If you’re a UGA football fan, you probably visibly wince when someone brings up the 2018 National Championship Game, or the 2012 SEC Championship Game, or even the 1983 Sugar Bowl — all close calls and lost chances for the Bulldogs to win a national title.
But a year that is seldom mentioned in that group of painful memories is the 2002 season because truthfully, the Dawgs were never really given a fair shot.
It was in the height of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) years when the national championship teams were decided by poll information fed into a computer database, which then gave us the rankings.