No. 6 Georgia and Georgia Tech’s Friday night football game began at 7:30 p.m. ET.

After 60 minutes of regulation time – about four and a half hours of real time – and an astonishing eight overtimes, the Bulldogs and Yellow Jackets finally determined the winner of Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate around midnight for East Coast viewers.

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The Bulldogs rallied from a 17-0 halftime deficit and a 27-13 deficit with five minutes to play to send the game into overtime (albeit with some controversy). There, the Bulldogs and Yellow Jackets traded points in the first, second and fifth overtime periods – and defensive positions in the third, fourth, sixth and seventh overtime periods – before Georgia emerged victorious 44-42 in the eighth overtime.