Georgia football team returns home to Athens, Ga.: WATCH
Your back-to-back National Champion Georgia Bulldogs football team is home safe in the Classic City. What a strange trip it’s been.
When Georgia fans greeted Kirby Smart and waited patiently for their champion Dawgs to make their way to their cars, there wasn’t the cathartic relief of last season’s drought-buster.
There was a new energy outside of the ‘House of Payne’ practice facility that molded not one, but two national championship teams in as many years.
The Georgia fans in attendance on this chilly, but not unbearable January night seem to expect these things now.
Not in an entitled way. There’s no room for that in Kirby Smart’s program, and no hint of it in its fan base.
Just joyful gratitude for a hard-nosed team of Bulldogs who clearly own – and rightfully earned – College Football’s crown.
These fans always knew this day was possible. The parts were there. The dynasty was always within reach.
They just needed someone who could finally turn the key and make this bus run all the way to national prominence.
The Dawgs’ season ended with a ho-hum 65-7 win over TCU’s overmatched Hypnotoads
Not two weeks before, Georgia left Mercedes-Benz Stadium with half of a pulse and an Ohio State missed field goal.
Georgia’s football team needed some ventilator assistance on the SoFi stadium from time to time, as they ran circles around their reptilian foes.
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But the Dawgs ultimately had the luxury of breathing much easier against TCU than they did against the Buckeyes.
TCU made this one close for all of a couple minutes before Georgia poured a dump truck of dirt on Sonny Dykes‘s Cinderella team.
Stetson Bennett earned his membership to the elite club of two-time National Championship quarterbacks.
Kirby Smart found yet another way to motivate his heavily-favored team. He convinced his Dawgs that no one respected them this season.
No one expected them to win another National Championship, because they lost all of that talent to the NFL Draft.
Manufactured bulletin board material or not, it worked.
And these Dawgs earned the right to come home as champions once again.
Next up: another Georgia National Championship parade
Georgia will have another National Championship parade and championship celebration this Saturday in Athens.
If you missed it last season, I can’t recommend enough that you go.
You won’t be in Sanford Stadium again until the spring game at the earliest. And then after that, it isn’t open to the public until September 2nd.
Pack in with all those fellow Dawgs and soak this in.
Saturdays in Athens were perfect in 2021 and 2022.
Might as well start 2023 off on the right foot.
