It's crazy to see how stunned Georgia fans look after each Alabama score in the first half. Yeah, the final score was 41-30, but Alabama still dominated. This was the turning point when Saban showed he was going to turn things around for Alabama football.
***** The last time Tennessee won a national championship, AOL was the most popular internet service provider. And beepers were more popular than mobile phones.
Michael Reeves to be fair it was 41-17 with only 3 minutes left. 13 of those points came in the last couple of possessions with bama playing prevent D.
I remember that 1st year Saban 07 really had a lack of talent that got worse when that book scandal took a host of players out,. I cant remember the Ark game really but I remember Mcfadden.. was a beast ,
that game got into the 40+ range for both teams I think... last minute drive to win it all for JPW...Bryant Denny was going nuts. One of my all time favorite wins for sure.
GrooveDoctor77 The fact that Saban took a gang of 2 and 3-star under-achievers, recruited by Mike Shula, and won seven games, is a tribute to his coaching ability as well.
The names dropped in this game are just insane, JULIO JONES, A.J. GREEN, MATT STAFORD, D'ONTA HIGHTOWER, MARK BARRON, MARK INGRAM, KNOWSHON MORENO, ETC. WOW
I so loved visiting GA that weekend being in their stadium to see the meltdown. They were leaving the stands by halftime, so they didn't get to hear us sing Rammer Jammer in THEIR HOUSE!!! ROLL TIDE ROLL
This was one of three games I went to as a UGA student. I remember checking the Georgia Lottery numbers at the game and discovering that the winner was 666. That was no doubt a bad omen for Georgia. P.S. I stopped going to the games because, as an introvert, they were exhausting for me.
So fortuitous to hear them talk about the expectations being sky high for Nick Saban. I don't think anyone could have imagined on this night what Alabama and Nick Saban would accomplish over the next four years, much less the next 7. It's truly an exceptional feat, not likely to be match by anyone, anywhere, in college football. There might be another Saban out there, but there is not another Alabama.
Since Saban has been at Bama we've played 3 National Title games and 2 SEC Championships. This is still my favorite game of them all. Might be the fact me and Dad sat at halftime up 31-0 with our jaws on the floor.
Thing I remember most is how everyone thought there was NO WAY Bama would win. I was on hwy 78 in Georgia and my Georgia buddy called me and said hey, after tonight, ya'll may not lose another game. I said, I don't know, we took UGA to OT the year before with a much worse team, I think we have a chance. He said, c'mon man, Bama's not ready for this type of game yet but they will be there in a couple years. We got to Athens and no UGA fan thought Bama had a chance. It was a just a formality that UGA wins going away. It was hey, ya'll might keep it close. I had never seen a group of fans so confident. We had gone through the probation years where we couldn't beat anybody but that was over and I knew we were due to become Bama again. The UGA fans were stunned and us Bama fans knew we would win in a rout. It was time for Bama to be Bama again.
Alabama was motivated from the 26-23 overtime heartbreaker & dog pile in Tuscaloosa, AL we did to them in 2007, it motivated them 365 days later to ruin our blackout in 2008. As UGA fan, I hated this game so much, but this was the first game when the Crimson Tide officially came back to life and has now won 3 out of the last 4 national titles. The 2008 Georgia Bulldogs team has the worst defensive coordinator in the history, Willie Martinez, same year Richt suffered his only loss to GT.
2007 was the end of the great run by Mark Richt. It was a downward spiral after that. 2008 they were embarrassed by Bama and Florida and lost to lowly Tech at home. In 2010 they lost to Central Florida in the Liberty Bowl going 6-7. Many big money boosters and alumni wanted him fired after that game.
I remember thinking we were about to make the biggest comeback in SEC history when Prince Miller ran that punt back for a TD at the start of the 4th quarter to make it 17 unanswered points...we just got down too much in the 1st half to have a realistic chance
@smoothcollected We sucked under a few coaches before we got Saban. We had some good years as well after Stallings left but things were dark for a long time. Saban getting to the SEC title game was a sign of things to come tho
i expect a similar outcome when the tide returns between the hedges this season. except i don't forsee any georgia fans/players wearing black EVER AGAIN after we embarrassed them in this game.
Sour grapes man.If I remember correctly you guys were thought to have been the national champs that year. Bama being a thorn in that GA side again I guess.
This was the turning point in Alabama Football under Saban. I remember all those years sitting and watching the Mike Shula teams and Mike Debose teams then to watch this team take on what I always consider Alabama Football. Hard nose football. Roll Tide the start of it all. This game told the SEC Lookout Saban is back and he is he has a plan and he is at a place he can recurit. Roll Tide
2008 was an embarrassing year for Georgia in big games. This was also the year that Urban Meyer and Florida got revenge for Georgia’s egregious end zone celebration the year before by burning all three timeouts in the last two minutes.
"true, but bama just got off to a good start, thats all, kind of like when a&m beat bama last yr A&m got off to a good start then bama finally stated catching back up, you know how that feels right?" While i get your point. A&M had 3 good drives in the first 10 minutes. That's a "good start." When it's 31-0 half way through the game though...I'd have to say that's less of a good start and more of a good majority of the game(by definition 1 second into the second half). When you're leading 41-17 up 24 points with 3:15 minutes in the game. "Good Start" doesn't really cut it.
i've been trying to 'pinpoint' the moment the Dynasty began. Was it this game? Was it the block? was it the win over florida in the SEC championship game? Who knows...
I don't know what's wrong with these Ga.fans acting like Ga has won Championship after Championship. Not since Hershell and Quarterback Paul Bunyan-Lol
I wish Georgia would were these jerseys again, I know they lost to bama wearing them, but they look so cool. Better than those god awful nike pro combats
Stephen Mendak 3 teams gave him a chance and he didn't pan out. He had a great senior season at Bama, though. QB sneak during OT at LSU is his claim to fame.
Stephen Mendak He was only good when he was not under pressure. But in the heat of the moment he would lose the game for Bama. Case in point 2007 against Miss. St.
The commentators cracked me up in this game. They were so at a loss for anything nice to say about Georgia that they start talking about Ron Popeil. 51:31 is also a classic. "This is an old-fashioned country butt-kicking... and Georgia is supplying the butt."
GA was an undisciplined team in this game, and remain one today in 2020. It is why they never reach their potential despite good enough talent to win the "Big" game. Didn't then, can't - and never will - under K Smart who is a good D coordinator, a good recruiter but not a big game head coach nor championship-level program leader. It's a shame for GA and really a shame for their recruits. They keep getting really good recruits who buy into the false promises of a NC. They will waste their careers at GA if they want to be champions.
Haha ill also celebrate the SEC championship game last year in which Alabama beat Georgia again. Ill also enjoy the fact that Alabama has won 3 out of the last 4 national championships.
