Ranking College Programs Now:
Feature photo of writers Loran Smith and Han Vance, taken by (6th-generation) UGA man Richard Hilley. The three of us have had so much fun watching our Dawgs and more than our fair share of heartbreak. MY TOP 5 PROGRAMS…
Dawgs Season
Han Vance on Georgia football: Hit Athens, Ga., yesterday for a look see at the old town. Couple beers outside street patio in Normaltown, digging that Prince Avenue vibe again, first neighborhood I lived in in Athens. Then the three…
UGA Schedule 2020:
Sep. 7: Virginia -in ATL Sep. 12: E. Tennessee State Sep. 19: @ Alabama Sep. 26: Louisiana-Monroe Oct. 3: Vanderbilt Oct. 10: Auburn Oct. 17: @ Missouri Week 8 ~ BYE Oct. 31: Florida -in JAX (CBS 3:30) Nov. 7:…
Being George Pickens
HAN VANCE on Georgia football: Being George Pickens: IT’S GO TIME, he may have thought off the Flats of Tech. The blows rang out almost like shots in Atlanta as an ejection or short term suspension was clearly coming down….
Recruiting Champs Well Represented, Not Elite
HAN VANCE on Georgia football: NFL Draft 2020 has been as expected the most-watched in NFL history. While Georgia under Kirby Smart has been twice crowned for top recruiting classes in the whole country, Kirby completes his first full cycle…
Departing UGA Juniors Lead Draft
Han Vance on Georgia football: The 2020 Georgia Bulldogs NFL draft is heavily populated with upperclassmen leaving school early, so Big Hairy Blawg is taking a peak at them. It’s draft time, Dawgs! Wall of Georgia: In what is being…
One-Year Wonders
Han Vance on Georgia football: With mixed results, Georgia has had several one-year starters at quarterback during my time closely following the Dawgs (I first enrolled in Athens fall of 1990). I have written about the UGA football program for…
Return of the Voice
Han Vance on Georgia football: Fresh off an offseason contractual writing gig for UGA Wire, part of the USA TODAY Sports Network, founder HAN VANCE returns to BIG HAIRY BLAWG! #BHB#1 Inside the GEORGIA fishbowl, deep in it. Full of…
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…
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 –…
