2012 NCAA Football Thread

dwalden2 · Dec 2, 2012

Top 5 or 6 team playin in the POS bowl. Love it. Especially when a #13 FSU team will be in a bcs bowl

Haslefre · Dec 2, 2012

dwalden2 said: ↑

Top 5 or 6 team playin in the POS bowl. Love it. Especially when a NR Wisconsin team will be in a bcs bowl
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Fixed it for you.

dwalden2 · Dec 2, 2012

And, for Matt:

dwalden2 · Dec 2, 2012

For the Dawg Fans...

http://blogs.ajc.com/mark-bradley-b...-short-in-bitter-defeat-a-winning-uga-effort/

There are people who say that only championships matter, that finishing second is the same as finishing last. To those people, we say this: Go away now. Go away while we honor — and yes, that’s the proper word — as gallant a runner-up as we’ll ever see. Go away and let us speak of the Georgia Bulldogs.

They’d waited 30 years for a game this big, and they came as close as you could come to winning it without actually winning. Three times they took a lead over the mighty Alabama, and even after what should have been a crushing Tide touchdown with 3:15 remaining, even after what seemed a clinching Bama interception inside the final minute … even then, these Bulldogs found themselves with first-and-goal and time flying.

That they fell five yards short, that a tipped Aaron Murray pass for Malcolm Mitchell was caught by a falling Chris Conley and the final five seconds ticked away, cannot take away from the effort spent and the excellence displayed. The Bulldogs arrived as a underdog, but they carried the fight to the reigning national champion and they left five yards shy of the most thrilling victory — apologies to Lindsay Scott — Georgia football has ever known.

This was easily the best of the 21 SEC Championship Games, and it was one of the finest displays of collegiate football ever witnessed. “Alabama’s a great football team,” Georgia coach Mark Richt said, “and we were pretty good, too.”

Has a losing team ever had more championship-caliber men and moments? From Sanders Commings intercepting an AJ McCarron pass in the end zone to the same Commings catching a pass from tight end Arthur Lynch to convert a galvanizing fake punt; from Cornelius Washington blocking a field goal and Alec Ogletree taking the carom the distance; from the freshman back Todd Gurley pounding the midsection of the nation’s best defense to Murray taking his team downfield in the final minute … has there ever, in the long and distinguished history of Georgia football, been a prouder loss?

Alas, the Bulldogs needed 85 yards, and they could manage only 80. Are five yards sufficient reason to characterize them as losers, to suggest that this four-point loss is living proof that Richt and/or Murray can’t win the Big One? No and no, and if you’re of such a mind didn’t you hear me when I said, “Go away”?

Contrary to popular belief, not every winning effort translates to winning. Alabama was just a bit better (and much stronger up front), but the Bulldogs spurned every opportunity — and there were many — to throw up their collective hands and say, “We’ve given it a go, but this isn’t our day.” And that fighting spirit nearly turned this into the Dogs’ day after all.

“They played well, we played well, the clock ran out,” Richt said. “What are you going to say?”

It was the game for which Georgia had waited since Herschel Walker left Athens in the spring of 1983, the game Richt had waited 12 seasons to coach. It was a game to win one championship and go play for another, and there can be no dishonor in the way the day played out. Quibble with the ending if you will — should Georgia have spiked the ball before Murray’s last throw? Probably not, for Bama was clearly rattled — but you cannot fault the Bulldogs’ skill or heart or pride.

If you claim to be a Georgia fan, you cannot be disappointed with the performance — only the result. How many teams could have stood in against Alabama after the Tide ground out 350 rushing yards? Alabama is the nation’s best program and has the nation’s best coach, and with 10 seconds left there was no assurance that regal Bama would leave the Georgia Dome as the winner.

“I shook every man’s hand,” Richt said, speaking of his crestfallen Bulldogs, “and if someone had his head in his hands I rubbed his head and told him I loved him.”

If you love anything about competitive sports, anything at all, you had to love this game. “That was a great football game by both teams, and they could have won today the same as us,” said Nick Saban, the hard-driving Alabama coach. “It came down to the last play.”

