and so it begins.....

"August and everything afterwards....."

Summer is at its zenith , but it had to start sometime soon: GEORGIA IS #1 in the coaches pre season poll. That would be a full one third or the final BCS ranking . NO PRESSURE or anything. This is the first time UGA has been a pre season number one , ever!  and the first time they have even been #1 in this poll since the Walker Era.

Georgia has never been ranked No. 1 by a major poll in the preseason, according to the UGA sports communications office. The Bulldogs were ranked No. 2 by The Associated Press in 1942, No. 3 by AP in 2004 and No. 6 by AP in 1967. The highest preseason ranking they received from the coaches poll was No. 4 in 2004. Georgia finished No. 1 in 1942 in six different polls but not AP.

Let's just do this. Let's just wallow in our pre season superiority for the entire month of August. Break out that white shoe polish, let every window be plastered with "WE'RE #1" ( and Florida Sux). Call your S.E.C. pals and gloat. Start making your pimento cheese now!

Sat, Aug 30 Georgia Southern Athens, Ga. 12:30 p.m.
Pay-Per-View
Sat, Sep 06 Central Michigan Athens, Ga. 3:30 p.m.
FSN South
Sat, Sep 13 South Carolina * at Columbia, S.C. 3:30 p.m.
Sat, Sep 20 Arizona State at Tempe, Ariz. 8:00 p.m.
ABC
Sat, Sep 27 Alabama * Athens, Ga TBA
Sat, Oct 11 Tennessee * Athens, Ga. TBA
Sat, Oct 18 Vanderbilt - Homecoming * Athens, Ga. TBA
Sat, Oct 25 LSU * at Baton Rouge, La. TBA
Sat, Nov 01 Florida * at Jacksonville, Fla. TBA
Sat, Nov 08 Kentucky * at Lexington, Ky. TBA
Sat, Nov 15 Auburn * at Auburn, Ala. TBA
Sat, Nov 29 Georgia Tech Athens, Ga. TBA
No real worries until Columbia, and the Great Satan did beat us last year.  Who knows about freaking Arizona State. The rest is the exact same SEC slug - fest it always is. It's only August, but for the next 29 days: 

we're # 1 !!

( a little amuse bouche)