Georgia Football Trivia
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57 free Georgia Football trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
40 free Georgia football trivia questions with answers. Georgia football is older than the SEC itself, and this quiz covers the whole run from Dr. Charles Herty's first team in 1892 to Kirby Smart's back-to-back national titles. Forty questions take in the hedges at Sanford Stadium, the Uga mascot line and the Seiler family, Wally Butts's silver britches, Frank Sinkwich and Herschel Walker's Heismans, Vince Dooley's 1980 champions, Larry Munson breaking his chair on 'Run Lindsay!', and Stetson Bennett going from walk-on to two-time champion. The rivalries get their due: the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry with Auburn, the Jacksonville game against Florida, and Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate with Georgia Tech. Easy questions ask what the mascot is called; hard ones want the year the hedges were pulled for the Olympics and the score of the 1927 upset that got Sanford Stadium built. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the program, its coaches, players and traditions, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01In which Georgia city do the Bulldogs play their home games?
Athens
Athens. Sanford Stadium was built in 1929 into a natural valley on the University of Georgia campus, so its stands rest on the hillsides instead of rising from flat ground.
Q 02Georgia's first football team in 1892 was organised by Charles Herty, a professor of which subject who later transformed the turpentine industry?
Chemistry
Chemistry. Charles Herty brought the game back from his studies at Johns Hopkins, and his cup-and-gutter way of tapping pines later kept the South's turpentine industry alive.
Q 03Georgia's home field is famously said to be 'between' what?
The hedges
The hedges. Privet has bordered the Sanford Stadium field since it opened in 1929, and by the early 1930s sportswriters were writing that Georgia would have its visitors 'between the hedges'.
Q 04Why was the famous privet border around Sanford Stadium's field removed in 1996?
To host Olympic soccer matches
To host Olympic soccer matches. A soccer pitch is wider than a football field, so the privet came out; cuttings raised at nurseries were planted once the 1996 Atlanta Games ended.
Q 05Which opponent did Georgia face in the first game at Sanford Stadium in 1929?
Yale
Yale. The heavily favoured visitors from the East lost 15-0 in front of a sell-out crowd of more than 30,000, reportedly the biggest the South had yet seen for a college game.
Q 06Which school beat the Bulldogs' 9-0 'Dream and Wonder' team 12-0 in the last game of 1927?
Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech. The upset in Atlanta cost the Bulldogs a perfect season, yet selectors including the Boand and Poling systems still named them national champions despite the loss.
Q 07Which costumed mascot made his debut when Georgia played for the national title in the 1981 Sugar Bowl?
Hairy Dawg
Hairy Dawg. Alumnus Tom Sapp created him to intimidate, after deciding Georgia's earlier costumed bulldog looked too tame beside Florida's gator mascot.
Q 08Every Uga has been owned by the Seiler family of which Georgia city?
Savannah
Savannah. Sonny Seiler was the defence lawyer in the city's most famous murder trial, and when Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was filmed he played the judge.
Q 09What do Georgia fans hold up before the fourth quarter in the tradition known as 'Light Up Sanford'?
Phone flashlights
Phone flashlights. Members of the marching band floated the idea on social media in 2015, and the stands now glitter while the band plays 'Krypton' before the final quarter.
Q 10In 1964 a new coach replaced Georgia's famous silver britches with pants of which colour?
White
White. The 1964 makeover also brought the red helmet with the oval G, and the silver britches returned just before the 1980 national championship season.
Q 11Who was the first player from the SEC to win the Heisman Trophy, doing so for Georgia in 1942?
Frank Sinkwich
Frank Sinkwich. A year earlier he broke his jaw early in the season and kept playing, wearing a custom-made protector attached to his helmet.
Q 12Georgia's 1942 team capped an 11-1 season with a 9-0 win over UCLA in which bowl game?
The Rose Bowl
The Rose Bowl. Neither side scored until the fourth quarter, when Georgia blocked a UCLA punt for a safety and then added the game's only touchdown.
Q 13Whose 79-yard interception return sealed Georgia's 2021 national title, its first in 41 years?
Kelee Ringo
Q 21In which Winter Olympic sport did Herschel Walker compete for the United States in 1992?
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh. Recruited as a pusher for his sprinter's speed and strength, he finished seventh in the two-man event at Albertville with driver Brian Shimer.
