Georgia Bulldogs football is a tradition that dates back more than 120 years, and the program has remained one of the most prominent in all of college football throughout the decades.

Each generation of fans has memories and moments they hold near and dear to their heart, but we spanned the entire history of the program dating back to 1892 to determine the 10 most significant dates in UGA football history.

January 30, 1892: It was in early 1892 that a chemistry professor at UGA named Dr. Charles Herty, a former collegiate football star at Johns Hopkins, was inspired to assemble a team to represent the university on the gridiron for the first time. Georgia took on Mercer University at a site that would later be named Herty Field and won 7-6 in what is considered the first college football game in the deep south. Three weeks later, on February 20, 1892, Georgia took on Auburn in the first installment of The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry.

November 4, 1893: The in-state rivalry between Georgia and Georgia Tech, better known by the name Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate, debuted in November of 1893, only 22 months after Georgia’s first-ever football game at Herty Field. The hatred between these two rivals dates back well before the first meeting on the gridiron. Georgia Tech was founded in 1885, 100 years after the University of Georgia, and many at UGA (including the university president) wanted Tech to be located in Athens adjacent to the Georgia campus. Georgia Tech ultimately wound up making camp in Atlanta, which left many at UGA hot and bothered. The rivalry only intensified when it was brought to the gridiron. Georgia Tech won the first game between the two schools by a score of 28-6, but in 108 meetings since then Georgia has won 64 times and Tech 39 times (there were also five ties).

December 8-9, 1932: When a number of members from the Western half of the Southern Conference left the conference to form a new league of their own, the Southeastern Conference was formed around the former Southern Conference teams located further to the East. There are still 10 founding members that remain members of the SEC today, and Georgia is one of them. The conference wouldn’t expand for another 58 years until 1990 and then again in 2012, bringing it to the 14 members it claims today. The Bulldogs have won 12 SEC championships in their more than 70 years in the conference, the first coming in 1942 and the most recent occurring in 2005.

November 28, 1942: Forty years before Herschel Walker could achieve the feat, Georgia quarterback Frank Sinkwich became Georgia’s first Heisman winner, demolishing the rest of the field in the balloting. Sinkwich received 1,059 points from the voting, while the second-place finisher, Columbia quarterback Paul Governali, received only 218 points. He ran for 17 touchdowns in only 12 games and threw for 10 more, leading Georgia to an 11-1 season and a victory over UCLA in the 1943 Rose Bowl.

January 1, 1943: Georgia won its first Rose Bowl against UCLA by a final score of 9-0, scoring all nine points in the final quarter via a safety on a blocked punt and a Sinkwich 1-yard touchdown run to extend the UGA lead to two scores. The game had been played at Duke University the year before as many feared the action in the Pacific Theater during World War II might spill over and impact safety on America’s West Coast. The game returned to the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day in 1943, but very few Georgia fans were able to actually attend the game and many know of the game through second-hand accounts. There was no Parade of Roses that day before the game, but Georgia’s victory still closed the book on an 11-1 season that Houlgate, Sagarin and Litkenhous all deemed worthy of a national championship, the first of two that Georgia claims in its program’s history.

December 4, 1963: On this date more than 51 years ago, Georgia hired Vince Dooley as its head football coach, beginning a marriage between man and school that would span a half-century. Dooley is widely regarded as the greatest coach in Georgia history, and in 25 years as a head coach he averaged eight wins per year, won six SEC titles and the 1980 national title. He coached Herschel Walker to the Heisman Trophy in 1982 and won numerous Coach of the Year honors throughout his career, many of which came in 1980 following UGA’s unbeaten run to the title. After 25 years as a head coach he retired from coaching with a career record of 201-77-10. For those without a calculator handy, that’s a win percentage of .698. Dooley had been serving as head coach and athletic director since 1979, and after leaving the sidelines he took over as UGA’s athletic director full-time. During his time as AD he hired Mark Richt as Georgia’s football coach and oversaw two more SEC titles in Athens. He retired for good in 2004 after spending 25 years as the school’s AD. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1994.

November 8, 1980: Georgia entered its annual rivalry showdown with the Florida Gators boasting an unblemished 8-0 record and high hopes for a national championship. However, when the Bulldogs and Gators meet in The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, everything we think we know is thrown out the window in favor of the unpredictable magic that drives the rivalry. Georgia trailed with one minute to play, one timeout on its side and the ball on its own 8 yard line. The Bulldogs chances at victory seemed bleak; that is until quarterback Buck Belue scrambled through the end zone and found Lindsay Scott across the middle for a nice gain. Scott then proceeded to outrun the entire Florida defense for a miraculous 92-yard go-ahead touchdown to keep the Dawgs’ national title chances alive. The play is known as Run, Lindsay, Run for broadcaster Larry Munson’s call that day, and it is among the most famous plays in UGA football history.

January 1, 1981: Less than two months after Lindsay Scott maintained Georgia’s perfect record, the Bulldogs put perfection on the line one more time in the 1981 Sugar Bowl against Notre Dame. The Dawgs were ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press and Coaches’ Polls, meaning a victory to close a 12-0 season would have meant a national championship for Georgia. The Bulldogs fell behind 3-0 before scoring 17 unanswered points to take a commanding lead. Scott Woerner hauled in a late interception to seal the victory, Herschel Walker was named the game’s MVP and Georgia asserted itself the undisputed best team in the land with a 17-10 victory. This game also marked the debut of Georgia mascot Hairy Dawg, UGA’s second mascot in addition to Uga.

December 4, 1982: Two years after helping Georgia win the national championship as a freshman, Herschel Walker was announced as Georgia’s second ever Heisman Trophy winner, edging past Stanford quarterback John Elway and SMU tailback Eric Dickerson to earn the honor. That year Walker ran for 1,752 yards and 16 touchdowns in only 11 games, leading the SEC in total touchdowns from scrimmage in the process. For his career, Walker ran for 5,259 yards at better than five yards per carry, and added 49 touchdowns on the ground in 33 career games.

December 26, 2000: It was on this day following the 2000 season that one Georgia coaching legend, Vince Dooley, then serving as UGA’s athletic director, hired another UGA coaching legend in Mark Richt, bringing the dawn of a new era in the program’s history. Richt remains Georgia’s coach 15 years later, and he has maintained consistent success throughout his tenure, including 13 seasons with eight wins or more in a 14-year span, six SEC East titles and two conference championships. His teams have finished ranked in the final AP poll 11 times in 14 seasons, and he’s maintained a .739 win percentage throughout his career with the Dawgs.