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From the editor : vance leavyWell I don’t know about you, but this is about as rock

bottom as I can stand for our beloved boys in Red andBlack. Each week, they knock on the door towards playingas a cohesive unit, yet somehow things just aren’t in sync.The Bulldog Nation is naturally up in arms as to what hashappened to its football program.

Now Mark Richt finds himself in a spot where he mustfind production immediately.

However instead of being able to focus on that on Sun-day, our 10-year program leader woke up to discover an-other player had found trouble. The young man was swiftlyreleased from the team.

I’m sure at this point Richt is probably asking himselfwhat else can happen. But more importantly, I know he willmake good on his commitment to the young man to “assisthim in finding a place to continue his education and foot-ball career,” like he said Sunday evening during his regularscheduled teleconference with the media.

Without ques-tion, this latest inci-dent will onlyincrease the fodderamong Georgia sup-porters. Has Richtlost control of hisprogram both onand off the field?Does he have themuster to get his team back in the winner’s circle?

First and foremost, I don’t think Richt has lost controlof his program. He loves those boys like his own sons justlike every other person who has taken on the hearty occu-pation of coach. This rings even truer in the college rankswhere mothers and fathers turn the responsibility of raisingtheir children over for four or five very important years.

The bottom line is that with 85 plus players there’s noway any football program is batting100% in behavior. However forwhatever reason, Coach Richt hascertainly had his share of problemsduring his tenure. And these inci-dents are certainly magnified whenthe play on the field also isn’t up topar, which is where the Bulldogsare after losing the last three games.

Like I said, rock bottom.

Let’s hope that is truly where our program is at thispoint because that means better circumstances are justaround the corner.

Now how we get there is a whole another question.It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that everyone

that loves Georgia is in a real need for a victory in Boulderon Saturday. That includes every member of the team, thecoaching staff and all red and black supporters.

For that reason, it’s time for everyone to take a deepbreath.

How did that feel? Perhaps like a fresh breath of moun-tain air. Maybe a rocky mountain high? I don’t know aboutyou, but I think a trip to Boulder could be just what thedoctor ordered for our team and its fanbase.

For our players, they will have an extremely long flightto think about whether or not they want to continue this tu-multuous spiral. And hopefully that soul-searching will re-sult in a unit clicking on all cylinders. Can we please make

a big-time play beforethe other team? Youguys need some mo-mentum. But you haveto earn it!

For our fans, aunique road trip to oneof God’s great creationswill certainly be the per-fect remedy. Longtime

friends will be able to remember that Georgia football isabout priceless moments, even when the wins aren’t com-ing easily.

For our head coach, a quick trip to the mountainsmight be the perfect therapy. Hopefully it will remind himof where he began to love the game of football as a fifthgrader in the Denver area. That passion to play the gamethe way it was meant to be will hopefully come through tohis players for what is sure to be a wild, high attitude bat-tle.

Soak up that mountain air coach. And get you andyour program a win against the Buffaloes. 2010 is all aboutfinishing from this point forward. Will it get rolling with arocky mountain high or will a rock bottom feeling go to aneven further all-time low?

Hope to see you in the mountains where the DenverBulldog Nation is waiting to show us one awesome time.

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This season has been very disappointingthus far for Georgia, but one of the bright spotshas been the play of redshirt freshman quar-terback Aaron Murray. The highly recruitedand regarded prep phenom out of Plant HighSchool in Tampa, has the look and makings toperhaps carve out a memorable career andmaybe one day join Georgia’s list of distin-guished all-time great quarterbacks.

“Fireball” Frankie Sinkwich and “TheScintillating Sicilian” Charley Trippi are two ofthe three greatest players – along of course with“the Goal Line Stalker” Herschel Walker – inGeorgia history. These two did it all, playingoffense and defense, running and passing.Though Sinkwich and Trippi set passing,touchdown responsibility and total offense reg-ular season and bowl records that stood fordecades, they were considered halfbacks, full-backs and tailbacks during their iconic careers.

Georgia’s first “true” quarterback was fel-low college football hall of famer JohnnyRauch.

For over a half-century Rauch was thelone quarterback in college football annals tohave started behind center in four games. Healso started every game in his Georgia career,which ended with Rauch having the record forthe most career passing yards in Bulldog his-tory. He, Trippi, Joe Tereshinski, Jack Bush andDan Edwards were some of the headliners onGeorgia’s great 11-0 SEC and Sugar Bowlchampions of 1946. Rauch and Joe Geristarred for the SEC champions of 1948. Rauchand Buck Belue are the only starting quarter-backs to have piloted the Bulldogs to multipleSEC titles.

Following the glory days of the 1940s thatwas highlighted by three SEC crowns (1942,’46 and ’48), the consensus national title of ’42,a partial national championship in 1946, andfour trips to major bowl games – the ’42 Or-ange, ’43 Rose, ’47 Sugar and ’49 Orange – theprogram fell on its hardest times ever in the1950s. There were some outstanding playersfor those teams coached by Hall of FamerWally Butts, including quarterback ZekeBratkowski. “The Pitchin’ Pole” set severalGeorgia passing records and then went on to along NFL career as Bart Starr’s back-up for theGreen Bay Packers and then as an assistantcoach, including a stint as the Philadelphia Ea-gles offensive coordinator.

Fran Tarkenton and Charlie Britt were anoutstanding combination at quarterback forGeorgia’s SEC champions of 1959. Tarkentonand Bill Herron hooked up on one of thebiggest plays in Bulldog history to lead the Bull-dogs past Auburn to the conference crown.The game prior, Britt had a 100-yard intercep-tion return for a touchdown in a win overFlorida. Tarkenton would go on to a distin-guished career highlighted by three SuperBowls, breaking the record for career passingyards, and being selected as one of the hosts of“That’s Incredible.”

Georgia didn’t win much in the early1960s, but the Bulldogs had a stellar signalcaller in Larry Rakestraw, who set the NCAArecord for single game passing yardage, throw-ing for 407 at Miami in 1963. Rakestraw wasalso a standout baseball player for the Bulldogs.

Vince Dooley was hired as Georgia’s coachprior to the 1964 season and the Bulldogs for-tunes immediately turned dramatically up-ward. His first two quarterbacks were PrestonRidlehuber and Lynn Hughes. Hughes wenton to become an All-American safety on Geor-gia’s 1966 SEC Championship team that went10-1 and finished No. 4 nationally.

Georgia’s quarterback in 1966 was KirbyMoore, who vaulted to iconic status as the frontend of one of the most iconic plays in Bulldogannals. Moore to Pat Hodgson to Bob Taylor,the famous flea flicker, pushed the Bulldogspast defending and eventual national cham-pion Alabama in 1965. It all came together thefollowing year, and Moore was at the helm forone of Georgia’s best ever teams.

Two years later the Bulldogs would winthe second of Dooley’s SEC championships.Georgia’s 1968 squad is one of the best everfielded in Athens, and super sophomore MikeCavan was calling the signals and earning All-SEC accolades. Cavan was the conference’s toppasser in ’68, a season that was highlighted byan unprecedented demolition of “the bigthree.” Georgia blasted Florida 51-0, toppedAuburn 17-3 and shellacked Tech 47-8.

Cavan went on to a distinguished coaching ca-reer. As an assistant at Georgia, Cavan signedHerschel. He then went on and did an excel-lent job as a head coach at Valdosta State, EastTennessee and SMU. Cavan has since returnedto Athens and serves as a Major Gifts Officerwith the Georgia Bulldog Club. One of Geor-gia’s favorites has done an incredible job and isone of the programs greatest assets for GregMcGarity.

