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Report: Georgia football invited to visit White House after back-to-back championships

On3 imageby:Jake Rowe•02/22/23•

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Kirby Smart (1)
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Georgia will get the opportunity to visit the nation’s capital after winning its second National Championship. Marc Weiszer of the Athens Banner-Herald is reporting that the White House has extended an invitation for the team to take part in a ceremony with President Joe Biden.

The Banner-Herald confirmed the invitation with a White House spokesperson. The University of Georgia has not yet issued a comment.

Kirby Smart and company did not make the trip to Washington D.C. after winning the 2021 National Championship. As far as is publicly known, no invitation was extended and no reason was given.

Recent champions to visit the White House include the Golden State Warriors, after winning the 2022 NBA Championship, and the Atlanta Braves, after winning the 2021 World Series.

A magical season for Georgia in 2022…

The Bulldogs lost 15 players to the 2022 NFL Draft and five of those went in the first round. Still, they made the second leg of the back-to-back effort look quite easy at times.

Georgia started the season with a resounding 49-3 win over Oregon in the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff. It shut Samford out 33-0 in week two and then obliterated South Carolina 45-7 in Columbia. Then came the team’s biggest “slump of the season.

Kent State made it closer than it should have been with UGA winning 37-22. Then Georgia needed all four quarters to take down Missouri 26-22. Smart’s crew bounced back hard following that game and thumped Auburn and Vanderbilt before the bye week.

Georgia took down Florida to cap off the month of October and hosted No. 1-ranked Tennessee to start November. The Volunteers debuted in the top spot of the initial 2022 College Football Playoff rankings but the Bulldogs them behind the woodshed. The score was 27-13 but it was UGA domination from start to finish.

Then came three straight wins to end the regular season, an SEC Championship blowout, a close one with Ohio State, and a mauling in the National Championship. It was the first 15-0 record in school history and the first back-to-back titles in the College Football Playoff era.

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