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Georgia native Billy Bennett has been enriching the Music City music community behind the scenes for more than four years now, applying his considerable engineering and production skills at Andrija Tokic’s Bomb Shelter studio. Nevertheless, Coutu hit a 31-yard field goal with just over six minutes remaining to tie the game, and later won it from 37 yards out as time expired. Perhaps above all, there have been nearly 1,000 players elected to the College Football Hall of Fame and, remarkably, Butler is the lone inductee who was solely a placekicker. During those four seasons, just over 91 percent of PAT attempts were successful in all of major-college football. The Athens native is perhaps best recalled locally for his kicking prowess on behalf of the Georgia football team, where from 2000-2003 he set nine NCAA, seven Southeastern Conference and 13 UGA marks for his precision and productivity in the regular presence of some 90,000 witnesses. Site Last Updated: Saturday, October 10, 6:51AM Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? He bought an allergen-proof mattress cover and cleaned the house with a spray bought from an exterminator. UGASports.com's Previous UGA Mount Rushmores: UGA Placekicker vs. NCAA (during kicker's time). He is the school’s all-time most accurate placekicker—something many Bulldog enthusiasts perhaps don’t realize. Record-setting UGA kicker Billy Bennett joins the show to discuss the kick that brought Georgia it's first win in Bryant-Denny Stadium, the time he toured with Grammy-award winning band MGMT, and the time he acted alongside Matthew McConnaughey in We Are Marshall. There have been just four Georgia players since Robinson to earn as much recognition. Do you have a sports website? Before Billy Bennett became known for making music, he was already known for his records. His most celebrated field goal was against Clemson in 1984, when he bombed a 60-yarder (“plus a foot and a half”) to give Georgia a 26-23 victory over the hated Tigers. In 1980, Robinson became just the fourth Bulldog in history, and the first in nearly a half-century (Vernon “Catfish” Smith, 1931), to receive all-conference honors for three seasons. Twice a week leading into fall camp, we will post the UGA’s Mount Rushmore of… series, whereby we each present our opinion of the top four Bulldogs representing each positional unit. Please update it here. He jumped out of bed and pulled the sheets open. But some are well aware of the work he’s done in recording studios in Athens, Nashville, New York and beyond. Join our linker program. Kevin Butler (1981-1984): What makes Kevin Butler’s 52.4 career percentage (11 of 21) of field goals made from 50+ yards notable is during the kicker’s playing days—from 1981 through 1984—only 35 percent of 50+ yard field goals were successful in all of major-college football. His 56 career field goals still rank sixth all time in school history, while his six successful kicks covering 50 yards or more are tied for third. In the NFL, Butler made 361 career field goals and won a Super Bowl as a member of the Chicago Bears. Early in the 1981 Sugar Bowl against Notre Dame with the game tied at 3-3, Robinson kicked a routine kickoff that the Fighting Irish somehow let drop at their own five-yard line.

Notre Dame attempted to field the kick, but failed, and the Dawgs recovered at the one-yard line.

Or write about sports? At Georgia, Butler connected on 79 percent of his field goals.

As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Robinson was named All-American in both 1979 and 1980.

Alas, the record will have to be something to remember him by: This show is Bennett’s final gig as a Nashvillian before he heads off to grad school at NYU... Former Georgia Kicker Billy Bennett Talks Music, Dawgs' Playoff Run. “I was living in New York and you hear all these horror stories about bed bugs, but I was able to go back to sleep that night,” he said. Brandon Coutu (2004-07): After beginning his freshman campaign of 2004 as a reserve, Brandon Coutu never looked back for the rest of his Georgia career. Bob Etter (1964-1966): A significant portion of the prompt success head coach Vince Dooley achieved (23-8-1 in his first three years after Georgia had gone 10-16-4 the previous three seasons) can be attributed to placekicker Bob Etter, or “Little Bobby.” Listed at a scant 150 pounds but was said to actually weigh more like 135, he is probably best known for the botched hold on a field-goal try he scooped up against Florida in 1964 with the score tied at 7-7. It was quite the run for a local athlete who went from playing on Fridays for Athens Academy to an important role on a great Dawgs team in 2002. Do you agree with our Mount Rushmore of UGA Placekickers? Another kick he may be known for wasn’t a field goal nor an extra point, but what was essentially a 59-yard onside kick.

“I remember College Gameday came when Georgia played LSU (in 2003),” Herbstreit said. Are you a Stathead, too?

Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. In 2007 at Vanderbilt, Georgia trailed 17-14 late in the fourth quarter. Kevin Butler (1981-84): Considering his college and NFL careers, not only is Kevin Butler perhaps Georgia’s greatest kicker, but possibly the greatest in the history of the sport. David Pollack shares painful memories of UGA’s missed FGs vs. LSU in 2003 Former Georgia kicker Billy Bennett missed three field goals against LSU in 2003. Since a short pro career, he has worked on many things, including running Total Kicker—a kicking camp prepping kickers at all levels for their upcoming seasons. Until then, again, do you agree with UGASports.com’s list? Your account has an invalid email address. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Notably, of his 13 missed field goals, just two were inside 40 yards. In the years after graduating, Bennett discovered a passion and talent for music, applying his competitive drive to engineering others’ music and writing his own psychedelic-inspired material. 45 min OCT 14, 2020 E8: David Pollack on The Georgia vs. Alabama Matchup He set another NCAA record with 87 career field goals, which is currently third all time in college football. Rex Robinson (1977-80): After struggling his freshman season of 1977, connecting on just 10 of 20 field goals, Rex Robinson made an amazing 46 of 64 (72 percent) attempts the rest of his Bulldog career.

Coutu made 80.3 percent of his career field goals (53-for-66), and was a perfect 114-for-114 on extra points. Below are the UGA football kicking records, including PAT’s, field goals, most points, touchbacks, and more. Robinson was 15-for-17 as a sophomore, 15-for-25 as a junior, and 16-for-22 as a senior when Georgia won the National Championship.

Former UGA placekicker Billy Bennett had a memorable tenure as a student athlete between 2000-’03, becoming the first of only three SEC players with more than 400 career points. For one, after sparingly kicking as a true freshman in 1987, he essentially took over the team’s placekicking duties during his sophomore campaign, claiming the role from senior Steve Crumley—a good kicker in his own right. Who would you put on your Mount Rushmore of UGA Placekickers?

Former UGA placekicker Billy Bennett had a memorable tenure as a student athlete between 2000-’03, becoming the first of only three SEC players with more than 400 career points. Soon we’ll have the opportunity to hear a full album’s worth of his own ingenious, highly detailed and somewhat warped pop creations like “Patchwork Man” and “World Wide Jeb” — those 2017 singles sound something like The Beach Boys during different phases of a serious existential crisis.

Do you have a blog? All rights reserved. Still, perhaps more so, he is a prime example of how comparing statistics from different eras is often an unfair assessment. These days, he has since returned to UGA where he is the graduate assistant kicking coach for the Bulldogs. Find out more. In comparison, Bulldog placekickers scored 23 percent of the team’s points the two seasons prior (1985-1986) and, even during the Kevin Butler era (1981-1984), Georgia kickers were responsible for 28 percent of the scoring. He made 77 career attempts (and probably would have had more if not for Herschel Walker repeatedly scoring touchdowns during the 1981-1982 seasons), including 11 from 50-plus yards—a Georgia record.

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