This is being run by a Florida fan and a South Carolina fan, so I'm sure they're just trying to jinx us, but still. . . . Go 'Dawgs!
Also official: 1. It will expand. 2. It will create all manner of problems and controversies, solving nothing. 3. It will suck, but not enough to stop me from loving a sport that doesn't love me back, which has been true of just about every change in college football in my adult lifetime. Go 'Dawgs!
I always find that encouraging, except whenever he goes off on one of his playoff tirades. Go 'Dawgs!
Alabama won the BlogPoll national championship, despite the fact that five voters (including me) ranked the Tide third. Georgia ended up ranked 19th after a ten-win division championship season in which the Bulldogs lost to No. 2 LSU, No. 7 Boise State, No. 8 South Carolina, and No. 10 Michigan State. The Red and Black had the second-highest degree of deviation in the poll, thanks partly to my ballot: I won the Straight Bangin' Award and finished second in the running for Mr. Bold. Go 'Dawgs!
In case you want to follow the NCAA men's golf finals on-line, click the above link. If you're following along at home, you may use this as your open comment thread, as well. Go 'Dawgs!
As much as I hate to see our biggest historic gymnastics rival win a national championship, it probably is best for Georgia that the club did not grow any larger this year. Alabama edged UCLA for the honor; the Crimson Tide and the Bruins are two of the four teams to have captured NCAA gymnastics championships in the history of the sport. Georgia and Utah are the other two. Oklahoma and Nebraska finished third and fourth, respectively, and Florida finished fourth in its opening session, failing to advance to the Super Six. While the Gators' disappointing finish in their session likely provides cover for Jay Clark after Georgia's similar finish in the earlier preliminary heat, the Sooners' failure to make the grade probably increases the likelihood that Oklahoma's K.J. Kindler could be pried away from Norman, since her prospects for winning a national title in Athens would appear to be better. I just hope we don't hang onto Coach Clark a year too long and lose our chance of landing Coach Kindler when, as inevitably will occur, Greg McGarity must make a change. Go 'Dawgs!
Tomorrow, Georgia and Auburn will square off for the women's equestrian national championship. I hate Auburn, by land, by sea, and on horseback. Go 'Dawgs! Auburna delenda est!
Notwithstanding the ongoing NCAA investigation, the 2010 Auburn Tigers officially now are the college football equivalent of the 1997 Florida Marlins. Go 'Dawgs!
Auburn pulls down 42 of 48 first-place votes and is your BlogPoll national champion. Also appearing in the top 25 are No. 7 LSU, No. 10 Alabama, No. 12 Arkansas, No. 16 Mississippi State, and No. 22 South Carolina. The Central Florida Knights, who beat the Bulldogs in the Liberty Bowl, check in at No. 21. The Boise State Broncos, who open against the Bulldogs in the Georgia Dome next fall, ended up ranked eighth. For the record, my ballot finished third in the running for "Mr. Bold." Go 'Dawgs!
Well done. Go 'Dawgs!