The Daily Dawg Podcast

Show Notes: Indiana won the National Championship for the 2025 season, and everybody is falling all over themselves to talk about what a great story it is for college football. Many have declared that Hollywood couldn’t write a better ending to the season… I disagree. I do think Indiana was the best team in college football last year, and I think they more than earned the championship by winning t...

After a painful 27-day wait, the Georgia Bulldogs finally take the field today in the Quarterfinals of the College Football Playoffs. Hopefully, this year, the layoff curse is not a problem. Miami has already won the first quarterfinal game, so we know who we will play if we win this game. It will be the seemingly fated match-up with Carson Beck and the Miami Hurricanes. First, we have to play our...

It’s been 16 days since Georgia has played a football game on the field. But what a game it was… Georgia finally getting the Alabama elephant all the way off its back! I’m still just smiling several times a day every time I think about it. And while it sucks to have such a long break in a great season like this when you just wish you could keep the hits coming, it’s kind of fun to sit back and wat...

Beat Bama Week 2 was a resounding success! This truly feels like breaking through the one last glass ceiling Georgia Football was running into. This is the catharsis we all needed and wanted. Even I, as I was watching it, felt both at ease that the Dawgs were taking care of business and the sense that it’s not over until it’s over. I didn’t really even panic much when Bama scored to cut it to 21-7...

I wandered through some last-minute thoughts and feelings about the game and the upcoming playoffs. I did not end up going through my traditional three key matchup and three true outcomes to build to my prediction for the game. By the end, I gave you my thoughts on who I thought would win and how the game will flow. Honestly, we’ve already done the traditional breakdown on this game once, and I re...

It’s Beat Bama Week! It’s SEC Championship Week! For the 5th straight year and 8 of the last 9 years, Georgia is playing in the SEC Championship Game. Back in the 90s, I used to wonder if we were ever going to play in at least 1 of these games… This time we get extra motivation in the form of redemption if we can Beat Bama! We’ve lost 10 of 11 to the Tide, but nothing can make that feeling any bet...

For the 8th straight year, Georgia beats the North Avenue Trade School’s pesky Yellow Jackets in football! It wasn’t a thing of beauty other than the end result, but there was a lot of good and some concerning things to talk about. And that is what we do here at The Daily Dawg! We talk about it. Come on and join the podcast and don’t forget to share with friends and family a like. Everybody deserv...

It’s Friday and it’s game day! The final regular season game of the season! Time for the 117th edition of “Clean Old Fashioned Hate,” where the Bulldogs take on the Bees from the North Avenue Trade School. Georgia is nearly a 2-touchdown favorite, but Georgia Tech is ranked in the Top 25 and is having one of its best seasons in recent memory. Last year, they pushed Georgia to the edge with an 8-ov...

Who is Georgia Tech as a program? What is the state of the Georgia Tech program? This Dawgs fan uses this episode to break down the recent history of Georgia Tech, especially how it relates to UGA. To beat your enemy, you have to know your enemy… Come and tune out your family this Thanksgiving afternoon and listen to The Daily Dawg instead! GoDawgs! This is a public episode. If you would like to d...

It’s Hate Week! That’s the name for the week of the Georgia-Georgia Tech Game that is known as “Clean Old Fashioned Hate.” We have a special week and a special game this year, although the bees are doing their best to try to ruin the whole thing. Three weeks ago, we were looking at a potential top 10 match-up of undefeated teams squaring off with playoff implications on the line. Now Tech has lost...

Dawgs will win! Hopefully, a lot of young guys will play, and play well, and no one will get hurt. Time to send off the seniors! Possibly, probably the last game at Sanford Stadium this year… We consider the SEC Championship and the Playoffs today, and I explain a new Power Metric I’m working on for college football… Go Dawgs! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...

Kirby Smart delivered one of the most memorable performances as a coach I can ever remember. How often do you really remember anything about what the coach did in the game, unless of course it was something really bad? We’ve heard Kirby say over and over that he wants Georgia to be the best-conditioned team on the field so that they can own the 4th quarter. To that end, Georgia has outscored oppon...

