Dawg in Beaumont

August 31st is the opening week. 2019 is a year where Labor Day falls early so there are 14 Saturday from Labor day weekend to thanksgiving weekend (whereas most years have 13 Saturdays) We’ll get two byes but wouldn’t have one the first week.

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Week 1 might be that non con game first weekend of sept unless we are having 2 off weeks.

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2019 is a unique year calendar wise. Since Labor Day falls very early (September 2nd) there are 14 weeks for teams to play 12 games, thus an extra bye week. That game at Vandy opening weekend will actually be in August.

The official schedule for conference games isn’t out yet, but I noticed that we will definitely be playing an SEC game the opening weekend of the season. All of the dates for non conference games are finalized and August 30th isn’t one of them.

Can’t remember the last time we opened with a conference game, probably South Carolina in the early 90s.

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Didn't they do Georgia Tennessee 2014 in Athens at least?

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It was a noon ESPN game.

We did beat Auburn on CBS last year but it was the first part of a double header so Gary and Verne were somewhere else.

I can't imagine how much a backup school/Georgia Tech fan must hate Richt.

He went 13-2 vs. Tech and 10-5 vs. the backup school.

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Yes, those are great if we can play the NC States of the world. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about playing legit tough opponents for no reason. Let's also keep in mind if we played UNC this weekend we'd probably get whooped.

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I get what you're saying. In my ideal scenario we play a somewhat interesting team that isn't extremely good (and we haven't seen a bunch in bowls lately). NC State, Indiana, Iowa, Syracuse, West Virginia, Arizona, Kansas, Minnesota, Wake Forest, etc.

More exciting than Louisiana Monroe, but not a team that will beat us in any year that we are good.

One of those, plus Tech, and then two cupcakes makes a good, but not insane schedule.

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I'm not sure about the word "most", but he was damn sure an elite prospect. Was a 1st team parade All American back when that meant something and had super high expectations coming in.

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Right. He was a much more heralded recruit than Hearst, Gurley, or Chubb.

Poor judgement on my part. Not calling anyone out was the equivalent of only rushing three in a hail mary situation. I'm firing my defensive coordinator.

Enjoyed the games, Jefferson. Give em hell, yall!

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I forget; how long would that FG have been? We were on Vandy's 41 yard line. Add about 17 yards and it would have been about a 58 yard FG?

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I think that's correct. I didn't mind throwing the hail mary since we appeared to have them unprepared, but prior to the time outs being called I was looking forward to seeing Blankenship try the long one.

When I heard "Jump" played on the loudspeakers in the stadium today I took it as a good sign.

I was wrong.