Georgia Preview

We are now only 34 days from the kickoff of the college football season, and its time to preview our #3 team in our SEC Power Poll. Last years SEC East Champions the Georgia Bulldogs look to be on the path to return to the Georgia Dome.

#3 Georgia

Last season started off extremely rough losing their first two games all be it to two top ten teams, but Mark Richt was already on the hot seat from his 6-7 2010 campaign. Most teams would have folded up after that 0-2 start, but Georgia had a little more fight in them than that winning their next 10 games and going to the SEC Championship. Now the expectations are extremely high with a lot of that talent returning in 2012.

On Offence QB Aaron Murry threw a whopping 35 TD's last season while racking up over 3000 yards passing. One of their key WR Malcolm Mitchell has moved to defence, but Tavarres King is one of the SEC's top go to guys and 6' 5" Marlon Brown should finally become a good target for Murry. The offence suffered another loss at RB during the off season with All SEC Freshman Isaiah Crowell getting removed from the team. They do have a capable back in Ken Malcome, but I think the Bulldogs lean on the passing attack this year. The weakness will be in the trenches as Georgia offencive line will be lacking in experience. 

As good as Murry is the strength of the the team will be its defence. Last year they ranked 5th in total defence only giving up 277 yards per game and in 2012 they return 9 starters. The only depth issues coming in is their secondary, but with the move of WR Malcolm Mitchell to CB will help in that department. I really like what DC Todd Grantham has done with this 3-4 defence. 

   Returning Starters (15)

Offence: 6

Defence: 9

ST: 0

Georgia 2012 Schedule and Preview

• Buffalo W
• @ Missouri W
• FAU W
• Vanderbilt W
• Tennessee W
• @ South Carolina ? L
• @ Kentucky W
• Florida ? W
• Ole Miss W
• @ Auburn ? W
• Georgia Southern W
• Georgia Tech ? W

I have Georgia going 11-1 and in a tight battle with South Carolina for the SEC East, both teams have no room for mistakes. I think Georgia is a slightly better team, but playing @ South Carolina is the reason I'm picking the Gamecocks in that one. Games that could be trick is their rivalry games VS Florida, @Auburn, and Georgia Tech. Any one of these games could become losses for the Bulldogs.

-Patrick Pierce

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