Georgia–South Carolina football rivalry

Georgia Bulldogs

South Carolina Gamecocks

First meeting

November 3, 1894
Georgia 40, South Carolina 0

Latest meeting

September 19, 2015
Georgia 52, South Carolina 20

Next meeting

October 8, 2016

Statistics

Meetings total

All-time series

Georgia leads, 48–18–2

Largest victory

Georgia, 40–0 (1894)

Longest win streak

Georgia, 10 (1908–41, 1966–77)^[1]

Current win streak

Georgia, 1 (2015–present)

The Georgia–South Carolina football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Georgia Bulldogs and South Carolina Gamecocks. The rivalry started in 1894, and has been played annually since the Gamecocks joined the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in 1992. Georgia leads the series 48–18–2.^[1]

Emergence of the rivalry

Traditionally, Georgia has had three main rivals: Georgia Tech, Auburn, and Florida.

The two schools played periodically until South Carolina's entrance into the SEC in 1992.^[2]
Recruiting battles have always existed between the two, but intensified due to South Carolina's success under head coach Steve Spurrier.^[3]
Georgia's fan base has disliked former South Carolina football coach, Steve Spurrier, since his days as head coach at the University of Florida.^[4]
The last 14 games have been nationally televised, dating back to 1997 (6 on ESPN2, 4 on ESPN and 4 on CBS).

They’ve got more rivals than almost anybody I know. They really do. Traditionally, we’ve only had Clemson because we haven’t beaten anybody enough to have any more rivals. Georgia, I’ve always said, is our biggest conference rival since they’re closest to us, I think, than any other school.^[5]
— Steve Spurrier, former South Carolina Head Coach, October 33, 2012

Notable games

1980: One of the most memorable games was the 1980 game between Heisman Trophy hopefuls George Rogers and Herschel Walker. Led by Walker's 219 rushing yards, Georgia won 13–10 and went on to win the national title. Rogers turned in 168 rushing yards in the contest, setting the stage for a successful finish to his Heisman Trophy campaign.
1993: South Carolina defeated #14 Georgia in Athens 23–21 when running back Brandon Bennett dove over the pile into the end zone with two seconds left to give South Carolina just their 10th victory ever against Georgia.^[6]
2000: South Carolina's defense intercepted Heisman Trophy hopeful Quincy Carter five times in a 21–10 upset of the #10 Bulldogs in Columbia. The victory broke an 18-game SEC losing streak for the Gamecocks.^[7]
2002: Georgia linebacker David Pollack batted down and intercepted a pass from South Carolina quarterback Corey Jenkins in the South Carolina end zone. This memorable play jump-started a quiet Georgia team, leading to a 13–7 victory.^[8]
2004: Georgia fell down early 16–0 thanks to a pick-six and an amazing touchdown catch and run by Troy Williamson. However, David Greene led a second-half comeback, complete with a deep touchdown pass to Reggie Brown late in the fourth. Georgia won 20–16 and kept their SEC hopes alive.^[9]
2005: D. J. Shockley's first SEC start after being named the player of the week by the SEC for the opener against Boise State. The Heisman campaign by Shockley came crashing down against South Carolina as the Gamecocks stifled the Georgia offense. Georgia would survive and win 17–15.^[10]
2007: South Carolina's second win against Georgia in the Richt era. The Gamecocks won 16–12, holding off a late drive by Georgia and recording an interception to end the game.^[11]
2008: The second-ranked Bulldogs won a low scoring game on particularly hot and humid day in Williams-Brice Stadium. A goal-line fumble forced by Rennie Curran and a late game interception from Reshad Jones preserved an otherwise unimpressive 14–7 victory.^[12]
2009: Considered an instant classic, South Carolina jumped all over the Bulldogs, taking an early 17–7 lead, but #21 Georgia stormed back and won a shootout, 41–37, sealed by a batted pass in the end zone by linebacker Rennie Curran.^[13]
2010: The match-up in Columbia highlighted the archetype of the rivalry - a low scoring defensive shootout. #24 South Carolina defeated #22 Georgia 17–6, pulling away late in the game. Freshman running back Marcus Lattimore ran for 182 yards on 37 carries in his SEC debut.^[14] This victory set the stage for South Carolina's run to the SEC Championship.^[15]
2011: The 2011 game proved to be almost identical to the 2009 game. The #12 Gamecocks defeated the unranked Bulldogs in Athens 45–42. South Carolina defensive end Melvin Ingram became the third player since 2006 to score a touchdown both on offense and defense in the same game, a 68-yard run on a fake punt and a 5-yard fumble return. He also recovered an onside kick late in the game to seal the victory for the Gamecocks.^[16] South Carolina was the division leader for the majority of the season until the Gamecocks lost to the Arkansas Razorbacks, resulting in a Bulldog berth in the championship game.^[17]
2012: #6 South Carolina defeated #5 Georgia 35–7 in front of a record crowd (85,199) at Williams-Brice Stadium, the highest-ranked matchup of the teams in series history and the first time the Gamecocks have won three in a row over the Bulldogs.^[18]
2013: #11 Georgia snapped #6 South Carolina's three game win streak against the Bulldogs. A career day by Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray who had 309 passing yards and 4 touchdowns to go along with 132 rushing yards and touchdown by running back Todd Gurley led the Georgia win.^[19]

