Historian and Team/Research Writer @UGASportscom; Author of books on UGA football.
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Mecole Hardman joins Fran Tarkenton, Terrell Davis, Hines Ward, and Sony Michel as former #UGA players who scored a touchdown in the #SuperBowl
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2 years ago today on January 9, 2023, #Georgia captures its second consecutive national championship as Stetson Bennett receives one of football’s all-time greatest curtain calls.
Bennett: 18-25-0-304-4 passing, 3-39-2 rushing vs. TCU
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Hard to believe it’s been exactly 17 years since #Georgia danced early at the ’07 Cocktail Party en route to a 42-30 upset win over Florida.
The Bulldogs, which entered as 7.5-point underdogs, had lost 15 of their previous 17 games vs. the Gators. @ugasportscom
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For the first time ever, #UGA football and UGA men's basketball both defeat an AP top-10 team in the same week.
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#UGA-Kentucky week—24 years ago
Kirby Smart intercepts (the first of two he had against Tim Couch that afternoon) and a retriever retreats in a 23-13 Georgia win over Kentucky at Sanford Stadium in 1997:
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Has it really been 15 years since #UGA danced early at the Cocktail Party en route to a 42-30 upset win over Florida?
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20 years ago in Knoxville, with Tennessee looking to take the lead just before halftime, Sean Jones returns a Vol fumble 92 yards for a touchdown.
Jones’ scoop and score is part of 31 consecutive points scored by #UGA in a 41-14 rout. @ugasportscom
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Cigarettes in the press box, umbrellas in the stands, a Bulldog with a board on the scoreboard, 100s in the end zones, the Track Fans on the trestle…
#UGA-Tennessee in Athens from 53 years ago, November 1969:
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Kirby Smart's initial INT at #UGA—the first of 13 in his career—was on ol' Rocky Top in 1995:
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29 years ago today, freshman SAF Kirby Smart starts off his #UGA career with 3 sacks coming off the bench in a win over South Carolina.
In program history, it remains the most sacks made in a debut game & the most sacks made by a UGA defensive back in a single game @ugasportscom
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For some Dawg fans, this might bring back some memories…
Narrated by Larry Munson, @CBS intro. to the 2002 #SECChampionship:
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Todd Monken to Jalen Carter after #UGA beats Ohio State...
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#UGA's FIVE ⭐️signees @Rivals
16 in 14 years from 2002-2015
16 in 4 years from 2016-2019
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The 37-17 win by #UGA (a 20.5-point underdog) over Florida in 1997 remains the Bulldogs’ biggest point spread upset going back to at least the late '40s.
In victory, UGA intercepted four passes (thrown by three Gator QBs), including two by junior free safety Kirby Smart:
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In the 4th quarter of the 2006 @CFAPeachBowl, Georgia forces a turnover on 4 consecutive Virginia Tech possessions.
The Bulldogs, which trailed 21-3 midway through the 3Q, rally to a 31-24 victory, signifying what remains #UGA’s sixth-largest comeback in program history:
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From 55 years ago at Sanford Stadium, cigarettes and umbrellas in the stands, painted end zones, fans on the tracks, and a Bulldog with a board on the scoreboard… @ugasportscom
No. 11 #Georgia hosts No. 3 Tennessee in front of a sellout crowd of 59,781 in November of 1969:
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44 years ago today…
"On January 1, 1981, I looked up at the scoreboard in the Superdome and it said, 'Georgia,' where I went to school, '17, Notre Dame, 10.' We had won the national football championship. Children laughed & grown men cried. How ‘Bout Them Dogs!"
—Lewis Grizzard
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#UGAFootball’s Today in History—September 22
Georgia is 8-3 all-time in games played on Sept. 22.
For #UGA's seventh game played on 9/22, placekicker Kevin Butler drills a 60-yard field goal to upset second-ranked Clemson, 26-23, in 1984.
“Oh my God! Oh my God!”
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22 years ago today, Tim Wansley’s interception clinches #UGA’s first win over Tennessee in 12 long years.
Coach Donnan got his 100th career victory, and Sanford Stadium’s goal posts were torn down for what remains the only time in the venue’s history:
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#UGA defeated Florida just once in 14 seasons from 1990 to 2003: a 37-17 upset victory over the Gators in 1997 when the Bulldogs entered as 20.5-point underdogs.
