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Week Five BlogPoll Ballot Revised
October 07, 2009 by
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My thanks go out to everyone who provided feedback following the posting of my initial BlogPoll ballot draft. Thanks to your helpful comments and critiques, I made a few changes, so that my top 25 now looks like this:
RankTeamDelta 1 Alabama 2 Florida 1 3 Texas...
Don't Bet On It!: Around the SEC
October 06, 2009 by
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I’m not trying to brag or anything, but I went 6-0 in last week’s SEC picks to improve to 35-2 for the year. Please bear that in mind when it comes time to review how I did in my national picks.
For now, though, our focus is right here at home, where conference clubs will...
SEC Power Poll Ballot: Week Five
October 06, 2009 by
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You’ve seen my initial BlogPoll ballot draft, so now it’s time for us to turn our attention to this week’s SEC Power Poll. Here is how the Southeastern Conference stacks up from where I sit:
1. Alabama Crimson Tide (5-0): Nothing the Red Elephants have done this season...
Well, as long as he says he's sorry . . .
October 05, 2009 by
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Well, as long as he says he's sorry . . .
. . . I guess everything is all right. (Thanks to Team Speed Kills.)
Tim Brando has an interesting take on this one, but we need to remember that Quinton is right: this game was lost on the field by the Bulldogs. The call was bad...
Looking Back, Looking Forward.
October 05, 2009 by
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Looking Back
Can someone please explain to me why we kicked the ball to the fastest player in college football when we were already backed up on the kickoff to begin with? Anyone? Which genius taking part in the post mortem over in the football offices wants to explain...
Programming Notes: Two Chances to Hear Dawg Sports Tonight!
October 05, 2009 by
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If my calendar is correct, I am slated to appear on the air twice this evening. The first time will be at 7:15 p.m., when I am scheduled to make my regular weekly visit to John Frary's radio show on ESPN Radio 1420 AM out of St. Augustine. You can listen live by visiting the...
Week Five BlogPoll Ballot Draft
October 04, 2009 by
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I apologize for my delay in posting yesterday’s postgame wrap-up, but it wound up being a busy weekend. My wife had a family get-together at her parents’ home on the north side of town on Saturday, which meant that my brother-in-law, Craig, and I left Sanford Stadium after...
My post-emptive strike
October 04, 2009 by
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I wrote this before the Arkansas game to try and preempt what I thought would be a wave of wailing and gnashing of teeth after getting housed by what had been considered a "lesser" opponent. After losing, but certainly not getting "housed," to an opponent...
LSU Tigers 20, Georgia Bulldogs 13: "I Am Whatever You Say I Am"
October 04, 2009 by
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Here, in a nutshell, is my summary of yesterday’s loss between the hedges:
A few days ago, Orson Swindle described Tim Tebow’s injury as a Rorschach test, and the same thing appears to be the case with Saturday’s game in Sanford Stadium. The reactions remind me of...
Georgia Bulldogs v. LSU Tigers Game Day Open Comment Thread
October 03, 2009 by
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I have no idea whether this is the game in which one or both of these teams will put it all together, one or both of these teams will continue to befuddle us, or one or both of these teams will perform somewhere in the middle of those two extremes. However, I am fully cognizant...
Too Much Information: Georgia Bulldogs v. LSU Tigers
October 02, 2009 by
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Let me own up to this right now: I have no idea what’s going to happen tomorrow. That’s all right, though, because neither does Doug Gillett, neither does Senator Blutarsky, neither do Louisiana State fans, and neither do you. Paul Westerdawg seems to have something at least...
Cocktail Friday: LSU Edition.
October 02, 2009 by
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I know. It's Friday, not Thursday. The fact is, well, I fumbled. I typed up a perfectly good Cocktail Thursday post, then in my haste to add one more link, I failed to save my progress before switching browser windows. I was so upset with myself that I immediately performed...
