In their fourth season under head coach Wally Butts, the Bulldogs compiled an 11–1 record, shut out six of twelve opponents (including a 34–0 victory over No.
2 Georgia Tech), won the SEC championship, and outscored all opponents by a total of 378 to 73.
[1] The Bulldogs' 75–0 win over Florida remains the largest margin of victory in the history of the Florida–Georgia football rivalry.
[4] Georgia retroactively claimed the title in the late 1980s, after then-head coach and athletic director Vince Dooley discovered that the team was listed as a national champion in an NCAA record book.
[5] At the end of the 1942 season, Georgia halfback Frank Sinkwich won the Heisman Trophy.