Georgia Head Coach Mark Richt (AP Photo/ Butch Dill)NOT SO THRILLING
Ever since freshman quarterback Erik Ainge led Tennessee to a 19-14 upset win at Georgia in 2004, annual games between the Vols and Bulldogs have been decided by double digits:2005 Georgia, 27-142006 Tennessee, 51-332007 Tennessee, 35-142008 Georgia, 26-142009 Tennessee, 45-192010 Georgia, 41-14
Orange crushed.
Georgia’s past two trips to Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium have resulted in the two worst beatings the Bulldogs have endured in an opposing stadium with Mark Richt as coach. The Bulldogs were humiliated 35-14 in 2007 before regrouping to finish No. 2 nationally, and the ’09 journey yielded a 45-19 thumping that set a modern Georgia standard for offensive futility.
Whether facing the Vols of Phillip Fulmer or those of Lane Kiffin, the Bulldogs arrived with no energy and were promptly waxed.
“I felt like we were dead even before the game two years ago, and that’s why we ended up getting our butts kicked,” junior cornerback Sanders Commings said. “That’s the only time since I’ve been here that we’ve been dead and not ready to play a game.”