Again, with the My 100

It’s a quasi-regular annual feature here at GTP:  my list of 100 things I hope to experience/enjoy this season.  And yes, there are repeats from previous lists, because some pleasures are timeless.  Feel free to add, subtract or nit-pick in the comments.

1. Seeing how those Big 12 offenses hold up in the big, bad SEC.
2. Will Muschamp, reminded of how it feels to be on the losing end of the Cocktail Party.  Again.
3. Mike Bobo, avoiding blame.
4. The comebacks of Justin Hunter, Knile Davis and Marcus Lattimore.
5. The first emotional presser Corch has at OSU.
6. A year without uniform gimmicks for Georgia.
7. A good night game, HDTV and a glass of Woodford Reserve at my side.  Ahhhh.
8. Seeing if Junior can hold up coaching the number one team in America.
9. Seeing if the NCAA can hold up watching Junior coach the number one team in America.
10. FIAR, B!
11. Denard Robinson vs. the Alabama defense.
12. Brian VanGorder and Willie Martinez, together again.
13. Jarvis Jones’ improvement.
14. Popeye’s fried chicken.
15. Tyler Wilson’s toughness.
16. Thursday night football minus Craig James.
17. September home games at night.
18. Seeing if the “SEC – Year of the Quarterback” meme has legs.
19. West Virginia’s offense laying waste to most Big 12 defenses.
20. Most Big 12 defenses laying waste to Charlie Weis’ offense.
21. The Georgia-South Carolina game.
22. Calibrating the temperature of SOD’s hot seat.
23. Big John Jenkins’ improvement.
24. Referring to the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party as the “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party”.
25. Seeing if Dorial Green-Beckham lives up to the hype.  (That can wait until after Missouri’s second game, though.)
26. Watching the excitement of the Washington State fan base grow during Mike Leach’s inaugural season.
27. The first cold beer at the first tailgate of the season.
28. The warm feeling I get when Georgia’s defense steps on the field.
29. The warm feeling I get when I’m reminded that this is Michael Adams’ last year on the job.
30. Finding out if last year’s Auburn offense was Malzahn’s fault, or the quarterbacks’.
31. The patented Spurrier visor toss.
32. Life after RGIII, Andrew Luck and Kellen Moore.
33. Mark Bradley explaining Paul Johnson’s genius after the Virginia Tech game, regardless of the outcome.
34. The next thing Mark Richt loses control over.
35. Aaron Murray’s footwork.
36. Uncle Verne’s chortle.
37. Kickoff strategy under the new NCAA rules.
38. Seeing how much Jim Grobe can squeeze out of Wake Forest.
39. Geno Smith and Logan Thomas, for different reasons.
40. Georgia surviving the suspensions.
41. The over/under on the number of catches Georgia Tech’s leading receiver has this season.
42. Checking to see if Paul Petrino successfully covers in his brother’s absence as offensive coordinator.
43. Contemplating how much Gator fans reminisce about the good ol’ days with John Brantley taking the snaps.
44. Russ, in another season as Da Dawg.
45. More commemorative bourbon bottles.
46. The Army-Navy game.  Just like every year.
47. TCU and Gary Patterson stepping up in class.
48. The next clever wrinkle in offensive strategy.
49. John L. Smith’s first sideline meltdown.
50. The losing coach’s presser after the Florida-Tennessee game.
51. Auburn-Georgia, along with every other historical rivalry the powers that be managed to keep their grubby hands off.
52. The number of comments Spurrier makes about the schedule after the loss to LSU.
53. Vanderbilt’s Sanford Stadium welcome.
54. Seeing if FSU can avoid underachieving.
55. The development of Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall.
56. Finding out how many decent teams there are in the Big Ten this season.
57. Jadeveon Clowney, middle linebacker.
58. The last in-broadcast Penn State observation of the year.
59. A strategically located Porta-Potty with a short line in Jacksonville.  (This will always be on my list.)
60. The inevitable Clemson meltdown.
61. Malcolm Mitchell’s healthy hamstrings.
62. Thursday, August 30, 2012.
63. Rocky Long, taking the plunge on avoiding the punt.
64. The Montana Project.
65. A general decline in BCS complaining.
66. Another all-SEC matchup in the national title game, bitches.  Just because.
67. The pregame flight of the Auburn eagle.
68. The public vote by vote breakdown of the last regular season Coaches’ Poll ballots.
69. Koulton Houston being cleared to play.  Finally.
70. Watching to see if Greg Mattison took any lessons away from his stint as Corch’s Florida DC that are applied in this year’s Michigan-Ohio State game.
71. Barkevious Mingo.  Because I love saying the name.
72. The Notre Dame Bowl Watch – with that schedule, it’s going to be a lengthy one.
73. My fellow Dawg and Gator travelers on the highway to the WLOCP.
74. The clarion call of CBS’ intro music.
75. John Theus making Jarvis Jones proud.
76. Watching drunks play beer pong.
77. The successful return of 344-Fullback.
78. College bands.  I’ll take ’em over the piped-in stuff all day long and twice on “Zombie Nation”.
79. The last five minutes of this season’s most embarrassing upset.
80. Seeing Charlie Strong’s reaction if Louisville wins a conference title.
81. Josh Harvey-Clemons, putting the star in the star position.
82. Ralphie.
83. Bill Snyder working his magic again.
84. Friday morning breakfast at T-Rays in Fernandina Beach.
85. The anguished cries from the Arkansas fan base to bring back Petrino if the program falls out of the double digits win zone.
86. The smile on Mark Richt’s face as he explains to the media at the SECCG presser about winning the East with 69 recruited scholarship players.
87. The variety of offenses on display in the Pac-12.
88. Wisconsin’s import a starting quarterback approach, minus Paul Chryst.
89. That first cool, crisp fall afternoon in Athens.
90. The Red River Rivalry.
91. Marshall Morgan successfully kicking his first field goal under pressure.
92. Missouri’s home crowd for its SEC opener.
93. Will Muschamp’s warm welcome to College Station, Texas.
94. Any tailgate playlist with James Brown on it.
95. Political wankery kept to a minimum.  (That’s definitely a hope, not an expectation.)
96. Figuring out whether Ellis Johnson misses South Carolina more, or vice versa.
97. Cornelius Washington lives up to potential, spends entire season kicking some righteous ass.
98. November 3rd:  Oregon vs. USC and Alabama vs. LSU.
99. Seeing if Mike London can keep things going in Charlottesville.  (A win over Va. Tech would be nice.)
100. Finding out how much of a difference that schedule really makes.

It won’t be long now.