There's an exciting new tradition for the University of Georgia and University of Florida, just in time for the long anticipated Georgia/Florida football game this Saturday, Oct. 31.
Not only will our football team compete for year-long bragging rights, but this year we will also compete for a traveling trophy that will go to the winner of our infamous rivalry. Cut from a 1000-year-old cypress tree from the Okefenokee Swamp, the trophy is carved in the shape of an oar, and is suitably named the Okefenokee Oar.
The trophy will be exchanged each year to the winning team of the Georgia/Florida football game, held in late October. This is the only rival trophy both schools will compete for annually, putting higher stakes on the field when the Gators and Bulldogs meet in Jacksonville, Fla. The Oar is sure to bring added esteem to the pride and passion of this heavy SEC rivalry.
The trophy is paid for in part by both UF and UGA student governments as well as an anonymous donor.
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