MaconDawg, you were wrong.
Actual text exchange between MaconDawg and Squillian:
MD: We’re gonna give up 50
SQ: That’s okay if we score 51.
Friends, yesterday I did something I’ve never done before. Mr. Squillian and I both graduated from Mercer University in Macon, GA. I graduated in December 1990, and he graduated in 1997. In those years, Mercer did not have a football team. They had had one in the early years of the university, but suspended it during World War II, and didn’t revive it until 2013.
Last year, Mr. Squillian thought it would be a good idea to go take in a game at the ol’ stomping grounds.
In looking at the schedules of both Mercer and Georgia, it seemed like yesterday would be a good day to make that happen. Neither of us had anything pressing on our calendars (save grad school work for me, but that will be what I do next), and Mercer’s game was scheduled for 6PM. While I would have preferred a game where Georgia was off, or the timing was such that I could have watched the Georgia game before/after the Mercer game, that wasn’t in the cards yesterday.
Mercer certainly is trying to provide ample entertainment to their fans before/during a game, but when you’re used to the spectacle of Georgia football, anything they’re going to do seems quite tame. Parking was available on campus for a mere $10 (closer than I’ve ever parked for a Georgia game), they had food trucks and tents set up near a stage and a large screen (where they played the Clemson-GT game and the UGA-UT game (at least until the picture froze)). The stage hosted three groups, none of which I had ever heard of before. The ‘headliner’ (if you can call it that) was the Ying-Yang twins. Our tolerance for rap is minimal at best, and when the UGA game picture froze, we decided we’d had enough.
So, at the point where we entered the stadium, we had seen about 1.5 quarters of Georgia football. We often record games (even when we watch live), so this was no exception. We hoped that we would be able to get home without knowing the outcome. Friends, when you are out in public on game day, it’s a rare event that someone doesn’t say something about the game. In our case, there was a rather sweet elderly gentleman sitting behind my left shoulder that wanted to give his companions play-by-play of the Georgia game. I turned around and asked him, as sweetly as I possibly could, not to talk about that game, since I didn’t want to know the outcome before I got home to watch it. He didn’t seem to understand me, but his companions did, and at some point, I realized they were all gone. I doubt highly that they are reading this post, but I hope they know just how grateful I am that they left the vicinity (even if it wasn’t intentional). I knew the game was close, but we managed to make it home without knowing the outcome. We went ahead and watched the end of the game when we got home last night. Much like last year’s GT game, this was a game we had no business winning, but here we are.
However, it is our intention to celebrate Georgia Bulldog Football Wins whenever and wherever they occur. The ugliness or beauty of any particular win is irrelevant for the purposes of the Winning Smart Victory Post. It is therefore my deepest honor and privilege to bring to you this week’s edition of: The Winning Smart Victory Post.
Coach Kirby Smart coached his 127th game this week for the Red & Black. He currently boasts a 108-19 record and a 0.8504 winning percentage, having carded his one hundred eighth win overall in the third game of the 2025 season against the Volunteers of Tennessee.
At the identical juncture in their careers:
Vince Dooley’s 127th game as head coach resulted in a Georgia Bulldogs win over the Clemson in the fourth game of the 1975 season, giving Coach Dooley a record of 85-38-5 and 0.6890 percentage.
Coach Mark Richt was 95-32 (0.7540) after a loss to Mississippi State in the fourth game of the 2010 season.
One hundred and twenty seven games into his head coaching career Kirby Smart is thirteen games ahead of Coach Mark Richt and ahead of Coach Vince Dooley by 23 games. As of now, he is holding his own versus the two winningest coaches in Georgia Football History.
As always . . .
Go ‘Dawgs !!!!
