I hope Tennessee wins the East

Our postseason prospects are better if Tennessee wins the SEC east.

That's the thing about conference championship games: the team that loses it is usually worse off come bowl time than the second place team from their division.

If we win out and Tennessee goes to the SEC championship game and gets slaughtered by LSU, we will go to the Sugar Bowl.

If we win out and Tennessee goes to the SEC championship game and beats LSU, LSU will probably drop below us if we don't lose between now and then because they would have been beaten by a relatively low ranked team. We'd both have 2 losses but Georgia would probably be the second SEC team chosen for the BCS.

If we manage to go to the SEC championship game and we lose, we'll probably end up in the Capital One Bowl.

So, here are the scinarios:

1.) Win out, but miss the SEC Championship Game: Sugar Bowl.
2.) Win out, go to the SEC Championship Game and lose: No BCS Bowl.
3.) Win out, go to the SEC Championship Game and win: Sugar Bowl.

So, for all our efforts in winning the SEC championship, the only thing we'd have to show for it is a trip to the Sugar Bowl, which is the exact same position we'd be in if we didn't go to the SEC championship game in the first place.

I'd rather take the guaranteed BCS bid than play in Atlanta and risk losing it.

I only care about beating Auburn right now.

We have ALL we can handle Sat. AU has no weaknesses, very solid, very physical, very disciplined and they usually don't make misstakes because they are well coached. Whoever wants it more will win.

Not to look ahead, but I honestly feel we are at the same point physically and emotionally as a team now as when we beat Auburn last year. The late-season blossoming into a powerhouse that destroys everyone in the end happened in Jacksonville, and now there is no stopping us. This seems to be a common theme in Richt's teams at UGA. We will have an up-down underachieving first half of the season, and then something will happen to catalyze the team and they start playing to their full potential with a passion that wasn't there before.

Georgia 35, Auburn 27.
Georgia 40, Kentucky 31
Georgia 52, Georgia Tech 17

If Richt could get his teams to have the same fire and drive from day 1 that they do as the season is winding down, he would win back-to-back national championships and have the Dawgs a dynasty in the same league as Miami of the 80s or Nebraska of the 90s.

ChemDawg, I agree. Just remember. If you look to far down the road, you blow your tire out on the pot hole right in front of you. We've got a mouth full this weekend. Let's chew it up before we take another bite.

I think we are projected to play in the Sugar bowl vs Hawaii in most of the popular media outlets that project bowl games.