They say everything is bigger in TX. I guess that includes the losses and this podcast! We have so much to talk about in this recap of the Georgia-Texas game that I’m breaking this podcast up into 2 parts. This one ends with me unceremoniously saying, “We are going to take a break…” I pick back up the thread of the same conversation though from the beginning of Episode 47 Part 2. What a great game...

It took a long time to get a feel for this game. Texas is an enigma. They were pre-season #1 in the country with Heisman hype for quarterback Arch Manning. But by mid-October, they were out of the top 25. Now, just 4 weeks later, they are back to #10 in the country and would be in the playoffs if they started today. But when you look closely, they haven’t really done much to earn that #10 ranking....

It’s time for the 8th All-Time Meeting between Texas and Georgia and the 3rd in just over a year. Welcome to the SEC, Texas, and welcome to Athens, GA, and Sanford Stadium. This will be the first time that Texas has ever played in Athens, and it’s a great match-up of 2 highly ranked, premier state schools that are both mentioned at the top of the list of best college towns in America. Texas is a g...

Georgia was 5th in the first College Football Playoff Committee rankings, which were released for week 11 of the College Football season. The new rankings are out tonight, and Georgia is still 5th after an impressive win over Mississippi State on the road last weekend. What is the ceiling and what is the floor for this team relative to the playoff? What does last year’s playoff tell us about this...

We thought the right Bulldogs would win this match-up, and I came close to saying out loud that I thought this would be the week the Dawgs finally put it all together and played a complete game. You can’t blame me for being a little reserved on such proclamations the way Georgia has played this season, however. This team seems to be improving. And while the Mississippi State Bulldogs are not an el...

Well, this week, we know the Bulldogs will win! We just hope it’s the right Bulldogs! Georgia is the better team, but State is a team that is improving and just won its first conference game in 2 years. They are going to be motivated, and this will not be an easy game by any means. Also, Georgia has the chance to go for its 900th all-time program win! What an amazing landmark for this program. Geo...

The first College Football Playoff Committee rankings have been released. The regular season is 2/3 of the way done. As a result of these things, we now have more than pure speculation as to the postseason. Obviously, there are several weeks to go, and teams can play themselves in or out of the playoffs still. Nothing is set in stone, but we have enough to finally do a deep dive and look at the ot...

It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog! It’s great to be a Gator Hater! Woohoo! Dawgs Win! Dawgs Win! That’s 5 in a row, baby! 8 of the last 9. 11 of the last 15. That’s right, after 20+ years of heartache against the Gators, the Dawgs have officially stemmed the tide, having reached the point where we own the last 15 years of this series. History isn’t made in one game, and it’s taken a while to recl...

Florida has fired its coach. Who knows exactly what they will do when they take the field today against the Bulldogs? Hard to know, but what we know is that Florida is a talented team that has not met expectations this season or any season recently. That’s why Billy Napier is out of a job. Georgia hopefully can build on last game’s momentum beating a top 10 Ole Miss team, build on the improved hea...

Florida has no head coach right now. It’s hard to know what we will see when they take the field tomorrow against the Dawgs. But we can take a moment to look at the state of the program and how it compares to Georgia. Obviously, Florida is down and the Dawgs are up, but how has that progressed over the last few years and what does it tell us about the team we face this week in our quest to build a...

It’s Gator Hater Week! Time for the GA-FLA game, and don’t let anyone tell you it’s the FLA-GA game! Today’s podcast runs through the last 35 years of series history, reflecting on records, games, and a few personal stories, including the tale of the one and only time I attended the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party in person in the early 90s. (Spoiler alert - it was bad!) Let’s have some fun...

Show Notes: Would you believe that the 2025 UGA defense is actually better than the 2024 UGA defense in more than one category? In fact, the 2025 UGA team is probably a better overall team on paper than the 2024 UGA team. It may not feel that way because we have seen some extremes on the field, and it’s worth remembering that the 2024 UGA team went 11-3, won the SEC, and made the 2nd round of the...

Another exciting snatch victory from the jaws of defeat game! This time the Dawgs go back and forth throughout the early part of the game and fall two scores behind in the third quarter, leaving less margin for error and Ole Miss feeling like they finally have that all-important chance to make the big statement on the big stage. But it doesn’t happen for Ole Miss. Instead, Georgia reaffirms its id...