Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
I found this to be an interesting clip that I caught last night on the socials.
From the 2004 documentary, “Sanford Stadium: A Southern Football Tradition,” this clip covers, in great detail, Georgia’s first game in Sanford Stadium vs. Yale (1929) as well as the ties that forever bind the two schools.
— The Dawg Vault 📽️🐶🔴⚫️ (@TheDawgVault) May 18, 2026
90 degrees in October, the new Sanford Stadium, Yale donating receipts to pay off the loan for it, and tickets at $3 (roughly $60 today) made for a sold out stadium dedication for what many of us consider to be the Vatican of College Football today. Classic.
Just glad Vernon “Catfish” Smith couldn’t hit the portal and that the fans didn’t have to pay a service fee or use a third-party vendor for the event.
Not the typical WABAC post, but I thought this would be enjoyable on this fine Saturday. It’s two videos, one from days gone by and another from this last season’s whooping of Texas.
The Devil Went Down to Georgia 🪕🎻
Two victory highlight videos. One team. 45 years apart.
Georgia’s 2025 Victory Highlight against Texas and Georgia’s 1980 Sugar Bowl National Championship highlight against Notre Dame both use Charlie Daniels’ iconic song in different, very… https://t.co/zYeoLbu6Nhpic.twitter.com/3vlZShcePx
— The Dawg Vault 📽️🐶🔴⚫️ (@TheDawgVault) May 7, 2026
If you have nothing to do on a slow Saturday, you’ve got a full throw back game to watch now. Enjoy.
So let’s hop into another one, maybe I can be both accurate enough and vague enough to make this week’s WABAC post a stumper.
Here we are, underdogs again.
With four losses on the season already – two of them to unranked teams – here we go limping into this one praying for mercy or a miracle…against a Top 5 team in their house. We went from winning the SEC last year to limping through the year with a freshman quarterback who has shown flashes of brilliance but not enough to answer for a defense that’s come under a lot of scrutiny in the pass defense game, which is 64th in the country at this point.
Our offense is tenth in the conference. Defense is a mess. They are in the Top 5 but at times this season they’ve looked like they could easily be where we are. I think we have a chance in this one, but we’ve got to play a full, four-quarter game and be solid on both sides of the ball, which we haven’t seen all season. There’s questions about our head coach’s ability to motivate the team, and some are grumbling about our inability to sweep our rivals in any season. We won the conference then laid an egg in last year’s bowl, and the coach is starting to feel the heat as Dawgs are eager for another National Championship, not just SEC Championships.
A win here could quiet some of that prospecting for the next championship coach, but a loss could mark the first time in the coach’s tenure of losing to our big three conference rivals…all in the same season. The expectations were so high to start, now we’re begging for a moral victory to salvage what once was.
Will this be an ongoing theme…or where we finally turn the corner again?
Folks, I’m not so good at this, apparently, as many of you nailed last Saturday’s gameday post, which was the 2017 matchup at Notre Dame.
So allow me to try again, and let me go a little further back in the Gameday WAYBAC machine to see if I can stump some of y’all. Here we go…
Where are we going today, Mr. Peabody? Hell, Sherman. Hell.
Well I hope all of y’all have sobered up and your hangovers are cured. We’re a day removed from the ball dropping and we’ve got some serious business to take care of this time. We’ve been disappointed in the post-season for two years in a row, and the guys on the other side have won 17 straight and are vying for a National Championship. We’d almost be inclined to lose, to avenge our lone loss this year to our heated rivals, who are in the discussion for winning a National Championship.
We’ve tied one, lost one, and these guys don’t know what losing feels like in a long, long time. And these guys beat the one team we lost to. They’ve got an all-pro roster, and to make matters worse, we’re playing them in their home state. I don’t know how it can get worse, to be honest. Their defense is fierce, lead by a safety who will likely go in the first round of the NFL draft, along with a host of other guys that will be playing on Sundays soon.
