Getting 2020 Going
The final old college football bowl game of the long bowl season – before the college football playoff final for the national championship, which is technically a bowl – is always the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. 8:45 p.m., the…
Future Schedules Offer Glimpse
Han Vance on Georgia football: 2020: Jan 1 (2019 season finale): Baylor, sUGAr Bowl -NOLA, (8:45p ESPN) Week 1: Virginia -ATL Week 2: E. Tennessee State Week 3: @ Alabama Week 4; Louisiana-Monroe Week 5: Vanderbilt Week 6: Auburn Week…
Heisman Snatchers
ATLANTA, Ga.–Han Vance on Georgia football: The story last year at this time for Georgia’s opponent is eerily – for both LSU and Georgia – similar to the current situation, regarding the guy in the pocket for the Bayou Bengals…
The Case for Defense
Han Vance on Georgia football: The ancient coaching axiom “Defense Wins Championships” epitomizes UGA’s best fighting chance as a slight underdog in Atlanta for the SEC championship game this Saturday at 4:00 p.m. Been there done that, comes to mind…
Downtown Dawgs
You don’t win real championships in Midtown. Or Athens, Ga., for that matter. Rings come from downtown Atlanta. We are literally and figuratively going downtown, finally, again. You probably don’t even know the difference, unless you live HERE. Not near…
Cadets Visit Canines, Fables of the Reconstruction
Han Vance on Georgia football: Glory to Ol’ Georgia. THE COLONEL: A vet of WWI and WWII and aviation pioneer I’ve ruminated on previously, my paternal grandfather attended (#TAMU) Texas A&M University in College Station, Tex., after being born in…
Definition of a Trap Game
Han Vance on Georgia football: This is a trap. Cue the trap music. Texas A&M has a win-at-all-costs offensive guru at the helm and an experienced quarterback. They started slowly last year but finished strong enough to be ranked, behind…
How Georgia Can Win It All
Han Vance on Georgia football: Win six games, is the short answer, y’all. When we saw Georgia sittin’ pretty ahead of mighty BAMA in the CFP committee rankings on Tuesday night, it became utterly apparent that UGA was destined for…
Kirby vs. SEC West: Room for Improvement
Han Vance on Georgia football: Overall the West has been the best, of late, and head coach Kirby Smart has had a long climb to unseat the top division of the top conference in the sport. College football is 50…
kittens n puppies
Han Vance on Georgia football: Georgia has an inept and predictable offense. There is no other way to honestly describe it after a full nine football games have been played. I wanted to be way more positive coming off a…
ATHENS LEGACY PARTY
This Saturday, y’all! The 4th-annual ATHENS LEGACY PARTY ~ Winsome founder of BIG HAIRY BLAWG Han Vance hosts, at “That Bar” in glorious Downtown Athens, the Classic City, 3:30-11p. Let’s go! I want to party with you. Who rocks the…
Dawgs Control Destiny
Han Vance on Georgia football: We are in. As the CFP (College Football Playoff) committee rankings were revealed, with a few notable surprises, last night, it became crystal clear that the committee (the CFP governing body, a group of experts…
Why Dawgs Win the Cocktail Party
Han Vance on Georgia football: If that big tight end wasn’t such a known commodity with two weeks for us to prepare; if Notre Dame’s tight end had not given us more fits than anybody – not named Muschamp –…
SOS Tumble is Big Issue
Han Vance on Georgia football: Slippage. While the TCU upset I predicted over an overvalued Texas, who peaked not began current program assent point by upsetting Ol’ Georgia in the, ahem, sUGAr back in January – where the Bulldogs, an…
Reassessment of Georgia’s Schedule
Han Vance on Georgia football: 1. Vandy is a bad SEC team and overall not strong football collective in terms of depth of talent, albeit very well-coached and fairly hard fighting. Georgia got out to a 21-0 lead on three…
Bye Week Bonanza
Han Vance on Georgia football: While I would surely love to crank out another say six BLAWGS for y’all in five days like I did last week coming off the worst upset loss since at least 1994, I simply can’t…
Entering Homecoming
Han Vance on Georgia football: Even a close win would be seen as a major red flag for (5-1, #10) Georgia Saturday at 6:00 p.m., as the Dawgs host the 3-3 Kentucky Wildcats. Main photo today of the Garden Club…
The Unbearable Weight of Crystal
Han Vance on Georgia football: The near-disappearance of Georgia football from the epic, amazing doc series “Saturdays in the South” in the 2000s shows how skewed perception has become in the South, because of the current successes of one powerful…
We Want Bama (Clemson, Ohio St, ND, Penn St)
Han Vance on Georgia football: WE WANT BAMA! The University of Georgia has the only football team in the world that legitimately wants to face the Alabama Crimson Tide. I’ll get into why today. Spoiler alert: it is not revenge….
Georgia in 2nd halves
Han Vance on Georgia football: Let’s look at the sheerly amazing job defensive coordinator Dan Lanning and defense/recruiting specialist head coach Kirby Smart have done in making halftime adjustments this season through six games. I am going to worry less…
