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…
UGA: Status of the Football Program
Han Vance on Georgia football. Usually around this time of year, I like to give an overall status report on the Georgia program as a whole: We’re in good shape, as you’ll read. I also included my 2021 NFL Draft…
New Beginnings in Athens, Ga.
Han Vance on Georgia athletics: When Josh Brooks officially accepted a promotion to become the J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics following the announcement of the professional “retirement” of Greg McGarity, a decade of Dawggone difficulties and dreams turned to…
Fallacy of Fling
Next year’s champions since January 2nd of 1981, the day, in the morning after Ol’ Georgia’s only undisputed national championship. Here we are again, friends. Looking at a (NY6) New Year’s Six big non-championship qualifying bowl, probably the Peach Bowl…
Comparisons Continue
Han Vance on Georgia football: Kirby Smart can someday cease these constant and/or annual comparisons to his former boss Mark Richt, by outperforming the retired coach by a wide margin. It just hasn’t happened. The once all-time leader in school…
It’s JT Time
Athens, Ga.— After leading the #2 team in the country 24-20 at halftime, GEORGIA was soundly outplayed and outcoached in the 2nd half in Tuscaloosa. Bama tacked on another 21, while snuffing UGA. Bennett went from program hero to goat,…
Tight Ends Win Deep South Rivalry
Han Vance on the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry: Auburn invented the toothbrush, I reckon, those Plainsmen. If it had been invented at UGA, it would have been called the teeth-brush. AUBURN stands for Alabama Usually Beats Us Red Necks, but…
The Mailman Rings Twice for Georgia Football
HAN VANCE on Georgia football: Dawgs 1-0. MAILMAN DELIVERS IN HOGLAND: IV, the fourth rangeth twice ‘fore loud Chapel Bell clanged into an autumnal Classic City night. Talk about knowing who your people are, Stetson Bennett IV hails from Georgia,…
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…
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…
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…
UGA Dawgs Country
My city divided in fractions with factions of fans, but the state is solidly ours. GEORGIA Football is still the most popular sporting enterprise in the largest state east of the Mississippi River. The Atlanta Braves, a Southern regional favorite…
Next Year’s Clemson?
My Tech buddy Bubba, who guest appeared on my radio show two seasons ago with Wayne Gandy (a former Auburn all-American who had an undefeated senior season) and me, was texting yesterday talking about how bad Tech and Georgia were….