Junior safety Kirby Smart totaled 7 tackles and 2 interceptions in the win:
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"Fourth and 17... I know I'm asking a lot, you guys, but hunker it down one more time!"
On the Plains in 1982, the Dawgs broke it up—and then sugar fell from the sky. @ugasportscom
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Happy what would be 94th #UGA birthday to the late, great Erk Russell—one of the greatest football coaches, both assistant and head, in the history of the sport.
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43 years later, it still hasn't gotten old... #WLOCP
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27 years ago today on 11/1/1997, #Georgia (a 20.5-point underdog) intercepts 4 passes, including 2 by Kirby Smart, and Robert Edwards scores 4 TDs in a 37-17 upset over Florida.
According to the spread, it remains the Bulldogs’ biggest upset win since the 1940s @ugasportscom
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#CleanOldFashionedHate from 25 years ago… “You talk about a stupid miracle.”
Called by a couple of legendary play-by-play broadcasters, #UGA’s Mike Bobo-to-Corey Allen wrecks Tech in 1997:
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26 days until #GeorgiaBulldogs-Clemson
No. 26 Malcolm Mitchell's (2011-2015) 174 career catches rank 3rd all-time in UGA football history.
Resulting on 3rd and 5 midway through the 4Q, perhaps the most significant of those receptions was his 45-yard score in the 2012 #WLOCP:
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#SECChampionship 20 years ago…
Early on against Arkansas in #UGA’s initial SEC title game appearance, Decory Bryant’s blocked punt, picked up by Burt Jones, leads to a Musa Smith touchdown. The Bulldogs cruise to a 30-3 victory while capturing their first SEC title in 20 years.
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Nolan Smith's 4.39 is the 7th fastest time by a former #UGA player at the #NFLCombine since 1999. The top six:
4.28—Champ Bailey, 1999
4.31—Keith Marshall, 2016
4.32—Tim Jennings, 2006
4.33—Mecole Hardman, 2019
4.35—Chris Conley, 2015
4.37—Lewis Cine, 2022
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With a victory last night, congrats to head coach J.T. Wall of John Milledge Academy for breaking the state record of 47 for most consecutive wins in Georgia HS football history.
Coach Wall was a hard-nosed #UGA fullback who scored 2 TDs in his regular-season finale in 2002:
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22 years ago... 10/6/2001
#UGA executes P-44-Haynes for a touchdown and steps on Tennessee's face "with a hobnail boot and broke their nose…”
The 26-24 win over the Vols, which entered as 11-point favorites, remains the Bulldogs' 4th biggest upset of the modern era.
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20 years ago today on October 30, 2004, David Greene passes for 255 yards and 3 TDs in a 31-24 win over Florida.
Fred Gibson's juggling 15-yard catch provides the game-clinching score for what would be #Georgia's only win over the Gators during a 9-season span. @ugasportscom
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#Georgia-GA Tech to be played on a Friday…
The last time UGA played a non-Saturday game in Athens?
30 years ago on Black Friday vs. GA Tech, Will Muschamp’s interception (and post-play celebration) on the game’s second play jump-start the Bulldogs to a 48-10 rout @ugasportscom
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30 years ago on Thanksgiving Day, there was nothing clean about the old-fashioned hate between #UGA and GA Tech on The Flats…
In the 43-10 rout, an Eric Zeier-to-James Warner touchdown leads to an altercation—several of them—between the rivals. @ugasportscom
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In the 2005 #SECChampionship, D.J. Shockley fires two touchdowns to Sean Bailey in the game’s first nine minutes.
Shockley would later rush for a score, as well, as underdog #UGA ultimately upsets LSU, 34-14.
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The initial and only time #UGA and Ohio State played in football, the 1993 @CitrusBowl, ended with Bulldog senior Mike Jones intercepting Buckeye senior quarterback Kirk Herbstreit in the end zone to clinch a 21-14 #UGA victory:
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Happy 61st Birthday to arguably the greatest college football player of all time, Herschel Walker.
In three career games against Florida while at #UGA, Herschel rushed for 649 yards—the most he totaled against any foe—and scored 8 touchdowns. Called by another legend, all 8:
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In the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry in 1992, Auburn was stopped late at the goal line, then couldn’t get a play off, as the time ran out on the Tigers in a 14-10 Bulldog win.
