Proof that Sanford Stadium at night is more intimidating than Tiger Stadium at night

If you plan on beating the Georgia Bulldogs Between the Hedges on a college football Saturday night, you need to bring your A game for a full four quarters. While Georgia did stumble at home for the first time in years earlier this season to Alabama, the Texas Longhorns were no match for the hostile road environment they were thrust into. Texas kept it close for a while before the floodgates opened up.

After going for it on fourth down deep in their own territory, Georgia would take a 21-10 lead before executing one of the greatest onside kicks you will ever see to perfection, all before making it 28-10 Georgia in a matter of minutes. Texas had no answer for any of this, culminating in Georgia's breezy 35-10 win over their emerging SEC rival. Georgia had the better team, but it also had this in its favor.

One of the reasons Georgia was able to pull off this impressive victory was the home environment.

While there are certainly other stadiums in college football where winning on the road as a visitor is incredibly challenging, the home-field advantage Georgia has at Sanford Stadium has historically been overlooked. There are reasons for this, one of which being many of the greatest memories in Georgia football history have come away from Athens, whether that be on the road or in Jacksonville.

That being said, Saturday night gave Dawg Nation one of its greatest home victories in quite a while.

Georgia Bulldogs fans react to the amazing crowd from the Texas game

Dawg Nation, and some legions of Longhorn Nation, were thoroughly impressed by the atmosphere.

Sanford Stadium may not have the dark cloud looming over the opposition at night, but it is coming...

This is what happens when you have a juggernaut football program in the southeast in one of the best college towns in America. It does not hurt that the University of Georgia is one of the best party schools in the land as well. What this does is have Dawg Nation more than ready for who is coming down the track on a given week. Georgia is a team finding itself, in part with the help of the fanbase.

Georgia only has one or maybe two home games left the rest of the way, but Dawg Nation travels well.

Georgia Bulldogs are feeding off the energy the home crowd is providing

We have seen it first-hand the importance of having the home crowd pick up the good guys whenever they play in the friendly confines in any sport. Home-field advantage is a real thing, but it has not always been something that has been an undeniable carrying card for UGA. Again, Georgia is a great football that can win seemingly anywhere, one with a passionate fanbase with a big following.

Yet for whatever reason, it took until this season, or really this game even, for the college football world to fully understand what is taking place in Athens Between the Hedges. Unless you bleed Red and Black, you want nothing to do with playing a game at Sanford Stadium, especially after the sun goes down. Momentum is a very real thing. It is difficult to quantify, but you can feel in your bones.

Overall, Sanford Stadium has become as difficult of a place to win on the road in the SEC as Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It is known colloquially as the Death Star for obvious reasons. For as much hoopla as there has been surrounding one of the Death Valleys in Tiger Stadium, this is time where Sanford Stadium should be getting its long overdue shine as a venue.

Texas was not ready for what was about to hit them. The same principle applies to most of the SEC.