Han Vance’s BIG HAIRY BLAWG:
For Dawgs 2018, Han Vance BIG HAIRY BLAWG will again be available to read at Bulldawg Illustrated, where in-season Vance will publish every TUE + THU. NEW: Here at the decade-old wwww.bighairyblawg.com you for the first time will be able…
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…
Kicked to the Kirb
Kirby Smart’s seven-game career has already featured the three worst types of losses: 1. home loss to team you should beat, 2. heartbreaker you had won vs rival in big game, 3. total blowout you were unprepared to play. Each…
Dawgs Desperately Need Win (Sunday)
Though Chubb hasn’t been in the news for anything good since game one, it benefits UGA to move the game back to Sunday because (preseason all-SEC) nicked up Chubb does get a little more time to rest and be fully…
Two-Faced Teams Tangle
For two teams playing for the lead in any division, much less half the SEC, both Tennessee and Georgia have been mighty inconsistent. I was catching a survival strategy break under a shade bush, see. From the merciless direct-sun-heat and…
Athens Legacy
ATTN: ATHENS LEGACY begins 10/1 Trey Shelton (of PartyDawgs fame) and Han Vance (of Big Hairy Blawg) are hosting big #UGA home game throwdowns at The Max Canada in #Athens, #Georgia starting 10/1 at noon. We have made arrangements with…
Chubb for Heisman
As has been well documented here at BIG HAIRY BLAWG, Nick Chubb led the nation in yards per carry last year at over eight before badly busting up his leg at Tennessee, setting the University of Georgia mark broken in…
Talent Vacuum
A talent vacuum is not always a real talent vacuum. It’s often as much so or also a perception by players (and sometimes coaches) that what worked so well in past seasons or games won’t work enough to equate to…