When “Ole Lady Luck” saved #UGA on the Plains... @ugasportscom
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In the 1998 #UGAvsLSU game, senior safety Kirby Smart’s late pass breakup on 3rd and long, keeping the Tigers out of the end zone, ultimately secures a 28-27 upset win for the Bulldogs, which entered as 8.5-point underdogs:
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The halftime show of the 1977 Cocktail Party was pure gold...
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#UGAFootball’s Today in History—October 7
#UGA is 11-6-1 all-time in games played on 10/7, including 20 years ago on 10/7/2000, when the Dogs defeated the Vols for the first time in a dozen years—and, although perhaps prematurely, the goalposts fell at Sanford Stadium:
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In 2002, UGA’s first appearance in the #SECChampionship, Decory Bryant blocks an early Arkansas punt, returned by Burt Jones. The blocked kick—UGA's 9th of the season—leads to a Musa Smith TD.
#UGA goes on to win, 30-3, capturing its first SEC title in 20 years. @ugasportscom
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UGA held Texas A&M #UGAvsTAMU to minus-1 yard rushing, marking the first time since 2011 vs. Florida that the Bulldogs limited an opponent to negative yards rushing.
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With #UGA's Jordan Davis finishing 9th in the @HeismanTrophy voting, every Bulldog player since 1994 to finish in the trophy's top-10 has been a defender:
1998- Champ Bailey (7th)
2012- Jarvis Jones (10th)
2017- Roquan Smith (10th)
2021- Jordan Davis (9th)
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4 years ago today on 12/12/2020, with the score tied, George Pickens (5-126-2) scores consecutive jaw-dropping TDs en route to a #Georgia blowout.
The 49-14 win at Missouri remains the latest (along with 12/12/31 at USC) UGA has ever played a regular-season game. @ugasportscom
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#50Days
Early in the 3Q of the 2018 @rosebowlgame, Nick Chubb chugs 50 yards for a critical touchdown against Oklahoma, pulling #UGA within a touchdown.
Chubb finished with 145 rushing yards and two scores on 14 carries in #UGA's 54-48 overtime win:
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Trailing Tennessee 15-2 in the 3Q of the 1980 season opener, Herschel Walker, making his college debut, runs over and through Vol defenders for two scores.
#UGA goes on to pull a 16-15 upset in Knoxville. Herschel would go on to score 55 more TDs as a Bulldog. @ugasportscom
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December 24, 2000, the one time in its football history #UGA played on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day...
Head coach Jim Donnan goes out a winner and soph. Terrence Edwards is named the game’s MVP in a 37-14 victory over Virginia in Honolulu’s Oahu Bowl:
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Happy Birthday to Greg Blue...
From 2002-2005, Blue totaled 260 tackles, 7-1/2 for loss, 12 PBUs, 13 QB hurries, four FFs, two FRs, and two INTs—all while dishing out some of the hardest of hits.
A @ugasportscom Q&A with #UGA’s original hitman: uga.rivals.com/news/where-ar…
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25 days until #GeorgiaBulldogs-Clemson
No. 25 Michael Johnson entered the 2002 game at Auburn having made only 11 receptions all season in a backup role. But, against the Tigers, Johnson totaled 13 catches for 141 yards, including one of the greatest scores in #UGA history:
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23 years ago today… 12/24/00
The 2000 Oahu Bowl in Honolulu vs. Virginia remains the only time #UGA has ever played on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
Against the Cavaliers, soph. WR Terrence Edwards is the game’s MVP and Coach Jim Donnan goes out a winner in a 37-14 victory.
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According to our @ugasportscom research, Arian Smith became only the 2nd UGA player in history—going back to 1892—to score points in FIVE or more different seasons as a Bulldog.
WR Rantavious Wooten was the first to do so, scoring at least one TD in every season from 2009-2013.
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Just 9 years ago today on 11/21/2015, #Georgia survives an overtime scare from Georgia Southern, escaping with a 23-17 win in Athens.
Georgia is 6-0 all-time vs. GSU (yet 0-3 against the spread, likely 0-6 if there'd been a point spread for the first 3 meetings) @ugasportscom
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Leading by only 5 points, with less than 2 minutes left, and facing 4th and 2, what do you do?
Against Tennessee in Athens 20 years ago, #UGA gambles, running a toss sweep with a (21-yo) freshman reserve back who, to that point, had netted just 1 yard on 4 carries.