Another all-time Bulldog great – Georgia’sbest ever running quarterback – Andy John-son led the Bulldogs to an incredible 11-1 cam-paign in 1971, as he was named nationalsophomore of the year. A dynamic athlete,Johnson was a stellar baseball player at Geor-gia, the all-time leading basketball scorer forAthens High, and then a longtime NFL stand-out with the New England Patriots. I asked thelegendary icon Erk Russell one time in the mid-1980s who the best quarterback Georgia hadwas while he was there. Before I could finishthe question, coach Russell emphatically said“Andy Johnson.”

Ray Goff, who finished seventh in theHeisman voting as a senior in 1976, and MattRobinson provided an outstanding one-twopunch for Georgia’s stellar teams of 1975 and’76, when the Bulldogs made it to the Cottonand Sugar Bowls. Goff was the runner, Robin-son, who was a good runner too, was an ex-cellent passer and went on to a long NFLcareer. In 1976, Georgia secured signaturewins over Alabama, Florida and Tech, capturedthe SEC title and played mighty Pitt for the na-tional championship.

Buck Belue burst onto the scene as afreshman in 1978, as he led the Bulldogs to anincredible 29-28 comeback win over Tech. Asa starter, Belue rolled up a record of 27-3, andwas a two-time first team All-SEC selection in1980 and ’81 as he helped the Bulldogs to thenational championship and back-to-back con-ference crowns. His fellow Valdosta nativeJohn Lastinger took over in 1982, and helpedthe Bulldogs to the 1982 SEC championshipwith an 11-1 record, and a 10-1-1 campaign in1983. The Bulldogs finished No. 4 in both ’82and ’83 with Lastinger behind center.

Georgia’s most prolific passer was EricZeier. A highly touted prospect, Zeier came onas a freshman as passed for the most yards inSEC history. Extremely tough, Zeier was hithard numerous times throughout his career,but was never knocked out of a game until aninjured knee took him out of his career finale,a rout of Tech. Mike Bobo followed Zeier andhad an outstanding career, highlighted by a 10-2 1997 campaign that he capped with a 26 of28 passing performance in a 33-6 win overWisconsin in the Outback Bowl.

For three years Georgia had another eliteone-two punch with David Greene and D.J.Shockley. Greene was the quarterback as afreshman in 2001. Then in 2002, he andShockley were a big part of the incredible 2002SEC championship juggernaut that went 13-1and finished No. 3 nationally. The followingyear, the Dogs went 11-3, lost in the title gameand finished No. 6. The Dogs just missed outon the championship game in ’04, but the Bull-dogs posted a 10-2 mark and again finishedNo. 6. Greene graduated with the most wins(43) by any quarterback in college annals.Shockley came on and in his lone season as theBulldogs starter, led Georgia to the SEC cham-pionship with one of the great seasons inschool history. He was the Bulldogs mostfeared runner and threw 28 touchdownsagainst just four interceptions.

Matthew Stafford was one of the mosthighly touted recruits in Georgia history, com-ing to Athens from Dallas, Texas. He got hisfeet wet as a freshman in 2006, highlighted bya great performance in an upset win at Auburn.Then in 2007, he and All-American Know-shon Moreno led the Dogs to one of the greatseasons in school history. Georgia beat Ala-bama, Florida, Auburn and Tech then won theSugar Bowl to finish 11-2 and No. 2 in theland. Stafford had a fine junior season andturned pro. He was the first overall pick in the2009 NFL Draft.

This is a quick overview of some of Geor-gia’s best quarterbacks and some of my favoritesever. Hopefully for the Bulldogs, this discus-sion can be held again in a few years and AaronMurray’s name will be included.

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Some things I’m wondering about follow-ing the Bulldogs’ disastrous showing inStarkville, an error-plagued 24-12 setback whichstretched Georgia’s losing streak to three … forthe first time since the 1990 football season:

• If these Bulldogs are going to findsomething positive in the Rocky Mountains thiscoming weekend or is the Bulldawg Nationgoing to be subjected to simply more horrid ex-ecution, on both the offensive and defensivesides of the ball?

• If Todd Grantham’s 3-4 defense willbegin putting two halves together? After shakyfirst-half performances against both South Car-olina and Arkansas, the Georgia defense ad-justed and played much better after intermissionagainst both teams. Then the Bulldog defend-ers hold Mississippi State to a lone touchdownfor three quarters only to buckle under in thefinal period when they simply couldn’t makethird-down stops when they needed to.

• If, along that same line, the Bulldogs’stop-em gang will begin recording some sacks ofthe opposing quarterbacks, like we expectedfrom this supposedly aggressive defense whenTodd Grantham brought the new 3-4 alignmentto Athens? After notching five sacks againstSouth Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia, thedefense could manage only one sack againstArkansas and then was blanked while facingState QB Chris Relf last Saturday night. Whereis that pressure we all heard about, and what hashappened to ace sacker Justin Houston the pasttwo outings? After having three sacks in Co-lumbia Houston, too, has been blanked in thelast two games.

• If, moving to the other side of the ball,the Georgia offensive line that was so highlytouted in the preseason, is ever going to shake offits lackluster blocking efforts of the first four out-ings and become dominant once again … theway the Bulldog O-line was in the season finalewith Georgia Tech last fall? After the offensivefront could create space for only 61 yards rush-ing against Carolina, it did make room for theGeorgia backs to improve to 139 yards againstArkansas but the Georgia ground attack then fellback with 113 net yards in the loss in Starkville.With the experience and ability of this group,the Bulldogs should surely run for more than200 yards each and every game but, heading forBoulder Saturday, Stacy Searels’ O-line has cre-ated minimal running room for the Bulldog tail-backs. Experience aside, is this group simply notquick and strong enough to handle the defen-sive fronts they’re encountering?

• If, that said, assuming the blockingdoes improve on down the schedule, will theGeorgia tailbacks be able to take advantage ofsuch and also make something happen them-selves? Down through the years, the really greatbacks (Herschel, Bo, Knowshon, GarrisonHearst, Willie McClendon, etc.) have onlyneeded a small and quick opening to runthrough. Once they were past the line of scrim-mage, those guys made people miss or eitherran over linebackers and defensive backs to keepthe chains moving. Washaun Ealey and CalebKing, who were in tandem for the first time thisseason against Mississippi State, simply have torun with more explosiveness and demonstratean ability to get into the open field … yes, theway they did against Tech last season.

• If redshirt freshman quarterbackAaron Murray will continue to do outstandingthings with both his quick feet and good pass-ing arm? Murray has learned the ropes fast as aquarterback and leader for this Georgia teamand had he not been sacked a whopping sixtimes by the Razorback defense, he would hadadded considerably to the career-high 253 yardspassing he compiled that day. One thing’s forsure, the Bulldog offensive coaches should nevertry to curb Murray’s instinctive running ability.With his ability to turn sure losses into gains –like he demonstrated against Mississippi StateSaturday night when he passed for a new ca-reer-high 274 yards and also ran for 32 – Mur-ray gives the Georgia offense the samedimension it owned in 2005 when a quarter-back named D.J. Shockley was leading the Bull-dogs to the SEC championship. Murray, havingdirected a spread offense in his prolific highschool days in Tampa, seems much more com-fortable in the shotgun than he does taking theball under center in Georgia’s play-action mantraand also, with his good speed, looks more ca-pable throwing on the rollouts than he doesstanding back in the pocket. I’m sure those areattributes Mike Bobo and the Georgia coacheswill really tap into as this 2010 season movesalong and Georgia’s No. 11 gains even more ex-

perience.• If this Bulldog receiving corps is on

the verge of becoming one of Georgia’s mostcomplete pass-catching groups ever? With All-America A.J. Green sitting out the first fourgames, guys like Kris Durham, Tavarres King,Marlon Brown, Logan Gray, Israel Troupe andRantavious Wooten had to step up and, for themost part, they’ve done just that. Especially the6-5 senior Durham, who has played like an all-star receiver over the first four games when he’stotaled 17 catches for 324 yards and one scorewith one TD called back. Once the great Greenrejoins the lineup this coming Saturday in Boul-der, Colo., Murray’s certainly going to haveplenty of weapons to choose from, that is, if theaforementioned O-line and blocking backs givehim time to operate.

