Two teams on divergent paths met at Stegeman Coliseum on Wednesday night. But it was the one supposedly heading downward that came out on top. Georgia, which won one of its eight games during the first half of the SEC schedule, started the second by doubling its conference total with a 81-59 victory over Arkansas.

University of Georgia president Michael Adams expects a college football playoff to be a reality within two years. “My best guess is we’re going to end up with either a four- or eight-team playoff by the time we get to ’14,” he told the executive committee of the UGA Athletic Association’s board of directors Wednesday.

How bad has Georgia been on offense this season? Historically bad. The Bulldogs (10-12, 1-7 SEC) enter Wednesday night’s game against Arkansas (16-7, 4-4) with an SEC-worst scoring average of 60.6 points per game. Only one Georgia team has been worse at scoring since UGA began to keep up with such things in 1960.

Former University of Georgia star running back Knowshon Moreno was arrested by Denver police Wednesday  on a drunken driving charge, KDVR-TV reported. The 24-year-old, who now plays for the Denver Broncos, was pulled over in a Bentley convertible for allegedly going as fast as 70 mph in a construction zone with a posted speed limit of 45, the report said.

Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton gained a backup point guard and lost another one last summer via the NCAA's rule permitting athletes who have earned their undergraduate degrees to transfer and gain immediate eligibility. His thoughts on the rule are not surprising.

ATHENS -- Lost in all the craziness of last week’s national signing day drama and shocking player dismissals was the introduction of Georgia’s three early enrollees -- quarterback Faton Bauta, offensive lineman Mark Beard and tailback Keith Marshall The trio had been shielded from interviews by UGA since arriving in early January to get acclimated to their new class schedules and join in the Bulldogs' off-season conditioning program.

Trae Golden came off the bench for the first time this season and scored 16 points to lead Tennessee in a 73-62 win against Georgia on Saturday night. After a back-and-forth first half, the Bulldogs held a 41-34 lead with 14:25 to play when Jordan McRae hit a 3-pointer for Tennessee.

It probably will come as no surprise to find out that Gerald Robinson was good at sports other than basketball. Football, especially. A senior guard for the Georgia Bulldogs, Robinson starred as a running back in the youth programs in and around Nashville when he was a kid.

Just as it appeared Georgia was building championship-level depth on its football team, the Bulldogs were hit with a disciplinary situation that resulted in the loss of three players. Defensive backs Nick Marshall and Chris Sanders and wide receiver Sanford Seay were dismissed from the team Friday by coach Mark Richt for an undisclosed violation of team rules.

The recruiting saga of Josh Harvey-Clemons had a happy conclusion for the Georgia Bulldogs on Thursday. Harvey-Clemons, an outside linebacker from Valdosta considered by many to be the top prospect in the state, told a national TV audience Wednesday that he would sign with Georgia over Florida, Florida State and Miami.

Coachspeak with Georgia coach Mark Richt “I think recruiting rankings are way overrated. ... I don’t get too caught up in that. The reason I’m telling you is we’ve got some really quality football players that are going to help us win. We’ve got some guys I think that are going to be able to make an impact right away.

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Varez Ward scored 17 points and led a productive night at the free-throw line for Auburn in a 59-51 win over Georgia on Wednesday night. Ward hit all 12 of his free throw attempts as Auburn (13-9, 3-5 Southeastern Conference) shot 80.

Josh Harvey-Clemons provided the state of Georgia with one of its more memorable recruiting dramas ever Wednesday. And it may not be over. Harvey-Clemons, whom ESPN ranks as the state’s No. 1 overall prospect, committed to Georgia on national TV on Wednesday morning.

The bottom line Locally, Georgia’s 2012 recruiting will be perceived as a disappointment. That’s especially true considering the drama surrounding Josh Harvey-Clemons, who told a national TV audience he was headed to UGA, but at the end of the business day had not sent in his letter-of-intent.

Thirty-two years ago, Georgia's landmark signing of Herschel Walker came well before the Internet, well before cellphones and well before college football recruiting evolved into a spectator sport of its own. Imagine if today's technology and fanfare had accompanied the 1980 recruitment of the running back from Wrightsville.

Hubert Adams, the father of UGA President Dr. Michael F. Adams, has died. He was 87. Mr. Adams, who lived in Stone Mountain, died Sunday at his home, according to the family. Visitation is  scheduled for 5-7 p.m. Wednesday at Tom M. Wages Funeral Service, Snellville.

NEW ORLEANS  — Lawyers for an Alabama man accused of committing sexual battery on an unconscious LSU fan after the BCS championship football game say it's mind-boggling that police and prosecutors would give substantial energy and attention to the matter.

Lawyers for former University of Georgia star Kendrell Bell said former UGA football coach Jim Donnan duped him into investing $2 million in a Ponzi scheme. Bell played for Donnan at UGA, then later played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs before injuries ended his career in 2007.

We’re inside a week until national signing day, and some fans of Georgia Bulldogs recruiting are about ready to panic. At this point, the Bulldogs have only 16 commitments, and are allowed to sign up to 12 more. And while Georgia traditionally ranks in the national top 10 in recruiting, the Bulldogs currently hold a relatively pedestrian average of 14.

Former Georgia punter Drew Butler has heard some war stories this week about his father, Kevin Butler, who played 13 seasons in the NFL. The younger Butler is set to punt and hold on field goals and extra points for the South squad in the 63rd annual Senior Bowl at 4 p.

Former Georgia standout offensive linemen Cordy Glenn and Ben Jones are Senior Bowl roommates and they chat, compare notes and tell a joke or two before going to sleep at night. They review their respective interviews with NFL teams and go over a page or two in the South’s playbook for the 63rd Senior Bowl, which is set for 4 p.

A relatively new Georgia Board of Regents policy regulating the admission of undocumented students and illegal immigrants has prevented a football recruit from gaining admission to the University of Georgia. Chester Brown, a 6-foot-5, 340-pound offensive lineman from Hinesville, committed to the Bulldogs in July, but he confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and several other media outlets late Monday night that he was withdrawing his UGA commitment “for personal reasons,” declining to elaborate.

ATHENS – Georgia has never beaten the nation's No. 1-ranked team in basketball, and it didn't come close to doing it this time either. Kentucky, which was just bestowed the country's top ranking on Monday afternoon, looked every bit the part on Tuesday night.

“A person who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for admission to any University System institution which, for the two most recent academic years, did not admit all academically qualified applicants [except for cases in which applicants were rejected for non-academic reasons].

FAIRHOPE, Ala. – Former Falcons defensive backs coach Alvin Reynolds, an original member of head coach Mike Smith’s staff, was fired, the team announced on Monday. The Falcons have been undergoing an intensive review of their football operations since they were blown out 24-2 by the New York Giants in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs on Jan.