That the final play on this frenzied day was made by Georgia’s opponent in no way diminishes Georgia. If anything, the Bulldogs stand ennobled after falling to Alabama in a way that they hadn’t after any victory of the past half-dozen years. They didn’t win, but they didn’t really lose. “The clock just ran out,” Richt said, and there was no better recap of these stirring events than that.

Alabama played great. Georgia played great. And then the clock ran out.
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mcdowell · Dec 2, 2012

Pics are cool. Bet the dome was rocking up until the very end. Clock runnining out is the truth. Back and fourth the whole game.

dwalden2 · Dec 2, 2012

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Pics are cool. Bet the dome was rocking up until the very end.
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You have no idea. Loudest thing I've ever heard. After the blocked kick/TD it was a constant roar through the whole timeout until Bama's first play. When Bama came back, that end of the stadium was "worse than bonkers" to steal a line from Munson. My ears were ringin until I went to sleep.

coffeesnob · Dec 2, 2012

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How many titles has Bama won since ND won anything of significance? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say all those ND victories over Bama 40-50 years ago aren't gonna be weighing on Bama players/fans' minds
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40 to 50 years ago............ what kind of math do they teach down there?

dwalden2 · Dec 2, 2012

coffeesnob said: ↑

40 to 50 years ago............ what kind of math do they teach down there?
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Didnt look at the dates. Don't care. All I saw was you said ND had won 5 of 6 or something against bama. And none of them matter.

dwalden2 · Dec 2, 2012

Sorry...the last time they played was 25 years ago. The year I was born. Whether its 25 years or 50 years...no one is gonna e thinking about how many times ND has beat Bama. The only game that's gonna matter to anyone not from Notre dame is in January.

coffeesnob · Dec 2, 2012

dwalden2 said: ↑

Sorry...the last time they played was 25 years ago. The year I was born. Whether its 25 years or 50 years...no one is gonna e thinking about how many times ND has beat Bama. The only game that's gonna matter to anyone not from Notre dame is in January.
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no problem dude...alabama is a great team they will be favored by at least 10 points. the sec rules alabama is the crown jewel I know all that and accept it I have been a Notre Dame fan all my life, my father loved Notre Dame..I haven't had much to be enthused about with the Irish so I am gonna crow as loud as I can while I can maybe after the 7th of january I'll eat my words but i am gonna enjoy it while I can and who knows maybe ND will win after all they are undefeated..

sammy87 · Dec 2, 2012

mcdowell said: ↑

Uncalled for ??? Had no beef with Georgia fans all year on here and dont want any now. Just opening discussion.
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Didn't Warren Sapp end a few careers on hits like that?

Should have been a flag.

Warputer · Dec 2, 2012

coffeesnob said: ↑

I have been a Notre Dame fan all my life, my father loved Notre Dame..I haven't had much to be enthused about with the Irish ...
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I know your pain....just change the ND to South Carolina.

TacoDawgfan · Dec 2, 2012

Just saw on my FB page a UGA link to "get your Capital One bowl tix" vs Nebraska. Really?

JimBeam · Dec 2, 2012

Chic Fil A Bowl

Clemson v LSU

PreRunner03 · Dec 2, 2012

TacoDawgfan said: ↑

Just saw on my FB page a UGA link to "get your Capital One bowl tix" vs Nebraska. Really?
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That's lame. UGA should be in the Sugar Bowl, especially after how close this game was.

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Chic Fil A Bowl

Clemson v LSU

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Great offense vs a great defense

JimBeam · Dec 2, 2012

PreRunner03 said: ↑

That's lame. UGA should be in the Sugar Bowl, especially after how close this game was.

Great offense vs a great defense
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agreed on both counts

TexAggie · Dec 2, 2012

tigerfan00 said: ↑

Chic Fil A Bowl

Clemson v LSU

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I heard A&M vs Clemson

LSU to cotton vs OU

Edit: nevermind I was wrong

PreRunner03 · Dec 2, 2012

Any UGA fans know how many seniors y'all are losing?

TacoDawgfan · Dec 2, 2012

Who's watching this BS, BCS selection. What a fucking joke!

Not that it matters, we probably wont even be motivated to play in the consolation bowl.

I knew it wasn't going to be good but some of these match ups are not appealing imo.

TacoDawgfan · Dec 2, 2012

PreRunner03 said: ↑

Any UGA fans know how many seniors y'all are losing?
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