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re: Clemson series canceled
Posted on 9/22/26 at 2:32 pm to WG_Dawg
Posted on 9/22/26 at 2:32 pm to WG_Dawg
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Sure the atmosphere and hype around playing an Ohio State or Miami to start the season is cooler than against WKU but let us lose those games and watch how quickly our fanbase doesn't think it's so cool anymore.
You know what is cooler than beating Miami and Ohio State in September?
Beating Miami and Ohio State in January.
Our goal is to be healthy for December and January. Our goal is to peak in December and January.
I promise everyone on this board, add rings and pennants and trophies for UGA, and they will agree 100% going forward.
Playoffs kill regular seasons. They do what they do. So we just need to be killers in the playoffs.
Posted on 9/22/26 at 3:38 pm to Peter Buck
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Delta Airlines Bulldogs is a real possibility
I sure hope you are fricking with us and this isn't something with legs. I can't tell with you.
Posted on 9/22/26 at 3:48 pm to meansonny
I have nothing to add to this thread. WG and meansonny are speaking for me. Yall are my consigliaires on this subject.
I've taken my son to games since he was 3, he's now 11. It's always a cupcake game because-
Early kickoff
Cheap tickets, even for good seats
We always win (though Kent State made us work for it)
Finding free parking is easier
The whole stadium and town isn't crawling with shitfaced drunks
You can actually get into a restaurant before and after the game
Only a true a-hole would want to take that away from us.
We couldn't do a cupcake this year because we were on vacation for both of our cupcakes.
I hope we can get into a cupcake game next year.
I've taken my son to games since he was 3, he's now 11. It's always a cupcake game because-
Early kickoff
Cheap tickets, even for good seats
We always win (though Kent State made us work for it)
Finding free parking is easier
The whole stadium and town isn't crawling with shitfaced drunks
You can actually get into a restaurant before and after the game
Only a true a-hole would want to take that away from us.
We couldn't do a cupcake this year because we were on vacation for both of our cupcakes.
I hope we can get into a cupcake game next year.
Posted on 9/22/26 at 4:39 pm to meansonny
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What is the definition of a cupcake?
It literally is an opponent who is willing to visit your university for a paycheck and not demand a return visit.
You think we are going to schedule home only games with other P4 schools?
You think season ticket holders are going to give more to the university for less on return?
We already sacrifice 1 home game per year every year with the commitment to Jacksonville and the Jackets. You want to give away more?
Or are we scheduling cupcakes who don't require the return trip.
And I questioned precisely none of that. To fill the first three weeks of a fifteen week season with largely irrelevant games simply does not make for much in the way of good viewing - that's all. Understanding the why doesn't change that result. Even spreading the massacre games out across the season would make it better, since there would still be a solid slate of good games every Saturday. But to just burn 20% of the season on essentially nothing games with relatively few good matchups thrown in? Not a great plan.
Posted on 9/22/26 at 4:43 pm to lewis and herschel
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Yeah but you get an Ap State, A Western Michigan, and plenty of others thru the years that shock the world and that is fun.
You get that anyway. It just makes no sense to waste the first three weeks of a short season playing a whole bunch of games that are irrelevant. Spread them out across the schedule so that there's always a slate of good matchups every weekend.
Posted on 9/22/26 at 5:00 pm to New Money
Before long, Sanford stadium will be a parking deck and we will play all our game at neutral sites.
Posted on 9/22/26 at 5:05 pm to FaCubeItches
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You get that anyway. It just makes no sense to waste the first three weeks of a short season playing a whole bunch of games that are irrelevant. Spread them out across the schedule so that there's always a slate of good matchups every weekend.
That is an SEC request. They schedule the conference games. Whatever is left over is available for the athletic departments to fill out.
I watch a lot of podcasts. Nationally, cupcake games in october and November are frowned upon. Personally, I dont really care when the cupcakes are played. I have an opinion based on tradition when I think we should play South carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Auburn, and georgia tech. The other games, the positioning doesn't mean anything to me.
