Patrick has spent parts of the last four years covering University of Florida athletics and spent two seasons with Major League Baseball. List of college football players who have celebrity parents. However, it was his big leg and talent for booming touchbacks and making clutch kicks, like his record-setting 55-yarder in the Rose Bowl, that lifted him from lovable character to legitimate star — and made him the most popular Dawg, routinely drawing the loudest ovation during pre-game introductions at Sanford Stadium. He originally attended UGA but didn’t finish his degree until 2008. 2 in school history for rushing yards, and Michel is No. After a record-setting career in Athens that included a famous 60-yard field goal to beat Clemson, the College Football Hall of Famer went on to become the Chicago Bears’ best-ever kicker. Tarkenton is one of just four Georgia Bulldogs to ever be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Let’s take a look at 15 of the most famous UGA alumni who stepped foot on campus in Athens. Baseball and basketball fans should know this name quite well. Hines Ward still somehow owns these UGA bowl game passing records despite playing mostly wide receiver with the Bulldogs in the 1990s. The TV and radio broadcaster joined the show in 2002, but before that he studied journalism at the University of Georgia in the 1990s and had his own radio show at an Athens station. Picking your favorite Georgia Bulldogs is not as easy as it sounds, particularly if you’ve been following the Dawgs as long as I have. In his later years, he tried his hand at professional mixed martial arts and now owns three businesses. Together, they were college football's greatest ever running back tandem. Another connection: I was his paperboy, delivering The Atlanta Journal to him when he lived in the Town House apartments on Lumpkin Street, near Five Points in Athens. https://fanbuzz.com/college-football/sec/georgia/famous-uga-alumni A star on the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree and went on to become the youngest ever executive sports editor at the AJC at just 23. He bounced back with many more game-changing catches, and also served as a mentor to A.J. Join our linker program. Ask anyone on UGA’s campus and they’ll tell you that Herschel Walker is a legend. Lead singer Michael Stipe, bassist Mike Mills, guitarist and songwriter Peter Buck and drummer Bill Berry all formed the band in 1980 while in school at Georgia. And, in the years since. The first-team All American was Defensive MVP of the Rose Bowl, with 11 tackles, and was a major reason the Dawgs made it to the national championship game. However, he was much more valuable to the Dawgs as a receiver, with a particular highlight being the 2012 game against Florida, in which he broke the Georgia offense out of a slump by catching a Murray pass, breaking a tackle and scoring on a 45-yarder in the fourth quarter, to put the Dawgs ahead. Andy also was an extremely talented baseball player (he played for the Dawgs and could have signed with MLB) and played basketball and ran track in high school, too. Plus, he was from Athens, my hometown, and always impressed me as a very sharp, smart guy. Former UGA football player Bill Goldberg to be inducted into WWE Hall of Fame Friday night https://t.co/RYaqPbmJDs pic.twitter.com/JoCTf94yUx. Even the idea of maybe pushing the season back a few months has reared its head again as the COVID-19 pandemic surges back. There’s an exhaustive list of UGA alumni that have gone on to accomplish great things. . UGA football: Celebrating the 40th anniversary of ‘the sweetest season’, Junkyard flashbacks: 15 years of highs and lows with the Dawgs, Freshman memories of the Dawgs’ often-overlooked 1970 season, 20 of life’s amazing moments for a Dawgs fan. His pal Greenie, meanwhile, was the coolest Georgia quarterback I’ve ever seen, maintaining his composure even when he didn’t have much of an offensive line in front of him.