Let’s just say you HATE college football. You don’t understand this multi-billion dollar industry, you don’t understand why certain people won’t attend weddings in the fall or why they paint logos on the tops of their toilets. Let’s just say you don’t understand the fascination. Well, I don’t understand YOU. Seriously, you’re making me ill. However, because you seem to WANT to understand the rabid hysteria and have read this far, I’m going to break down Georgia’s football schedule for you. Grab some Funions and a Fresca, cause this will take a while (by the way, don’t get Funion crunchies on the mouse – that grease will stay there for……….ever.
Game One: The Home Opener
September 2
Vs. Western Kentucky (in Athens, GA)
Georgia (here fore referred to as the “Dawgs”) starts their football season at home vs. the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. WKU is an I-AA team (Georgia is I-A), meaning they generally have less resources (war chest of cash) and personnel (WKU’s coaching job is a stepping stone to Georgia’s). It’s like Texas invading Rhode Island. Before you feel sorry for WKU, please note that they just began a $37.5 million expansion on their own football stadium. How do they get that money? Well, first all, Western Kentucky is a fine university. They’ve had some big names attend there - Director John Carpenter, NFL coach Romeo Crennel, and the drummer for the Black Crowes, whose name I already forgot. Second, WKU gets a good chunk of cash just for showing up in Athens. In theory, the Dawgs get to start their season warming up against a less worthy opponent, and WKU gets to play in front of 92, 000 red & black clad maniacs and take home a big check. But it doesn’t always work like that. Oddly enough, the Hilltoppers will also want to WIN THE GAME. So we just CAN’T take these guys lightly. You saw “Miracle on Ice”? “Karate Kid”? “Rocky 4”? (Ok, that’s a stretch). It can happen. But let’s just say for argument that the Dawgs are MUCH better than the Hilltoppers. The fans will want a score of about 80-3 to represent a true shellacking of the opponent. The thing is, Georgia’s coach, Mark Richt, is a fine man and doesn’t really “run up the score” on other teams. Thus the immediate second guessing begins. Most die-hard fans (like me) are really stupid. We are CERTAIN we could call a better game than the man who is most qualified to do so. But a win is a win, so we move forward. Now we just sit and wait for the rankings to come out on Sunday afternoon. It’s like a Broadway director staying up until the wee hours of the morning waiting for the review of his just-released play. There are stats that back up the fact that Georgia’s football team is generally ranked lower than it should be. But we’re used to that.
Oh, and uh………..a loss to Western Kentucky? I don’t even want to broach the subject.
Next up, the Dawgs travel to Columbia, SC to face the University of South Carolina Gamecocks. Sooooooo many story lines there………….
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