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Year of the dawg: having scratched beneath the championship surface since it last won the SEC in 1982, Georgia is all the way back--assuming it finally can break through against Florida. (College Football).

The Sporting News

| November 04, 2002 | Hayes, Matt | COPYRIGHT 2002 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

After all those years with all that talent and all those excuses for not getting it done--bad luck, bad coaching, bad karma--this is different, and you can see it in their eyes. The clock is winding down in the season opener on a sweltering night in Athens, and Mark Richt's second year as coach at Georgia already has arrived at a defining moment. The renewal of the Clemson rivalry has come to this: A fourth-and-inches with a three-point lead and 40 seconds to kill--the ball at the Georgia 38. The Dawgs don't blink, converting Richt's gutsy call to nail down a big non-conference victory.

Six weeks later, Richt is at it again. The Bulldog have it fourth-and-2 at ...

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