Jon Sumrall has already managed to get Georgia fans talking, and it’s over a phrase Florida used years ago.
The topic surfaced after Sumrall went on The Triple Option show and explained how he handles Tuesdays in practice. For him, that day is the heartbeat of the week. It’s the day he wants the most strain, the most physicality and, by his own description, the most misery.
“We got a great indoor (practice facility) here. On Tuesdays, we don’t use the damn indoor.
I don’t want anybody going in the indoor on Tuesday. We’re going to be outside.
I hope it’s hot. Tuesdays have to be physical and violent, and you gotta strain, or you don’t know how to play way on Saturday.”
That “Bloody Tuesday” label quickly became a talking point, and some Georgia voices tried to frame it as if Sumrall had lifted the idea from Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs. Georgia’s official X account also posted, “Nothin’ better than a Bloody Tuesday,” alongside a photo, marking its first reference to the phrase since April.
But the history lesson is a little messier than that. Urban Meyer was using “Bloody Tuesday” at Florida, and the idea traces back to his time at Bowling Green in 2001. If you want to push it even further, the term was first coined in the 1920s under Penn State head coach Hugo Bezdek.
In other words, this is not exactly a brand-new Georgia invention.
And really, that’s the point. The label matters less than the edge behind it. Florida fans are plenty happy to see a program showing more intensity than the last one, even if the terminology has been floating around for a long time.
What’s telling is that Florida and Georgia are still a month away from meeting in Atlanta, and Georgia is already the one with Florida on its mind.
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