We’ve been snakebit in the postseason lately and I’m not optimistic. We’ve got the talent, and we’ve always been in the national conversation for several years, but we are three years removed from our best defensive coordinator and I worry that we don’t have the toughness to hang with this team in their home state. And they are playing for a national championship…we are playing for pride.
Sorry, folks. JP was a bit on the exhausted side last night and just didn’t have the energy to find something to post about between the March Madness and the seven million highlight posts about Kentucky’s miracle comeback in the Tournament. I’m human.
Anyway, let’s take the WABAC Machine back in time again to a moment where I think most of us were having some moments of doubt and wonder about the future of the Georgia football program. Away we go.
“I’m a little scared about this one, Mr. Peabody!”…”No worries, Sherman, we travel well”.
Alright folks, it’s a day where we’ll find out more about our team than we’d hope to know after one week of play for the season. We find ourselves simultaneously excited about today – our first trip here in the regular season and a once-in-a-lifetime feeling kind of game – but also worried, giving a true freshman his first start…in one of the most historic and heralded college football environments of all time. He seemed to do okay last week, but this…this is a whole other level. National audience. First time in their house. But I heard we are travelling well, and we can hope, at best, that this will feel more like a home game than a step into the most hollowed grounds of college football lore.
We’re ranked higher at the moment, but this is just the second year of our head coach’s tenure and there were flashes of greatness last year followed by flashes of “same old same old”. A butt whipping in an away game. A Hail Mary at home against one of our most hated rivals. A loss at home to a team we should’ve beaten six ways from Sunday but we were so turnover prone it seemed we wanted them to win.
This one will set the pace for the season. It’ll put us on the path to either mediocrity or getting back on the map for national relevance. We haven’t been there in what seems like eons, so we’re going to need a lot of luck and a lot of discipline to walk out of here in the right direction tonight.
The world, it seems, will be watching. Are we ready to put on a show?
Many of you nailed it, so at least the description was accurate this time around. Yep, it was the game that gave us hope that the new head coach and former offensive coordinator from Florida State was going to be able to turn the program around.
Of course, when they threw the screen pass and scored with under a minute to go, I just threw my hands up and said “there we go”. I always used to say that each week it was Georgia’s job to find a new and inventive manner in which to lose a football game. It felt like a 90s remix, of sorts.
But then it happened, P-44 Haynes. And so started the legend of Mark Richt. Breaking the Tennessee curse was one part of the formula for Richt, the other would be beating Florida. Not quite as successful in that department as Kirby has been, but in 2002 there was another moment that started to make me believe that we weren’t going to be Clemsoning in Athens anymore.
And, for once, we got to see what it was like to witness Hillbilly tears as their hearts were ripped from the hunter orange chests. Glorious.
It was definitely a turn in the right direction. We dropped four games on the season in 2001, to USCe, Auburn, and Florida, and concluded with a loss to Boston College in the Music City Bowl. 2002 would result in a lone loss to Florida and an SEC Championship, and a win over Richt’s mentor against FSU in the Sugar Bowl, which we hadn’t been to since the loss to Penn State to conclude the 1982 season.
I’d also like to point out what a roster of studs we had on the 2001 team, which I had somewhat forgotten until I watched the replay:
RB – Verron Haynes, Musa Smith, and Jasper Sanks
WR – Terrence Edwards, Damien Gary, Fred Gibson, Reggie Brown
TE – Randy McMichael and Benjamin Watson
OL – Jon Stinchcomb, Kevin Breedlove, George Foster, Alex Jackson, Curt McGill
DL – Charles Grant, David Pollack, David Jacobs, Jonathan Sullivan
LB – Boss Bailey, Tony Gilbert, Will Witherspoon
DB – Tim Wansley, Bruce Thornton, Jermaine Phillips, Terreal Bierria, Decory Bryant, Sean Jones
K – Billy Bennett
What a squad of future pros and a great collection of DGDs for Richt to launch his head coaching career.
