We picked the wrong time to peak as a program...

Next year we should be good...real good. By all acounts, the 2008 Dawgs should be the best Georgia team since Mark Richt's first SEC Championship when we won the Sugar Bowl over FSU. If we win out this year and win a BCS Bowl, then we should be ranked in the preseason top 3.

The only problem is, I just looked at our scheudle for 2008. It is the toughest Georgia schedule I have ever seen. We kick things off against Championship Subdivision power Georgia Southern. This is always a fun game and usually draws a huge crowd. Whenever they play in Athens, it is usually the biggest crowd for a football game ever in the state of Georgia. One of these years, they're gonna get us and we're not gonna see it coming. Don't think it can happen? Just ask the boys in the Big House about a little team from Boone, North Carolina.

After that, we get the ball coach, Arizona State, Alabama, and Tennessee back-to-back-to-back-to-back. The only good news here is that ASU, Bama, and UT are home games. Spurrier can beat us no matter how good we are and no matter how bad the Gamecocks are. Look at this year as evidence. Look at what they did to us and then look at where we are and where they are. Shouldn't have happened, but it did. If they can do it this year, they can do it again next year. How good is Arizona State supposed to be next season? I don't know what their situation is. Are they losing alot of key players to graduation/early departure for the NFL this year, or do they return a good many from this year's team? If they're the same top 10 team next year as they are right now, we're in trouble, seeing as how we usually play our worst at the beginning of the season. Bama and Tennesseee are self-explanatory. Richt has never lost to Alabama and is the only Georgia coach to win in Tuscaloosa. Saban's teams only get better. They will be hungry for a win in Athens and they'll be challenging in the West.

As if that weren't enough, there will be no bye-week for the Dawgs before making the annual pilgrimage to Jacksonville for the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. The team we play the week before the Gators? LSU. Tebow will be back, the frontrunner for the Heisman trophy, and the Gator nation will be looking to exact its revenge on a probably banged-up Georgia squad that just played a very physical game against what may very well be the defending national champions, and were left with no time to heal and prepare for the much-improved Gators.

And then there's the standard fare of Auburn, Kentucky, and Georgia Tech to worry about.

We will be great, but our record may not reflect it. No way do we get through that schedule unschathed.

Very good point ChemDawg--The schedule for 08' is BRUTAL. That said, though we have the talent to do it, it is very unlikely that we can run the table and go undefeated, just too many consecutive games against top-notch programs. It is extremely rare for anybody to run the table in the SEC, other than the 04' AU team, which got totally jobbed by the BCS, when did any SEC team last go undefeated? We can & I believe will make it to the NC game even with 1 loss. Our strength of schedule will be off the charts, just like the Gators of 06' & that should propel us in the polls, even w/a loss. Hopefully, between the mid-majors, Big Least, Decent 2 + 9, No-D 10, Small 12, & Atlantic Basketball conferences, there will not be 2 undefeated teams benefitting from an inferior schedule to ours.
GO DAWGS-FINISH STRONG-SOW THE SEEDS IN 07' TO REAP THE REWARDS IN 08'

Well, the flip side is that when we make it to the NC game, we will have earned it. No traipse through the cupcakes for us next year, and no questions about whether we deserve that NC. I like it, because at the end of next year, the whole nation will know what we already know: that the Dawgs are for real.

UGAChemDawg, where do you find a schedule for '08?

Schedules for 2008 and (partial) for 2009 are already up at georgiadogs.com.

When Auburn ran the table in 2004, they had a slightly easier schedule, facing The Citadel and such. Plus, let's face it, the West is top-heavy and nowhere near as tough to navigate as the East. This is not to say that Auburn shouldn't have played for the NC that year; they should have. It's just to say that just because AU ran the table in '04 doesn't mean that we can or will next year.

But MAN are we gonna be good...LSU will probably be in transition due to Les Miles going to Mich...I think Tuberville is GONE next year, and Muschamp looks more and more gone every day...Ainge is gone from UT next year and there's no Clausen to replace him...the teams I'm really worried about next year are SCarolina, Florida and Tech.

But that's next year. THIS year...well this year we ain't losing again. GO DAWGS!!!

Hey guys, we are going to be LOADED especially the next 2 years, probable next 5 at least. It may not matter who we play as long as we are HEALTHY.