Georgia Bulldogs Football
The 2008 Georgia Bulldogs football team will compete in American football on behalf of the University of Georgia in 2008. The Bulldogs compete in the East Division of the Southeastern Conference. This will be the Georgia Bulldogs' eighth season under the guidance of head coach Mark Richt.As of early July 2008, one average of pre-season polls released by 16 college football publications and columnists showed Georgia ranked #2. Georgia will enter the 2008 season with the longest active winning streak among the 66 BCS conference teams having won their last 7 games of the 2007 season.
It was not until 1920 that the nickname "Bulldog" was used to describe the football team, a name bestowed by sportswriters. On November 3, 1920, Morgan Blake of the Atlanta Journal wrote a story about school nicknames and proposed: The Georgia Bulldogs would sound good because there is a certain dignity about a bulldog, as well as ferocity. Shortly thereafter, another news story appeared in which the name "Bulldogs" was used several times to describe the Georgia team and the nickname has been used ever since. Their mascot is a white bulldog named Uga.
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2008 Georgia Bulldogs Football Schedule 08/30 -Georgia Southern The bulldogs win 45-21.
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The University of Georgia first formed a football squad in 1892, with chemistry professor Charles Herty as head coach. The team played its first game against a team from Mercer University, in what was supposedly the first football game played in the deep south. Playing on a field that would later be called Herty Field, Georgia beat Mercer by a score of 50-0. In the second (and final) game of that inaugural "season," Georgia lost by a score of 10-0 to Auburn University. That game marked the beginning of Georgia’s longest-standing football rivalry, which is called the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry.
