The 2006 Georgia Bulldogs football team completed the season with a 9–4 record. The Bulldogs had an SEC record of 4–4. Despite losses to unranked Kentucky and Vanderbilt, Georgia salvaged its season by beating two ranked teams in the last two games of the season: #5 Auburn and #15 Georgia Tech. A victory over #14 Virginia Tech in the 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl gave the Georgia Bulldogs three consecutive victories over top 25 teams. This was the team's sixth season under the guidance of head coach Mark Richt. Preseason Following a 2005 campaign in which the Bulldogs finished the year ranked #10, the team was given a preseason #14 in the Coaches Poll. Ten players were named to the 2006 SEC Media Days Pre-Season All-Conference Football Team. TE Martrez Milner, OT Daniel Inman, C Nick Jones, DE Quentin Moses and PK Brandon Coutu were selected as first-team members. LB Jarvis Jackson, DB Tra Battle and P Gordon Ely-Kelso were named to the second team and RB Thomas Brown and LB Tony Taylor to the third team. Schedule Rankings Roster {| class="toccolours" style="border-collapse:collapse; font-size:90%;" |- |valign="top"| Quarterbacks 7 Stafford, Matthew QB Fr. 13 Tereshinski III, Joe QB† Sr. 14 Cox, Joe QB RFr. 15 Barnes, Blake QB So. 16 Charles Stanford II QB 17 deLaureal, Jonathan QB Fr. Running Backs 6 Lumpkin, Kregg TB† Jr. 20 Brown, Thomas TB+ Jr. 24 Moreno, Knowshon TB Fr. 28 Ware, Danny TB Jr. 39 Johnson, Jason TB Jr. 47 Lane, Mitchell TB Fr. Fullbacks 33 Thomason, Brett FB So. 35 Williams, Des FB Sr. 36 Southerland, Brannan FB† So. 46 White, Stephen FB Sr. 48 Munzenmaier, Fred FB Fr. 49 Chapas, Shaun FB Fr. 98 Taylor, Tripp FB Fr. Tight Ends 81 Ward, NaDerris TE Fr. 84 Watson, Coleman TE Jr. 86 Chandler, Tripp TE So. 87 Milner, Martrez TE† Sr. 89 Holden, Trahern TE Sr. Wide Receivers 1 Massaquoi, Mohamed SE† So. 4 Bailey, Sean FLK Sr. 8 Spellman, Vernon SE RFr. 11 Hearn, Hagan WR RSo. 12 Croffie, Percie WR RJr. 16 Durham, Kris SE Fr. 18 Bryant, A.J. FLK† Jr. 26 Wilson, Tony WR Fr. 27 Henderson, Mikey FLK Jr. 80 Raley, Mario SE Sr. 82 Moore, Michael FLK RFr. 83 Gartrell, T.J. SE Jr. 85 Goodman, Demiko SE So. 88 Harris, Kenneth FLK So. |width="25"| |valign="top"| Offensive Line 61 Turner, Michael TT Sr. 63 Davis, Chris OL Fr. 63 Mitchell, Orry