• If, speaking of Green, he’s really goingto have one huge coming-out party in the RockyMountains this Saturday evening? Yes, it’s hurtA.J. even more than it’s hurt the team and theBulldog Nation to have to sit out fully one-thirdof what is likely his last season in a Georgia uni-form. That’s why I’m fully expecting Green tototal some 10-15 catches against the Buffalo de-fense Saturday night.

• If the Georgia tight ends are going tobecome a receiving part of this offense onceagain? Aron White had the only catch by aGeorgia TE in the loss to Arkansas, and then theBulldogs’ tight end corps again showed only onereception against Mississippi State, that being a12-yard catch by Charles. Speaking of Charles,the highly-touted sophomore has totaled onlyfive catches for 57 yards over the Bulldogs’ fouroutings to date. Charles was one of the best preptight ends in the country at Tampa Plant andneeds to be given ample opportunity to achievethat same status as a collegiate player.

• If Georgia’s record-setting punter,Drew Butler, is going to shaky off his mild slumpin the past three games and begin booming ‘emhigh and far once again, the way Butler did lastseason when he broke the school record and ledthe country with a 48.1 average … en route tothe coveted Ray Guy Award as the nation’s bestpunter? Against Mississippi State, Butler aver-aged 42.7 on three punts while booting onedead at the State 7-yard line. Entering the Col-orado game this weekend, Butler owns a 44.3punting average … still not too shabby.

• If the Bulldogs’ hardly-ever-missplace-kicker, Blair Walsh, is about to win somedown-to-the-wire games for Georgia with aswing of that right foot? He’s a perfect 7-for-7 infield goals on the season and has already earnedKevin Butler’s weekly award for best special-teams performer three separate times in thispublication.

• If this Georgia football team, consid-ering how shaky the Bulldogs have looked fun-damentally in these last three losses, can regroupand claim winnable games against Colorado,Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Ketnucky, therebycarrying a disappointing, but halfway decent, 5-3 record into the Oct. 30 battle with the FloridaGators? Or will they continue to spiral down-ward and drop two or three more games beforemeeting a Gator bunch that should have onlyone loss – to No. 1 Alabama this week – whenGeorgia-Florida gets here?

• If finally, considering all the angst,frustration, anger and puzzlement circulatingthrough the Bulldog Nation after these threeconsecutive and unexpected losses, would afour-game Georgia win streak entering theFlorida game at least mellow a bit all those folkswanting to clean house with Richt, Bobo andthe rest of the Bulldog coaching staff? Wouldthey realize that with those 10 wins Richt hasaveraged in his nine years at UGA prior to thisseason that “down” seasons are something that’sgoing to jump up and bite any coach that staysin this business long enough? Ask Vince Dooley(5-5-1 in 1969, 5-5 in 1970, 6-6 in 1974, 5-6 in1977 and 6-5 in 1979). Ask Nick Saban (6-5-1,6-6, 7-5 records at Michigan State from 1995-97, 8-5 at LSU in 2002 and 7-6 at Alabama in2007). Of course, I fully realize the difference isDooley won a national title at Georgia in 1980and Saban’s LSU team captured the nationalcrown iin 2003 while his Alabama squad wonthe BCS national championship last season. But,you get the point here. Every coach is going tosuffer through off years but that doesn’t meanthey aren’t going to regain national prominence.Richt had his worst season at 8-5 in 2009 andhis Bulldogs might be hard pressed to equal thatthis season. But, rest assured UGA fans, he willmake the Georgia Bulldogs a national title con-tender again in the near future.


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eorgia makes its first ever football trip to Boul-der, as the Bulldogs square off with the BuffaloesSaturday at Folsom Field.

Badly needing a victory, the Bulldogs havegone through some mighty struggles, sagging to lows un-seen in Athens since the early and mid 1990s. The Bull-dogs offense in SEC games has scored touchdowns inonly three of 12 quarters. The defense has given up atouchdown on the opponent’s opening drive in each ofthe last three games.

Georgia is 1-3 for the first time 1993 and 0-3 in theSEC for the first time since that season. The Bulldogs lastfour conference games have been losses to Kentucky,South Carolina, Arkansas and Mississippi State – pro-grams that have won a total of two SEC titles.

Dating back to 1997, the Bulldogs have won at leasteight games every year. That streak is in serious danger.

For a campaign that began with such great expecta-tions, Georgia is mired at its lowest point in dark years.

The Georgia people are truly pulling together, know-ing that the Bulldogs will be back. The question is when?

Colorado has struggled of late, as the Buffaloes seekto regain respectability and then restore their greatness ofthe 1990s. Under the watch of former Boise State coachDan Hawkins, the Buffaloes have gone through four con-secutive losing seasons, bottoming out at 3-9 a year ago.Colorado’s last winning season came in 2005, Gary Bar-nett’s final season at the helm in Boulder. That team ac-tually made it to the Big XII Championship Game, butgot bludgeoned by Texas 70-3.

In the 1990s, Colorado boasted one of the top pro-grams in the country with Bill McCartney leading the pro-gram. The Buffaloes won the 1990 nationalchampionship with Darien Hagen and Eric Bieniemyleading the way. That team will be honored Saturday af-ternoon. The twist, with Georgia in town, is that the Buf-faloes shared that national title with Georgia Tech. TheYellow Jackets were voted No. 1 in the UPI/Coaches Poll.Colorado beat Notre Dame, coached by Lou Holtz in theOrange Bowl. A controversial penalty negated a RocketIshmail punt return for a touchdown and the Buffaloesprevailed. Holtz voted Colorado fifth. Had he voted theA.P. national champions third or better, Colorado wouldhave been the consensus title winner.

Kordell Stewart, Michael Westbrook andHeisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam ledthe Buffaloes to an 11-1 campaign in 1994.Colorado finished No. 3 in the final poll, los-ing only to national champion Nebraska.

As recently as 2001, Colorado was amajor player on the national scene. The Buf-faloes pulverized Nebraska in the regular sea-son finale and then beat Texas to win the BigXII title. Colorado just missed out on a spotin the national title game. The once-beatenCornhuskers got the nod over two-loss Col-orado. Miami rolled to victory.

At the top of Colorado’s to-do list is awinning season and return to a bowl. TheBuffaloes last post-season appearance came in2007, when they fell to Alabama in the Inde-pendence Bwol to finish at 6-7.

With struggling Georgia coming totown, the Buffaloes sense blood in the waterand a shot at a signature victory over a royal pro-gram. Colorado downed in-state rival Colorado State intheir annual Denver season opener. The Buffaloes wereblown out at Cal, but bounced back nicely to top Hawaii,pushing Colorado’s record to 2-1 headed into the opendate before the Bulldogs visit.

Here are some key match-ups that will help deter-mine Saturday’s winner:

Hansen and McKnight vs. Georgia DB’sTyler Hansen and Scotty McKnight have developed

into an outstanding passing duo. Georgia has struggledmightily in pass coverage at times this season, most no-tably against All-American candidate Ryan Mallett in a 31-24 Sanford Stadium loss to Arkansas. Two Razorbackreceivers were uncovered on walk-in touchdowns. Witha new defensive staff and base scheme, the Bulldogs, as ex-pected, have gone through some serious growing pains.But Georgia can ill-afford breakdowns that lead to easyscores. To win in Boulder, the Bulldogs must make theBuffaloes earn their scores.

