Notebook: Plenty of motivation for Bulldogs, Gators

Which is worse: dancing in the end zone in 2007 or calling two timeouts in the final minute of a blowout in 2008?

The bigger insult might depend on if you play for Florida or Georgia.

"I think both of them are pretty big," Georgia quarterback Joe Cox said. "We danced on the field and won. They probably felt pretty bad about that and they won and called timeouts, and we felt pretty bad about that. I don't know who felt worse."

Georgia safety Bryan Evans provided more detail Tuesday about how Georgia is using the two timeouts called by Florida's Urban Meyer in last year's 49-10 romp to drive the team heading into Saturday's game.

"That's something we have hanging up in our locker room," Evans said. "Every time we see his hands in a timeout position, it kind of reminds us of what happened last year. ... That's just something that motivates us as a team to never forget that image. It's something we don't want to experience again."

Evans said there are several copies of the picture of Meyer calling a timeout. Linebacker Rennie Curran said there also are pictures of Tim Tebow and the final score posted.

"Any time you've got something like that hanging up in your weight room, in your film room, it's going to make you want to work that much harder," Curran said.

What does Georgia have up its sleeve this time around?

"It's not like we've been planning an elaborate scheme to get them back and do something better," Cox said. "We know that they had the right to do that after we did what we did the year before, and now it's just another football game."

Georgia coach Mark Richt downplayed last year's game impacting this one.

"There may be some guys who are more worried about that," Richt said. "I'm more concerned about this game, this plan, this team. ... I don't think this game needs anything extra from the past to get anybody excited to play."

Walker and Tebow '1 and 1A'

Buck Belue never could have imagined that his teammate, former Georgia running back Herschel Walker, would ever have his SEC touchdown rushing record surpassed by a Florida quarterback.

Tebow and Walker are tied with 49.

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