Georgia head coach Mark Richt is about to get a contract extension based on a ten game winning streak as well as an SEC East championship in 2011. While a majority of the fan base is perfectly happy with this, there is a small portion of the Bulldog Nation that wanted to blow Richt out and start over in 2012. That camp may just get its wish next year after Georgia’s 2012 schedule was finalized Wednesday.
The SEC is of course expanding, and with a new SEC East member, Georgia was forced to drop one member of the SEC West off the schedule to make room. That schedule deletion ended up being a road trip to Alabama to face Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide. Great news, right? Sure. The schedule suddenly got a heck of a lot easier with a trip to Missouri in week two and the trip to South Carolina pushed back to October 6, instead of the Gamecocks in week two and the Tide the first Saturday of October.
The schedule looks tailor-made for a trip back to the Georgia Dome for the SEC championship game. The four non-conference games include Buffalo, Florida Atlantic, Georgia Southern and in-state rival Georgia Tech, all at home. The Dawgs will get Tennessee at home and hit the road to visit Kentucky after an off-week. This schedule looks easily like a 11-1 or even a 12-0 possibility, but don’t worry anti-Richt fans as that is good news.
If you like Georgia, you’ll love a 11-1 or 12-0 season. If you hate Richt and he loses two games in the regular season, you’d have to think he’s gone. This schedule was the best thing to happen to all of the anti-Richt people out there. The pressure will be turned up to high to win with one of the easiest schedules in the SEC. If not, bye-bye. And if he DOES win and makes it back to the SEC title game, perhaps those fools can be quiet. Please?
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