Georgia Bulldogs' 2012 Football Schedule Officially Revealed in 2011 Media Guide
by T Kyle King on Jul 13, 2011 3:04 AM EDT
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PrintSince I returned from vacation this week, my focus has been on getting caught up at the office, so I hadn’t thought to order my 2011 Georgia Bulldogs football media guide. (2011 Georgia Bulldogs Maple Street Press annual? That, I got. 2011 game day parking pass? That, I ordered. Media guide? Not so much.)
Fortunately, others have gotten their media guides, and in those tomes those individuals have found such data as the Red and Black’s 2012 schedule, which, like, cool!
Here is the slate the ‘Dawgs will face in the twelfth year of the Mark Richt era or the inaugural autumn of the Kirby Smart regime:
Sept. 1: Buffalo Bulls
Sept. 8: at South Carolina Gamecocks
Sept. 15: Florida Atlantic Owls
Sept. 22: Vanderbilt Commodores
Sept. 29: Tennessee Volunteers
Oct. 6: at Alabama Crimson Tide
Oct. 13: at Kentucky Wildcats
Oct. 20: bye
Oct. 27: Florida Gators (Jacksonville)
Nov. 3: Mississippi Rebels
Nov. 10: at Auburn Tigers
Nov. 17: Georgia Southern Eagles
Nov. 24: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Two aspects of that slate immediately leap out at me:
- There’s some serious shuffling going on there. Tennessee and Vanderbilt have been moved from October to September, Kentucky has been moved from November to October, the patsies have been sprinkled at various points throughout the fall, and, heck, we might end up playing Ole Miss for homecoming. If that reflects Greg McGarity’s influence---and I’d be willing to bet it does---I’d say the man holds some sway.
- Although I wish I could flip-flop the order of the outings against the Commodores and the Volunteers, I otherwise have few gripes about that schedule. Yeah, it’s tough to travel to Columbia, Tuscaloosa, and Auburn all in the same season, but the way the road games fall really can’t be helped. Getting a home game against a patsy before South Carolina, a home game against Vandy before Tennessee, an open date before Florida, a home game against Ole Miss before Auburn, and a home game against a Division I-AA opponent before Georgia Tech is about as favorable a slate as you could ask for an SEC team.
What leaps out at you about the 2012 schedule?
Go ‘Dawgs!
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One other thought occurred to me:
If Howard Schnellenberger returns to coach the FAU Owls next year and Mark Richt returns to coach the Georgia Bulldogs next year, Coach Richt will go up against the man who was his head coach during his playing days at Miami.
Go 'Dawgs!
This is very interesting, and the ADs influence is strongly there.
It was really cool going out west and taking on all these big schools, but frankly I am happy for same changes to our benefit. Assuming CMR does well enough to carry on to 2012, there is simply no excuse that year. I think CMR is much less on the hot seat than many people claim, but 2012 I think is different.
I swear I saw Buffalo Bills at first. Then I went, “who the hell are the Buffalo Bulls?”
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Dang it, I was going to make that joke. :-)
I was going to say, “Why are we opening the season against an NFL team???”
But this is SUNY-Buffalo, which is much different, so we’re good. (It makes them sound a lot less intimidating to put “SUNY” before their name, and it is more technically correct anyway. The name of the school is the State University of New York at Buffalo.)
Overall, I love the schedule. Bye week before Jax, not playing Auburn the very next week, and the only “major” teams we have in back-to-back weeks are Tennessee and Alabama (and UT is a home game). I’d say it’s about as well-structured a schedule as you can possibly get in the SEC.
by vineyarddawg on Jul 13, 2011 8:57 AM EDT up reply actions
It's the school where...
former Nebraska star and long time Tom Osborne assistant coach Turner Gil took over and led to a recent resurgance of respectability before moving on to Kansas last year or the year before.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
Well, to be fair...
… we should call it “MAC respectability.” They won a conference title when their record was 7-5. Even under Gill, they were never going to be able to knock off a great team like UConn (snert).
by vineyarddawg on Jul 13, 2011 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions
So a team we should crush and hopefully not look like a complete patsy come years end?
perfect.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Jul 13, 2011 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
If I remember correctly, that was Buffalo's first bowl game, but not their first bid.
Buffalo was invited to the Tangerine (/Citrus/Capital One) Bowl back in the 1950s, but declined the invitation because they would not be able to take the field as an entire team — they had black players, which was not allowed at the bowl.
So they’ve been around a while and have some history.
I see two things about it, coach-wise
1) It’s a nice schedule to reward Richt with if he is back for 2012
2) If we have a new coach, it’s about as good as we can get to ease him into the job
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