The 2005 Georgia Bulldogs football team completed the season with a 10-3 record. Winning 10 games for the fourth year in a row, Georgia tied its own record for consecutive 10 win seasons. The Bulldogs, with a regular season SEC

Southeastern Conference

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 record of 6-2, won the SEC East and advanced to the 2005 SEC Championship Game

2005 SEC Championship Game

The 2005 Dr. Pepper SEC Championship Game was played on December 3, 2005 in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. The game determined the 2005 football champion of the Southeastern Conference. The Georgia Bulldogs, winners of the Eastern division of the SEC, defeated the LSU Tigers, who won the...

. Georgia beat LSU

2005 LSU Tigers football team

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 in the Georgia Dome

Georgia Dome

The Georgia Dome is a domed stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, between downtown to the east and Vine City to the west. It is primarily the home stadium for the NFL Atlanta Falcons and the NCAA Division I FCS Georgia State Panthers football team. It is owned and operated by the...

 and went on to represent the SEC in the 2006 Sugar Bowl

2006 Sugar Bowl

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 at the same stadium (a one-time deal due to the Louisiana Superdome

Louisiana Superdome

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 being unfit to host that year). The team lost to West Virginia

2005 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

The 2005 West Virginia Mountaineers football team completed the season with an 11–1 record. The Mountaineers won their third consecutive Big East Title with a conference record of 7–0...

 and finished the season ranked 10th in the polls. This was the Georgia Bulldogs' fifth season under the guidance of head coach Mark Richt

Mark Richt

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.

Preseason

Coming off a strong 2004 season in which the Bulldogs were ranked No. 6 in the final Coaches Poll

Coaches Poll

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, Georgia was ranked No. 13 in the preseason Coaches Poll

Coaches Poll

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. D.J. Shockley was selected as the overall team captain and represented the offense, Max Jean-Gilles

Max Jean-Gilles

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 was the other offensive captain, Kedric Golston and Greg Blue

Greg Blue

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 were the defensive captains and Mike Gilliam was captain of the special teams.

Schedule

Roster

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Pos	Name	Class	Number
QB	D.J. Shockley	Sr.(RS)	3
QB	Joe Tereshinski	Jr.(RS)	13
QB	Joe Cox	Fr.	14
QB	Blake Barnes	Fr.(RS)	15
RB	Thomas Brown	So.	20
RB	Danny Ware	So.(RS)	28
RB	Kregg Lumpkin	So.(RS)	6
RB	Tyson Browning	Sr.(RS)	31
FB	Brannan Southerland	Fr.(RS)	36
FB	Tony Milton	Sr.(RS)	9
FB	Des Williams	So.(RS)	35
WR	Bryan McClendon	Sr.	16
WR	Mohamed Massaquoi	Fr.	1
WR	AJ Bryant	So.	18
WR	Kenneth Harris	Fr.	80
WR	Mario Raley	Jr.(RS)	80
WR	Mikey Henderson	So.(RS)	27
TE	Leonard Pope	Jr.	81
TE	Martrez Milner	Jr.(RS)	87
TE	Tripp Chandler	Fr.	86
DE	Quentin Moses	Jr.	94
DE	Charles Johnson	So.	99
DE	Marcus Howard	So.(RS)	38
DE	Roderick Battle	Fr.	41
DL	Kedric Goulston	Sr.	97
DL	Jeff Owens	Fr.	95
LB	Tony Taylor	Jr.(RS)	43
LB	Danny Verdun-Wheeler	Jr.(RS)	42
LB	Jarvis Jackson	Jr.	45
LB	Dannell Ellerbe	Fr.(RS)	33
LB	Brandon Miller	So.	12
CB	Tim Jennings	Sr.	23
CB	Demario Minter	Sr.	2
CB	Paul Oliver	So.(RS)	8
CB	Thomas Flowers	So.(RS)	29
CB	Bryan Evans	Fr.	3
S	Greg Blue	Sr.(RS)	17
S	Tra Battle	Jr.(RS)	25
S	Kelin Johnson	So.	30
S	CJ Byrd	Fr.	5
K	Brandon Coutu	So.(RS)	96
K	Andy Bailey	So.(RS)	93
P	Gordon Ely-Kelso	Jr.(RS)	95

Team

class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;">	Statistic	UGA	Opponent
Scoring	384	213
Points per Game	29.5	16.4
First Downs	258	229
Rushing	106	114
Passing	132	101
Penalty	20	14
Total Offense	5,085	4,075
Avg per Play	6.2	4.8
Avg per Game	391.2	313.5
Fumbles-Lost	21-11	27-13
Penalties-Yards	77-697	104-756
Avg per Game	53.6	58.2

class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;"> Statistic UGA Opponent Punts-Yards 57-2,443 80-3,140   Avg per Punt 37.9 41.0 Time of Possession/Game 28:36 31:24 3rd Down Conversions 60 / 163 (37%) 70 / 188 (37%) 4th Down Conversions 7 / 12 (58%) 9 / 16 (56%) Touchdowns Scored 45 27 Field Goals-Attempts-Long 23-30-58 9-12-45 PAT-Attempts 45-45 (100%) 24-25 (96%) Attendance 556,206 253,607   Games/Avg per Game 6 / 92,701 4 / 63,402

Scores by quarter