Smith: Bobby Garrard

After winning three Southeastern Conference championships and making six bowl trips—including the Rose Bowl and two visits to the Orange Bowl—the coming of the fifties was not a sound era for the Georgia Bulldogs.

Smith: Dawgs travel to Oxford

OXFORD, Miss.

Smith: South Dakota

Last weekend was something of an “old home week” for me as I returned to our nation’s 40th state for the first time in four years, making me realize just how much I have missed pheasant hunting and the warm and generous hospitality of the people.

Smith: Eyes of Texas

It was a relatively short flight of an hour and 45 minutes home from Austin for the Georgia football team last Saturday night.

Smith: Royal history in Texas

This metropolitan city is also the state capital of Texas, a music center like Athens, and the home of the Longhorns football team, which now competes in the Southeastern Conference.Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, what would Darrell Royal, Dana X. Bible, Tom Landry, and Tommy Nobis think of that?

Smith: Pumpkin season begins

October is pumpkin month. Pumpkin season lasts into November—all the way to Thanksgiving. Pumpkins are among the oldest known domesticated plants, dating back to 7000 BCE.

Smith: Chicken Little Dawgs

Defensive pessimism and doom-saying are rampant among the Georgia fan base these days. Chicken Little was dressed in red and black at the start of the week.

Smith: Flea-flicker leads to unlikely victory

The criteria for the greatest plays are not something that can be drawn up on a chalkboard. They depend on several factors and circumstances that the best screenplay writers could not script.However, you could hardly improve on what played out in the Georgia-Alabama game between the hedges on Sept.

Smith: Kentucky lapse

Other than claiming the championship prize, the greatest circumstance in team sports is having an off day, playing poorly, and winning.From Georgia's perspective, the Bulldogs escaped defeat in Lexington on Saturday night by a very narrow margin.

Smith: New press box at Sanford Stadium

You may have heard that Georgia has a new press box.The old facility gave way to premium seat locations for donors, which has been a trend regarding the media in recent years – something that has taken place in stadium enhancements and enlargements across the country.