't Clemson." – Steve Spurrier— GamecockFootball (@GamecockFB) November 27, 2011 Not bad.

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Opening up another bottle of tasty, bitter tears

As you might expect, the schadenfreude on the Tech message boards is fairly epic – they’ve had a lot of practice, after all – but these are my two favorite threads so far: My friend, what you call the ACC’s … Continue reading

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Filed under Georgia Tech Football