GTU football: Now celebrating 40 years of losing to UGA

Put this one in your pipe and smoke it, pencil necks. Much as you "gys" like to proclaim once a decade or so that "the rivalry is back," the numbers dont lie. And what the numbers say is this: Maybe you all should be hoping you can get lucky again about 2008 or so.

Not many of us, or you, can remember the last time GTU dominated this series. That would be the 50s. God bless Theron Sapp, incidentally. However, since the Dooley era began, the Bulldogs have been your regular masters. You may hate it, but you cant deny it. Check it out:

1964-1969: We win 5 in a row, finally lost one in 69. This should have been a foreshadowing for you nerds, much as the last 2 years should have been. Hop on the clue bus, fellers.

1970-1979: GTU makes it 2 in a row in 70. Trend? Nope. False hope. We end the decade up 7-3, and you''ve run through a couple more coaches. Dooley''s still here, and guess who arrives next year? Uh oh.

1980-89: Say hello to Herschel, nerds. We make it up to 6 in a row before you manage to win 2 in a row behind Dewberry. For all your whining about the 5th down with Colorado in 1990, I notice none of you ever offer to give back the 85 win which was sealed courtesy of a GTU goal line stand using, as gleefully noted by the AJC, 13 people. And they say you geeks are good at math. Is this the start of a trend? Nope. We end the decade 7-3 against you again. You end it hopefully, because Dooley''s gone, Goff is in, and you figure Bobby Rothhhhh is his clear superior, but as we''ll see, you were dreaming again.

1990-1999: Odd decade. You get the UPI vote in 90 with a team rational observers agree is far inferior to Colorado, who won all the other polls. GTU at the pinnacle, right? Wrong. Guess what comes next? 7 in a row for UGA, bay-bee. You bumble through a few more coaches. Rothhhhhh quits, Bill Lewis (nice choice) turns out not to be the man, and O''Leary? We kick his blowhard ass, too. You were 2-5 against Ray Goff. If he beat everyone else like he beat you, he''d still be in charge here. You get a gift in 98 when Donnan takes the air out of the ball in the 4th quarter. You get another gift in 99 when Al Ford''s crew hands you the game. Now you''re the dominant power, right? Wrong. You end the decade with us up, ummmmmmmm....7-3. But the trend favors you, doesnt it? Hah.

2000-present: In 2000, you flat whupped us. Embarassing effort leads to Donnan getting canned. Uh oh, nerds. Meet the new boss...same as the old boss (if the old boss was Dooley). Mark Richt comes from a school, FSU, that owns you worse than even UGA does. Guess what? He''s not changing his approach from Tallahassee, either. 2001, we pummel you in the rain. O''Leary sees the handwriting on the wall, lifts his skirt and flees. He got out just in time. Welcome, Billy Bob Gailey. In 2002, we pummel you in the sunshine to the point your team quits in the second quarter. All you nerds have left is to cry about how big mean UGA ran up the score. Get ready for the deluge, nerds. We''re coming for you again.