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…
California Love: How our West Coast Scene in ’17 Impacted Georgia Football’s Future Now
HAN VANCE ON Georgia football: That breeze. California knows how to party but when I was coming up in The Rhetta – Marietta, Georgia – UGA, in Athens, was the top party school in America. Then, it was becoming Rockville…
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 Unstoppable Kirby Smart Defense
Han Vance on Georgia football: Defense used to win championships in football at all levels, remember that? Defense wins championships. The long-told maxim. Kirby is credited for two primary strengths: He is undeniably amazing at defense and known to be…
