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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Halftime Adjustments
Han Vance on Georgia football: Midway through the regular season, it is time to look at where we are in the Classic City. The top winning strength of the program of current has plainly not been recruiting talent; it has…
Into the Checkerboards (and Beyond)
Han Vance on Georgia football: Chickens are next. www.Aclothing.company $30 FREE US SHIPPING (white) www.Aclothing.company $34.80 FREE US SHIPPING (gray) CANINES vs. CATHOLICS Feature photo today of Hilley. He came over, and the immediate fam was together again in the…
Quarter Season
Han Vance on Georgia football: At 4-0, the University of Georgia Bulldogs are one of many teams roughly one quarter of the way to winning an American college football national championship. Let’s look at how they got here and the…
Deeper Inside the Big Game
Han Vance on Georgia football: It’s time…almost. Last week it was a 2019 BMW with a hard plastic dummy in back named “dude” and a high-speed driver who owes me on some consulting invoices and calls himself “Dug.” This week,…
POWER FOOTBALL
Han Vance on Georgia football: Thank you for reading BHB. Double up like Greg McGarity on the cupcakes. Two teams that you could not name the nicknames of travel to the Classic City to close out the long, hot Georgian…
Path to the CFP
Han Vance on Georgia football: Or why I am routing on dreaded Golden Domers Notre Dame in every game not played Between the Hedges in the Classic City. – I want you to have one of these now, so I’ve…
Leaders at Every Level
Han Vance on Georgia football: The secondary of the Dawgs is plainly policed by J.R. Reed. The safety has way over-performed based on the early expectations set for him, by others, throughout his time at the University of Georgia, since…
Top QBs Set to Shine in 2019
Han Vance on American college football: The quarterback position is more than ever the most important position on the field in college football. Let’s look at some of the quarterbacks set to shine in 2019 action. Georgia’s Jake Fromm, a…
Schedule Sets Up Nicely for RBU
Han Vance on Georgia football: For two years running – and I’m meaning running a whole lot – the University of Georgia Bulldogs led the SEC in rushing, putting up a double-double. First, Sony Michel (NFL first rounder and Super…
Georgia Looking Strong at SEC Media Days
Han Vance on Georgia football: Go Dawgs! Kirby Smart is slated to speak TUE approximately 10-10:30 a.m. Georgia is 32-10 under Kirby Smart. Sure, only one-and-one in the CFP (College Football Playoff), one recent SEC title. Back-to-back SEC East champs…
The Waiting Season
ATLANTA: Han Vance on Georgia football: Spring is seen as a time to start anew with one foot in the past and another stepping into the future, looking for solid footing. Perceptions in springtime are often proven quite false once…
Domination of 4 Traditional Rivals A Cornerstone
HAN VANCE ON GEORGIA FOOTBALL: Four…and one, Georgia ~ the SEC East back-to-back (undefeated in-division) champions out of Athens, Ga., are in control in series short trends within the rivalries, with each of their primary four rival schools: Florida, Tech,…
