Classic Moments In Championship Mode: Brandon Spikes, 2008 Florida-Georgia

As soon as that happened, I knew the Gators weren’t losing that game.

Although I wish Meyer would have done something different other than call those timeouts. He should have done something much, much worse.

I love this play – just because of when it happened….first offensive series of the game for the Dawgs, coming off the big win & end zone dance party USA in the previous year’s game. The fans were in a frenzy – UGA fans hoping that they had finally reversed the trend, and UF fans screaming for revenge. This set the tone for the game. UF would not be denied and Moreno wouldn’t come anywhere near his 180+ yard and 2 TD performance of 2007.

I kind of wish Meyer would have let the timeout thing go and not done anything at all. You know, be the bigger man for once? It also would have sent the message to UGA that you can dance all you want, but you are insignificant to us, because we own you. Instead, Meyer let it be known that he was really bothered by the dancing and had to do something for payback.

I’ve never really faulted Richt for his dance party though – he was just trying to do something as a coach to help his team get over the psychological advantage the Gators have had over them for this long stretch.

… One of my all time favorites. The point at the game in which it occurred, and the seething anger/hatred Gator Nation had for the Bulldogs’ audacity to endzone-dance the year prior, not to mention their nerve for believing they could actually beat us more than once or twice a decade, all combined to an awesome release/venting occurance right as Spikes leveled Moreno.