The 2005 Georgia Bulldogs football team completed the season with a 10–3 record. Winning 10 games for the fourth year in a row, Georgia tied its own record for consecutive 10 win seasons. The Bulldogs, with a regular season
SEC record of 6–2, won the SEC East and advanced to the
2005 SEC Championship Game. Georgia beat
LSU in the
Georgia Dome and went on to represent the SEC in the
2006 Sugar Bowl at the same stadium (a one-time deal due to the
Louisiana Superdome being unfit to host that year). The team lost to
West Virginia and finished the season ranked 10th in the polls. This was the Georgia Bulldogs' fifth season under the guidance of head coach
Mark Richt.
Preseason
Coming off a strong 2004 season in which the Bulldogs were ranked No. 6 in the final
Coaches Poll, Georgia was ranked No. 13 in the preseason
Coaches Poll.
D.J. Shockley was selected as the overall team captain and represented the offense.
Max Jean-Gilles was the other offensive captain, Kedric Golston and
Greg Blue were the defensive captains and Mike Gilliam was captain of the special teams.