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…
Could Powerful SEC Go It Alone?
HAN VANCE on American college football: Peril. Peril, peril, the season is in real and immediate jeopardy, with the Big 10 (of the Power 5 conferences) meeting immediately on a Sunday – not insignificant in and of itself – to…
Podcast: Southern Sports Roundup
Mastered Podcast of my radio show from Atlanta: http://southernsportsroundup94487.podomatic.com/entry/2015-12-23T20_16_23-08_00 You can also view the raw TV simulcast footage of us making this show on Youtube and/or here at Big Hairy Blawg (ONE POST BELOW THIS ONE). With music by: Pavement,…
BOWL SHOW (hosted by Han Vance)
Raw TV simulcast footage of us recording my 4th-annual bowl show (sports talk radio):
Smart to UGA
Jeremy Pruitt stressed he would like to return as the UGA defensive coordinator immediately after he stoned Tech 13-7 in Atlanta Saturday afternoon. An opening score by 1,000-yard rusher Sony Michel outdistanced the Jackets, who were held scoreless into the…
“Tale of Two Saturdays”
In my humble opinion, the penultimate level of amateur athletics is American college football, and the end of year rivalries, including state championships, are just too savory not to be enjoyed. Tale of two Saturdays. Again. As it’s been so…
Dawgs for 8-of-10 in Old Series
Welcome to the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. An exciting matchup every year, Georgia (6-3) holds a 55-55-8 record versus our “sister school” Auburn (5-4), both programs’ series record on exacta. The first game-between was played in Piedmont Park of Atlanta…
FULLBACK U LOSES A GREAT:
Collision sports of various sorts are all I know, really. Skateboarding tastes like pavement. I could slam dunk hard and was a shot blocker and always the fouling enforcer, on every basketball team I played on, and I’d seek contact…
SEC Power Shifts Middle
At the bottom is an article I posted back in August about these programs: 1. Alabama – going for 3-of-4 nationally, undefeated but largely untested 2. Georgia – 4 and 3 and missing 7 of 22 starters, bad defense, horrible…
Returneth
A la Mettenberger, I’m bound for the Classic City. Early morning Megabus double-decker from ATL to downtown ATHENS, GA, I’ll be… Little early still, so, today I’m looking at the huge influence of our school’s attendees. You’ve got little ol’…
The All College Preview
The new season is upon us, y’all, so college football expert Han Vance (GEORGIA), Bubba (GA Tech) and Wayne “The Sports Joc” Gandy (Auburn) jumped back into the studio to deliver a preview podcast of all the NCAA football action,…
A Tale of Three Seasons
We should’ve never done Coach Richt like that, y’all. Dawg-Nation, shame on us for doubting him so, I could say, just like he could gloat and say I told you so, I knew I was a good football coach and…
Can’t Win Them All
Or can you? The SEC as a conference seems to these days. The SEC has dominated the BCS era and goes for an eighth consecutive national championship this season. Further, draw a line all the way across the middle of…
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…
2Short
One school has the top running back, wide receiver and quarterback in the long storied history of the most storied of all football subdivisions. And the man who would be our all-time SEC leading receiver lofts into the Jacksonville night…
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…
Welcome to the Jungle
UGA may be having a good year, but we do not have a road win against a rival yet. Florida is a neutral site, and we suddenly own Jacksonville. The Vols came to the Classic City, as will little Georgia…
Homecoming in the Deep South
Vandy and Kentucky, the historic two-team bottom tier in the SEC East and in the whole of the SEC, were regularly alternating Homecoming opponents in the Classic City for many years, with UGA winning every year in the modern era…
Virtuoso Blocking Displayed Between the Hedges
In rivalry games this season UGA is now 1-0 as the Dawgs rolled up 560 yards, including an impressive 282 on the ground. The University of Tennessee Volunteers fell to 3-2 and 0-2 in SEC play for the season, with…
