What is the worst loss in Georgia history?

What is the worst loss in Georgia history? I don't mean the most points scored on us, I mean the biggest difference between what our opponent scored and what we scored. Who put the biggest whippin' on us ever so far?

I think it was one of those pastings we got during the Ray Goff years to UF. Like 52-17 in our house whenever the Gator Bowl was being renovated.

I don't know about biggest point difference, but there are two or three that really sting because of their nature.

1977: Sugar Bowl following the 1976 SEC Championship season. We went in with one loss -- to Ole Miss -- ranked #4 against #1 Pitt, who spanked us with Tony Dorsett. I think it was something like 27-3. They won the national championship off of us.

1983: Sugar Bowl following the undefeated 1982 SEC Championship season, after sugar had fallen from the sky. One-loss Penn State comes in and beats us by three and wins the National title. Then Herschel leaves.

1998: We give up 13 points in about a minute and a half and Tech wins, sealing the game on a Bobo-fumbled snap. I was at that game, which is why it hurts so damned bad.

Not to mention the 2004 Tennessee game, which was infinitely winnable. I was there, too.

Or this year's game against Tennessee. Or against Vandy. Or even the wins against CU and MSU. I was there for all of those, too. Painful. Horrible. Toothgrinders.

Dapolla, you are a great fan, but your memory is a little fuzzy regarding Mike Bobo. Bobo never lost to Tech. He was at UGA from 94-97. During the 1998 season, superflop Quincey Carter was our QB. As a matter of fact, we lost all 3 GT games he started, from 98-00. In 98, we lost the fumbled snap which led to a late Tech field goal. In 99, we lost in OT on the infamous "phantom fumble" by Jasper Sanks, as he was crossing the Tech goal line for the winning score with less than a minute to play. In 00, we just flat out lost, period. We never were in that game, and it led to the firing of Jim Donnan. Since then, we haven't lost to GT during the CMR era, although I fear we are gonna have a hard time maintaining that streak this year.

As for bad blowout losses, I think they have come at the hands of UF during the mid-90s while the Gator Bowl was being renovated, and we played them in Athens in 1995, and in Gainsville in 1996. We lost by 35 in 1995, and by 40 in 1996. I also agree with you on those other losses, though. They were all nail-biting, gut-wrenching losses.

Thanks for setting me straight, Underdog. You know, until I got to UGA as a grad student in 2002, I hadn't been to a game since the Zeier years with the exception of that '98 game, so my knowledge of their personnel is a bit hazy. I actually know more about '62-'89 than I do about '90-'01; this is largely due to that fantastic home video "25 Years of Georgia Football," which my brother and I used to watch about four times in a row on weekend mornings. That's where I got acquainted with Vince Dooley and Erk Russell and Loren Smith and Larry Munson. Watch that movie and notice how incredibly young Kevin Butler, Buck Belue and John Lastinger look. Not to mention the Sack Machine himself, Richard Tardits, trying desperately to speak English.

And the two-point conversion against Alabama: "The only thing you think is, 'Oh please don't drop, you know, the one that's so simple.'"

And the Michigan game in The Big House: "I thought, There's no way that they're that fast, because I am not that slow. So I figured if there were two of them in front of me, there was no one behind me. I just reversed my field, and it was like a punt return."

And Vince Dooley on being hired away from Auburn and the Dawg fans' reaction: "Many of the fans were throwin' their hands in the ayuh, in despayuh."

And Erk Russell on Vince Dooley on the sideline: "...like a one-legged man trying to do the twist."

And the flea-flicker. And the shoestring play. And the end-around. And Belue-to-Scott. And sugar falling from the sky. That's where my "memories" are formed from, right up until the 2002 Music City Bowl -- I still harbor an unresolved hatred towards Boston College.

But let's face it; the Goff-Donnan years were hard to watch, and no one knew in 2001 how great Richt would turn out to be. I remember starting school in August of 2002 and we weren't even picked to win our first two games, against Clemson and Carolina. I went to two games that year, Northwestern Louisiana State and New Mexico State, both blowouts. I had to sell my Tennessee ticket...good thing I did, too, as we seem to lose to the Vols every time I attend that game. But David Pollack grabbed that interception in the end zone against the Cocks, and I think we'll all agree that it was at that moment that we knew something really great could possibly be in the mix. Then Pat Dye said we weren't Man Enough to beat Alabama, and we stomped both the Tide and Dye's Tiger War Eagle whatevers that year. And then the greatest blowout in the history of the Tech-UGA rivalry came. And then the 30-3 blowout of Them Hawgs. And the Sugar Bowl. Good Lord, and if 2002 isn't my favorite year, I'll never have one. Put us in the Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State or Miami that year, and we're the 2002 National Champs as well. 2002 may be the most magical sports year I've ever experienced, alongside the 1991 Braves season. And 2002 was even more incredible, because I was right there, in the mix, on campus, soaking it all in.

That was much longer than I intended it to be. All of this is basically to say that I don't remember anything at all about the Donnan years, and until UnderDog37 straightened me out, didn't think I had ever seen Quincy Carter play under center for anybody but the Cowboys.

It must be Thursday...I feel strangely optimistic about this weekend. Time to get let down again, folks.


GO DAWGS!!!!

Man, those were great memories! I also have that same video tape, along with Herschel at UGA, and all the Munson's Greatest Calls films. Those films were where I learned the history of the UGA program up until I was first able to remember watching UGA myself.....1976. Yes, I remember 1980, 81, and 82 SEC titles, Herschel Walker running wild all over the conference, A 60 yard FG by Butler against Clemson when they were ranked in the top 5 in 1984, and numerous defensive stands led by Hoage, Gilbert, and "Meat Cleaver" Weaver. I remember Scott Worner "rolling 7" against Clemson, and I remember "the sugar falling out of the sky". I love the old films of Dooley when he was young, Ridlehuber against Michigan in 65, and the Veer years with Ray Goff. I also remember how sad I was to see the program fall under hard times under Goff and Donnan, and How great I felt when CMR brought them back, much like a young Dooley did in 64. In short, it's been a lovely roller-coaster ride, and I loved every minute of it.