Looking back at the historic matches between the Bulldogs and Crimson Road

ATLANTA – The second installment of the epic race between Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama Crimson Road has been set for Indianapolis on Monday night, and the stakes are as high as can be.

Georgia will face Alabama in two of the previous five College Football playoff national championship matches starting on Monday night at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Georgia Bulldogs football fans may not need a reminder that Alabama has a recent lead in the race. The Georgia Bulldogs are in the midst of the football team’s longest historic losing streak to Alabama, dating back to September 2008.

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However, this match may seem different to Georgian football fans because Some sports betting favors bulldogs to win the national championship.

The Georgia Bulldogs are 25-42-4 against Alabama Crimson Tide of all time. Here is an overview of the eras In the matches between Alabama and Georgia:

Georgia, Alabama’s first recorded college match

Georgia Record vs. Alabama 1895-1909: 2-3-3

Georgia won the first-ever-recorded encounter between the two teams 35-0. There are four relationships between Georgia and Alabama in 71 matches; three of these draws came in the teams ’first seven recorded matches.

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Georgia’s longest winning streak against Alabama

Georgia Record vs. Alabama 1910-1920: 6-1

In the 1910s, the Bulldogs had the longest winning streak ever against Crimson Tide.

Georgia won five consecutive games against Alabama from October 1910 to November 1916.

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Matches prior to the Southeast Conference

Georgia Record vs. Alabama 1921-1932: 3-7

In the last decade before the formation of the Southeast Conference, Alabama defeated Georgia in 177-66.

Georgia lost five games in a row in 1922-1926. Crimson Tide shut down the Bulldogs in three of those games.

Alabama was recognized as the champion of college football in 1925 and 1926. It was the first Crimson Tide dynasty, so to speak.

The Southeastern Conference has been born

Georgia Record vs. Alabama 1934-1940: 0-2

The first two meetings between Georgia and Alabama football teams as members of the newly formed Southeast Conference in favor of Alabama.

The conference looked different than today. It included Tulane, based in New Orleans, and now Georgia Tech, a subsidiary of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Competition is becoming a tradition

Georgia Record vs. Alabama 1941-1965: 8-15-1

Georgia and Alabama football teams played every season from 1941 to 1965 – except in 1943.

Alabama won three national championships during that stretch, led by legendary head coach Bear Bryant.

Georgia was the only team to win the Alabama National Championship in 1965. That season, the Bulldogs were led by their own legendary head coach: Vince Dooley. It was Dooley’s second season as head coach of Georgian football.

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Years of Vince Dooley

Georgia Record vs. Alabama 1972-1985: 2-4

Georgia and Alabama did not face in the grid for seven years after the 1965 season.

The Bulldogs won 1-3 against Alabama in the 70s before the race broke down again.

In 1980, the Bulldogs led by Dooley were declared national champions. Georgia has not finished any way through the top of the college football world since that season.

Georgia and Alabama met twice in the 80s and broke the series.

Changes in coaching

Georgia Record vs. Alabama 1990-1995: 1-3

There were several coaching changes in Alabama and Georgia from the late 80s to the 90s.

Georgia ranked in the Top 25 of the Associated Press of the season seven times during that period, but the Bulldogs ’highest ranking was 8th in 1992.

That year, Alabama ran the table and finished second in the national championship. It would take 17 years for Crimson Tide to win the next one.

Georgia is the best in Alabama at the turn of the millennium

Georgia Record vs. Alabama 2002-2008: 3-1

Alabama’s superiority in college football to Georgia didn’t always feel guaranteed.

Georgia won its first three encounters against an enemy of the Southeast Conference under head coach Mark Richt. Georgia’s first two victories over Alabama in the 21st century were before head coach Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloo. Richt’s Bulldogs faced Mike Shulan Crimson Tide and swept the home and away series between two programs: 27-25 in 2002 and 37-23 in 2003.

The first meeting between Richt’s Bulldogs and Nick Saban was a 26-23 overtime win for Georgia in Tuscaloosa in 2007, Saban’s first season as head coach of Alabama Crimson Tide. Georgia lost to Alabama in Athens the following year. This loss was the start of Alabama’s current seven-match winning streak against Georgia.

Crimson Tide edge Bulldogs championship games

Georgia record vs. Alabama 2012-2021: 0-6

ATLANTA, GA – DECEMBER 4: General action at the SEC Championship between Alabama Crimson Road and Georgia Bulldogs on December 4, 2021 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga. (photo: Jeffrey Vest / Icon Sportswire via Getty Image) (Getty Images)

The pain of the 2018 College Football Playoff national championship match for Georgia Bulldogs football fans is perhaps more recent than the team’s most recent defeat in the 2021 Southeast Conference Championships.

Four of the last seven matches between teams have been played in “neutral” places – all four games were played at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta or the Georgia Dome.

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Georgia lost the 2012 SEC Championship in the red zone when the time was up. Georgia led in the fourth quarter, but Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron led Crimson Tide to a goal that left Georgia to score 3:15 and needed a touchdown. Alabama won the Notre Dame BCS National Championship. Georgia won the Capital One Bowl in Nebraska.

Georgia met at the Alabama Championship in Atlanta just over five years later. Alabama won the national championship on January 9, 2018 in overtime when quarterback Tua Tagovailoa contacted a wide receiver and future Heisman Trophy winner DeVonta Smith in a 41-yard pass.

Georgia lost two more SEC Championships to Alabama in 2018 and 2021. Georgia led 28-21 in the fourth quarter of the 2018 SEC Championship before Alabama snatched a win. Georgia’s most recent match with Alabama in the 2021 SEC Championship is the only loss the Bulldogs suffered this season.

Georgia also won the regular season matches 0-2 against Alabama in 2015 and 2020.

Historical games and information on the University of Georgia Sports Communication and College Football Reference.

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