Game 1 Look Ahead
Han Vance on Georgia football: It’s a college football Saturday in America, just as I projected, against many smart enough naysayers and doom-pickers. Short of an enforceable law stating there can be no football played, the SEC was always going…
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…
Cadets Visit Canines, Fables of the Reconstruction
Han Vance on Georgia football: Glory to Ol’ Georgia. THE COLONEL: A vet of WWI and WWII and aviation pioneer I’ve ruminated on previously, my paternal grandfather attended (#TAMU) Texas A&M University in College Station, Tex., after being born in…
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…
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…
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,…
Scheduling a Mixed Bag
ATTN: ATHENS LEGACY Party 2019 ~ Saturday day bar throwdown 4/20 (10a-1p) at ALLGOOD Lounge in Downtown Athens on G-Day, FREE, 21 and up. After, go to the (2p) G-Day game for free at Sanford Stadium or watch on TV…
Big Bang Slate to Start ’17:
“This is a sweet golden ungodly, unbelievable miracle we have pulled. They broke our hearts, and we just came back down the field.” -Larry Munson (legendary UGA radioman) To know that Clemson finally won another national championship is to know…
Decade of Go Dawgs-ing
August 14, 2017: Pleased to announce that BIG HAIRY BLAWG has now reached the decade mark. Thank you for reading my college football writing, which has seen us live through so many highs and lows over the full 10 years…
Sony Michel’s Time to Shine
Sony Michel’s Time to Shine: Sony Michel started at WR at South Carolina in 2014 due to injuries and lack of depth, catching a pass down the field immediately, running routes with his high school teammate (“Joystick”). With McKenzie departing…
Annual Rivals Ranking
GEORGIA vs the world (right now): Florida – In the neutral site classic formerly known as the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, Georgia has gone 6-21. Georgia Tech – The salt is back in Clean, Old-fashioned Hate after our beloved Dawgs…
Half-Decade SEC Rewind
Georgia finished with the 2nd best record of any SEC program over the half decade, with #1 Bama netting two national titles. The parity across the league faded, as nobody accomplished the biggest prize besides Bama, twice. Even the miracle…
Welcome Back
My annual Dawgs welcome back to the Blawg hereby extends a real hopeful encouragement throughout our program. A football program seemingly poised for an immediate uptick, we are actually on somewhat of an uptick now after going 4-1 late. And:…
UGA Bowl History:
With a bid accepted to play TCU in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis on Friday December 30th at noon EST (11a kick in Mempho), Georgia has tied for 4th-most bowl appearances in the country and currently has the 3rd-most bowl…
Turn Around Seasons
This is officially a major downturn. The harsh reality of a subpar campaign sets in with a month before a mid-tier at best bowl game. Our 3-game winning streak came to a thudding end with a 4th quarter collapse. Tech…
Bowl Jockeying Begins
Georgia faces Louisiana at noon in Classic City: Some headlines are truer than others, although that is factual. Here’s your big BLAWG for the Blackout Game. Should go way better than the last time we wore our darkest jerseys. Kind…
Back Quarter
A quarter of a football season remains, essentially. You get two more noon home games and one is garbage and then a full month off before a mid-tier at best bowl game. So exciting…it gives us another reason to play…
Hot Rod and D Mask Weaknesses
Mid-November: YES! YES! YES! I was there as we beat a highly-ranked rival in a big game. We won an SEC home game. We were relevant national news. Were not are. Sorry to have to be the reality check that…
Coaching (and writing) in the South
Georgia folks are heading up to the northern South today, where it is not an insult to be called “Basketball School” aloud. With our beleaguered 4-4 DAWGS favored – that’s right – to win this week over a hot football…