Posted on 9/22/26 at 7:15 pm to New Money
You say a lot of stupid shite a lot don’t you?
Posted on 9/22/26 at 11:39 pm to New Money
Realignment being finalized.
Posted on 9/22/26 at 11:41 pm to DawgCountry
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what does it benefit us to play 10 P4 schools when nobody else is doing it?
Only B1G isn't doing it.
What a surprise that is!
Posted on 9/24/26 at 10:24 am to New Money
Sad but not surprising.
Posted on 9/25/26 at 5:27 am to New Money
I am fine with cancelling Clemson. They are a boring team and we've already beat their arse enough. Would love to do a H&H with Miami, VT, TT, or UW.
Posted on 9/25/26 at 7:28 am to PGJ
If this was back in the "before times" I wouldn't mind any of that. I remember YEARS ago when our future series with UCLA, FSU, OSU, Oregon, etc were all announced I couldn't wait for those even though they were 10+ year in the future.
Now though? It is nothing but a disadvantage to schedule any other P4 team in the measly two games that we have a choice in. Give me a couple WKU's and I'll be content.
Now though? It is nothing but a disadvantage to schedule any other P4 team in the measly two games that we have a choice in. Give me a couple WKU's and I'll be content.
Posted on 9/25/26 at 9:11 am to WG_Dawg
I really don't like all the sacrificial-lamb, paycheck FCS games. I'd rather see us schedule lower level P4 teams like Stanford, Kansas, Maryland, and WAZZU than Austin Pea, Tenn St, and Charlotte.
Posted on 9/25/26 at 10:25 am to PGJ
The lower tier p4 teams are too broke... there isn't a pay day for big boy teams to play another big boy team away... You roll in on your own dime and leave that way.
Little guys get paydays to fill the gap... UGA could make its way through smaller in state schools and those nearby..... read almost zero travel expense for them and the money stays in state.
Little guys get paydays to fill the gap... UGA could make its way through smaller in state schools and those nearby..... read almost zero travel expense for them and the money stays in state.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 5:53 am to PGJ
I didnt watch the 2nd game this season. First time since the 90's I didnt watch a UGA game.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 7:12 am to djsdawg
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I didnt watch the 2nd game this season. First time since the 90's I didnt watch a UGA game.
I didn't watch either of the first two games. I have no interest in watching a 3-4 hour bloodbath.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 7:14 am to PGJ
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I'd rather see us schedule lower level P4 teams like Stanford, Kansas, Maryland, and WAZZU than Austin Pea, Tenn St, and Charlotte.
So you'd like UGA to give up another home game every year, along with the associated revenues and recruit visit opportunities, and play a more difficult schedule than almost every other team in the nation, every year?
Posted on 9/26/26 at 7:24 am to wdhalgren
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So you'd like UGA to give up another home game every year, along with the associated revenues and recruit visit opportunities, and play a more difficult schedule than almost every other team in the nation, every year?
How awesome were those games against Oregon, ND, and Clemson? Yes, I would rather play a lower level P4 team than any FCS teams.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 7:41 am to PGJ
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How awesome were those games against Oregon, ND, and Clemson? Yes, I would rather play a lower level P4 team than any FCS teams.
I'm confused. You weren't talking about scheduling Oregon, ND and Clemson. You said, "I'd rather see us schedule lower level P4 teams like Stanford, Kansas, Maryland, and WAZZU". But either way, Maryland or Notre Dame, the costs of that kind of schedule are the same; less money for UGA football, fewer home games for UGA fans, fewer gameday recruiting opportunities, more difficult schedule, less game participation for young players, lower chance of making the playoffs. Only the distribution of those costs changes with high quality vs low quality P4 opponents.
Those are the kind of decisions that determine success or failure. Every other college football program has chosen a different path from the one you advocate for UGA.
This post was edited on 9/26/26 at 8:11 am
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