Schedule change

In most years, since the 1991 SEC conference expansion, the game was the first conference game on the schedule for both teams. The game was typically held during the second week of the season with a non-conference game being played prior. (This was typically the case with a few early exceptions where the game was the first game of the season for both programs.) Due to SEC expansion in 2012, the schedule needed to be modified to accommodate new SEC members Texas A&M and Missouri. These became known as "bridge" schedules because they were meant to be temporary scheduling formats used to bridge the gap between the formats of 5–1–2, pre-expansion, and 6–1–1, which was agreed upon by the SEC membership as the new format. The 2012 "bridge" schedule, issued by the SEC home office, moved the UGA-USC game to October 6, 2012. However, in 2013 the SEC offices saw fit, even in the face of issuing another "bridge" schedule, to move the yearly tilt between the two programs back to the second week of the season for each program stating that the game would fill needed conference TV inventory for the early week in the season. At the same time the SEC announced that another "bridge" schedule would be issued for 2014, but that schedule has yet to be released by the SEC home office in Birmingham, Alabama.^[20]^[21]^[22] However, later the SEC released a 2014 schedule that is not a bridge schedule, and also released the future cross-division opponents for each team for the 2014-2025 seasons. Additionally, while USC remained as UGA's first conference game, the first conference game for USC was a week 1 game against Texas A&M. It remains to be seen if this is a permanent change to USC's schedule, as the SEC has yet to release schedules for 2015 and beyond.

Game results

Georgia victories	South Carolina victories	Tie games

#	Date	Location	Winner	Score
1	October 3, 1894	Columbia, SC	Georgia	40–0
2	October 20, 1900	Athens, GA	Georgia	5–0
3	October 12, 1901	Augusta, GA	Georgia	10–5
4	October 17, 1903	Athens, GA	South Carolina	17–0
5	October 26, 1904	Columbia, SC	South Carolina	2–0
6	October 17, 1908	Athens, GA	Georgia	29–6
7	October 7, 1911	Athens, GA	Georgia	38–0
8	October 11, 1919	Athens, GA	Georgia	14–0
9	October 9, 1920	Columbia, SC	Georgia	37–0
10	October 4, 1924	Athens, GA	Georgia	18–0
11	October 2, 1937	Columbia, SC	Georgia	13–7
12	October 1, 1938	Columbia, SC	Georgia	7–6
13	November 18, 1939	Athens, GA	Georgia	33–7
14	October 5, 1940	Columbia, SC	Georgia	33–2
15	October 4, 1941	Athens, GA	Georgia	34–6
16	October 4, 1958	Athens, GA	South Carolina	24–14
17	October 3, 1959	Columbia, SC	#16 South Carolina	30–14
18	October 1, 1960	Athens, GA	Georgia	38–6
19	October 7, 1961	Athens, GA	Georgia	17–14
20	October 6, 1962	Columbia, SC	Tie	7–7
21	October 5, 1963	Athens, GA	Georgia	27–7
22	October 3, 1964	Columbia, SC	Tie	7–7
23	October 1, 1966	Columbia, SC	Georgia	7–0
24	October 7, 1967	Athens, GA	#5 Georgia	21–0
25	October 5, 1968	Columbia, SC	#16 Georgia	21–20
26	October 4, 1969	Athens, GA	#7 Georgia	41–16
27	October 31, 1970	Athens, GA	Georgia	52–34
28	October 30, 1971	Columbia, SC	#7 Georgia	24–0
29	September 28, 1974	Athens, GA	Georgia	52–14
30	September 27, 1975	Columbia, SC	Georgia	28–20
31	September 25, 1976	Athens, GA	#7 Georgia	20–12
32	September 24, 1977	Columbia, SC	Georgia	15–13
33	September 30, 1978	Columbia, SC	South Carolina	27–10
34	September 29, 1979	Athens, GA	South Carolina	27–20
35	November 1, 1980	Athens, GA	#4 Georgia	13–10