Okay, so I have to admit…I kind of had a brain fog when I posted last week. As Derek pointed out, it could’ve been a reference to the 2018 Rose Bowl, but out defense wasn’t exactly 2021/2022 defensive by comparison, so that could’ve ruled that one out. Some said the 2019 SEC Championship against Joe Burrow, with the descriptor of the greatest quarterback of all time. Some said the 2007 season Sugar Bowl against Hawaii, as Colt Brennan definitely fit that bill at the time and our defense ripped the Rainbows a new one that night.
Admittedly, I was referring to the 2018 Rose Bowl. Mayfield, as big of a douche as he is, is statistically one of the greatest college football quarterbacks of all time. Statistically. Ditto Colt Brennan, and Burrow fits the bill for a single season but not for necessarily an entire career. So sue me. Maybe our defense wasn’t as great as I teased it in the description, but I do love the 2007 Sugar Bowl, so let’s go with that. Mr. Peabody, roll that beautiful bean footage.
Dial it up to about 8:45 and watch Marcus Howard kill a man (no offense intended). The 2007 college football season was something to behold, and is worthy of a series of 30 for 30 stories. This was a Georgia team that came on strong late, had the famous black out against Auburn, the field storming against Florida, and I personally think was the best team in the nation at season’s end. What could have been. How we lost to South Carolina (6-6 on the season) and Tennessee (10-4) remains some of the signature weirdness and frustration that was the Mark Richt era.
Anyway, here’s this week’s WABAC description. Allow me to be as vague yet more accurate in this one than I was last week. Sorry scamps.
To the WABAC, Sherman. We’ve got to head into hostile territory. Bring your pencillin.
Welp, this should be an adventure, folks. Our new coach gets his first taste of an away game and it’s going to be nationally televised at their place, and they’re a Top 10 team, to boot. Lead by their cool as a cucumber California kid quarterback, the opposition has a good offense and a stiff, tough defense, to boot. We’ve already dropped one inexplicable loss at home to an unranked team, and there’s not much reason to be optimistic as most of the outlets have us as an 11 point underdog heading into hostile territory.
To make matters worse, it’s the first away game for our young quarterback, and with new offensive philosophy and play calls and all that, this environment isn’t exactly optimal for a new coach, new quarterback, and a new Georgia bulldog team to communicate. They’re favored to win the conference, we’re favored to come in third or fourth, at best, and a long, long recent history of misery was broken once in the past decade – last year – but it didn’t save the former coach’s career by any means.
This one can make amends for the earlier loss and redeem the new guy early in the minds of Georgia fans. Or this could be the game where many of us will question if we ever will have a head coach who can lead us back to the promised land that we’ve come to expect around here. This could be a career defining game…for better…or for worse.
Many of you nailed it. The lone highlight in an otherwise horrible 1996 season, which included the game I sat through in a torrential downpour to eventually watch Hines Ward go ass over tea kettle into the endzone to narrowly beat Texas Tech.
This game was a doozie. Including Uga V trying to bite Robert Baker to a hail mary to the first overtime game in SEC history.
There’s a great write-up about it from the DawgPost, definitely worth a read and a quick reminder that we’re a far, far ways away from the way things used to be. In case you were a young one during the 90s, here’s a sad reminder from the write up:
In 1993, Georgia had lost to its main three SEC foes by a combined score of 113-60. In 1994, the Dawgs lost in lopsided affairs to the Gators and Vols, but managed to stun No. 3 Auburn at Jordan–Hare Stadium by with a 23-23 tie. 1995 saw a close loss to the No. 8 Vols, a blowout loss to the No. 3 Gators in Sanford Stadium and a six-point loss to No. 20 Auburn, which was the final game before the hedges surrounding the playing surface at Sanford Stadium were replaced to get ready for Olympic Soccer in the summer of 1996.
The start of the Donnan era in Athens was unimpressive, too. Georgia opened with back-to-back losses to Southern Miss and South Carolina, both lowly programs. The Dawgs needed a summersault from Hines Ward and a field goal miss from Texas Tech to get the first win of the season in a rain-soaked Sanford Stadium.
