Episode 2648: Fernando Mendoza shares surprising detail about his recruitment by UGA

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🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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DawgNation Daily -- the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fans Beginning of the show: I discuss a recent admission from Heisman-winning quarterback Fernando Mendoza about how close he came to almost coming to Georgia. 10-minute mark: I discuss two Georgia players getting arrested on misdemeanor driving charges. 20-minute mark: I share some strong comments from five-star UGA running back commit Kemon Spell firing back against those who don't think he'll remain committed to the Bulldogs. 30-minute mark: Former UGA wide receiver Terrence Edwards joins the show. 45-minute mark: I take a look at other SEC headlines including the growing hype around Lane Kiffin at LSU. End of show: I award a Golden Shoe winner and share the Gator Hater Updater.

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0:00.0	Today's episode of Dog Nation Daily is brought to you by Mary Weather and Tharp, your source for Georgia divorce.
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0:13.3	Presented by Dog Nation.com. This is Dog Nation Daily, the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fame.
0:19.8	Here's your host, Brandon Adams.
0:21.2	All right, we got some bad news around Dog Nation last 24 hours or so. We do have to talk about it. We'll do that in a couple of minutes. But would it be okay? I'm assuming the answer is yes. Would it be okay if we just had a little bit of fun before we got there? Obviously, there are some things we have to do and we'll do them. but let's do what we came to do first,
0:38.3	and then we'll get to all of that here coming up in just a moment.
0:42.2	A lot of you are aware that this time a year ago, or around this time a year ago, Georgia was in the mix for eventual Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, who would go on win the Heisman
0:55.3	Trophy, win the national championship. He had been at Cal, and there had been some chatter
1:00.3	at the time about, well, maybe Georgia's interest in Mendoza. And obviously Mendoza became
1:05.1	much more famous when he got to Indiana because of the success that he had. But in terms of
1:09.8	the prospect, the level of prospect he was leaving Cal his previous
1:13.8	spot, he was already a pretty coveted guy because he'd put up big numbers and had great success
1:18.1	there in Berkeley.
1:20.3	And in some former fashion, we knew that Georgia was interested.
1:24.5	Now, I'll be honest with you.
1:25.9	I've always wondered how real this was.
1:28.9	There was a time in which I thought, well, it's been overstated how much Georgia may have
1:34.1	considered Mendoza. And then there was a time when I came to realize, oh, no, actually Georgia was
1:40.1	maybe just based on conversations I've had with people who know somebody who knows somebody who
1:44.7	know somebody, certainly more than me, closer to it than I am, you talk to some of them,
1:49.4	you're led to believe, oh, maybe Georgia really was, at least in the mix for Mendoza, that Georgia
1:56.9	did really pursue him as a transfer option at quarterback.
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