A.J. vs. Buffalo DB’sOn the flip side, Georgia welcomes back the ultra-tal-

ented A.J. Green, who served a four game suspension.Green gives the Bulldogs big play ability that has beensorely missed. His return should open up the underneathpassing game and possibly enhance a sagging rushingperformance. The Bulldogs rank at or near the bottom inseveral offensive categories, including rushing. Greengives the offense an enormous lift and big play juice.Though he may be rusty, holding Green in check will beColorado’s top defensive priority.

Georgia OL vs. Buffalo FrontGeorgia’s offensive line has struggled this season.

After an awesome performance in a memorable 30-24regular season finale victory over Tech a year ago, andwith every starter returning, it looked as though the of-fensive line would be one of Georgia’s greatest assets thisseason. But they haven’t gotten the push in the runninggame and certainly have struggled in protection at timesthis year – most notably allowing a pair of crucial sacks inthe loss to Arkansas. Colorado’s D-Line goes 270, 280,285 and 285. The Bulldog front badly needs to “manup.”

Dogs vs. BuffsColorado welcomes a beaten-up, Georgia teamwith the hopes of continuing its downward spiral

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TEAM STATISTICS CU OPPFIRST DOWNS 61 45by rushing 27 13by passing 30 29by penalty 4 3FIRST DOWN PLAYS/YARDS 95/378 78/414average gain on first down 3.98 5.31THIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY 23-45 8-34percentage 51.1 23.5FOURTH DOWN EFFICIENCY 1-1 0-5percentage 00.0 0.0RUSHING ATTEMPTS 129 74yards gained 552 273yards lost 110 58NET RUSHING YARDS 442 215average per rush 3.42 2.91average per game 147.3 71.7PASSING ATTEMPTS 85 99passes completed 54 66had intercepted 4 4completion percentage 63.5 66.7NET PASSING YARDS 558 723average per attempt 6.56 7.30average per completion 10.3 11.0average per game 186.0 241.0QBs sacked/yards lost 8/70 8/29TOTAL OFFENSIVE PLAYS 214 173TOTAL NET YARDS 1000 938AVERAGE GAIN PER PLAY 4.67 5.42AVERAGE PER GAME 333.3 312.7FUMBLES-LOST 6-4 5-1PENALTIES/YARDS 28/224 14/120TURNOVERS (Margin) 8 5TOTAL RETURN YARDS 60 226Punt Returns: No-Yards 8-51 8-70Interceptions: No-Yards 4-9 4-74Misc. (Fumble/Blk. FG) Returns 0-0 1-82KICKOFF RETURNS: No-Yards 12-262 7-110average per return 21.8 15.7PUNTS 17 14yards 677 613average 39.8 43.8TIME OF POSSESSION 100:42 79:18average per game 33:34 26:26TIME SPENT IN THE LEAD 73:12 76:03TIMES PENETRATED OPPONENT 20 7 11scores/td,fg 6/5,1 9/6,3GOAL-TO-GO SITUATIONS 5 7scores/td,fg 4/4,0 6/5,1TOTAL DRIVES 38 36drives ended by: TD 8 6FG Made/FG Miss 1/1 4/2Punt 17 14Downs/TO 0/7 4/5SAF/Clock 0/4 1/0TOTAL POINTS 62 68average per game 20.7 22.7

TEAM STATISTICS UG OPP SCORING 97 79

Points Per Game 24.2 19.8 FIRST DOWNS 68 64

Rushing 28 28 Passing 39 32 Penalty 1 4

RUSHING YARDAGE 497 435 Yards gained rushing 588 542 Yards lost rushing 91 107 Rushing Attempts 138 148 Average Per Rush 3.6 2.9 Average Per Game 124.2 108.8 TDs Rushing 4 5

PASSING YARDAGE 912 794 Comp-Att-Int 66-110-2 49-88-4 Average Per Pass 8.3 9.0 Average Per Catch 13.8 16.2 Average Per Game 228.0 198.5 TDs Passing 6 5

TOTAL OFFENSE 1409 1229 Total Plays 248 236 Average Per Play 5.7 5.2 Average Per Game 352.2 307.2

KICK RETURNS: #-Yards 13-275 15-262 PUNT RETURNS: #-Yards 8-80 5-26 INT RETURNS: #-Yards 4-43 2-0 KICK RETURN AVERAGE 21.2 17.5 PUNT RETURN AVERAGE 10.0 5.2 INT RETURN AVERAGE 10.8 0.0 FUMBLES-LOST 4-3 5-1 PENALTIES-Yards 27-171 21-148

Average Per Game 42.8 37.0 PUNTS-Yards 19-841 23-997

Average Per Punt 44.3 43.3 Net punt average 38.7 37.3

TIME OF POSSESSION/Game 30:41 29:19 3RD-DOWN Conversions 24/58 23/55

3rd-Down Pct 41% 42% 4TH-DOWN Conversions 2/4 2/3

4th-Down Pct 50% 67% SACKS BY-Yards 8-48 10-66 MISC YARDS 0 0 TOUCHDOWNS SCORED 11 10 FIELD GOALS-ATTEMPTS 7-7 3-4 ON-SIDE KICKS 0-1 0-0 RED-ZONE SCORES (12-13) 92% (6-7) 86% RED-ZONE TOUCHDOWNS (8-13) 62% (5-7) 71% PAT-ATTEMPTS (10-10) 100% (10-10) 100%

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What Colorado’s coach is saying:“Our O-line just dominated,” Colorado head coach Dan Hawkins said after watching his Buffaloes rush for more than 250 yards inthe win over Hawaii. “Our O-line was moving the line of scrimmage.”And on Colorado’s joining the Pac-10 Conference in 2011: “Right now all I’m concerned about is getting ready for Georgia.”

What Colorado’s players are saying:“It must have been heart-breaking for the guys here,” said Buffaloes defensive tackle Conrad Obi, a junior from Grayson, Ga. com-menting on Colorado’s 14-13 loss to Georgia in 2006. “I was a senior in high school at the time and still kind of neutral, although I’dbeen to a game (in Athens) a couple of weeks before. I'm really looking forward to this game. We had an awesome win (againstHawaii) but we’ve got to keep it going.”

What Colorado’s fans are saying:From a long-time Colorado fan on his team’s ability to defend Georgia All-America candidate A.J. Green, who will be suiting up forthe Bulldogs for the first time this season Saturday night: “Our pass defense is actually very good, we have two NFL caliber corners,both seniors, both over 6-feet and 200 pounds. Jimmy Smith could be a late 1 or early 2 in the draft.”

Noteworthy:The Bulldogs and Buffaloes have met only one previous time in their history, in 2006 in Athens when Joe Cox rallied Georgia to the14-13 win over Colorado … Through the Buffaloes’ three games, junior quarterback Tyler Hansen has completed 54-of-85 passingattempts for 558 yards and four touchdowns, with also four interceptions. Smallish junior tailback Rodney Stewart (5-6, 175) is Col-orado’s leading rusher with 253 yards on 67 carries. The Buffs’ leading receiver is senior Scotty McKnight with 14 catches for 157yards and two touchdowns.

