Vince Dooley’s top five Georgia football upsets

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Number 4: Florida 1985

In 1985, Florida head coach Galen Hall brought the Gator’s first ever number one ranking to the Gator Bowl.

As often happened during the Dooley years, the Gators were on probation and ineligible for the SEC Championship. The Gator bait-ers were nevertheless confident of an eventual National Championship.

Orange evacuation

The Gator’s and their dream got up and went with freshman Keith Henderson’s two touchdown runs and a 94-yard TD jaunt by freshman Tim Worley. With the Gators primed to fall from the lofty rank attained on Tuesday of the week before, the Georgia students chanted “four whole days” through the final two Florida offensive possessions.

More seasoned Georgia football followers referenced the Florida rule violations earlier in the decade with, “While the Big Dawg was eatin’, the Gators were cheatin’.”