December 1st, 2012 at 8:44 PM ^
It's a savvy media move. Red Berenson does the same thing.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:56 PM ^
Just pulled a Zook/ Les Miles special.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:56 PM ^
Poor clock management... i thought LSU and Les Miles were on the field
December 1st, 2012 at 7:56 PM ^
This isn't your typical Alabama team - I'm not sold ND won't be able to stop them. They can run the ball against a Georgia line that doesn't seem nearly as good as they sound on paper, but this defense had a hard time in the second half slowing down Georgia.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:32 PM ^
If ND had Gurley in the backfield or a QB like Murray who is a threat to throw the ball down the field they might, but they have neither. Georgia has a NT that is better than anything ND has and they still couldn't slow them down. Yeldon is a beast. Sooner he is in the NFL the better.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:56 PM ^
Georgia blows every game like that and Bama wins every fucking one that they should lose. Two of my top 5 hated teams are playing each other for the NC....great.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:56 PM ^
Saban's a snake, but he speaks well. And as much as I dislike the SEC, that was a great game to watch.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:56 PM ^
December 1st, 2012 at 7:58 PM ^
Bad coaching there. Clock it. Huddle up. Two good throws into the endzone, maybe even three if you're quick.
That was a Tyrone Butterfield '95 play, without the lucky drop.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:57 PM ^
Watching Nebraska-Wisconsin after this game is going to be like watching Star Wars the Phantom Menace after Return of the Jedi.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:03 PM ^
if you change Jedi to Empire Strikes Back.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:57 PM ^
ESS EEE CEE brainpower is apparently the invserse of ESS EEE CEE speed.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:57 PM ^
I don't think that Manti Te'o is exactly shaking in his boots right now.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:52 PM ^
Te'o is a proper badass, but ND's schedule hasn't done them any favors. Who in Christ's Holy Name would predict that in a conference championship game played against the (admittedly overrated) #3 ranked team in the country, Alabama would have TWO RB's combine for 300-plus yards rushing?
Seriously, stats like that don't appear in games of this stature since the days of Tom Osbourne and Barry Switzer (and the late Darrell Royal) winning national championships.
MANBALL.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:57 PM ^
December 1st, 2012 at 7:58 PM ^
LMAO... Earlier this week @ my gym, this UGA grad /fan called Mark Richt the Tony Romo of coaching... He was soooo right.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:59 PM ^
Sort of ironic that Romo will be working for Saban next year in Dallas.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:20 PM ^
...doesn't mean that he is dumb enough to have GRADUATED from MSU.
No way Saban leaves 'Bama for the NFL, certainly not to work for a 'tard like Jerruh Jones.
December 1st, 2012 at 7:58 PM ^
but I think this year may have just passed it
December 1st, 2012 at 7:59 PM ^
Can't blame the kid who caught the ball, that was just peer instinct.
That's on Richt and Murray. Spike the ball. Gives you two, possibly three plays to get the winning score.
So Michigan vs. Georgia in the Capitol One Bowl?
December 1st, 2012 at 8:02 PM ^
Bowl may very well select Texas A&M instead.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:04 PM ^
Just throwing this out there. Bowl matchups are decided before the Heisman.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:09 PM ^
is the frontrunner and the Capital One bowl might assume that he ends being the winner.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:06 PM ^
Ah, forgot about Texas A&M.
It could go a few different ways. Texas A&M, if Manziel wins, might even jump Florida for a BCS bid.
The Big Ten is going to get hammered this bowl season.
If Nebraska wins the BTCG, Michigan, Wisconsin and Northwestern are all going to be facing 10-11 win teams in their bowl games.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:14 PM ^
Double.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:06 PM ^
December 1st, 2012 at 8:00 PM ^
What was that song...
December 1st, 2012 at 8:00 PM ^
That music video made me long for some Pop Evil.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:03 PM ^
My ideal NCG finish: Double OT ND loses on a bad call from the refs and Saban goes to the NFL.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:10 PM ^
coaches get paid millions to know basic clock mgmt. to forego spiking the ball not once but twice in the final 30 sec was completely insane.
richt cost his university several million $ tonite.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:33 PM ^
...it's not unusual.
Mark Richt is a TERRIBLE game day coach. There is a significant number of folks in this state who want to see him fired.
Gerogia's high school infrastructure is to be envied when it comes to football talent; it is a tier below California/Texas/Florida, but on par with Ohio/Pennsylvania. The fact that UGA does not contend for national championships the way Alabama does is something of a statewide disgrace...anyone with the ethics of Les Miles or Nick Saban coaching in Athens would own the crystal football until they saw fit to loan it to someone else,
It is to UGA's credit/detriment that they hired a good man with a reasonable sense of ethics (who graduated from "THE U", of all places) to coach their football team.
My theory is that the ESS EEE SEE should trade UGA to the B1G for ohio; both conferences would get what they wanted out of the deal. The B1G would get one more program with a sense of honor, the ESS EEE SEE would get one more program without one.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:12 PM ^
December 1st, 2012 at 8:15 PM ^
too many teams have now played bama close this year. if ND is on the plus side of the TOs, i think they have a shot; not a good one, but a chance nonetheless.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:32 PM ^
December 1st, 2012 at 8:23 PM ^
I can see ND winning like how we won the Sugar Bowl. Bama will thoroughly outplay ND, but will make critical mistakes at the worst possible times. Yeldon will fumble inside Bama's 5, McCarron throws a costly pick, Bama makes a costly special teams error, or better yet, McCarron falls down the stairs and breaks his leg the night before the game.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:30 PM ^
December 1st, 2012 at 8:59 PM ^
...is that 2013 ND = 1989 Colorado.
Undefeated before they played the defending national champs from the previous year in a bowl game, wherein they got their asses handed to them due to no experience playing a team with the pedigree of that which PWNED them.
Of course, Colorado ended up winning a share of the MNC the next year, so that doesn't mean things necessarily get better from here.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:21 PM ^
December 1st, 2012 at 8:29 PM ^
I'd say that about Alabama, a bit. But Georgia has the type of "NFL talent" that Illinois had for a bunch of years - kids who look good on paper but the coaching holds them down a bit. UM would be very competitive with Georgia this year.
December 1st, 2012 at 8:55 PM ^
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December 1st, 2012 at 9:07 PM ^
that Michigan had running backs gain 300 yards rushing in a game against a Top 5 opponent?
1995 Tshimanga Biakabatuka and (insert your user name here)?
That defies reason. Of course UGA was overrated (they always are), but from a team that does not run an option-oriented offense, those numbers are absurd.
December 1st, 2012 at 9:15 PM ^
and not spike the ball? That's just a complete fail on the part of the coaching staff and Murray.
December 2nd, 2012 at 12:02 AM ^
I would prefer a Georgia national title over Bama, but just didn't trust Richt enough to take down the Irish to pull for them today. For the exact reasons as you saw at the end of the game with the clock management, I don't have confidence in Richt and Georgia to close and would have given the coaching edge to Kelly in the title game.
My Notre Dame hatred forced me to pull for Bama. Saban with 6 weeks to prepare for a freshman QB...I just think Bama will be much tougher for the Irish than Georgia. IF not for all the special teams mistakes, Bama wins this one by 2 scores today. I doubt they make those types of errors again. Feels dirty, but Roll Tide.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:23 AM ^