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#9 Tyler Hansen, QB6-1, 205 Jr. Murrieta, Cal. Colorado’s quarterback is off to a solid start in2010. In what has had to be a bit of a sticky sit-uation, Hansen beat out Cody Hawkins for thestarting quarterback job. Hawkins is the son ofColorado head coach Dan Hawkins. Hansen hashit on 54 of 85 passes, a 63.5 completion per-centage, for 558 yards and four touchdowns withfour interceptions. Last season, while sharing timewith Hawkins, Hansen was 129 of 231, a 55.8 suc-cess rate, for 1,440 yards with eight touchdownsand seven interceptions. Leading receiver ScottyMcKnight, with two touchdown catches amongsthis 14 grabs, is Hansen’s favorite target. McKnighthad 76 catches for 893 yards and six touchdownsin 2010.

#46 Anthony Perkins, SS5-10 200 Jr. Northglenn, Col. Colorado’s leading returning tackler from a yearago, the strong safety with the name of the famedactor who played the shower stabber himself Nor-man Bates, is one of the Big XII’s best defensivebacks. Perkins racked up 78 tackles last season,third best on the team. Perkins tied with threeother Buffaloes for the team lead in interceptionswith two. Colorado’s leading tackler a year agowas Cha’pelle Brown, a cornerback who piled up96 stops. That’s a leading indicator of just howbadly Colorado struggled defensively in 2009. It’snever a good thing to have a corner as a top tack-ler.

#5 Rodney Stewart, RB5-6, 175 Jr. Westerville, Ohio Colorado’s top running back isn’t very big, but heis quick, shifty and hard to square up. Stewart hasbeen a workhorse with 67 carries through the firstthree games for 253 yards, an average of 3.8 percarry, and a pair of touchdowns. Stewart ran for804 yards in 2009 on 198 carries, posting ninetouchdowns. With Hansen, Stewart and McKnight,Colorado has a solid trio of skill position players.Amongst the Buffaloes biggest problems has beenthe quest to find offensive firepower. It’s not ex-actly Kordell Stewart, Michael Westbrook andRashaan Salaam, but Hansen, Stewart and McK-night give Colorado a chance to be competitive inthe Big XII North.

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JD’s five keys to a Boulder bash1. Blast the Buffaloes –Georgia’s offensive line, pro-jected to be one of the South-eastern Conference’s best, hasbeen disappointing so far thisseason. Even in the season-opening victory over Louisiana-Lafayette, Georgia’s offensiveline had trouble moving aroundthe Ragin’ Cajun front when theBulldogs needed tough yardage.The Bulldogs need to take thefight to the Colorado defensiveline, initiating the contact, cre-ating a surge and beating backthe Buffaloes.

2. Reserve Power – Thealtitude will have an impact.Make no mistake. Georgia’sbasketball team won on a lastsecond three from Jonas Hayesin 2002 in Boulder. At the firstmedia timeout around the 16:00minute of the first half, an ex-cellent, well conditioned Bulldog team was huffing andpuffing heavily. So was the then-color commentator ona walk to downtown Boulder from the team hotel. Geor-gia will have to substitute early and often. The Bulldogreserves will have to play big. And they’ll have to play alot.

3. Aaron and A.J. – Georgia’s top offensive weaponis back after a four-game suspension. This will be A.J.Green’s third quarterback in three years. He’s excelledwith Matthew Stafford and Joe Cox and certainly shouldwith the talented redshirt freshman Aaron Murray. Play-

ing in the Big XII, Colorado obvi-ously faces some elite athletes, butthey haven’t gone up against any-one like Green. If Georgia is goingto make a run at an outstandingrecord, Murray and Green need toget in sync quickly, because theBulldogs are sorely lacking big playpunch.

4. Ealey does it – WashaunEaley is Georgia’s best runningback, and he should have the op-portunity to have a big night inBoulder. It starts with the afore-mentioned offensive line, but Ealeyhas shown that he can get into arhythm and be a highly effectiverunner. If the Bulldogs lead withthe pass and counter-punch withthe run, look for Ealey to possiblybreak off a long run. Georgia’srecord under Mark Richt’s watchwhen a tailback goes for over 100yards is 39-3, and the Dogs couldhave the opportunity to improve

that record.

5. Avoid the Breakdowns – Georgia must makeColorado work for its touchdowns. In the Bulldogs loss toSouth Carolina, poor tackling – much of which star fresh-man tailback Marcus Lattimore had to do with – plaguedGeorgia. But in the loss to Arkansas, the Bulldogs madethings way to easy for star Razorback quarterback RyanMallett. On two of the Hogs touchdowns, their receiverswere uncovered. These are the kinds of breakdowns thatcan obviously get a team beat.

ave Plati, Colorado’s outstanding Sports In-formation Director, offers his thoughts onthe Bulldogs and Buffaloes battle in Boul-

der. Even though Georgia has struggled the

last two years, are the Colorado people ex-cited to have a prominent program from theSoutheastern Conference coming to Boul-der? Most definitely; we pride ourselves in topnon-conference games, and games in recent yearshere against Arizona State, Florida State and WestVirginia, for example, have all sold out, were onnational television, etc. UGA is only the secondSEC team to ever visit Boulder; the only other timewas 1979 (LSU).

Is it odd this season playing in the BigXII, with everyone knowing you’re going tothe PAC-10 next season?

That honestly is an unknown; our first Big 12game is at Missouri the week after the UGA game.And that’s the 20th anniversary of the Fifth Downgame, so I am sure that will be extra fun.

What does going to the PAC-10 mean toColorado?

Opens the door to many new possibilities andopportunities. Schools match our academics muchbetter than most of the Big 12 schools (which in-cludes the type of student-athlete admitted toschool); better match with facilities, as the “armsrace” in the Big 12 South is never-ending; and wehave many more alums in the Pac-10 states thanthose in the Big 12.

Have you always felt a closer connectionin Boulder to the west coast than Big XIIcountry?

Not necessarily; our original roots all werewith our fellow Rocky Mountain schools. Joiningthe Big 6 to form the Big 7 in 1948 was a step upathletically. As time evolved and more and morestudents started attending CU from the west coast,

it gradually changedthe landscape here.The dynamic changedwhen the Big 8 mergedwith four SWC schoolsin ’96; fitting in withthe Texas schools wasdifferent, and as I said,they’re in an arms race.

Will the move tothe PAC-10 open upthe California re-cruiting pipelinethat was so success-ful in the 1990s?

We’ve neverstopped recruiting Cali-fornia, but it couldbump it up back to thatlevel, sure. Californiahas produced the sec-ond-most players onour team for at least 25years running.

What does Col-orado need to do to win the game Saturday?

We killed ourselves against California earlywith penalties, dumb mistakes and bad field posi-tion. Basically, we need to be the team that playedthe second half against Hawai’i (328-100 edge inyards and 31-3 on the scoreboard in the secondhalf). We’re better than people want to believe,but losing a game 52-7 will do that. I would thinkwith A.J. Green returning, UGA is going to beprimed for a big game, so the old adage “we can’tstop him, we can only hope to contain him” mayapply.

What is your impression of Georgia?Top notch program, class people (Claude Fel-

ton rocks), passionate fans judging by the rumors

that as many as 10,000 are traveling here. And inall honesty—there should be more of these kind ofgames between BCS schools and less of the cup-cakes ones. Kudos for UGA to leave SEC territory,not only to play a different opponent, but to showtheir kids a part of the country many have neverlikely been to before.

What are Colorado’s goals for this sea-son?

We want to get back to the postseason, butwe don’t feel the Big 12 North title is out of reachdespite what others believe. We missed going toa bowl game in back-to-back years for the firsttime since an eight-year drought from 1977-84, sowe don’t want that streak to reach three.

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Well, it hasn’t been this bad for a Georgia football teamsince 1990 as that was the last time – until this season – thatthe Bulldogs have lost three consecutive games.

