Ranking Our Rivals: UGA Has Plenty
Founding voice HAN VANCE annually ranks the Georgia football rivalries, and the list always has some fluctuations. Here’s the post-pandemic 2021 iteration, folks: 1. FLORIDA – Don’t recall a time when Florida was not the single biggest rival. When Tech…
Todd Monken Experiment Failing: More than Just QB
Han Vance on Georgia football: Walking out of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium after another outdistancing and yet another loss in the SECCG, Georgia fans were chanting for Mike Bobo, the once-vilified quarterback and offensive coordinator, who left UGA on top 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…
“Cocktail Party” (poem) by Han Vance
Writer (author/journalist/poet/blogger) Han Vance won the Harriette Austin Poetry Award for ATL Fire (published by Silver Stone Press in 2015) and is the aspiring Georgia Bulldogs Poet Laureate. Cocktail Party (C) 2006 HV This is what it comes down to….
People of the Program
“PEOPLE OF THE PROGRAM – Big Cat Candid:” UGA Legend Jonas Jennings and Program Insider Han Vance Rap about Georgia Football and Their Time Spent Attending UGA in the 1990s. Jonas Jennings:“Booger McFarland was right on my head. We were…
Love Them While You Can (Win Now)
Since the USFL contracted with Herschel Walker and he became the first underclassman to leave college early for a professional football league, many of the University Georgia’s greatest gridiron talents have played Between the Hedges for relatively short periods of…
Mike Bobo’s Legacy
Quarterback Mike Bobo was supposed to be great, after being very good in head coach Ray Goff’s last season at the helm. That was the year I lived down in Florida, and I was glued to an old television set…
Next Step
So close we could taste it, we didn’t get there and had to watch BAMA go from could-have-been dynasty diverted by the Dawgs, to an undeniable champion having won 3-of-4 National Championships. Auburn won the only other in a full…
Like It’s 1980
Private school glory for the remote control holders last night, as the Stanford Cardinal (without Andrew Luck) and the little Baylor Bears (without RGIII) beat the numbers one and two teams in the BCS. One and two had never before…
2012 UGA SEC Media Days Report
Mark Richt, the longest-tenured head football coach in the greatest American college football conference, headlined the SEC Media Days in Hoover, AL on July 19th. Over three gloriously long days in the Birmingham area, thirteen other head football coaches had…
The Big Four
For the first time in his mostly successful eleven-year head coaching career at the nation’s oldest state chartered public university, Mark Richt was able to do what Jim Donnan and Ray Goff never could: beat our four biggest rivals in…
Georgia-Alabama Rivalry Undone
Perhaps the most storied program in the history of college football (certainly top 5), the University of Alabama does not regularly play it’s neighbor, the University of Georgia. There was a day and a time when Vince Dooley annually faced…
Georgia-Florida Week
The red hot University of Georgia Bulldogs are coming off a big win at Tennessee and facing their biggest rival this Thursday. At football schools, rivalries ring true, and the fact that the University of Florida has mostly owned the…
Get the Picture
Like Larry Munson used to say, Get the Picture, you guys. The television announcers are saying, ” Georgia can’t stop Tech.” Tech scores then shanks an extra point. 35-34 Dawgs. Brandon Boykin has played and tackled well but fumbles the…
Scoutin’ the Cajuns
Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns – formerly Louisiana-Lafayette and before that Southwest Louisiana – play in the Sunbelt Conference in front of 31,000. They travel to ATHENS, GA Saturday to take on your Big Hairy Dawgs in an opener tuneup for GEORGIA…
A Record I’d Like to See Fall
My Great Uncle Griff – Dad’s dad’s brother – dominated the Southwest Conference as a running back in the late 1910’s. He graduated from Rice University in 1920, is a member of their school’s Hall of Fame and held nearly…
We Run the Ball
Remember when Garrison Hearst turned that corner as a junior, like a stallion?Remember when Robert Edwards went off against South Carolina for a game and Tennessee for a half, when he debuted? Remember Hampton, Remember Herschel. Tate Center right near…
Big D In the Classic City
Hailing from Ft. Worth by way of Austin, I’m a native Texan and third-generation Cowboys fan. Long ago, the Atlanta Falcons beat Dallas in a regular season match, causing my beloved Nanny to be the first to utter the term…
Dawgs-Big Green, O-Town
GEORGIA plays the Michigan State Spartans on New Year’s Day at 1:00 pm (ABC), in Orlando, my former town – I lived there for a year (1995). The season I was down there was when Robert Edwards burst onto the scene at running…
