Georgia Bulldogs Countdown to Kickoff: Day 5
Companies across the Peach State and wherever Bulldog fans are employed will be bracing for downward trending productivity beginning today and ending sometime in early January, as we’re just five days away from Georgia kickoff.
It’s waiting at the end of this week’s tunnel.
And with just five days to go, there may not be a number better represented on the roster than the 5.
Certainly, it was an iconic one for the Bulldogs last season.
That because the two guys sporting it on either side of the ball, AD Mitchell and Kelee Ringo, created two of the biggest moments in Georgia’s football history and in the same game, no less.
While Mitchell had all of the tools in terms of size and usable speed coming into collegiate ranks, he was listed as the nation’s No. 300 overall player and was a bit of an enigma coming out of Antioch, Tennessee’s Cane Ridge High (by way of Missouri City, Texas).
Film was somewhat limited, he did almost no media in high school, and was rumored to be quite a bit older that the guys he was playing with (though his Wikipedia page lists him as turning 20 in October, so that’s probably where that came from).
A one-time Ole Miss commit, Mitchell flipped to the Bulldogs without much in the way of fanfare and was a hard take to get a read on for any number of the above listed reasons.
When he made his way to Athens, however, he was an immediate impact maker.
Mitchell appeared in every game last year, starting twelve of the fifteen on Georgia’s schedule. In fact, he played more total offensive snaps than any other wideout on the team.
He’d end up with 426 yards on the season and four touchdowns, though none would be more important than his fourth quarter grab in the National Championship.
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On the other side of the ball but also sporting the 5, Kelee Ringo was not quite the surprise AD Mitchell turned out to be.
Quite the opposite, in fact.
Greatness was always expected from Ringo, ranked as the Consensus No. 4 player in the Class of 2020 and the No. 1 cornerback for the cycle.
Originally from Tacoma, Washington and finishing his high school career at Scottsdale, Arizona powerhouse Saguaro, Ringo flashed elite speed in a tremendous frame and was the apple of Georgia’s eye throughout his recruitment.
He made them a happy man once he committed, and while he spent his true freshman year rehabbing injury, Ringo more than made up for it in his redshirt freshman campaign.
Like Mitchell, he would start 12 of Georgia’s 15 games and come up with his signature moment against the Crimson Tide in the National Championship to seal the game.
So, happy 5 days until.
I think we’ll see the number 5 plenty this season, perhaps in moments just as big as the last.
