UGA Football: Game Notes – Top Ranked Georgia Hosts Missouri

Game & Broadcast Info
  • Kickoff: Saturday, November 6 – 12:00 p.m. ET
  • Location: Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium (92,746) | Athens, Ga.
  • 2021 Records: Georgia 8-0 (6-0 SEC), Missouri 4-4 (1-3 SEC)
  • History: Georgia vs. Missouri All-Time Series Results: UGA 9-1
  • Rankings: Georgia #1, Missouri NR
  • TV: ESPN – Joe Tessitore (PxP), Greg McElroy (analyst), Katie George (sideline)
  • Video Stream: ESPN+
  • Radio: WSB AM 750 – Bulldog Network | Affiliates | Scott Howard (PxP), Eric Zeier (Color), DJ Shockley (sideline)
  • Audio Stream: georgiadogs.com
  • Satellite: SiriusXM: 135/191/962
  • Web Stats: GameTracker
  • Twitter: #MIZvsUGA
  • ReBroadcast: SEC Network: TBA

 

Georgia 2021 Averages Missouri
37.9 Scoring Offense 34.8
6.6 Scoring Defense 36.0
+3 Turnover Margin +4
420.6 Total Offense 452.8
192.8 Rushing Offense 174.5
227.9 Passing Offense 278.3
6.0 Punt Returns 1.7
21.3 Kickoff Returns 19.9

Georgia Clinches Fourth SEC Eastern Division Title In Five Years

The Bulldogs clinched a spot in the 2021 SEC Championship Game with their 34-7 win over Florida and teamed with Kentucky’s 31-17 loss at Mississippi State over the weekend. Georgia tied the record for the earliest (Oct. 30) in league history to clinch, joining Auburn (2004) and Alabama (1993). This will mark the Bulldogs’ fourth trip to the SECCG in the last five years (2017-19) during Kirby Smart‘s sixth year as head coach. Georgia will make its ninth appearance in the SECCG where the Dogs are 3-5, winning titles in 2002, 2005 and 2017.

Dogs Atop The Polls

For the fourth straight week, Georgia is ranked No. 1 in the AP/Coaches polls. This marks the first time since the 2008 preseason that the Bulldogs have carried the top ranking in both polls. During the 1982 regular season, the Bulldogs were ranked No. 1 for five straight weeks.

The last time Georgia was No. 1 in the College Football Playoff poll was for two weeks during the 2017 season (Oct. 31, Nov. 7). The first 2021 CFP ranking will be released on Tuesday.

Georgia-Missouri Series History

The Bulldogs hold a 9-1 edge in the series history with Missouri. The first meeting came in the 1960 Orange Bowl in Miami, and the Bulldogs posted a 14-0 victory to cap a 10-1 season under coach Wallace Butts. The Bulldogs have faced the Tigers just 10 times because they did not play again until Missouri joined the SEC in 2012. That year, the Tigers played host to Georgia in their first-ever SEC contest.

1960: W, 14-0 (Miami, Fla.) 2015: W, 9-6 (Athens) 2019: W, 27-0 (Athens)
2012: W, 41-20 (Columbia, Mo.) 2016: W, 28-27 (Columbia) 2020: W, 49-14 (Columbia)
2013: L, 41-26 (Athens) 2017: W, 53-28 (Athens)
2014: W, 34-0 (Columbia) 2018: W, 43-29 (Columbia)

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UGA Football: 50 Years Of ‘Whaddaya got, Loran?’

With a voice as smooth and comforting as a glass of iced tea — sweet, of course — Loran Smith has been talking to us for decades. He’s given us updates from the sideline at Sanford Stadium, he’s provided context, depth and nuance during pregame and postgame shows, and through it all he’s been a storyteller and interviewer with grace and charm.

Whenever you’re listening to Smith on the radio, it feels like you should be sitting on your front-porch swing, that glass of tea sweating on the table beside you, with a loving and loyal dog resting at your feet.

“My first and foremost objective,” in getting involved in radio back in the late 1960s, Smith said, “was to promote Georgia. And No. 2, to enjoy a nice experience.”

It’s safe to say after all these years that Smith has achieved those objectives many, many times over. This 2021 Georgia football season is Smith’s 50th as a member of the Bulldog broadcast team. Yes, he was doing this long before head coach Kirby Smart, 45, was born.

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