2013 NCAA Football Thread

SpacemanSpiff · Aug 27, 2013

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I'm not claiming anything, Our D is never going to be all world because of our offense. I expect to still have trouble in the secondary, and our Dline is no where near where is has been before. On offense we need a running back to step up, and with Hopkins gone we need another reciever to step up and help take some heat off of Watkins. Georgia is going to be a great game and will tell us a lot about both teams. Go Tigers!

The one thing that really gives me hope is Tommy Bowden isn't in Clemson anymore, but his spirit lives on in Mark Richt. XD
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I agree...well, not so much the Richt. I think its going to be a great game and may just come down to whoever can get the last stop.

JimBeam · Aug 27, 2013

Y'all pretty much nailed how I think it's gonna go

BigBoi · Aug 27, 2013

Clemson has this problem of losing momentum and never gaining it back. All Georgia has to do is get a few interceptions or a few sacs and the game is over.

And I really want Georgia to win so they aren't coming off of a loss when we play them. Its already a tough enough game lol.

Oregon TRD · Aug 27, 2013

jbmccul · Aug 27, 2013

Oregon TRD · Aug 27, 2013

^^^^ 5th pic down is very uncalled for....

jbmccul · Aug 27, 2013

mws4ua · Aug 27, 2013

2 Days!!!!

DeAndrew White... Lost him for the year to an ACL injury in the Ole Miss game. Still a cool picture, though:

And, of course, David Palmer... THE DEUCE!!!!

mws4ua · Aug 27, 2013

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^^^^ 5th pic down is very uncalled for....
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Not fond of the 3rd and 4th, either.... but I suppose it was all OK in the end...

TacoDawgfan · Aug 27, 2013

So true.........................................

Oregon TRD · Aug 27, 2013

Arms Race: The top locker rooms in college football

Some badass facilities

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2013/college-football-locker-rooms/

coffeesnob · Aug 27, 2013

Roll Tide · Aug 27, 2013

RAPR said: ↑

Arms Race: The top locker rooms in college football

Some badass facilities

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2013/college-football-locker-rooms/
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As I sit here and think about this stuff, and whether it would have mattered to me, initially I say, "who gives a shit about facilities, cool locker rooms, and player lounges?". But, if I was 18 again, it might matter. I dunno, now as long as the weight room, rehab facilities, and the rest of the team were up to snuff, I'd go there.

Haslefre · Aug 27, 2013

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^^^^ 5th pic down is very uncalled for
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I was just to the right of that picture...

dwalden2 · Aug 27, 2013

Buddy just sent me this and said it should tide me over for 4 days

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=relmfu&v=wvN3GRU5jEA

dwalden2 · Aug 27, 2013

Brandon Boykin

JimBeam · Aug 27, 2013

a little history for those of you who don't recall the UGA/Clemson history

http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/59101/familiar-stakes-in-georgia-clemson-revival

ATHENS, Ga. -- Scour the locker rooms at Georgia and Clemson and it might be difficult to find a player who knows much about their historic rivalry.

“You know me, I don’t know much about Georgia’s history from before I got here,” Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray chuckled in one such response about the longtime rivalry between schools separated by only about 70 miles.

Murray is far from alone in that regard. The 22-year-old Floridian was 13 the last time Georgia and Clemson met, in 2003, and was not even alive when the annual 1980s meetings between the Bulldogs and Tigers often carried national-title implications.

Fans of a certain age might harken back to those days on Saturday, however, when the rivalry resumes -- ending the longest gap between games since the series started in 1897 -- and No. 5 Georgia visits No. 8 Clemson in Death Valley.

Coach Danny Ford and Clemson beat Georgia 13-3 in 1981 and went on to win the national championship.
“Georgia was really good every year, so it meant that doggone it, somebody was going to get a lot of publicity and a lot of press, whoever won that football game,” said former Tigers coach Danny Ford, who will be enshrined in Clemson’s Ring of Honor on Saturday. “You could still be a good football team if you lost that game, but it just put a cramp in everything and it was so early in the year -- the first or second game or third game every year -- and you kind of knew what kind of football team [you had].

“It was kind of like a Wednesday where the kids in school call it Hump Day, you know? You’re in the middle of the week, get your classes over with and you’re about halfway to the weekend. That was the same kind of a hump game, where if you get off and win that football game, you’ve got a great chance to have a good year.”

Back then, your season could be more than good if you slipped away with a win. Thanks to a 67-yard punt return touchdown by Scott Woerner and a 98-yard Woerner interception return that set up another score, Georgia edged Clemson 20-16 in 1980 despite failing to register a single first down in the opening half.

“At the end, they’re back down there and Jeff Hipp makes an interception on about the 1-yard line right at the end of the game,” recalled former Georgia coach Vince Dooley, who posted a 15-6-1 record against Clemson in his 25 seasons as the Bulldogs’ coach. “But statistic-wise, they just knocked us all over the place.”

The 10th-ranked Bulldogs went on to win the national title that season after barely surviving the Tigers’ upset bid. And Clemson returned the favor the following year, generating nine turnovers to beat Herschel Walker and No. 4 Georgia 13-3 en route to a national title of its own.

Clemson’s 1981 win marked the only time that Georgia lost in the regular season during Walker’s three seasons on campus.

