Doug Gillett who gangsta leans to the left and is the proprietor of the phenomenal Georgia football, often politically infused, blog Hey Jenny Slater is the host of the preseason BlogPoll roundtable. Please enjoy my humble responses to his wonderful questions.

1. Without naming names, a few teams seem to have popped up frequently on everyone’s “overrated” lists in the preseason, so let’s forget about them for the moment and concentrate on a different group: sleepers. Which currently unheralded team are you currently putting at least a few of your chips behind in the hopes that you’ll be able to say “totally called that” once they’ve accomplished big things by the end of the season?

I’m bullish on USF and you better believe pun in-fuckin’-tended. South Florida has respectable Sunshine State talent, but they’ve underachieved the last couple of years. They followed up their coming out party in 2006 with two more nine win seasons. That sounds great on paper until you’re told in 2007-08 they had a 43% winning percentage over their last seven games. Ewww, that’s overflowing toilet water nasty. Grothe and Selvie are seniors and will lead the Bulls to a 10+ win season and represent the Big East in the BCS.

2. In a similar vein, pick a sleeper player on your team whom nobody’s talking about right now and tell us why we will be talking about them by December.

David Wilson, who you probably don’t know about unless you followed Junior World Championship Football, has, dare I type it, ESS EEE CEE speed.

There are two reasons why YOU will know about him by the end of 2009. He’s going to be put in situations on special teams to make highlight real plays and will get more chances out of the backfield to go to the house since Darren Evans has been lost for the season.

3. Florida is about as big a consensus favorite as we’ve seen in recent years, but remember, USC got 62 out of 65 first-place votes in the AP’s 2007 preseason poll and still managed to lose to Stanford. Given how difficult it is to go undefeated period these days, where do you think the Gators are most likely to stumble in the regular season?

I’m not trying to fluff Doug, but I really like Georgia’s chances for the following reasons:

• As he pointed out, they have a bye week before traveling to Jacksonville. Since 2001 UGA is 11-3 after a bye.
• All five starters are returning on the offensive line.
• Cox and King\Samuel can’t produce less then Stafford and Moreno last year.
• In games between the two played in years divisible by 41 Georgia has outscored Florida 79-0.

4. Which regular-season game not involving your team or conference are you most looking forward to this year?

The game that first comes to my mind is Ohio State-USC, but anytime USC plays a Big Ten team it’s a laugher. Even though USC is going to start true freshman Matt Barkley at quarterback, 2009 won’t be any different. The Trojans are a talent level above Ohio State and should pull away by the middle of the second quarter. Therefore, Oklahoma-Texas is the game to watch outside of the ACC. We all know why this game is so important, so I will leave you with this.

5. In honor of Georgia’s opening-weekend opponent and their most prolific booster, let’s say you somehow come into T. Boone Pickens money and can buy anything you want for your program — facilities upgrades, an airplane for recruiting, buy out the contract of that coach you hate, you name it. Where does your first check go?

It would be more than obvious to buy out Bryan Stinespring’s contract and overnight him to Uzbekistan to never return again. Sadly, Coach Beamer’s loyalty to his coaches is worth more than money, even Boone Pickens amounts of money, so he would never go for it. A smoke machine could really help with recruiting, but it would be pathetic if we didn’t have money for one if we wanted it. Since our game with Alabama is right around the corner I would use Uncle Pickens’ money to buy out the entire Georgia Dome and pay for Hokie Nation to travel down to the Dirty and take their seats on Saturday. Buying home field advantage from the Tide would be a coup worthy of song and story.