Hoping to snap back and avoid starting out at 0-3 in theSoutheastern Conference, the Bulldogs shot themselves inthe side with one mistake and bumble after another andcame out of the Twilight Zone known as Starkville, Miss. sad-dled with a 24-12 loss to Mississippi State Saturday night.

Yes, the same Mississippi State team that also enteredthe game at 1-2 and 0-2 in the conference.

The Athens Bulldogs will now limp onto the plane forColorado this weekend saddled with a stunning 1-3 seasonmark and the aforementioned 0-3 league worksheet.

Spanning last season, Georgia has now lost its last fourSEC games to Kentucky, South Carolina, Arkansas and Mis-sissippi State and is now 2-7 in its last nine conference out-ings.

“We’re definitely in a place I’ve never been in as a coachor a player, that I can remember,” said a visibly disappointedGeorgia head coach Mark Richt. “It’s certainly not a goodplace to be in but we are where we are. Right now, we haven’tdone anything good enough to earn a victory as a team anduntil we all get it together, we’re not going to win. It’s our re-sponsibility to get everybody ready to do things it takes towin a ball game, and I’ve done a pretty poor job to this pointof doing that. No doubt, the self-inflicted wounds came backfrom a year ago,” said Richt. “Tonight, we had a turnover andpenalties that negated everything we did. But you’ve got toplay by the rules, got to wrap up and hold onto the ball.

“Every single thing we’re doing right now needs to beevaluated,” Richt added. “We have to make sure we’re doingthe right things, not just jump off the deep end but find outwhat we’re doing. We’ve got to look within and certainly Ihave to look within myself and I’m asking every coach andplayer in this program to do the same thing. Obviously, there’sgoing to be frustration when you’re not getting the resultsyou’re looking for.”

Richt said the Bulldogs simply missed out on one op-portunity after another against a State team that took full ad-vantage of every Georgia miscue.

“We had our chances, had our opportunities but justcouldn’t get it done,” he lamented. “Again, nobody can jumpship and we can’t let the outside forces tear us apart. Cer-tainly, everybody is frustrated but we’re a family and have gotto maintain that because there’s a lot of football still to beplayed. The season’s not going to be canceled. We have to

get back, brush ourselves off and get back to work.”After the host Bulldogs got on the board with a 53-yard

drive the first time they touched the ball, Georgia had ampleopportunities to take the lead but, on one occasion, WashaunEaley continued to be plagued by fumbles near the goal lineas he coughed up the ball into the end zone while being hitafter a 20-yard pass reception from Aaron Murray, to the State1-yard line.

Then, in the second quarter, Kris Durham rambled 40yards for an apparent touchdown after a short toss from Mur-ray only to see the score wiped out by a holding call againstBulldogs’ sophomore wide receiver Marlon Brown.

Thus, instead of likely leading Mississippi State by 14-7, the Bulldogs were eventually forced to settle for a pair offield goals by Blair Walsh, from 25 and 35 yards.

And then, after trailing 7-6 at the halftime break, Geor-gia watched the frustration mount in the final two periods asMississippi State continually kept the Bulldogs from reachingthe end zone and went on to build a 24-6 advantage in thewaning minutes. Georgia then finally struck for a too-little,too-late touchdown with just 1:27 remaining when Murrayand Tavarres King hooked up on a 40-yard pass.

In addition to the Ealey fumble at the goal line andDurham’s negated touchdown, just another prime exampleof the Bulldogs’ futility this night came late in the third period

when Georgia reached the State 25 and Murray then hitDurham down the middle for another first down … only tosee the ball again brought back to the 40 due to another hold-ing infraction. To compound matters, Durham was injuredon the head-on hit he received on that play and wasn’t to re-turn. And, still another, back in the second period followinga Drew Butler punt, the ball bounced off Bacarri Rambo,down to cover the kick, and State recovered at the Georgia45.

And want still another example of Georgia shooting it-self in the foot and everywhere else? When the Bulldogs fi-nally did manage a pass interception – by Vance Cuff early inthe third – it, too, was nullified by an off-sides penalty, thusgiving the ball right back to State.

It was simply that kind of night for the Bulldogs …just something happening negatively the evening long.

What WorkedAbsolutely nothing in a loss of this magnitude.

What Didn’t WorkAbsolutely everything didn’t work when your offense

isn’t able to score a touchdown against Mississsippi State untiljust over a minute remaining and the game is already out ofreach.

Top PerformersStatistics are clearly for losers but Murray did complete

18-of-31 passing attempts for a career-high 274 yards andalso rushed for 32 yards on seven keepers.

“It’s one of those things where you’re not embarrassed tobe a Georgia Bulldog,” said Durham, who had four recep-tions for 64 yards plus the touchdown that was called back.“But we’re embarrassed at the way we’re playing. Our sea-son could turn into a catastrophe if we don’t stay together.”

Will Rocky Mountain High be a Low Also?Can A.J. Green make that much of a difference for this

sputtering Bulldog offensive unit? We’ll all find out whenGeorgia goes against a 2-1 Colorado team Saturday night inBoulder. The Bulldogs, if they’re to avoid Richt’s first losingseason, will most certainly have to find the victory trail againstthe Buffaloes … before then facing Tennessee, Vanderbilt,Kentucky and Florida in succession. But, even with Green,unless they rid themselves of all these self-inflicted wounds,the defeats could continue to pile up.

Game rewind: Georgia 12 Miss. State 24

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Kevin Butler, former University of Georgia legendary kicker and a member ofthe Georgia radio broadcast team, will each week during the 2010 footballseason select his offensive, defensive and special teams players of the weekfor Bulldawg Illustrated. Here are Butler’s selections and reasons why forthe Bulldogs’ 24-12 loss to Mississippi State.

OFFENSE – Redshirt freshman quarterback Aaron Murray, whocompleted 18-of-31 passing attempts for a career high 274 yardsincluding a 40-yard touchdown pass to Tavarres King and also ranfor 32 yards on seven carries in the loss to the State Bulldogs.“I just think Aaron had a solid game throwing the ball,” said Butler. “Theone down side to it all is he’s our quarterback and is not getting those redzone opportunities and we’re not getting into the end zone. But Aaron’s gottremendous character and played with the kind of effort and confidence un-like a redshirt freshman. He showed great confidence running the ball andhad extra effort, jumping one guy and making some moves. Aaron is show-ing he’s a winner and hopefully that will start spreading to the other play-ers on offense.”

DEFENSE – Senior outside linebacker Darryl Gamble who came upwith a pass interception and recorded several tackles in the lossto Mississippi State. “Darryl’s interception was big and he did what he was supposed to do,” saidButler. “He kept his coverage and was steady with his reads. That intercep-tion stopped a pretty good drive and any time you get a turnover, that’s abig defensive play. Overall, the defense is still playing confused so far andis not making plays on a consistent basis and Darryl’s play has to spark histeammates on defense.”

SPECIAL TEAMS – Junior place-kicker Blair Walsh who, with fieldgoals of 25 and 35 yards, supplied the Bulldogs’ only scoring untilthe Murray-to-King touchdown pass with just over a minute left toplay.“I go with Blair again (for third time this season),” said Butler. “He’s our of-fense right now, seven for seven on the season, and if we can’t get into theend zone, his perfection is one area we don’t have to worry about. He’s1,000 percent and that says it all, and with the way the season is playingout, his kicks are growing with importance each week.”

