Here's hoping we're not Preseason #1

I personally don't think that being a front-runner is Mark Richt's strongest suit. However, he plays the disrespect card extremely well. When the media hypes an opponent to exceptional heights, we inevitably clobber them. See UF '07, Auburn '06, Ok State, Boise State, Clemson '03, etc for beat downs that came after the naysayers and pundits counted us completely out.

As a heavy favorite his results are more dicey. We've shown a tendency under Richt to have a great predisposition to reading our own press clippings with disastrous results. To quote Dawgnoxious, "It don't take nothing for us to put on airs and get uppity." See examples like:

SC '07
UT '07
WVU '05
UT '04
UF '02
Boston College '01

So when I see the AJC's article about UGA possibly being the Preseason #1, I'm not giddy. I'm hoping for a #2 or #3 ranking when we kickoff on August. 30th. That gives us something "extra" to strive for without being ranked so low as to keep us out of the national title conversation later in the season.

That said...if we're being honest...I don't see this team playing in the title game. Not with this schedule, and not with an offensive line featuring no senior leaders (and possibly no juniors starters). But all the fun is in the dreaming right?

201 Days til Kickoff.

PWD

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