Stand Up Dawg Nation!
It’s time for Bulldog Football!
There is nothing like football in the South where the best football is played! Don’t get caught up with the media bias that comes from weaker conferences or in other parts of the country. The USC Trojans are the joke of the South and this has been known for a long time. Some where along the lines football in the South got mixed up with Southern California and their southern boys just ain’t as good as ours!
The Georgia Bulldogs was ranked number 1 in both preseason polls and this is the sign for Dawg Nation to rise up and show them we belong! This was just a little token of appreciation and the guys working the polls knew they could move USC to number 1 after they played a better team in the opening week of the college football season. Even though they try to look clever and make it legit, most of the money is in Southern California and it’s a money driven world we live in. The truth is that the USC Trojans would be lucky to be a 500 team in the SEC. They play in a weak PAC 10 division and maybe they don’t have control over their conference games, but they could schedule better non-conference games.
This is the Georgia Bulldogs year and they have all the parts in place to win the National Title this year in college football. A quarterback with a strong arm and the legs of Knowshon Moreno will lead the Dawgs to the title game in 2009. Georgia Southern got a taste of what this team from Athens is all about last Saturday and this week it will be Central Michigan’s turn. This team has scored 30+ points in their last 7 games, so should be interesting to see if the Georgia Bulldogs can hold them under 30 today.
The fun really starts next Saturday when we get our first taste of Steve Spurrier the ex Gator coach from Florida and see what the South Carolina Gamecocks can do. They lost a heartbreaker on national television to Vanderbilt on Thursday and this doesn’t help Spurrier and his staff with recruits. You have to win the national tv games to bring in the talent to win them all and this early season loss will stay in the minds of those that were considering South Carolina next year.
After South Carolina, the first part of the measuring stick will come into place. This is when the Bulldogs have to travel to Arizona and play in the climate out there. A road game in the dessert is not what any team wants, unless you’re the Arizona State team. I say this is a measuring stick game, because the USC Trojans will also play Arizona State and how these two teams play against the Sun Devils will determine a lot. USC will get these boys on their own home turf in the Coliseum, but we are use to the corruption like this when it comes to college football and teams from the South.
If South Carolina and Arizona State isn’t tough enough, we then play Alabama and Tennessee and who has the toughest games now? The two Oregon teams and Washington State don’t necessarily match up to the teams that Georgia has to play. Oh wait! Yes, I do see that Ohio State (over ranked too) is on your schedule and so nice of the college football gods to give you a bye this week, so you could have two weeks to prepare for the Buckeyes. It is also a known fact that if your gonna lose, better to do it early in the season than later. So USC gets two weeks to prepare for their toughest game of the year, while they will get a week and a half to prepare for Oregon State and then another week and a half to prepare for Oregon. It gets stranger every year, but leave it up to the Trojans and their faithful to hand them a silver spoon to some nice bowl game in 2009. What’s funny is that they get every break in the world and still fail to win National titles, because they do have to play a good team at the end of year. Also teams that play in bowl games have plenty of time to prepare for their opponent and it takes that little USC advantage out of the equation.
Rise up Dawg Nation! This is our time to shine! The sun might shine bright in Southern California, but it shines on our land first and it’s because the best college football is played in the South! You Cali Boys chose the wrong team to hunker down with this year!
