Patrick Garbin

Freelance Journalist. UGA football historian. Author of books on Georgia Bulldogs football.

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44 years ago today, unbeaten Georgia trails winless Kentucky 14-3 when junior Herschel Walker turns a screen pass into a 64-yard TD, sparking a 27-14 comeback win.

Walker’s 43rd regular-season TD—his 3rd & final receiving TD—broke the SEC record held by LSU's Charles Alexander.

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21 years ago today—Georgia's last Oct. 22 game—the No. 4 Bulldogs hang on vs. upset-minded Arkansas, 23-20.

UGA lost D.J. Shockley to injury, was outgained 332-217, and saw Darren McFadden rush for 190 yards. Sacks by Dannell Ellerbe and Will Thompson set up a 4th-down stop.

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14 years ago today on Oct. 20, 2012—Georgia's most recent game on this calendar date—junior QB Aaron Murray throws for 427 yards and 4 TDs in a 29-24 win at Kentucky.

Murray's second TD to Tavarres King, a 1-yarder, breaks David Greene's school record of 72 career TD passes.

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80 years ago today, Georgia hosted Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State), 17-1 in 1944-45, before 35,000 (excluding the “Track Fans”).

In a 33-13 win, future @cfbhall inductees Charley Trippi and John Rauch threw TDs, Bob Fenimore ran for one and Trippi had a 70-yard pick-six.

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Georgia's 27-24 loss to Auburn as a 19.5-point favorite marks the Bulldogs' third-biggest upset defeat by point spread since 1950.

UGA's biggest upset losses:
21 — South Carolina, 2019
20 — Vanderbilt, 1994
19.5 — Auburn, 2026
18 — Wake Forest, 1979
17 — Vanderbilt, 1973

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40 years ago vs. Auburn, senior LB Steve Boswell makes a game-clinching INT in Bulldog territory as 10.5-point underdog Georgia prevails on the Plains, 20-16.

Afterward, the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry becomes the “Game Between the Hoses” as Auburn blasts Dawg fans with water.

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10 years ago vs. Auburn in Athens, 10-point underdog Georgia trails 7-0 in the 3Q until Alabama transfer Maurice Smith’s 34-yard pick-six ties it.

Smith's TD proves to be the difference in a 13-7 win—UGA’s lone victory in 11 tries as a double-digit underdog at Sanford Stadium.

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35 years ago vs. Auburn in Athens, Georgia backs Garrison Hearst, Larry Ware, Mack Strong, and Frank Harvey rush for 245 yards and 5 TDs in a 37-27 win.

Freshman Eric Zeier also completes 20 passes, the most by a Bulldog since 1963, as UGA ends a 10-year home drought vs. Auburn.

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@Pettitt_Art Thrown by "Spud" Chandler, later 1943 AL MVP with the NY Yankees.

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97 years ago today, on Oct. 12, 1929, Georgia upsets Yale, 15-0, before 33,000 fans—more than twice Athens’ population—in the first game at Sanford Stadium.

Playing in just his third varsity game, sophomore end Vernon “Catfish” Smith scores all 15 points.

“Catfish 15, Yale 0”

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@patrickgarbin The Day that Erk and the Junkyard Dawgs broke Bama’s (Wish) bone. Students were so fired up for the game that they jettisoned GA tradition and began ringing the Chapel bell on campus during the week before the game, rather than waiting until the Dawgs had won!

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50 years ago in 1976, Georgia stuns 6½-pt favorite Alabama and Bear Bryant, 21-0—one of the greatest wins in Sanford Stadium history.

The Junkyard Dogs hold Bama’s wishbone to 49 net rushing yards on 45 carries, with 7 sacks—all in the 4Q, including on the Tide’s final 4 plays.

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42 years ago today, Georgia jumps out to a 14-0 lead over ’Bama in Birmingham on 44- and 34-yard TD runs by soph. fullback Andre “Pulpwood” Smith—both on the same off-tackle play.

Pulpwood rushed for 117 yards as UGA won 24-14, its first win over the Tide in Alabama since 1956.

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@ugasteamengine 4-point

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24 years ago today, on Oct. 5, 2002, underdog Georgia proves it’s “man enough” at Alabama.

Trailing the Tide 25-24 late, Billy Bennett drills the go-ahead FG before redshirt freshman Thomas Davis seals the 27-25 upset with an INT—UGA’s first win in Tuscaloosa in eight tries.

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@wut1219 Yep, TD knocked out Spencer Pennington in the 3Q - after Odell Thurman knocked out Brodie Croyle in the 2Q 😲

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23 years ago today, Georgia leads Alabama by only 6 when Jarrett Berry blocks a punt and Thomas Davis returns it for a TD.

UGA rolls the Tide from there, leading 30-3 before Bama’s first first down, and wins 37-23—its first consecutive-season wins over Alabama since 1955-56.

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46 years ago vs. Vandy, true freshman Herschel Walker, playing just his 6th college game, shatters Georgia’s single-game rushing record with 283 yards on 23 carries, including TD runs of 60, 48 and 53 yards, in a 41-0 rout.

Nearly half a century later, the record still stands.

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24 years ago against Vandy, tied 7-7 in the 2Q, David Greene sells the best fake in UGA history before hitting Terrence Edwards for a 65-yard TD, fooling everyone in Sanford Stadium.

Greene went 20 of 23 for 319 yards and 2 TDs; Edwards had 7 catches for 163 in a 48-17 blowout.

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42 years ago against Vanderbilt, Georgia erupts offensively in a 62-35 win behind freshman QB and Athens native David Dukes, making his first start as a Bulldog.

Dukes completed 9 of 13 for 175 yards and two TDs and ran for another as Georgia scored its most points in 26 years.