There is a rumor floating around (ht - Kit Kitchens) that CBS may pass on televising the Georgia vs. Florida game at 3:30 on Oct. 27th. It's just a rumor, and it's hardly triple checked. However, it fits into something I was thinking about on the ride home from Knoxville.
If CBS were to pass on the Cocktail Party, they would likely select the South Carolina (#7 AP) at Tennessee (#25 AP) game. This would free up Georgia (#24 AP) vs. Florida (#13 AP) for ESPN to televise our game at night. Here's the SEC Schedule for Oct. 27th:
- Florida vs. Georgia (in Jacksonville)
South Carolina at Tennessee
Mississippi State at Kentucky
Ole Miss at Auburn
Miami University at Vanderbilt
FIU at Arkansas
- Georgia plays Vandy and then gets an off week
Florida gets an off week and then plays at Kentucky
Tennessee plays at Miss State and then at Alabama
South Carolina plays at UNC and then Vanderbilt
To the best of my knowledge, the Cocktail Party has only been played at night once -- 2002. If there have been any other night games, they must pre-date my first trip in 1990.
CBS still lists UGA/UF as tentative.
Update: Both teams haven't entered the Cocktail Party with 2 losses since 1989. UGA entered the game that year 5-3. The Gators entered 6-2. Goff beat Galen Hall in that one, but both teams finished the year out by going 1-3. UGA finished 6-6 after losing to Syracuse in Fulton County Stadium for the Peach Bowl. The Gators lost Washington in the now defunct Freedom Bowl. Hall was fired before their bowl game, and Gary Darnell was his replacement.
The point of that....what a different world that was for both schools.
PWD
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I can understand why the rumor arose: both UGA and UF have had better years, and Spurrier makes SC interesting. But, regardless of how UT and SC are ranked, and how their game might decide the SECE, you have to believe that UGA and UF are better ratings wise, both from the number of viewers in their states, and from national historic viewing patterns. Unless we just totally suck against Vandy and lose, I think CBS stays with us.
Yep - the Vandy game goes a long way on this subject.
I wonder what Meyer's theory says about getting kicked in the balls. That's where we are heading into the Vandy game. If we don't come out pumped for that game and take it to the Commodores, we are in some serious trouble.
I can understand CBS wanting to pass for another intriquing matchup....In the last 17 games,we have won twice.And they have no reason to believe that this is going to change.If I was a CBS exec,I would go with UT-SC,and not have a qualm about it.
Verne Lundquist talked a little about this on EDSBS' webcast last Sunday. Apparently, CBS has 2 6-day options (which they have already used), but they can request more from the SEC. He didn't say which game they would have but he did say CBS was trying to get more 6-day options for the upcoming weeks.
Who cares? We're going to get our asses whipped as always so it really doesn't f*cking matter. Florida could start Spurrier at QB again and we'd find a way to lose that game.
Go ahead Bulldogs - lose again and you'll provide another excuse to the a$$hole Atlanta contingency that wants the game moved.
Of course, if we'd simply "execute".
That would indeed be only the second time since the game became the social event that it's become that it's been at night.
The two schools have always had an understanding that the game would always be during the day because of all the extra curricular festivities.
that just sucks for all us Dawg people staying up in St. Simons and Jekyll Island and all those places where all those Dawg people have got these condominums for four days. We're going to have to get up awful early. for the game.
speaking of schedules, who do we have for our 4th ooc game next year? central michigan site says that there's a deal in the works for us against them in the second week of football next year.
If that game is at night, I very well could die from alcohol poisoning before kickoff.
LOL^^^
Did anyone else catch the Uga plug on Late Night with Conan O'Brien tonight. We were mentioned above the USC Trojans for most well known mascots.
GO DAWGS!
Doesn't really matter, but it seems that I remember the 1992 game being a night game.
alcohol poisoning is for the weak. In 2002 I had over 30 beers and a few vodka shots before and during the game...yet when the clock ticked to zero I felt far far far too sober.
1992 was a day game. That's the year we went to Jacksonville ranked No. 7 and lost 26-24. Oh the memories.
FWIW - the game in 1991 was the coldest I'd ever been in my life.
1991 was freezing cold mainly b/c we were all so under dressed.
But 1995 Auburn was the coldest day in the history of SEC football for my money.
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