114 of their 119 meetings are on file: they first met in 1893, and the earliest on file is 1902; officially, Georgia leads 73–41–5; as played, 69–40–5 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Georgia 9–1, and Georgia has won the last 8. The winner takes home the Governor’s Cup. Georgia holds it. The official count covers every meeting. Share
Who holds it comes from the games on file: the winner of the latest regular-season meeting (bowl rematches aren’t played for it); a tie leaves it with the holder (the usual rule; the article doesn’t say). From Wikipedia’s list of rivalry games and the rivalry’s article (CC BY-SA). More on the Governor’s Cup.
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Georgia’s side (Cunningham 4–2–1 against Heisman). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Georgia Georgia TechTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers
1905 · The semi-weekly messenger, Wilmington, N.C., Nov 21, 1905
1907 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 3, 1907
1909 · The Montgomery advertiser, Alabama, Nov 26, 1909
1911 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 19, 1911
1913 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 16, 1913
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players run unto the field during their 1949 football game against the Georgia BulldogsPhoto: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe 1949 game
From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).