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How 'bout them Dawgs?
Imagine if you are an Auburn fan that you had lost to Alabama 15 of the last 17 years. Vice versa if you pull for the Tide. Or you Seminoles losing to Miami or the Gators that many times over the same stretch. After a while you would come to expect that no matter how good you were, you were destined to lose that game. That's how it's been for Georgia fans since 1990 when Florida began to dominate this series. Why the Bulldogs picked this past Saturday to break the Gators spell I will never know. I did not think we would win. Not before the game, not during the game, I really did not feel comfortable until I saw Coach Mark Richt kissing his wife on television five minutes after the game was over. I kept waiting for someone to wake me up and tell me it was all just a great dream. The whole thing was as surreal as it was enjoyable. Thankfully, it really happened. In a game that Florida always seemed to make a play when they had to, and Georgia never seemed to be able to do the same, the Bulldogs answered the Gators every time they mounted a charge and wound up making more plays at the end than the defending national champions could answer.
Whether this will change the course of this rivalry remains to be seen. The two teams have now split their last two games, but Georgia has not beaten the Gators in consecutive years since Vince Dooley walked the sidelines. It will take a few more Bulldog wins to erase the memories of Florida's dominance over Georgia. But for one strange, surreal Saturday on the banks of the St. Johns river, Georgia owned Florida like they used to.
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