EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth story in a series on the 15 most memorable SEC football games beat writer David Paschall has covered since joining the newspaper in 1990. The games are being presented in chronological order.
Imagine landing your dream job at age 34 only to lose it at 40.
Such was the Ray Goff era at Georgia.
Goff had quarterbacked the Bulldogs to the 1976 Southeastern Conference championship and was the league MVP that season, and he may have been the SEC’s most personable coach during the 1990s. Yet he was often overshadowed by the success Steve Spurrier had at rival Florida and Spurrier’s countless zingers that came with it.
The Bulldogs lost agonizingly close games against the league’s top teams on numerous occasions under Goff, most notably last-minute or last-second finishes against Florida in 1992 and 1993 and against Tennessee in 1992 and 1995.