What?  Here is the problem your missing; obviously Georgia does not have the same clout that 4 or 5 other teams have in the Press.  Ie. that was Auburns biggest problem in 04 not the out of conference schedule.  We let the talking heads take a chance to play for the NC game this year without raising hell then they are going to do it again.  Most often the victor in an argument is not the one who is right but most often the one who is loudest(and usually the one who is wrong).

I know I can't spell but Georgia gave me a couple of degrees and they knew it too.  Oh yeah there in History and Comparative Lit. ... and I am really pissed

   I understand your argument.  I just don't agree with it.  I don't agree with your poll either; and by that I mean Oklahoma ahead of Georgia I agreed with Kansas and Hawaii though.  If your ranking teams relative to success fared against schedule rank then Georgia is an excellent choice.  Last week, if memory serves, they had the hardest schedule out of the top 10 (Saragins 16th).  I digress, give me a tangent and I take it.
   The BCS chose to allow any team with merit to have a shot at playing for the NC.  The system was based on pollsters and CP.  If they believe Georgia is deserving of a 4th place vote one week, and then the next decide to take away the precedent set forth in previous seasons, that were not affected by a previous 1 and 2 matchup (Michigan), there is plenty to be upset with.

And I wouldn't even bother spellchecking this.

I do really like the blog, I promise I will stop Bitc@#%* If you will put up a fire Terrance Moore and pin the tell on Stewart Mandell picture, game, etc.

who aren't conference champs is that it leads to counterintuitive results when it comes to certain scenarios.  What do you say if a team is a 1-loss team, like a Kansas this year but with a much better resume, and nobody else has a better claim?

For example, if Georgia had beaten Tennessee but kept the loss to South Carolina and the Cocks ran the table with one loss (let's say to Florida) in the SEC, Georgia would be out of the conference title game.  Now let's say that same Carolina team lost to Clemson and North Carolina.  For argument's sake, they beat LSU in the title game.  Everything else is as it is today.  Georgia is undoubtedly one of the top 2 teams in that scenario, yet they didn't win their conference.  

Now I can understand the argument that if they didn't win their conference, they aren't deserving of a title shot.  However, what if the officiating in that game had been exactly as bad as the officiating from the West Virginia-Pitt contest?    Now it clearly violates your sense of fairness to say that Georgia is not deserving of a chance.  We wuz robbed, you might say.  

That scenario is extreme, and it is not the case in the here and now.  However, Murphy's Law (and fate's apparent hatred of the BCS) says that it will happen one day.  If, in that situation, you say OK to Georgia, you can say OK now.  

Also, no one can be in favor of any form of a playoff and still be against a non-conference champion getting in.  They are mutually exclusive.  

Georgia is a very good football team,we are  happy to be in a major bowl game period.We hope to hang in there with the dawgs & make a game of it,a Georgia blowout would not be good for the WAC's credibilty,& out here in Hawaii we won our first all out WAC championship.Boise proved last year that the small guys could beat a big time cartel school.If you saw that Fiesta bowl,it was one of the best bowl games I have ever seen.Certainly the most fun to watch bowl game last year.I hope that the sugar will be the best bowl game this year think of it that way & be glad you are in the Sugar, Aloha Kimo

I guess UGA got what they asked for. Bulldog nation didn't want to play in the conference championship game against LSU because they thought they had a clear path to the national championship game by sitting on the sideline this week. Not. You don't play the last week of the season, you get passed up   by the contenders. Hawaii is just about right.

We don't have to presume anything. The very fact that you all are calling for a blackout at the Superdome is evidence enough. Hawaii is the designated home team for the Sugar and guess what? Their home colors are BLACK and Silver. Yes, BLACK. Keep on going to your Rocket Scientist classes with your Basketball team.

HA HA HA HA

(perhaps it felt abandoned)

Zen, the people calling for UGA not to go to the title game were either:

1. A very small minority of UGA fans or
   
2. Media persons who could charitably be referred to as idiots (e.g. the Macon, Ga talk radio afternoon sports guy, who lobbied for UGA to stay at home and get a BCS bid by default for a couple of weeks).
2. The decision for UGA to wear black jersies, where applicable, was set in stone months ago and was always contingent on the particulars of the bowl game.  

Either way, leave the thinking to the professionals.

the Thinking Bulldog will be pulling for LSU baby!

Very articulate response, peacedog.  I'm ashamed at myself for arguing with a 7th grader.  I guess emotion got the better of me because this board/ blog rarely gets Neanderthalistic flamers like that.

And while my disappointment has not totally abated from Sunday's decision (I mean, how could it not?  The hard part occurred in Morgantown!What were the chances of Pitt beating WVU and giving all of us that unbridled hope?  They won despite the fact that there exists an even worse referee than Penn Wagers.) I am extremely proud of this team and am looking forward to playing our worthy opponent in Nawlins'.  

Don't take Colt and the Warriors for granted. Not only may the offense suprise you, but our defense can adjust.

Aloha

In case Dawg Nationis  starting to think "crazy,"  I just wanted to let you know that South Carolina is always down for a good, old-fashioned secession crisis.  Keep us informed--half the state won't have much to do this December, regardless.

Dave, I should have added a third category.  Obviously, Sunday was a letdown for a lot of people and that's understandable.  I'm sure any number of people said things then that have already taken them back now that reality has set in.  That's not really a concern either, IMO.

I do think anyone who wanted UT to win so they could go to the SECCG for a "garunteed loss" was not thinking things through.  These same people will point to Missouri and say "see, we told you!".  I have a different outlook - I'll take our kids with our head coach any time, any where. You always want a chance to play for the SEC title.  Always.  Any national title chances will realistically spring from that.  But more importantly, it's just great for the program.  We will have a generation of fans who didn't go a hair under 20 years between SEC titles thanks to Richt.  In one sense, that's a good thing.  But in another, they don't understand what it can be like.  Which is why we have to preach "a shot at the SEC title is of paramount importance".

gamecock fan - chin up, man  ;)

My attitude may be in the minority here, but personally I'm just pretty damn happy to be going to the Sugar Bowl, although it was not my first choice. I was disappointed too on Sunday night, but not too much because I knew it was a long shot to begin with. I knew that if LSU won they had a shot at jumping us. They did, after all, win the SEC championship and that counts for quite a bit in my book. That's getting where you want to be by doing what it takes on the field. With all due respect to Hawaii, however, I'm not all that excited about playing them. I would have much prefered to being playing USC in the Rose Bowl. But, the Sugar is the traditional home of SEC elites and we can't be too pissed about that. Consider where we were after that Knoxville loss and look where we are now. The Sugar Bowl is a pretty damn good prize for our team coming together and being the great team we all knew was in there but just not being brought out. Next year, my friends! Next Year!!!