There's nothing official out there yet, but it looks like Georgia may have found its 12th opponent for next year's football schedule. UGASports.com says the Dawgs may get Central Michigan after they reportedly pulled out of their deal with Mississippi State to play in Starkville next year. Josh Kendall notes that the Dawgs are "close to finalizing a deal" with the Chippewas for either the open date before the South Carolina game or the Tennessee game. It sounds like we are getting this game because we agreed to give Central Michigan more money than State.With Arizona State as our major non-conference and non-Nerd game next year, it makes sense for us to schedule a gimme game. But, when people say that college players shouldn't be paid, this is exhibit one of why they should. The Chippewa players are basically being held out as lambs to slaughter by the highest bidder. They ought to see a bit of that cash, even if only a little bit.
The 2008 Schedule as of today:
- Week 1: vs. Georgia Southern
Week 2: vs. Central Michigan (tentative)
Week 3: at South Carolina
Week 4: at Arizona State
Week 5: vs. Alabama
Week 6: IDLE
Week 7: vs. Tennessee
Week 8: vs. Vanderbilt
Week 9: at LSU
Week 10: vs. Florida (Jacksonville)
Week 11: at Kentucky
Week 12: at Auburn
Week 13: IDLE
Week 14: vs. Georgia Tech
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Provided everything that's happened to this point in the college football season (App. State, Standford, etc.) I just hope this isn't a game that we lose...
*Stanford
Brutal schedule.
at LSU
vs. Florida
at UK
at AU
Wow - that's some schedule.
Don't overlook a resurgent Arizona State or Saban in year 2.
When they get to use the upgraded facilities this payoff will provide... isn't that sort of payment?
Ditto on all points. It's the toughest schedule I've seen the Dawgs ever play by far.
Does anyone know off the top of their heads if Florida has a bye week before our game? 2004 and this year are the only times I can remember where they didn't have a week off to prepare for us.
Either way, "tough" doesn't begin to describe what we face next year.
Is GA State running the option again?
No. Georgia Southern runs the Hal Mumme dink and dump. They hired Chris Hatcher from VSU. Hatcher played and coached under Mumme, and it's a similar system. Although, Hatcher at this point has probably added more running plays than Mumme ever had.
It'll be good a much more relevant learning experience for our team than the triple option.
does anyone know why there are two open dates, even if we schedule Central Michigan?
Wow. I hadn't looked ahead to next season yet...fully focused on Vanderbilt! I would have preferred 2008 this year just as a means of cutting our teeth with a young team. I'm particularly excited about Arizona State. That should be fun as long as Erickson doesn't have them on probation by then. Finally, we do we make the return trip to Boulder, or was that a one-and-done deal?
Kit - No, Florida does not have an open date before they play us next year. Their 2008 open dates are
1. Sept 13 - before UT
2. Oct 18 - before UK
They play us the week after their game with UK.
Re: Two open dates
In 2002, 2003, 2008 and I *think* 2009 there is an extra week available during football season due to a quirk in the calendar.
When the NCAA first experimented with the 12 game schedule it was for those years. The reason being...why not...we'll get 2 off weeks anyway.
The rest of the years, we only get 1 off week.
RE: Colorado - we go back out there in 2010.
Non-nerd scheduling...
2006 - Colorado (home)
2007 - Ok State (home)
2008 - ASU (road)
2009 - ASU (home) / Ok State (road)
2010 - Colorado (road)
2011 - Lville (home)
2012 - Lville (road)
2013 - Clemson (road)
2014 - Clemson (home)
2015 - Oregon (road)
2016 - Oregon (home)
Thanks for the details. I'm getting more and more excited about this 12 game thing b/c it lets for some of the big boys play each other in the regular season. I hope it doesn't get old like other things, though (Interleague play, anyone?).
Hopefully by the time Oregon comes around we'll be in a position to looking at it as an inferior opponent. To play that game today, though, may not come out pretty.
Just brutal. Get Bama and LSU (at Red Stick) from the West, no relief there, and travel to the desert to take on Dennis Erickson's ASU team. The doom and gloom Dawgs will argue that this is a 4-8 season waiting to happen. Winning out or losing one game with this schedule I don't see any way of getting screwed out of the BCS game. Two losses should still be a BCS at large team. Using logic, this may be a Peach (I mean Chik-Fil-A) Bowl schedule.
Looking at that 2008 schedule, we will face six coaches next year who have a national championship on their resume (GSU's Hatcher won one at Valdosta State). If LSU wins it all this year and Miles sticks around, that will make it seven. That has to be some kind of record.
speaking of, this is a National Championship schedule if I ever saw one. Even with the two cupcakes to start the year, this just screams brutality.
Weeks 9-12 in particular seem ugly, as we're essentially on the road for all four.
I can only hope that the offense and defense use this year to build towards being grown-assed men for 2008, else we might actually see 4-8.
Oops...I forgot that Vandy's Bobby Johnson won a national championship while at Furman.
Good lord, that's a murderer's row of opponents if I've ever seen one. It's nice that GSU has finally gone conventional, and left the triple option behind it with BVG's departure, and won't be the maddeningly pointless game it usually feels like (what good does it do to start with an opponent that runs an offense no other team we play runs?). Jebus, if we win even 90% of our games next season, we deserve a shot at a title!
I'm thinking the folks who talked 2008 up as a MNC-contending year didn't look that hard at our schedule...
As I look back at this schedule, I wonder if we're just being Dawg fans or if someone could look at it objectively and say the same thing. I'm with whomever said a two loss season should get a BCS at-large, but all of that is obviously contingent on Carolina (not likely), Kentucky (probably), and ASU (I've no idea) sinking back down after this year.
central michigan is a good "gimme". i like all the history that we have between our assistant coaches and them. and they're an improving program (even after losing brian kelly). they had a great year last year and are playing better right now (than they did when the year began).
i'd rather play them than the monroe type of teams.
@lsu then florida. ouch.
How incredibly disappointing this would be. Central Michigan...really? We are getting a reputation for scheduling light and this isn't going to help.
I think App State, Ball State, et al have shown that nothing is guaranteed.
Central Michigan will be a good for providing us with a challenge against a true dual-threat QB (Dan LaFevour), something our defense seems to have issues with, but which we'll see again and again with Tebow and Perilloux on down the road.
Just to throw this out there.....Central Michigan just blasted Tech's opponent next week, Army. But I'd still like to do a home and home with a service academy.
In 1983 GT lost to Furman 17-14
In 2007 Big M lost to App State 34-32
22 Sep 2007 UGA 45 WCU 16
29 Sep 2007 GSU 50 WCU 21
In 2008 UGA vs. GSU.....more than a relevant learning experience especially if the Dawg defense does not show up. Beware the Dink and Dump, and taking SoCon teams for granted.
I agree with the case for these football players to be given some sort of financial compensation. These players hold unprecendented influence as to external perception of the University. They bring in tens of millions of dollars to the Athletic Association.They give UGA national recognition for three and half hours on boradcast networks at least 4 times per year during football games. Did you know that Applications to UGA rise siginificantly after the football team wins an SEC Championship? These players' influence far outweighs their compensation, and something should be done about it!
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