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At Missouri 5 years ago in 2016, #UGA's Jacob Eason, a freshman making his 2nd career start at QB for the Bulldogs, completes 29 of a staggering 55 passes for 308 yards and 3 TDs, including this late, 20-yard score to Isaiah McKenzie on fourth down with UGA trailing by six:
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41 years ago on March 27, 1983, underdog #UGA upsets UNC, 82-77, in the East Regional Final to reach the Final Four in the Bulldogs’ first NCAA Tournament appearance.
UGA is led by James Banks with 20 points, followed by Vern Fleming & Gerald Crosby each with 17. @ugasportscom
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15 years ago today… 9/20/2008
With #UGA traveling the furthest from home for a regular-season game in nearly 50 years, Knowshon Moreno gets the scoring started at Arizona State with a soaring 9-yard TD.
Moreno finishes 23-149-2 in rushing in the 27-10 UGA win. @ugasportscom
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10-year-old knew dad was going to the #RoseBowl. In pic, wondering if dad’s ticket mistakenly got wrapped with his Rose Bowl sweatshirt. About to be told he’s going to Pasadena with dad... #mygreatestmoment #RoseBowlBound #itjustmeansmore
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At Florida in January 2002, freshman guard Fred Gibson comes off the bench and helps #Georgia, a 16-point underdog, upset the No. 2-ranked Gators, 84-79.
Gibson, a star wide receiver on the football team, scores six of his 13 points in the game’s final minute. @ugasportscom
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21 years ago… 10/19/2002
In their 48-17 win over Vanderbilt in Athens, the Bulldogs execute the greatest fake in the history of #UGA football:
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A #UGAFootball On-This-Date—19 years ago
December 24, 2000: The only time #UGA has ever played on Christmas Eve, head coach Jim Donnan goes out a 37-14 winner over Virginia in the Oahu Bowl…
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20 years ago today on 11/27/2004, Georgia Tech reaches heavily favored #Georgia’s 21 with 1:30 remaining and trailing by less than a TD…
But the Bulldogs escape with a 19-13 win, as the Jackets turn the ball over on downs, concluding with a fourth-down throwaway. @ugasportscom
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DAWG #OnThisDay
"...On January 1, 1981, I looked up at the scoreboard in the Superdome and it said 'Georgia,' where I went to school, '17,' 'Notre Dame, 10.' We had won the national football championship. Children laughed and grown men cried. How ‘Bout Them Dogs!"—LEWIS GRIZZARD
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#UGA commit Brock Vandagriff runs for a TD after throwing for 2 scores.
21-0 @pacsfootball1 over Calvary Day with just over 4 min. left in 2Q. @RadiNabulsi @ReuseRecruiting @ChadSimmons_
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The Jake Fromm-to-Riley Ridley TD pass late in the 1Q is the first time in seven #UGA season openers (2011) that the initial Bulldog touchdown of the season was not scored by Todd Gurley or Nick Chubb.
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23 years ago today on 11/24/2001, Tim Wansley’s pick-six midway through the 4Q clinches a win over Georgia Tech for first-year head coach Mark Richt.
For #Georgia, which entered as a 2.5-point underdog, the 31-17 win snaps a three-game losing skid to the Jackets. @ugasportscom
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Based on overall prospect rank for their respective class, the top wide receiver signees by #UGA during the @Rivals era:
No. 7 in 2019—George Pickens
No. 9 in 2008—A.J. Green
No. 53 in 2009—Marlon Brown
No. 55 in 2019—Dominick Blaylock
No. 62 in 2009—Orson Charles
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Daily Dawg Video Clip #UGAvsVandy
17 years ago in 2002 against Vanderbilt, it was a 48-17 Dawgs' victory over the 'Dores—featuring perhaps the sweetest fake in #UGAFootball history:
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39 years ago... 9/22/1984
#UGA placekicker Kevin Butler drills a 60-yard field goal to upset second-ranked Clemson, 26-23.
He could have made it from 70.
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Happy would-be 100th birthday to #UGA legend Larry Munson (1922-2011).
Rest In Peace, Larry.
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Peyton was asked if he wanted to wear black and red like Tiger. The former Tennessee Vol wasn’t having it.
“I’m not gonna let Kirby Smart get a picture of me in black and red for their social media accounts.” @KirbySmartUGA
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Houston's Dillon Bell becomes the 7th #UGA signee from the state of Texas the last five years (2018-2022) - after the Bulldogs went 11 years (2007-2017) without signing anyone from the Lone Star State.
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