The Unstoppable Kirby Smart Defense
Han Vance on Georgia football: Defense used to win championships in football at all levels, remember that? Defense wins championships. The long-told maxim. Kirby is credited for two primary strengths: He is undeniably amazing at defense and known to be…
Georgia Football: RBU at a Crossroads
Han Vance on Georgia football: Running Back University is a mantle no other college can come close to wrestling away from UGA. Founded in 1785 as the birthplace of American public higher education and having commenced Deep South college football…
Championships Speak
Han Vance on Georgia football: Man, I miss my Georgia game day friends. Feature photo of Face and I at his place in Athens. There is no real and true to the South on-campus tailgating at all this season in…
World Capital of College Football Chronicles
Han Vance on American college football: Georgia’s soon-to-be breakout true freshman George Pickens goes high for a snag in the front of an ATL end zone, as junior Jake Fromm has just thrown his last in-state touchdown, the 22nd of…
Freshmen Must Step Up for Georgia Football
Han Vance on Georgia football: The key classes at any college used to be the seniors, who were back for another go of it, and actually the sophomores, who were finally ready to go and be the infusion of tip-top…
GEORGIA Loaded at QB
Han Vance on Georgia football: HV#1 ~ I never projected Jamie Newman to start for UGA, in fact publishing an article I took a little heat for called “Jamie Newman Hype Puzzling” back on August 21st. Hello, Newman. So unlike…
College Football Playoff: My Picks + Systemic Scraps
Han Vance on American college football: Scrap the sucky system. If the relatively ancient American team sport of pro baseball can quickly change, there is no excuse left for college football carrying on with this charade. Sad as it is…
Long Break Between Season & Bowls Creates Opportunity
Han Vance on American college football: What I haven’t heard people say is that the inordinately long break between the typical college football season, which ends in late November or early December, and the too-long bowl season, which does not…
BHB’s Bama-GEORGIA Preview:
Han Vance on SEC football: The top two football programs in the SEC are not in Baton Rouge, where a depleted roster and org chart somehow still has drunken fans clinging to a false narrative wrong notion of a sudden…
NIL ~ Name Image Licensing Stories
Han Vance on American college football: For the first time, college football players will soon be allowed to use their image, name, personal brand for commercial financial benefit while retaining full amateur eligibility standards. Tip of the iceberg toward paying…
#CFP ~ College Football Playoff Sites
Han Vance on American college football: Greatest game/spectacle/events in the whole wide world. DAWG DAYS OF FALL ~ it’s official, my new podcast debuts soon. More info to come. Like, lots of info, football, fun. Packing your (virtual) bags for…
Game 1 Look Ahead
Han Vance on Georgia football: It’s a college football Saturday in America, just as I projected, against many smart enough naysayers and doom-pickers. Short of an enforceable law stating there can be no football played, the SEC was always going…
Eligibility Waiver Creates Logjam
Han Vance on college football: The NCAA has waived this year as it regards to class-statuses for individual players, completely. While there will be an American college football season in summer/fall 2020, thankfully. With the Big Ten and Pac-12 (of…
Look Ahead
Han Vance on Georgia football: This is so strange. Here I write to you, fair reader, on into September after turning 50, and I’m waiting, waiting, waiting for my Dawgs…actually, that’s what I would have been doing today, anyway. See,…
Georgia Football Schedule
Han Vance on Georgia football: 1. Sep. 26th 4:00p EST GEORGIA AT ARKANSAS – SECN (0-0) – Hog-Dog rodeo, former UGA O-line guru Sam Pittman as head coach. 2. Oct. 3rd 7:30p EST AUBURN AT GEORGIA – ESPN (0-0) –…
Classic City Quarterback Quandary
HAN VANCE on Georgia football: Here we go! I have my birthdays in late August, then it’s ALWAYS college football season, Between the Hedges summer heat. Not always. Georgia opens at new head coach Sam Pittman’s Arkansas on 9/26, surely…
Jamie Newman Hype Puzzling
Han Vance on Georgia football: And that’s the nicest way I can phrase it. Newman hype unwarranted was a harsher title I contemplated, when digging deeper into his numbers. But that’s just typical of a program with this much (wishful)…
Ranking Coalition Teams
Han Vance on American college football: The preseason Amway Coaches Poll Top 25 was utterly ravaged by the recent departures of Power 5 conferences the Big Ten and Pac-12 from the upcoming – IT IS HAPPENING – fall football slate…
The Coalition
Coalition of the Willing, Hanging On by a Thread, but It’s a Strong One, Especially in the South…or As the World Turns: American College Football Edition, EXTRA, EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! And, thanks for reading… Han Vance on American…
Path to College Football Playoff
Han Vance on American college football: It is still on, y’all, for this fall. And, per usual the Natty runs right through the South. The Big 12 (Texas/Oklahoma) and SEC (Deep South and Middle South) and all-over-the-East ACC – who…
