Les Miles
Banned
ATHENS, Ga. -- Fact: Georgia started 0-2 last season (with losses to No. 8 Boise State and No. 9 South Carolina) and then won 10 straight games to clinch a spot in the SEC Championship Game.
Fact: Georgia finished the 2011 season with the nation's No. 5 defense. Ten of 11 starters return for 2012.
Fact: Georgia returns the SEC's No. 2 passer in Aaron Murray, who threw for 3,149 yards and 35 touchdowns a season ago. Of the returning quarterbacks in FBS football for the coming season, only Southern California's Matt Barkley (37) threw for more touchdowns in 2011 than Murray.
Fact: For the second consecutive year, Georgia will not play Alabama, LSU or Arkansas.
Fact: The SEC has won six straight BCS championships and 10 national titles in the past 20 seasons. Georgia, however, has not won a national championship since 1980, when Herschel Walker was a freshman.
Fact: Georgia's play under coach Mark Richt has been at a pretty high level in the best conference in the land. Consider: Georgia has been playing football since 1892. In almost 120 seasons, Georgia has won 10 or more games just 19 times. Seven of those 10-win seasons have been posted in the past 11 years (2001-2011) under Richt.
Full Article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...ood-bet-to-win-sec-east-but-that-could-change
Fact: Georgia finished the 2011 season with the nation's No. 5 defense. Ten of 11 starters return for 2012.
Fact: Georgia returns the SEC's No. 2 passer in Aaron Murray, who threw for 3,149 yards and 35 touchdowns a season ago. Of the returning quarterbacks in FBS football for the coming season, only Southern California's Matt Barkley (37) threw for more touchdowns in 2011 than Murray.
Fact: For the second consecutive year, Georgia will not play Alabama, LSU or Arkansas.
Fact: The SEC has won six straight BCS championships and 10 national titles in the past 20 seasons. Georgia, however, has not won a national championship since 1980, when Herschel Walker was a freshman.
Fact: Georgia's play under coach Mark Richt has been at a pretty high level in the best conference in the land. Consider: Georgia has been playing football since 1892. In almost 120 seasons, Georgia has won 10 or more games just 19 times. Seven of those 10-win seasons have been posted in the past 11 years (2001-2011) under Richt.
Full Article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...ood-bet-to-win-sec-east-but-that-could-change