The Daily Dawg Podcast

It’s game day in Athens again! And College GameDay is in town to boot! It’s a beautiful day in Athens, GA, and hopefully it will be a beautiful night as the Dawgs celebrate taking control of the top of the SEC again and putting down the upstart Rebels and Lane Kiffin. You asked for elite; we’ve got elite for you! We break down the series, history, key matchups, and then go through the 3 true outco...

As we get ready to break down the Ole Miss-Georgia game later today or tomorrow, we have a few final words about the Dawgs and somewhat what we saw against Auburn that will look to see continue or improve on Saturday against Ole Miss. Our next podcast will break down the Ole Miss game in detail and work through the true outcomes leading up to our final predictions. Go Dawgs! This is a public episo...

Show Notes: Saturday’s game down on the Plains was another game that will be remembered and talked about for years, but not all for good reasons. SEC officiating is hurting the on-field brand. Games are getting bogged down in calls, and officiating crews are struggling to be the ones in charge. This game was the poster child for these growing problems. Auburn started by opening up a can on Georgia...

Who is Auburn under Hugh Freeze? Who is Auburn in 2025? We compare Auburn and Georgia and break down the key match-ups in the game. There are 3 true outcomes to every football game. For this game, those outcomes are: Georgia wins in a blowout, Auburn wins in a blowout, or it’s a close game that could go either way. But which way will it go? Here’s a hint… I don’t think the winning team has any mas...

Show Notes: The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. Georgia v. Auburn is one of the oldest rivalries in all of college football and American sports for that matter. Tomorrow’s game will mark the 130th game in the series. Georgia holds a 65-56-8 lead in the all-time series with Auburn and has won the last 8 in a row. Some Georgia fans may be starting to think of the Auburn game as just another SEC game, b...

Show Notes: It’s hard to believe it’s Week 7 of the 2025 college football season, but here we are, and for Georgia, it’s time for the Auburn game! One of the best and longest-played rivalries in college football! Before we get to breaking down Auburn, we have to go back and review the Kentucky game from this past Saturday. The Dawgs showed no ill effects from the loss to Alabama the previous week...

Show Notes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly… We continue being honest with ourselves about the state of our team and this season as we continue to look back at last weekend’s Alabama game. As frustrated as we are right now, there were several good things that emerged in this game. The defense continues to show that they can be both very good and very worrisome all in the same game. But the good ho...

Not again! How can this keep happening? Questionable coaching choices, bad situational play-calling, bad execution… Not the whole game, but all of these things happened in spurts, and in the end, the Dawgs dug a hole they couldn’t get out of despite playing with heart and energy and never giving up. There’s a lot to chew on, and this does make me rethink Georgia as a team that could advance in the...

Show Highlights: It’s Saturday in Athens! Again! This time Alabama is in town. The big hurdle UGA has still had a hard time getting over. Does Georgia keep the 33-game home winning streak going? Or does Alabama still have the hex? Does Bama somehow win for the 4th time in 5 games when Georgia was the favored team? In today’s podcast, we step back through those match-ups and outcomes I discussed ye...

Show Highlights: It’s time to start breaking down the match-up in the big game between UGA and Bama on Saturday! * Who wins the battle of the Georgia offense vs the Bama defense? * Can the Dawgs defense get back to creating some havoc against the Bama offense? * Georgia may have the best special teams in the nation right now… * Coaching - Bama has had everybody’s number, including Kirby who’s just...

Show Highlights: I’ve been thinking about how I keep saying that there are no more juggernaut teams and we may not see them again in this era of college football. Then I realized, I don’t know if we have really talked about what this era of college football is. When did it actually start and how is it different than the eras that preceded it? We contextualize this week’s Alabama game with a little...

Show Highlights: We’ve reviewed the UGA vs. Bama history. We’ve studied Kalen DeBoer’s coaching history and record. Now it’s time to start breaking down the game. There are so many ways to evaluate these titans of college football as they get ready to clash for the 77th time on Saturday! First order of business is to break down the Alabama-FSU game from Week 1. What happened in that game? Does it...

