college football is right around the fucking corner. okay, it's a couple of months away. long hot summer months that never seem to end, especially when you live in a college town that loses half it's population during the months of June and July. but hey, the best way i can think of to kill the time (besides drinking and watching seasons 1-5 of the Wire) is to speculate on the upcoming college football season. specifically to speculate on the teams that stand as obstacles for my Auburn Tigers and their pursuit of a conference and/or national title. this has lead me to begin a new series called Know Your Enemy...and we'll start off with the SEC's beast of the east and owner of two straight kickings of my Auburn teams ass, The Georgia Bulldogs. i myself call Athens, Georgia my home and have long had a love/hate relationship with Auburn's oldest rival. especially the hate part. 2008 is setting itself up to be the year of the Dawg, that is if Georgia can step over all the landmines and bear traps set out for them in their attempt to win a third SEC title this decade and their first national title since 1980.
The Dawgs are fucking loaded with talent, headlined of course by last year's singing, dancing, girlfriend stealing sensation Knowshon Moreno and probable number one overall pick in next year's draft, QB Matt Stafford. these two could be causing nightmares for SEC teams all season, as well as doing some damage to the Athens female population.
but they also play one of the toughest schedules in that nation with trips to Arizona State, LSU, Auburn, and a little place called Jacksonville that is usually not a happy trip for the Dawgs. this year's Georgia team looks a lot like last year's LSU team. they closed strong the season before, won the Sugar Bowl in a route, and return a ton of starters from the year before. i don't think i've ever seen fan expectations higher in Athens. UGA ain't gonna be happy with anything this year short of the BCS title.
as was said before, UGA has handed Auburn two straight beat downs in the series and Auburn will be looking for some revenge this season. talent-wise Georgia definitely will have an edge, but i can't remember the last time Georgia was able to beat Auburn 3 times in a row, and i don't see it happening this year either, at least i fucking hope not. another Georgia loss and i am gonna have to move. UGA's biggest weakness this season will be their inexperienced kicking game and their receiving corp...other than that they have no real holes. so praying to the football god that they pick up a couple of key injuries on their way down the line might not be a bad idea.
Georgia is the team to beat in the SEC this year. i am going ahead and calling this the most important game on Auburn's schedule this season. even more so than LSU or Bama. hell it could even be an early matchup of the SEC Championship game if everything falls right for both teams. and i would love it if that did happen. more than anything i'd love to see an undefeated Auburn team matching up with an undefeated Georgia team on the Plains and then follow that up with a rematch of the schools at the Georgia Dome with the winner heading to Miami to play for the national title. it would be the pinnacle of one college football's all time great rivalries. hey, a guy can dream.
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