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reer. The 6-2, 235-pound senior fullbackfrom Norcross, after being redshirted in2006, carried the ball just one time ineach of the 2007 and 2008 seasons, withboth carries resulting in touchdowns. In’07 Munzenmaier scored on a 6-yard runagainst Ole Miss, and in ’08 he scored ona 1-yard run at LSU. Then, last fall, Mun-zenmaier appeared in 13 games andrushed for 36 yards on 10 carries withtouchdowns coming against ArizonaState and Vanderbilt. In Georgia’s Inde-pendence Bowl win over Texas A&M, Munzenmaier carriedfour times for 20 yards. In this question-and-answer with Mun-zenmaier and his mom, Angela, the Bulldog Nation gets a spe-cial insight into the player who wears No. 48 for the Bulldogs.

What do you view as the most important quality in beinga leader for the team?

I think it would be consistency and just being able to workevery day. We have guys on this team who work extremely hardbut as seniors, we have to show them we like to work and justthe culture here. And you have to do it every single day becauseyou never know who is watching.

Who do you consider to be the most important mentor inyour life so far, and why?

I’d say my dad; he has always been the force of reason forme in my life. Obviously, it’s impossible to always make the rightdecisions as a young man but he’s always been there to help me.

What fellow player on the team motivates you to be thebest you can be and why is that the case?

I’d say it would be both of my roommates, Shaun Chapasand Kris Durham. Shaun and I play the same position so wecan critique each other and push each other to get better. Shaunis an inspirational person and he’s always pushed me to be bet-ter. And Kris is the other person who motivates me because he’shad a lot of setbacks with injuries but has come back to playfearlessly. Kris works hard and uses every bit of talent that he

has and I think he’s having an awesome season so far.

What is the best play or game you’ve had while at Geor-gia and why?

I guess my best play would not have been one of my ownruns. Last year, we were behind against Auburn and were run-ning a play up the middle. I was blocking and Caleb (King)sprung free and scored, and we came back to win. We bothmade the same read, saw the same thing and Caleb found thehole and made the play. That was the most important play thatI’ve been a part of so far.

When you leave Georgia, what do you hope folks sayabout your contribution to the program?

I just hope that people will see me as someone who playedhard and was a contributor to our team. Since I was a little kid,I always wanted to play for Georgia and to have the honor to getto go out there and play, is special for me. I just want people tosee me as someone who played as hard as I could.

What regular Georgia opponent do you enjoy playing themost and why?

I look forward to the Georgia Tech game each year. Nomatter what the records are, that is always a big game. You canhave a great season and not get that one and it doesn’t feel com-plete. And you can have a not-so-great season and get that oneand it doesn’t feel so bad. It’s a big rivalry and it’s like our collegestate championship.

Bulldawg leader: Fred MunzenmaierGeorgia fullback has completed his childhooddream of playing for Bulldogs on Saturdays

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Parents names:Fred and Angela Munzenmaier

Siblings names:Ron, 37; Abby, 28.

Main attribute that makes Fred a leader:It’s his caring for people. Fred puts other people ahead of himself. He’sa very caring person and always tries to do not for himself but theteam as a whole.

Best childhood story:Fred has had a childhood friend, Richard, since they were both two.One day when they were about 10 years old, Richard’s mom tookthem to Six Flags. She had this little sports car, a Jaguar, and you couldbarely sit three people in it. Well, when they got to Six Flags, they de-cided they would play one of those games where you throw the ballat a target to win a stuffed animal. Well, Fred did real well and walkedout of there with a stuffed animal that was twice his size – it was justhuge. So Richard’s mom had to drive home with the stuffed animal inthat small Jaguar, and she couldn’t even see out of the rearview mir-ror. So Richard and Fred had to give her directions on switching lanesand so forth, and when they got home, we asked them how in theworld did they ever get home with that big thing in the car? That’s justone of Fred’s childhood stories.

Best thing about his time at Georgia:Fred has definitely matured a lot and the main thing about Georgia ishis having made such good friends. He lives with Shaun Chapas andKris Durham, and they’ve really formed a bond between them. And usparents have a bond as well. We stay at the same hotel for roadgames, tailgate together and just hang out together.

Nicest thing he’s ever done for you:Fred does special things for me all the time. Out of the clear blue sky,he will text me and say he loves me, have a good day … things likethat. He will cook me breakfast for Mother’s Day and just does specialthings all the time. He’s very close with all his family.

A few things about Fred outside of football:He loves playing golf and is still trying to master the game. He loveswake boarding on the lake at Hartwell. And Fred really loves spend-ing time with his dog, a black lab named Bu, which is short for Malibu.

Most entertaining story about UGA fans:It just amazes me that all the Georgia fans are very family oriented.When we’re tailgating the boys will come over after the game and sitwith us, eat food and wait for the traffic to die down. And none of us(senior players’ families) have missed a game in five years.

What has Coach Richt meant to Fred?Coach Richt has been a very good mentor; he’s been a positive influ-ence on Fred. A lot of it has to do with Coach Richt being a Christianman, and that plays a big part in Fred’s life. Coach Richt looks out fornot only the guys when it comes to football but what their lives aregoing to be after football.

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There were some great games this past Saturday, especially in the rugged Southeastern Conference. The BigTen could be the best its been in several years. UCLA got a monster win on the road at Texas, handing the Long-horns their most lopsided loss under Mack Brown’s watch. Meanwhile, Oklahoma had an escape against Cincin-nati. Alabama is the best team in the country, but their schedule is much tougher than it has been the last twoyears.1. Alabama – Heisman trophy winning tailback Mark Ingram

had a run that will go down as his best thus far at Bama, and it wasone of the big plays in a thrilling 24-20 victory over Arkansas inFayetteville. This was another championship win for the CrimsonTide.

2. Ohio State –The Buckeyes got another easy win over an out-matched foe. Atlanta native Cameron Heyward is one of the coun-try’s best defensive tackles, and the Buckeyes appear to be the classof the Big Ten.

3. Oregon – The Ducks got off to a slow start, but one of themost dynamic offenses in the country got untracked and Oregonrolled past Arizona State. Oregon has put up a couple of qualitywins and absolutely buried a couple of small schools.

4. Auburn – What a big, impressive victory for the Tigers, whotook advantage of a slew of South Carolina turnovers to trim theGamecocks 35-27 on the plains. Cameron Newton is a big timeplayer at quarterback.

5. Florida – The Gators are finding themselves and getting hotat the right time. The big one is here with Alabama in Tuscaloosa.Florida has so many athletes and the Gators lead the country in in-terceptions. The Crimson Tide and Gators are 60-4 combined since’08 with two of the losses to one another.

6. Texas Christian – Andy Dalton had another big night, asTCU took down SMU 41-24 on a Friday ESPN affair. The Mustangshung around, surely spurred on by Parent’s Weekend festivities, butthe Horned Frogs were able to pull away in Dallas.

7. Nebraska –Bo Pellini has restored the pride in the Big Red.The Cornhuskers eased past South Dakota State 17-3. If Nebraskais able to win the North, the Cornhuskers could challenge Oklahomaor Texas for the conference championship.

8. Oklahoma - Bob Stoops and the Sooners had a narrow es-cape against Cincinnati. The game was played at Paul Brown Sta-dium, home of the Bengals. Oklahoma can run it and throw it, andin typical Stoops fashion, they run and hit.

9. South Carolina – The Gamecocks were in good shape atAuburn, but turnovers did them in. South Carolina has an opendate, then Alabama comes to town. The Crimson Tide will be host-ing Florida this week.

10. Arkansas – In what will go down as one of the most painfullosses in school history – a couple of notches below the famed 15-14 with Texas – the Razorbacks came up just short against Alabama.The Hogs led 20-7 in the second half, but Bama is just too good. Thequestion now is whether the Razorbacks can recover mentally?

