No bigger UGA wins over Bama than these
With the No. 1 ranking up for grabs, and ESPN’s “College GameDay” coming to Athens for the first time since 1998 for Saturday night’s game between No. 3 Georgia and No. 8 Alabama, some might think this is will be the wildest scene ever for a game between these two old SEC rivals.
But, as Lee Corso would say: “Not so fast, my friend.”
Here are four victories over Alabama on Georgia soil that had Bulldog fans celebrating in Athens deep into the night:]
1976: GEORGIA BLANKS THE BEAR
If Georgia wins Saturday night it will certainly touch off a big party in the Classic City. But that celebration, if it happens, will have a hard time topping the craziness after Georgia’s 21-0 win over Alabama on Oct. 2, 1976.
“I’ve spent a good bit of my life in Athens and I can promise you there has never been a celebration here like the one after we beat Alabama in 1976,” said former Georgia head coach Ray Goff, who was the quarterback on that Bulldog team. “Traffic on Milledge Avenue was just shut down because the parties from the fraternity and sorority houses just went out into the street. Now if we win Saturday night that celebration might be just as good. But I don’t think it can be better.”
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9/26/08
Magnolia Tribune