“They’re the only team that he played more than once in his college career and didn’t score a touchdown against,” said UGA grad Kyle King, whose new book detailing the Georgia-Clemson series history, “Fighting Like Cats and Dogs,” was published, oddly enough, by the Clemson University Digital Press. “So they really were the ones who -- to the extent anyone had Herschel’s number -- they’re the ones who had his number.”

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In 25 years as coach at Georgia , Vince Dooley posted a 15-6-1 record against Clemson.
Just how close were the two teams in their respective pursuits of the national title? Georgia scored exactly 316 points during the 1980 regular season before beating Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl to claim its first national title since 1942. The following year, Clemson matched that scoring total to the number, notching the very same 316 points in the regular season before beating Nebraska in the Orange Bowl to claim the school’s first national championship.

The series continued to produce memorable outcomes on an annual basis throughout the 1980s. Take 1982, for example, when No. 7 Georgia hosted No. 11 Clemson in the first night game in decades at Sanford Stadium. Much like Saturday’s game at Clemson, the 1982 game aired before a prime-time national TV audience on ABC -- that year on Labor Day evening.

Bulldogs defenders picked off four passes by Clemson quarterback and Athens native Homer Jordan en route to a 13-7 win and another undefeated regular season. Once again, the Georgia-Clemson winner played in the game that would determine the national champion, although the Bulldogs lost this time, 27-23 to Penn State in the Sugar Bowl.

Nonetheless, those first three games set the standard for one of the nastiest rivalries of the 1980s -- one where defense, big special-teams plays and general hard-nosed aggression became trademarks.

“I remember it was always a tough game for Georgia. It was a tough game, period,” said Georgia running backs coach Bryan McClendon, who appeared in the series’ last two games, in 2002 and 2003, and whose father Willie preceded him as a Georgia player and coach. “It was always one of the biggest games out there in the country and it’s a lot like this year, to be honest with you. You never knew who was going to come out on top. Both teams always had high expectations going into each year, let alone that game. It was always a hard-fought war out there on the field.”

There was the 1984 game where Georgia beat No. 2 Clemson 26-23 on a 60-yard Kevin Butler field goal -- a play that produced what King called Bulldogs announcer Larry Munson’s most memorable call from a home game, when he estimated that Butler would “try to kick one 100,000 miles” and then proclaimed that “the stadium is worse than bonkers” once the kick cleared the uprights.

Clemson enjoyed its own kicking-game heroics in 1986 and 1987, when David Treadwell booted game-winning field goals at the end of the Tigers’ respective 31-28 and 21-20 victories.

“We were so evenly matched, and so many came down to a field goal or a touchdown, and we were so evenly matched that all of them kind of run together in my thoughts,” Ford recalled. “They’d win one and we’d win one.”

That proved true throughout Ford’s 11-year tenure at Clemson. A rivalry that Georgia once dominated -- the Bulldogs are 41-17-4 all-time against the Tigers and went 11-1-1 against Frank Howard, the winningest coach in Clemson history -- was extremely even in the 1980s.

Ford went 4-4-1 against Georgia while at Clemson. The scoring differential during that period? Georgia 153, Clemson 152.

“It was more about respectability for us because Georgia had the upper hand for so long back when Coach Howard [was here],” Ford said. “I tell the story all the time that Coach Howard would have to play Georgia and Georgia Tech, who was in the SEC back then, Alabama and Auburn and lose four games to have enough money to make his budget and then win the ACC conference. But back then he had to do that and he couldn’t hardly ever get them to come play at our place. It was just a thing of respectability I think, more so for us in the '80s."

Respectability is no longer a problem for either of the programs who will renew their longtime rivalry on Saturday in Death Valley. Georgia’s Mark Richt led his team within an eyelash of playing for the BCS title last year, and the Bulldogs enter Saturday’s game with their highest preseason ranking since opening the 2008 campaign in the No. 1 spot. Clemson’s Dabo Swinney has led the Tigers to a 21-6 record over the last two seasons and, blessed with a Heisman Trophy contender in quarterback Tajh Boyd, should boast one of the nation’s most explosive offenses.

The programs no longer resemble the Ford- and Dooley-era squads that relied on defense and the kicking game to win low-scoring games, but considering the standing the Georgia-Clemson game once held in the national championship race, it seems fitting that Saturday’s reunion occupies a marquee spot in college football’s opening weekend.

“I grew up with this game being played pretty much every year, and it was at a time that Georgia beat Florida every year, and Georgia beat Georgia Tech every year, so Clemson and Auburn were really the two games that you went into the year thinking, ‘Boy, I hope we can get out of that one with a W,’ ” King said. “I didn’t want to lose that, and that was really what ultimately inspired me to go back and write this book.

“We’re going into a season where it looks like you have two top-10 teams, two frontrunners in their conferences, two top-drawer quarterbacks going up against one another,” he added. “I think it’s important to remind fans that this isn’t a new thing. We butted heads with these guys in big games before, and hopefully we’ll get the chance to keep doing it in the future.”
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dwalden2 · Aug 27, 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEiDhrqEx_s

TacoDawgfan · Aug 27, 2013

So apparently Clemson's mascot is a Dawg fan?

JimBeam · Aug 27, 2013

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