#	Date	Location	Winner	Score
36	September 26, 1981	Athens, GA	#17 Georgia	24–0
37	September 25, 1982	Columbia, SC	#7 Georgia	34–18
38	September 24, 1983	Athens, GA	#14 Georgia	31–13
39	September 29, 1984	Columbia, SC	South Carolina	17–10
40	September 28, 1985	Athens, GA	Georgia	35–21
41	September 27, 1986	Columbia, SC	Georgia	31–26
42	September 26, 1987	Athens, GA	Georgia	13–6
43	September 24, 1988	Columbia, SC	#14 South Carolina	23–10
44	September 30, 1989	Athens, GA	South Carolina	24–20
45	September 5, 1992	Columbia, SC	#14 Georgia	28–6
46	September 4, 1993	Athens, GA	South Carolina	23–21
47	September 3, 1994	Columbia, SC	Georgia	24–21
48	September 2, 1995	Athens, GA	Georgia	42–23
49	September 14, 1996	Columbia, SC	South Carolina	23–14
50	September 13, 1997	Athens, GA	#25 Georgia	31–15
51	September 12, 1998	Columbia, SC	#13 Georgia	17–3
52	September 11, 1999	Athens, GA	#12 Georgia	24–9
53	September 9, 2000	Columbia, SC	South Carolina	21–10
54	September 8, 2001	Athens, GA	#21 South Carolina	14–9
55	September 14, 2002	Columbia, SC	#10 Georgia	13–7
56	September 13, 2003	Athens, GA	#8 Georgia	31–7
57	September 11, 2004	Columbia, SC	#4 Georgia	20–16
58	September 10, 2005	Athens, GA	#9 Georgia	17–15
59	September 9, 2006	Columbia, SC	#12 Georgia	18–0
60	September 8, 2007	Athens, GA	South Carolina	16–12
61	September 13, 2008	Columbia, SC	#2 Georgia	14–7
62	September 12, 2009	Athens, GA	#21 Georgia	41–37
63	September 11, 2010	Columbia, SC	#24 South Carolina	17–6
64	September 10, 2011	Athens, GA	#12 South Carolina	45–42
65	October 6, 2012	Columbia, SC	#6 South Carolina	35–7
66	September 7, 2013	Athens, GA	#11 Georgia	41–30
67	September 13, 2014	Columbia, SC	#24 South Carolina	38–35
68	September 19, 2015	Athens, GA	#7 Georgia	52–20
Series: Georgia leads 48–18–2

Series record sources: ESPN College Football Encyclopedia^[23] College Football Data Warehouse.^[24]

Border Bash

The Border Bash is an annual event held in Augusta, Georgia on the banks of the Savannah River celebrating Georgia–South Carolina rivalry. It is held on the Friday prior to the yearly UGA-USC football game. The event is supported by numerous business and private sponsors from both sides of the river. The evening event regularly draws over 10,000 fans from both fan-bases and proceeds are used to support numerous children's charities from around the CSRA through the Border Bash Foundation. Both mascots, as well as each program's cheerleaders, represent their programs at the event along with various dignitaries from the schools themselves. Neither the football coaches or the ballplayers attend due to conflicts with their pregame preparations.^[25]^[26]

