Friday, July 22, 2011

Georgia's 'Dawgs preparing with sense of urgency

Mark Richt heard the questions and second-guesses when Georgia agreed to play Boise State in the Georgia Dome to open the 2011 season.

Richt is quite impressed.

“The winningest college football team in America over the last 10 seasons, a team that as you watch their film, you realize that they are a special football team in the way they approach it,” he said. “I’ve probably never seen anybody play any harder than they play as a team down after down, film after film.”

Richt expects the Bulldogs to strap it up and match that trait in perhaps the biggest season-opener of his Georgia career. The Broncos were ranked 19th in that 2005 meeting. Richt hopes the first game in the Georgia Dome can propel the Bulldogs to a second one, in December.

“The excitement that has been created by playing in the Dome, by playing on national TV, playing against probably a top 5 football team preseason, that gets guys excited,” Richt said. “So now to play Boise State, as I mentioned earlier, opening game, in the Georgia Dome, with hopefully a bunch of wild and crazy rabid Georgia Bulldog fans giving us energy, it’s going to be great for us.”



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