Category: UGA Football

Vince Dooley’s impact on the University of Georgia, the Bulldogs and beyond can’t be measured in wins or championships. The ever-curious, ever-busy man did way too much for that.

Dooley, who passed away on Oct. 28 at age 90, coached the Bulldogs to multiple SEC titles and the 1980 national championship during his 25 years (1964-88) leading the football team. Dooley the Director of Athletics oversaw an athletics department that grew and thrived during his 25 years (1979-2004) in charge. Dooley the man (1932-2022) threw himself into a multitude of interests, particularly history and gardening, that kept him productive and curious for decades.

On Friday night, during a special and often funny and moving “Celebration of Life Service” at Stegeman Coliseum, Dooley’s impact and legacy shined brightly.

Football coach Kirby Smart, speaking about 15 hours before his No. 1 Bulldogs host Georgia Tech on Saturday, spoke of bumping into Dooley on the 16th floor of the hotel in Indianapolis on Jan. 9, the night before Smart’s Bulldogs faced Alabama for the national championship. And then seeing him again on the field after Georgia had won it all.

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ATHENS, Ga. — With a 37-14 win over Georgia Tech on Saturday at Sanford Stadium, the top-ranked Georgia football team completed a second straight undefeated regular season. In addition, the 22 members of the Bulldogs’ senior class earned their 46th win, becoming the winningest class in program history.

Georgia (12-0) had to work for the victory, getting behind 7-0 and struggling to finish off drives against a spirited group of Yellow Jackets (5-7) playing under interim head coach Brent Key. During what was for a long time a low-scoring matchup on Dooley Field, kicker Jack Podlesny was pivotal, converting on field goals from 30, 50 and 36 yards. But then the Georgia offense got rolling and cruised to a blowout victory

Last year’s class had the school record for career wins, going 45-8, while this group is now 46-5. The seniors, including Podlesny, quarterback Stetson Bennett, safety Christopher Smith and more, were recognized before the game during the Senior Day festivities.

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Bulldogs Complete Another Perfect Regular Season:

Top-ranked Georgia is now 12-0 (8-0 SEC) after a 37-14 victory over Tech to claim the Governor’s Cup Trophy and post a perfect regular season for the second year in a row under Kirby Smart, and that’s the first time in school history to do it in back-to-back seasons. The others came in 1896 (4-0); 1946 (11-0); 1980 (11-0) and 1982 (11-0).

*The 2022 senior class has established a school record for wins now with a 46-5 mark. The 2021 class posted a 45-8 mark.

*The Bulldogs now have won 27 straight regular season games which is a school record.

*Georgia has tied the school record for consecutive sellouts with No. 64 today, matching the mark set from 9/1/01 through 9/10/11. The current streak began versus Fla. Atlantic on 9/15/12.

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Georgia along with Ohio State, Michigan and Alabama are the only schools that rank in the top 11 nationally in Scoring Offense and Scoring Defense. The Bulldogs are 11th in Scoring Offense (38.4 ppg) and first in Scoring Defense (11.1 ppg). Meanwhile, Ohio State is second in offense and 10th on defense, Michigan is ninth in offense and second in defense while Alabama is fifth in offense and 11th in defense.

Georgia leads the series 69-39-5 and doesn’t count two Georgia Tech wins during WWII (1943-44) when the Yellow Jackets utilized players from a naval officer’s training program hosted on campus. The Bulldogs have won the last four in a row in the series. The teams did not play in 2020 as the SEC played a 10-game league-only slate due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Since 1995, the winner of the Georgia-Georgia Tech game has been awarded the Governor’s Cup Trophy. Since then, the Bulldogs are 20-6 in that stretch.

The Georgia-Georgia Tech series is one of the nation’s oldest. There are only 13 other FBS rivalries that have been played more with Minnesota-Wisconsin at the top with 131 games and Georgia-Auburn tied for second now with 127.

From 1917-24, Georgia and Georgia Tech did not play each other because of a dispute caused by a Georgia parade float that ridiculed Tech for playing football during World War I.

Georgia Tech’s 51-48 win in overtime in 1999 in Atlanta on ABC was the highest-scoring game in the series and featured 1,102 total yards of offense. In overtime, Georgia blocked the Yellow Jackets’ first field goal attempt on third down and the Jackets recovered it. Then, Luke Manget kicked a 38-yarder on the mulligan for the win.

In 1978, Georgia trailed 20-0 in the 2nd quarter when freshman Buck Belue came off the sideline and rallied the team to a 29-28 win, the biggest comeback in school history to that point.

Georgia closed out the 2019 regular season in Atlanta with a 52-7 thrashing of Georgia Tech. It was the most points ever for a Bulldog squad against the Yellow Jackets.

The Bulldogs blanked the Yellow Jackets 45-0 last year in Atlanta. This marked the 16 shutout

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ATHENS, Ga. — Bulldog offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Todd Monken has been named one of 15 semifinalists for the Broyles Award, according to an announcement from the Frank & Barbara Broyles Foundation.

Given annually to college football’s top assistant coach, the Broyles Award included two other assistants from the Southeastern Conference as semifinalists.  Former Bulldog defensive coordinator and current Oregon head coach Dan Lanning was a Broyles finalist for Georgia in 2021 and 2019.  Georgia head coach Kirby Smart won the 2009 honor and was a finalist in 2015 while at Alabama.

Monken has directed an offense that is averaging 38.4 points per game (11^th nationally) and 496.3 yards per contest (seventh nationally) through the Bulldogs’ undefeated start this season.  Georgia leads the country in Red Zone Offense as well, scoring on 59 of 61 opportunities with 40 touchdowns.

No. 1 Georgia (11-0, 8-0 SEC) concludes its regular season on Dooley Field in Sanford Stadium versus Georgia Tech (5-6, 4-4 ACC) on Saturday.  ESPN will televise the matchup at 12 p.m.