Georgia Football

Maybe this is the year everyone stops talking about 1980? It's been a long time, longer than I've been alive. But I know how much a national title is gonna mean to my home state if — when — them Georgia Bulldogs do the dang thing. Being an Atlanta/Georgia sports fan has been so beyond painful for so many years, but this year's Dawgs team could be special. The defense doesn't let anybody score on them. You better believe Erk Russell is smiling down from heaven at this bunch, with Larry Munson providing him with the epic play-by-play we all wish we could listen to on the radio. But you know what? Them Dawgs Is Hell, Don't They?! And there ain't nothing finer in the land. So as any self-respecting Georgian who has shed so many tears at the base of his Dooley/Munson/Walker shrine, I am 100 percent a believer in this year's team. Sure, they may burn me like Billy Sherman did my city, but you know what? I. Don't. Care!!! I am here for the ride, and this could be the ride of a freaking lifetime, y'all. Go Dawgs. Sic 'Em. Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!

No major college football power is more championship-starved than Georgia. Through the first half of the college season, no team has been more thoroughly dominant than the Dawgs. While the other shoe could drop at any point, this really feels like the year Georgia gets it done. Dawg Nation can feel it, too.

As I write this it is still early in the season, but right at the top has to be the blocked punt for a touchdown vs. Arkansas. That put UGA up big early. Coming a year after limited capacity at Sanford Stadium, that had to have been as loud as it had been in some time Between the Hedges. It was one those plays where a team with true championship pedigree presented itself. The best part is everybody wearing Red and Black that Saturday knew it, too.