With the convergence of the Redcoat Alumni Band’s fiftieth Anniversary and Bulldogs’ annual battle with Tech, the day after Thanksgiving was one to recollect.
Thanksgiving celebrations are continuously overstuffed affairs. Get-togethers contain company touring from distances each lengthy and brief. There’s meals, pleasure, togetherness, music, and drama. A lot of drama.
However even by these requirements, Friday, Nov. 29, at Sanford Stadium was a table-flipper forever.
The Redcoat Alumni Band’s day began at 9 a.m. Underneath the path of alumni drum main John Mote, greater than 400 Redcoat alumni lined up on the apply area. (Photograph by Chamberlain Smith/UGA)
As is custom, UGA’s Thanksgiving included a wholesome dose of Clear Outdated-Common Hate, with Georgia Tech coming to Athens to shut out the 2024 school soccer common season.
New company included the greater than 400 Redcoat alumni collaborating within the Redcoat Alumni Band’s fiftieth anniversary celebration. Usually, the Redcoat alumni reunite on Homecoming weekend. However for his or her silver anniversary, the rendezvous shifted to the Tech recreation.
Tom Jackson (proper), voice for the Redcoats for 50 years and former UGA vice chairman for public affairs, was honored at halftime for his service to the band and the college. Brett Bawcum, director of athletic bands, offered Jackson with an official purple coat. (Photograph by Chamberlain Smith/UGA)
Redcoat majorette alumnae got here able to twirl. (Photograph by Chamberlain Smith/UGA)
The alumni band’s halftime efficiency capped a day that began with a 9 a.m. apply. If there was a letdown following a sluggish first half that noticed the Bulldogs trailing 17-0, it was not possible to inform.
Because the temperature in Athens dropped into the 30s, UGA’s fortunes rose dramatically. The Bulldogs overcame that three-score deficit to tie the sport at 27 because the fourth quarter ended.
Eight overtimes later—the second longest FBS recreation since OT was instituted in 1996—Georgia triumphed 44-42.
The win saved Georgia within the prime 10 and, coupled with a victory over Texas within the SEC title recreation, propelled the Bulldogs into the first-ever 12-team Faculty Soccer Playoff. The victory was Georgia’s seventh straight over Tech, and the Bulldogs now maintain a 72-41-5 benefit over their in-state rivals.
With greater than 960 yards of offense from each groups mixed, Sanford Stadium noticed loads of fireworks. (Photograph by Chamberlain Smith/UGA)