Show Highlights: This week’s coaching match-up has little history to unpack or offer. Kalen DeBoer has been an FBS, Division 1 coach for just 62 games, and most of them in Pac-12 or Mountain West. That’s a very different breed of football compared to the SEC. Today we dig into Kalen DeBoer’s coaching record to see what we can learn and what perspective that offers heading into the huge match-up wi...

Show Highlights: Georgia and Alabama are two of the best teams college football has to offer the last decade. Georgia is 55-5 in the last 5 years, and Alabama is 47-10 in the same span. Georgia is 107-19 in the last 10 years, and Alabama is 112-15 in the same time. Georgia has won 2 National Championships, and Bama has won 3 in the last 10 years. Sounds like 2 dominate teams when you present it as...

Show Highlights: At the Daily Dawg, we have created our list of 15 teams that are currently on our watchlist as contenders for the playoffs. We have gone through all 15 season schedules and listed the games, which should help us to determine which teams are in fact playoff teams and which need to move out of the way for other teams to rise to contender status. The result is 44 games from Week 1 to...

Show Highlights: We are back! Sorry we missed you yesterday. I’ve been working on getting the video podcast up and going, and yesterday that caused so many technical snafus that it undermined the regular audio podcast as well. The Tennessee game was a statement game for UGA, but we made several, not just one, statement. The more I think about it, the more impressive some of those statements are re...

One of the great memories of Georgia Football for me will be from the Tennessee game last week. I will never forget the images of Tennessee fans cheering the win as the football went through the uprights on the final play of regulation or at least as they thought. But the ball did not go through the goalposts. It was wide right and by a healthy margin. But thousands of Tennessee fans saw it differ...

Show Highlights: More just celebrating and observations from the first big contest of the season last week are the order of the day today. It was a big game for both teams, but it’s possible that both Georgia and Tennessee came out ahead in perception in this game, even though Tennessee was the loser and Georgia continued the hex on the Volunteers. Gunner Stockton is the SEC Offensive Player of th...

Show Highlights: Well, the Dawgs did it again, and this time in agonizing fashion for Tennessee fans, winning a game that Tennessee probably thought they’d win after the first quarter, then maybe thought they’d lost by the third quarter, and finally expected to finish off with a walk-off kick at the end of regulation. However, it was regulation end, not the end of the game, and Georgia would own t...

Show Highlights: Game Breakdown and Predictions - Part 2 Today, we finish breaking down the game and come to our prediction for the game. We finish looking at the Georgia Offense vs. the Tennessee Defense. We talk more about the coaching and the intangibles and circle back to discuss the unique nature of the Tennessee offense and why Georgia has had success against it. We note analysis from Joel K...

Show Highlights: Game Breakdown and Predictions - Part 1 It’s not rocket science to break a football game down to its most basic parts. Tomorrow’s big game will come down to: * The Tennessee Offense vs. The Georgia Defense * The Georgia Offense vs. The Tennessee Defense * Special Teams and intangibles Pretty obvious, I realize, but a good starting point to break it down. What’s going to happen? *...

Show Highlights: Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it… Maybe Tennessee keeps trying to forget what has happened the last 8 years in this series, and that’s why they keep repeating it… If so, let’s hope they remain goldfish (no memory) as we approach this week’s game. I doubt it. I bet that Tennessee fans want this game more than any on their schedule this year thanks to that 8-game los...

Show Highlights: With this show, I have in mind the episode of the West Wing called “Take Out the Trash Day.” Although in that episode, the White House staff was dumping out news and bills they hoped would not draw a lot of attention. There is nothing here I’m trying to throw out so nobody notices. In fact, everything I put out, I freely admit that I’m hoping as many people as possible find it. Bu...

Show Highlights: UGA has an 8-game winning streak against Tennessee, and I want to see us win at least 10 in a row before we lose that streak. I explain how being haunted by history drives this crazy need to keep beating Tennessee in today’s podcast. We start our in-depth look at Tennessee this week by looking at the coaching match-up between Josh Heupel and Kirby Smart. We examine Heupel’s record...

Show Highlights: What a weird Saturday in Athens! I don’t know that I have ever been to one like it. On the way to the game, I find out suddenly that I have no time to wander the tailgate scene, but I better hurry if I want to get there before the game starts. Then, stoking many Dawg fans’ worst fears, we go out there and make the Governors of Austin Peay look like something more than a tiny team...