11. Boise State –The Broncos got their second big September vic-tory, as Boise State cruised past Oregon State. Kellen Moore is anoutstanding quarterback and the Broncos have the chance at anotherspecial season. Nevada is the biggest remaining challenge.

12. LSU – The Fightin’ Tigers have an absolutely loaded defense,with an All-American candidate up front in Drake Nevis, at line-backer in Kelvin Shappard and sensational Patrick Peterson at cor-ner. The Tigers edged West Virginia 20-14, and now host Tennessee.

13. Miami – The Hurricanes put together a dominating defensive per-formance in a Thursday night 31-3 pounding of Pitt. Jacory Harris has abig arm and is a threat at quarterback. He’s Miami’s best quarterback sinceKen Dorsey.

14. Stanford – Jim Harbaugh picked up another signature win, as theCardinal beat down Notre Dame. Under his watch, Stanford now has win-ning records against both Southern Cal and the Irish.

15. Utah – The Runnin’ Utes just pummeled San Jose State 56-3. Whata tough schedule for San Jose by the way. Utah has had great success underKyle Whittingham, who kept it rolling after Urban Meyer left for Florida.

16. Arizona – Coming off of a thrilling victory over, the Wildcats, cladall in red, got a last minute win over California 10-9. Mike Stoops has beengiven time, and it’s paid off in the desert. Arizona went 8-5 last season andis now a perfect 4-0.

17. Wisconsin – After a narrow escape and one-point win over ArizonaState, the Badgers didn’t waste any time blowing away Austin Peay. Wis-consin scored on every possession of the first half and wound up winning70-3. Fly Williams is in mourning.

18. Southern Cal – The Trojans finally put up some big numbers, asthey crushed hapless Washington State in Pullman. Mike Price is obvi-ously a pretty good coach. Matt Barkley is amongst the best of a rich PAC-10 quarterback crop.

19. Florida State – The previous two times that the Seminoles hadhosted Wake Forest, Florida State didn’t score an offensive touchdown.But Christian Ponder led the ‘Noles to a nice win over the Demon Dea-cons. The ACC has a lot of balance.

20. Michigan – Dennard Robinson is a dynamo behind center. Whenhe went down with an injury in this past Saturday’s win over BowlingGreen, two backups stepped in and the offense didn’t miss a beat. TheMichigan defense has dome questions and holes.

21. Texas – Talk about a humbling loss! UCLA absolutely dismantledthe Longhorns 34-12 in Austin. This is a Bruin team that got shut out inPasadena 34-0 by Stanford. This is the game that no one saw coming.Ouch on Sixth Street.

22. Iowa – After a disappointing loss at Arizona, the Hawkeyes had aMAC pick-me-up and an easy win over Ball State in Iowa City. The Airlinerwas certainly hopping Saturday night. The Hawkeyes are one of OhioState’s chief challengers.

23. North Carolina State – The Wolfpack has jumped up and emergedas one of the best teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference, as they’ve rolledto a 4-0 start, punctuated with a pounding of Tech on the flats. Russell Wil-son is one of the country’s top quarterbacks – and second basemen.

24. Penn State – It wasn’t easy, but Penn State held off Temple. Now theOwls are much better under Al Golden’s watch, but it would have been anembarrassing loss for the Nittany Lions. Penn State is looking for fire-power.

25. Michigan State – Mark D’Antonio has everyone smiling in East Lans-ing. After one of the great calls of all-time, the fake field goal touchdownin overtime to beat Notre Dame, he suffered a heart attack. But the Spar-tans rolled to an easy win and now turn their sights to the race for the BigTen title.

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If we could figure out a way towrite this article without writing it,we would choose to do so. At thispoint, we can’t be sure that using theword embarrassment is an under-statement or just a little rude, nomatter validity, to so many involved.Last week’s opening paragraph tothis column was incredibly difficultto write. This week it feels more likea classic Jerry Jeff Walker song wearen’t allowed to pen in this forum.

We are a very bad football team.One of the reasons is because ourrecord is 1-3. The biggest reason isbecause we were the much lesserteam in a 24-6 (actually 12) loss Sat-urday Night. The Dawgs were outgunned by a team that played sloppyfootball most of the night. It did notappear a single facet of our play per-formed to expected standards.

This is a tough time for theDawgs, let’s be certain. As the headman says himself, these are thetoughest times yet. Again, we couldattempt to leave out our general in-

terpretation of the wellness of ourteam. Only, the task becomes much,much harder on a weekly basis. TheUniversity of Georgia football teamfinds itself in a dismal place. Makeno mistake of our support for thissituation. As sure, so many doubtstend to solidify discouragement.

There are a lot of good peopleinvolved in this incredibly difficultcircumstance. From players tocoaches there, clearly, stands a largegroup of good people. However, thetranslation of this into a good foot-ball team just isn’t happening. Thisgroup of good people are not gettingthe job done. On hardly any level.Even our All-America punter is hav-ing a sub par year (at least for the in-credibly high standards he set forhimself).

It pains us to say that our team ispainful to watch. But, it is true. It ispainful. We cheer and we supportand want to believe but it is justpainful. We are what we are and wedo what we do by God. We are apower running team come hell orhigh water. We continue to ask ifanyone with a headset has any sem-blance of a plan? What is going onhere? The lines on both sides justget pushed around and shoved outof the way. Sheesh. Is there a teamon the schedule we can physicallydominate other than Idaho State?

It really is too much for us. Itseems so mundane to even discuss itat this point. Same old thing. Bobogets an A for standing up like a manafter the game and calling it like itwas. Sure, it is obvious in everymanner the offense is not getting itdone at all. But, plenty of people do

not come out and say it like he did.That also won’t save Coach Bobofrom the wrath of the faithful. Heshouldn’t take this wrath alone. Ap-parently no coach on staff from thehead man to the wide receiver coachcan come up with any type of playthat could create a mismatch for anumber of our players. No one?Against Mississippi State this is thebest we can do? Pitiful. And, isthere no one on the entire staff thatcan illicit the needed passion?Again, what is going on here?

Our team was just totally domi-nated by Mississippi State. Thinkabout that. We can’t really talkabout the rest of the game details.None of them matter, really. 24-6(actually 12) losers to MississippiState. Again, marinate on that for aminute. The University of GeorgiaBulldogs were just worn down andground up by the Mississippi StateUniversity Bulldogs. Only their ownsloppiness prevented this from beingworse.

If anyone involved can do some-thing about this, now’s a good timeto start making some progress to-wards getting a move on in a betterdirection. The head man says he’sworking on it and is going to reflectinward also. That all seems fine andwell and we hope it works out. Wereally do.

As a wise man told a story forjust this occasion not long after thiscontest, it became apparent howsimple it has really become for us.When the Dawgs finally crossed thegoal line with however much timewas left that was far, far too little, asix year old boy named Jack yelledout “we have a chance”.

That is the kind of blind hopewe are down to here at headquarters.When faced with trying to believe inthis staff ’s ability to turn this aroundthrough the coming rigors of theschedule, we encourage them greatlyto do so. Some think they can.Okay, fair enough. We want it tohappen. For three hours on anygiven Saturday we can transform ourminds into that place where havinga chance is oh so very real. For thatperiod in time we know all aboutjust how right Jack is about our goodchances. Of course, Jack believes inSanta Claus and the tooth fairy, too.

Worked by Mississippi State.Uh-uh-uh. How bout that forpower?

So, who knows? Colorado isnext. Great road trip. Hope theDawgs show up. We will be in thatcorner hooping and hollering. Get itdone boys.

Go Dawgs!

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In dire need of a Rocky Mountain High

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