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Arkansas is crap and people should not soeak if them with Alabama.

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I was just checking on another forum, something I've only done once or twice in the last 3 years, and quite a mistake. My goodness. UGA fans sure do hate each other and their own team. But while perusing the intellectual offerings, one of the most intelligent posters appeared to be a Florida fan, sadly. This wuss offered up the following, which I've noted has been posted by more than one UGA fan, weirdly enough: UGA plays a weak schedule.

Let's take a VERY close look at that statement.

Fact. There were 12 teams in the SEC (up until this year, of course).

Fact. UGA is ONE of those 12 teams, so we automatically can't play EVERY team in the conference. That means the maximum number of SEC teams we would ever be ABLE to play would be 11.

Fact. We have to play GT, for some reason. Therefore the maximum number of SEC games we can play would be 10. Someone has to not be played. So that means we can't play us and, let's say, Ole Miss, and still have a schedule that isn't "weak".

Fact. The SEC sets up its schedule so that everyone plays only 8 conference games. That means there will be 3 teams that your team won't play (during the regular season).

I just checked, and last year UGA played every team in the conference except Alabama and Arkansas. That's a fact. We also played one of our non-conference games against a top five team. Fact. We also played a bowl game against a team that wound up in the top 10. Fact.

Fact? The SEC is the toughest conference in college football? Fact or not?

If it IS a fact, then UGA played 9 teams in the toughest conference in the nation, won their division, and only lost two of those games.

How weak COULD our schedule have been? How weak is it this year? Maybe it's not "Big 10" tough? "Pac 10" tough? "Big 12" tough? "Sunbelt" tough?

Heck. Let's play a "tough" schedule. Drop every non-conference game and play every team in the conference. Oh wait . . . that's not possible either.

Sheesh.

So here is my proposed schedule, in order to make sure we don't play a "weak" schedule in the toughest conference in college football, in this order:

1. Alabama
2. LSU
3. Arkansas
4. South Carolina
5. Alabama again
6. LSU again
7. Arkansas again
8. South Carolina again
Now we start the non-conference part of the schedule:
9. So. Cal.
10. Oklahoma
11. Oregon
12. Wisconsin

So there you have it, a schedule that by any standard, should be considered "not weak". Ok, I'll admit it's not "tough", but at least it's not "weak".

Sorry . . . but it's always a head-scratcher for me when I hear about "weak" SEC schedules.

I love this time of year, I really do. Go Dawgs.

We always seem to spend this time tempering our dreams with the hammer of reality. Every pre-season we get giddy because, let's face it, we OUGHT to be in the mix every season with the talent that filters through Athens.

Then, there's that pesky hammer.

Kids get in trouble, as they do, and have to sit out games. Breaks don't go our way and we lose games we should have won (the reverse is also true.) Then, at the end of the season, we are disappointed by the final tally, and our mantra of "maybe next year" becomes our comfort.

Sheesh.

Mark Richt has averaged 9.6 wins a season, regardless of what's thought of him. CTG has turned around WM's defense in the short span of two seasons into a beast of a machine. We're going to litter the NFL draft next year with Dawgs. That said, I'm not going to fall into the trap of trying to prognosticate on the upcoming season. That always seems to set me up for indigestion. So, this season, I'm taking things one week at a time. As it sits right now, I hope we start 1-0. I'll chirp about game two if we start 1-0.

As always LimeyDawg a post that says so much if one can read between the lines. Beginning to like this "one game at a time" statement.