Let the Big Dawg Eat, Write Books, Wear Red Jerseys, and Dance
October 02, 2009 by
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Before we both dive headlong into our respective Friday mornings, I want to call your attention to a couple or three points raised by your friend and mine, David Hale. The first concerns dancing, of all things:
During the TV timeouts in the latter stages of last week’s win...
Don't Bet On It!: National Game of Disinterest
October 01, 2009 by
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The weekend is fast upon us, and, although we have gone around the SEC and looked at the national games of interest, we have one more game to examine ere we get down to the serious business of getting our game faces on for this weekend’s tilt with the LSU Tigers. Naturally, I...
Thursday Morning Dawg Bites: SEC Power Poll, BlogPoll, the Game I Missed, and the Best Month Ever
October 01, 2009 by
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For the most part, I have gotten out of the habit of putting up what we in the blogosphere decorously call "link dump" postings, because, frankly, you’re smart enough to visit The Dawgbone, Team Speed Kills, and SB Nation for all your Georgia, SEC, and national news...
Don't Bet On It!: National Games of Interest
September 30, 2009 by
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I have already provided you with my SEC predictions, which were offered in the wake of a 7-0 week that brought my overall conference ledger to 29-2. That’s pretty impressive, right? If you think so, how about if you just skip over the next paragraph and remain impressed with...
Over or Under? LSU Edition.
September 30, 2009 by
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It's that time of the week when we speculate wildly and numerically about individual and team performances in this week's SEC showdown between the Georgia Bulldogs and the squad from Les Miles's School for People Who Smell Like Corndogs*. With no further ado, I ask...
Don't Bet On It!: Around the SEC
September 29, 2009 by
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First things first: I posted my weekly BlogPoll ballot draft and received a fair amount of feedback, particularly with respect to the Cincinnati Bearcats and the UCLA Bruins, and I modified my top 25 accordingly; viz.:
RankTeamDelta 1 Alabama 2 Texas 3 Florida ...
Georgia Adds Idaho State Bengals To 2010 Slate.
September 29, 2009 by
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The Athletic Association announced today that Idaho State will visit Athens on November 6, 2010, rounding out the 2010 schedule.
The Big Sky Conference Bengals were 1-11 in 2008 and have started 2009 0-4, so no one is going to really laud us for amping up our out of conference...
SEC Power Poll Ballot: Week Four
September 28, 2009 by
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I have submitted the first draft of my BlogPoll ballot (on which your feedback is appreciated), so now it is time to cast my weekly SEC Power Poll ballot. Here, in my estimation, is how the twelve teams of the Southeastern Conference stack up in comparison to one another:
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The other shoe has dropped . . .
September 28, 2009 by
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The other shoe has dropped . . .
. . . and, to Orson's credit, it was not as bad as I had feared.
For the record, yes, I do assume a subhuman level of basic morality on the part of Urban Meyer, as I believe Orson also does when Tim Tebow's health is not a part of the...
Programming Note: Dawg Sports Radio Appearance at 7:15 Tonight
September 28, 2009 by
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I am scheduled to make my regular postgame appearance on John Frary's radio show at 7:15 this evening. If you happen to be in North Florida, tune in to ESPN Radio 1420 AM out of St. Augustine. If you happen to be anywhere else, simply go to the station's website ...
Week Four BlogPoll Ballot Draft
September 27, 2009 by
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This is the worst week of the year in which to compile a BlogPoll ballot. We have enough information gathered from the playing of actual games to toss aside many if not most of our preseason suppositions, but we lack adequate data upon which to base reliable conclusions. It&rsquo...
Georgia Bulldogs 20, Arizona State Sun Devils 17
September 27, 2009 by
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My father will not leave a sporting event early. This dates back to his boyhood, when he rode into town to see minor league baseball games in Cordele, Ga., with a local man who insisted upon leaving at the seventh-inning stretch in order to beat traffic. That is, in order to beat...
We Are Who We Are (And That's All Who We Are).
September 27, 2009 by
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In matters of football, as in most other matters, I am an empiricist. That is to say, I believe that the best predictor of what an individual or group will do in the near future is what that individual or group did in the recent past. Given a sufficient sample size, I find that...
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