Everywhere you turn all they seem to be talking about is the Dawgs' touchdown celebration last season in the win over Florida.

It's time to get over it.

Urban Meyer has issued a gag order on the play. But as most of us know, it's impossible to shut up a Florida Gator.

It has gotten so bad that Terrance Moore of the AJC had the hair-brained idea that the celebration of last season was the main reason the Dawgs had so many penalties this season. I'm not making that up.

So as we head to Jacksonville this weekend, we will attempt to put the scene of last year behind us and forge ahead.

And to do this we must remember what REALLY happened last year in Jacksonville. Tim Tebow was sacked over and over again. Knowshon Moreno ran over the Gator's defense repeatedly. The fact is the Dawgs kicked Flordia all over the field. Something that is hard to swallow in Gainesville.

Earlier this week, in trying to rationalize the loss to UGA, Florida coach Urban Meyer said:

"We were very soft, a very selfish outfit a year ago, and we didn't protect the quarterback and we dropped the ball twice. That's how we lost that game."

No, how they lost the game was they played a better team.

The fact that the Dawgs won 42-30 and the fact that the "Gator Stomp" celebration is all anyone is talking about will make for quite an atmosphere for Jacksonville on Saturday. Gator fans will be stoked, and they should be.

I have seen many great battles between the two teams over the past years, but this one has more on the line than the others. The winner will keep their SEC East title hopes alive as well as their hopes for a birth in the BCS Title game.

The loser will be knocked out of a chance to go to the Georgia Dome in December. And if it's Florida. look for the excuses to begin again. It's one of the things that makes the rivarly great, and one of the things that makes it so easy to be a Gator Hater.

In late 1968, John Fogerty wrote that great rock and roll tune, Born on the Bayou:

Runnin through the backwood, bare.
And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin,
Chasin down a hoodoo there.
Chasin down a hoodoo there.

I am not sure what a hoodoo is, but I think it could be a drunk LSU fan on a Saturday night.

Well let's hear it for good ole CBS! I know they take more commercial breaks than God himself should allow, but at least they had the good sense to schedule the Dawgs and Tigers at 3:30 p.m. (2:30 in Louisiana), and keep us away from late night hell on ESPN.

I'm not saying you can't win on a Saturday night at Baton Rouge, it's just I prefer to take my chances in the day. Which brings me to another song on CCR's Bayou Country album:

Maybe you don't understand it.
But if your'e a natural man,
You got to ball and have a good time
And thats what I call chooglin.

Yes, they have a good time in LSU during football season. Much of that has to do with the landscape. Tiger Stadium is a magnificent deep bowl. The sound bounces off each side and pounds down on your head like the chorus of Fortunate Son. Legend has it the sound registered on the Richter Scale during a 1988 win over Auburn.

So its going to me loud and, as coaches like to say: "a hostile environment." But I remember what Alabama did to a hostile environment dressed in back about a month ago. The fact is if the Dawgs play well they will win.

The football team will survive. Those of us who will go to the game as either fans or employees of the Georgia Bulldogs, we'll let's just hope we get out alive.

As college football fans, we hate the polls.

But each Sunday, we will break our necks to find out who's number one and where our favorite team is ranked.

I am the same way to a point. I love to look at the rankings and laugh. Ball State, Boise State, Utah? Please. The next thing you know a team like Hawaii will get a BCS bid. Wait. Never mind.

But I must say college football polls are okay. They are a fun pastime. On the other hand, anyone who has anything to do with a National High School Football Poll should be flogged with a wet copy of Urban Crier's book.

Now back to my point if there was one.

The information age has actually dumb-downed the members who vote in the AP Top 25 when it should have smartened them up. It's too easy now. Don't worry about reading or watching a game. Just turn on the Evil Empire and let Mark May, Lou Holtz, Lee Corso or Kirk Herbstriet tell you who you should rank.

I firmly believe that members of the media...or press if you are old school...know nothing. And that's me included. Now there are a few like Tony Barnhart and Chip Towers of the AJC who are top notch, but most are just like me. Sticking a wet finger in the wind and coming up with a ranking.

And with that in mind, here is my biased TS Top 25. Drop me a note and tell me how far off I am:

1-Alabama
2-Florida (Boy that ranking pains me)
3-Texas
4-Southern Cal
5-Penn State
6-Oklahoma
7-UGA
8-Oklahoma State
9-Texas Tech
10-LSU
11-Missouri
12-Vanderbilt
13-Ohio State
14-Kansas
15-Michigan State
16-South Flordia
17-Pittsburgh
18-Virginia Tech
19-North Carolina
20-Wake Forest
21-Georgia Tech
22-Pittsburgh
23-Minnesota
24-South Carolina
25-Flordia State

Your first reaction probably will be. Hey, with the exception of Southern Cal, there are no teams from out West.

And your point is?

I am going to take a different, possibly unpopular, view here.

I am tired of the black jerseys. I know times change, and, as they say "we must change with them," but I ask these questions. Did Hershel Walker ever wear a black UGA jersey? No. Did the Dawgs win their national championship of 1980 in black jerseys? No.

So I say let's get back to the red and the tradition. If you are one of those fans that think black jerseys had anything to do with winning or losing, then come back to earth. Oh, it was exciting last year when the Dawgs ran out in the black and beat Auburn. But the Dawgs were a much better team. They won the Sugar Bowl in black jerseys in January, but let's face it. They could have beaten Hawaii in helmets and shorts.

This brings me to superstitions and stupid things we do to try to help the team win. I present as my evidence the story of my son, Chris.

Chris, like his brother Matt, is a diehard Dawg. He helps us here at the GBRN on game days by recording post-game sound for this website.

When it comes to being a son and a young man, Chris is great.

When it comes to being a superstitious fan, Chris is a nincompoop.

And here's the story. On Saturday, the Dawg Walk was incredible. The biggest I have ever seen. Chris has this "thing" where he has to be on the SAME SIDE of the Dawg Walk each game or somehow the Dawgs might lose. On Saturday, he had trouble getting on that SAME SIDE. So as the event was beginning, he ran...he tried to take a shortcut...and fell. Chris tore up his face, broke his cellphone, and yes, fractured his right foot.

Oh, Chris got on that SAME SIDE alright. But the Dawgs still lost.

Afterwards, I asked him what he thinks now about getting on the SAME SIDE of the Dawg Walk each week.

"It probably would have worked if I had not fallen down," he said.

Some kids never learn.

If you are one of the fans like Chris who think you must go through the same routine every week, or think the Dawgs draw some mystical power from black jerseys, or think that some higher power is looking down on your team, let me close this blog with a sharp reality check.

The team who wins the battle at the line of scrimmage is going to win the game. That's why Alabama won, and we lost.