Q 22Larry Munson said he broke his steel chair calling which 1980 play against Florida?
Lindsay Scott's 93-yard touchdown catch
Lindsay Scott's 93-yard touchdown catch. Buck Belue threw it on third down with about a minute left, turning a 21-20 deficit into a 26-21 win as Munson shouted 'Run Lindsay!'
Q 23When Larry Munson landed the Georgia radio job in 1966, he had just been hired to call which newly arrived Atlanta team?
Braves
Kelee Ringo. The redshirt freshman cornerback scored with 54 seconds left to make it 33-18, ending a run of seven straight losses to the same opponent.
Q 14Which defensive coordinator of Georgia's 'Junkyard Dawgs' left after the 1980 title to restart football at Georgia Southern?
Erk Russell
Erk Russell. After 17 seasons running the Bulldogs' defence he took over a programme that had been dormant for 40 years and won three national titles at its level.
Q 15Before adopting its oval 'G' helmet logo in 1964, Georgia cleared the design with which NFL team?
Green Bay Packers
Green Bay Packers. The NFL club had worn its own oval letter since 1961 and holds the trademark, so Georgia asked permission before putting a similar one on its new red helmets.
Q 16Georgia won the 1980 national championship by beating which team 17-10 in the Sugar Bowl?
Notre Dame
Notre Dame. Freshman Herschel Walker dislocated his shoulder in the opening minutes, had it put back in place and still ran for 150 yards.
Q 17Which future NFL quarterback finished second to Herschel Walker in the 1982 Heisman Trophy vote?
John Elway
John Elway. The Stanford senior finished a distant second to Walker, who had placed third as a freshman and second as a sophomore before winning as a junior.
Q 18In which small Georgia town was Herschel Walker raised?
Wrightsville
Wrightsville. At Johnson County High there he rushed for 3,167 yards as a senior in 1979 and led the Trojans to their first state championship.
Q 19After leaving Georgia, Herschel Walker spent three seasons with which USFL team?
New Jersey Generals
New Jersey Generals. He turned professional after his junior season, which the new league allowed and the NFL did not, and rushed for 5,562 yards in three years.
Q 20Herschel Walker's 1989 trade from Dallas to which team is considered one of the most lopsided in NFL history?
Minnesota Vikings
Minnesota Vikings. The deal moved 18 players and draft picks, the most in NFL history, and Dallas turned its share into Emmitt Smith and other starters on three Super Bowl winners.
Braves. At the club's first spring training he read a newspaper story that Georgia's announcer was leaving, phoned the athletic director and got the job he would keep until 2008.
Q 24Larry Munson's 'hobnail boot' call came in a 2001 win over which team, on a David Greene touchdown pass?
Tennessee
Tennessee. Georgia got the ball back with 44 seconds left and scored with five to go, beating the sixth-ranked Volunteers 26-24 in Knoxville.
Q 25Georgia's oldest rivalry, dating to 1892, is with which school?
Auburn
It is called the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry, and the first 'Bulldogs' badge appeared at the 1901 game.
Q 26Which city hosted the neutral-site Georgia-Florida game almost every year from 1933-2025?
Jacksonville
Jacksonville. Its tailgating earned the game the nickname 'The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party', and the series left in 2026 only because the city's stadium was being rebuilt.
Q 27What is the name given to Georgia's rivalry with Georgia Tech?
Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate
Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate. Tech won the first meeting 28-6 on Georgia's own field in 1893, led by Leonard Wood, a serving Army officer who organised, coached and played for the team.
Q 28Why does Georgia not count its 1943 and 1944 losses to Georgia Tech?
Their players were away at World War II
Their players were away at World War II. Most of Georgia's regulars were serving and freshmen filled the team, so its record book lists the two defeats but leaves them out of the series total.
Q 29Georgia fans ring what after every victory, a tradition dating to the 1890s?
The Chapel Bell
The Chapel Bell. In the 1890s the playing field lay only yards from the Chapel, and freshmen were made to ring its bell until midnight after a win; today anyone may take a turn.
Q 30Which coach won 201 games, six SEC titles and the 1980 national championship in 25 seasons at Georgia?
Vince Dooley
Vince Dooley. He coached from 1964 to 1988, stayed on as athletic director until 2004, and in 2019 the playing surface at Sanford Stadium was named Dooley Field.