Smith: SEC has a new champion

Football, as we are often reminded, is a physical game. The old-timers, from Walter Camp to Fielding Yost to Knute Rockne, preached about it, including Frank Leahy, Bud Wilkinson, Bear Bryant, Woody Hayes, and Vince Dooley.

Smith: Bobby Garrard

After winning three Southeastern Conference championships and making six bowl trips, including the Rose Bowl and two visits to the Orange Bowl—the coming of the fifties was not a sound era for the Georgia Bulldogs.

Smith: Dawgs travel to Oxford

OXFORD, Miss.

Smith: Eyes of Texas

It was a relatively short flight of an hour and 45 minutes home from Austin for the Georgia football team last Saturday night.

Smith: Royal history in Texas

This metropolitan city is also the state capital of Texas, a music center like Athens, and the home of the Longhorns football team, which now competes in the Southeastern Conference.Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, what would Darrell Royal, Dana X. Bible, Tom Landry, and Tommy Nobis think of that?

Smith: Dirty Dan makes most of opportunity

If you have spent time in Sanford Stadium lately, you have heard public address announcer Brooke Whitmire singing out Dirty Dan Jackson’s name quite often.Jackson is in his sixth season as a Bulldog defender in what is a classic example of “love of alma mater” getting priority the old-fashioned way.

Smith: Chicken Little Dawgs

Defensive pessimism and doom-saying are rampant among the Georgia fan base these days. Chicken Little was dressed in red and black at the start of the week.

Smith: Pumpkin season begins

October is pumpkin month. Pumpkin season lasts into November — all the way to Thanksgiving. Pumpkins are among the oldest known domesticated plants, dating back to 7000 BCE.

Smith: Flea-flicker leads to unlikely victory

The criteria for the greatest plays cannot be drawn up on a chalkboard. They depend on several factors and circumstances that the best screenplay writers could not script.However, you could hardly improve on what played out in the Georgia-Alabama game between the hedges on Sept. 18, 1965, however.

Smith: Georgia's lapse at Kentucky

Other than claiming the championship prize, the greatest circumstance in team sports is having an off day, playing poorly, and winning.From Georgia's perspective, the Bulldogs escaped defeat in Lexington on Saturday night by a very narrow margin.