UPDATED: Georgia football’s most memorable wins over Florida
No fans enjoy daily hurling of insults at each other like Florida and Georgia football fans. No fans so wish to see each other miserable, either. That’s what sends thousands of Bulldogs south to Jacksonville every year.
UPDATE: After a miserable game in Baton Rouge against LSU, Jake Fromm was the difference for this Georgia football team in the Dawg’s 36 – 17 with over Florida. Fromm threw 24 times, completing 17, including three third-down touchdown completions. Florida did its part for the Dawg cause as well, turning the ball over three times.
Jake Fromm is the story with Rodrigo Blankenship and his three field goals starring in a supporting role. If the measure of quarterback is his response to adversity, Fromm stands ten feet tall today.
A special kind of disgust
The Georgia football rivalry with Florida isn’t the biggest rivalry in college football. It isn’t the nastiest, either, or the oldest. The games are not consistently nail biters decided in the final seconds.
But no rivals consistently revel in the pain each inflicts on the other. When choosing the most memorable Georgia football wins over Florida, the glory of the win is commensurate with the pain and agony inflicted on the Gators.
It’s really no surprise. Have you seen they how they dress? Have you listened to their cheers?
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So get up and go, Dawg fans. Here are the five most memorable Georgia wins over Florida, also known as the five Georgia wins inflicting the most pain and insult on the Gators.
Celebration
In 2007, Urban Meyer’s Gator Machine had not yet created unhealthy levels of stress and Florida was enjoying an eight wins out of nine tries run against the Dawgs. Mark Richt had had enough. Knowing he needed an exorcism to get Evil Urban out of his Georgia football team’s head, Richt called for a total team inclusive celebration after their first touchdown.
Mark Richt clearly had control of his team, as they acquiesced to a man, running onto the field and conducting a full roster choreographed celebration. The dance propelled Georgia to a 42 – 30 win.
The celebration taunt whopped Coach Meyer clear into third-person speak and a year long conniption fit culminating in two last-minute Gator timeouts in the following seasons revenge game, a 49 – 10 win over Georgia.
Dawg fans universally agree. The celebration was worth it.