References

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↑ "Gamecocks preparing for emotional week". IndependentMail.com. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
↑ South Carolina-Georgia 1993: Who Could Forget?
↑ Georgia vs. South Carolina Sep 09, 2000
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↑ "Greene heats up late to rescue Bulldogs". ESPN.com. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
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↑ "UGA survives Gamecocks to earn- revenge". Anderson Independent Mail. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
↑ Foster, Mike. "The UGA-South Carolina Rivalry: Downright Dirty, New Fashioned Hate". The Bleacher Report. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
↑ "Marcus Lattimore gives South Carolina edge over Georgia". ESPN. Associated Press. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
↑ "South Carolina 2010 Results". 247 Sports. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
↑ "Georgia turnovers help No. 12 South Carolina win on the road". ESPN. Associated Press. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
↑ "Georgia fights off Kentucky to win SEC East title". ESPN. Associated Press. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
↑ "Connor Shaw solid as South Carolina squashes Georgia to stay unbeaten". ESPN.com. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
↑ "Aaron Murray, No. 11 Georgia top No. 6 S. Carolina in SEC East clash". ESPN.com. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
↑ "SEC has another 'bridge' schedule in 2013". Times Free Press. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
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↑ and College Football Data Warehouse, Retrieved October 02, 2012.
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Georgia Bulldogs football

Venues	Herty Field (1892–1910) Sanford Field (1911–1928) Sanford Stadium (1929–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Auburn: Deep South's Oldest Rivalry Clemson Florida Georgia Tech: Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate South Carolina Tennessee Vanderbilt

Culture & lore	Hairy Dawg Uga "Glory, Glory" Georgia Redcoat Marching Band First forward pass 1927 Yale game

People	Head coaches Steadman V. Sanford Larry Munson Morgan Blake NFL draftees Starting quarterbacks Statistical leaders

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South Carolina Gamecocks football

Venues	Williams-Brice Stadium (1934–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Clemson Georgia North Carolina

Culture & lore	Cocky "The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way" Mighty Sound of the Southeast Sandstorm Clemson–South Carolina football brawl

People	Head coaches Statistical leaders NFL draftees

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Southeastern Conference football rivalry games

Conference	Iron Bowl (Alabama–Auburn) Alabama–LSU Alabama–Mississippi State Alabama–Ole Miss Third Saturday in October (Alabama–Tennessee) Arkansas–LSU Battle Line Rivalry (Arkansas–Missouri) Arkansas–Ole Miss Arkansas–Texas A&M Auburn–Florida Deep South's Oldest Rivalry (Auburn–Georgia) Auburn–LSU Auburn–Tennessee Florida–Georgia Florida–LSU Florida–Tennessee Georgia–South Carolina Georgia–Tennessee Georgia–Vanderbilt Kentucky–Mississippi State Kentucky–Tennessee Kentucky–Vanderbilt LSU–Mississippi State Magnolia Bowl (LSU–Ole Miss) LSU–Texas A&M Egg Bowl (Mississippi State–Ole Miss) Ole Miss–Vanderbilt Tennessee–Vanderbilt

Non-conference	Alabama–Penn State Arkansas–Texas Auburn–Clemson Auburn–Georgia Tech Auburn–Tulane Battle of the Brazos (Baylor–Texas A&M) Clemson–Georgia Clemson–South Carolina Florida–Florida State Florida–Miami Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate (Georgia–Georgia Tech) Georgia Tech–Tennessee Illinois–Missouri Indiana–Kentucky Iowa State–Missouri Border War (Kansas–Missouri) Centre–Kentucky Kentucky–Louisville Battle On Broadway (Kentucky–Transylvania) Battle for the Rag (LSU–Tulane) Memphis–Ole Miss Missouri–Nebraska Missouri–Oklahoma NC State–South Carolina North Carolina–South Carolina Ole Miss–Tulane Sewanee–Vanderbilt TCU–Texas A&M Texas A&M–Texas Tech Texas–Texas A&M

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