Still, the Gators and Vols proved too much for Georgia, which was not in their class. No. 7 Tennessee and Peyton Manning routined Georgia 29-17 in Athens. After a two-year hiatus, the Cocktail Party arrived in Jacksonville again, this time with the No. 1 Gators winning by 40.
How long has it been since Tennessee and Florida beat us in the same year? Off the top of my head I’m guessing it was Kirby’s first year as head coach and it took a Hail Mary between two current NFL players to get that done.
Happy Saturday, scamps. Here we are again, pining for Georgia football in the quiet times of February, so we’re going to run with another mystery game from days gone by. I’ll give a broad and vague set up of the game, and you do your best to guess which game we’re referring to.
Ready…here we go (note: the image is not a hint, but it’s kind of close).
Where should we go today, Mr. Peabody? Mediocrity, Sherman. Let’s head back to mediocrity.
Folks, I gotta be honest I’m not feeling good about this one at all. This should be a more celebrated game and we’re here in hostile territory, but given the forty point walloping we just took in our last game, and that our opponent still has the SEC Championship game in their sights, I’m not confident about this one at all. It’s our head coach’s first taste of a game in this series, and it isn’t for the weak. Given what just happened to us two weeks ago, we’re going to need to toughen up for this one, and quick.
Our starting quarterback has struggled so we’re going with the backup, and even our starting running back is being replaced because of a bad case of fumblitis. On the other side of the ball, they’ve got a great, agile quarterback who can do great things with his arms and his feet. They’re tough as nails on both sides of the ball, as they always seem to be, but let’s face it, in this series, anything goes. We’ve had some strange times over here and have seen stranger things happen, but we come in to this game a ten-point underdog and we haven’t beaten a team with a viable pulse all season long.
And to make it worse, if this turns out to be another bloodletting like we had last game, it’s there for everyone to see on CBS. in primetime. We could be in for a long, long game. Let’s just hope it’s a long one that ends in the good guys’ favor.
Folks, I’m thirsting for college football. The Super Bowl is tomorrow. I could care less. So let me reintroduce a feature we did a couple years ago in which I tease out a Gameday Post with a descriptor and you take a guess at what game I’m referring to. I try to drop a few key hints for you to arrive at the mystery game, but I’m no good at riddles, so it might be too apparent and obvious. Plus I don’t work for the Hargrett Library, so it won’t be too archaic and obscure, so many of you should figure it out.
Ready to enter the Wayback Machine? Let’s go.
Say what you will about the tenets of the no-huddle spread offense, Mr. Peabody, but at least it’s an ethos.
Finally, it’s here. After a month of waiting for it to come, we finally get one last taste of Georgia football to close out the year. The opponent is steeped in tradition, a hard-nosed, blue-collar football team. A Blue Blood of college football. Coming off a tie with their arch rival in one of the biggest rivalries in college football, they’ll be hungry to finish the year on a good note.
Our Junkyard Dawgs are finally getting hot in the fourth year of our coach’s tenure, and we’re ranked in the Top 10 for the first time in a good long while. Is this where we turn the tide and return to Glory? Featuring a strong-armed freshman sophomore quarterback and a Heisman finalist running back, the Dawgs look to take a bite out of a team with a stubborn and spunky option senior quarterback and a running back that’s projected to go in the first round.
We’re 9-2 and only have two losses to the tune of five combined points. Our 3-4 defense is primed to put a cog in the Blue Blood’s offensive scheme, but we’ll need to be gritty, tough, and resilient to beat this team in the final game of the year.
It’s a showdown of running backs. An All Big-Ten running back versus an All-SEC running back and Heisman finalist. For the first time ever for the contest, the Big Ten and SEC will face off in this final game of the season. Will the no-huddle spread attack keep the Blue Bloods off the field, or are we in for a three yards and a cloud of dust kind of outcome?
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful, as the Floridians like to say to the tune of Jimmy Buffett.
