UPDATED: Georgia football’s most memorable wins over Florida

Run Lindsay

Before the 1980 season, the Georgia football team won seven of ten from the Gators. Now Georgia again was driving toward another SEC championship while the Gators still had not one. Georgia’s freshman running back, “that kid out of Wrightsville”,  burst on the national scene a week earlier. The Gators had a new coach – Charlie Pell, young talent, and a new-fangled “run and shoot” offense.

Georgia initially took command of the game. At the same time, a hapless Georgia Tech team was playing toe-to-toe with number one ranked Notre Dame. As reports from Atlanta drifted out of AM radios and spread throughout the Gator Bowl, Georgia fans realized their greatest dream was in their grasp, a National Championship. The Gators fought back to take a late lead on the Dawgs, and the enormity of what Georgia would lose with an upset at the hands of the Gators pressed on the Bulldog Nation’s soul.

All was lost, all was won

With Gator players dancing on the sidlelines, Georgia stole the ultimate upset away from the Gators. Buck Belue threw a third down pass to Lindsay Scott for a first down, and Lindsay Scott’s legs turned it into a Bulldog miracle. The Dawgs won the National Championship and the 1980 Florida Gators became a chapter in the greatest Bulldog story ever told.