ESPN “Can’t Wait” for the Georgia-Oregon Game

This 12 months’s Chick-fil-A Kickoff Sport will convey loads of intrigue, not simply because it is going to characteristic Georgia and Oregon, who’ve performed solely as soon as, which noticed the Bulldogs beat the Geese 27-16 in 1977. This season’s matchup will see an elevated familiarity between two applications positioned on reverse sides of the nation. 

First-year Oregon head coach Dan Lanning spent 4 seasons in Athens, working underneath head coach Kirby Sensible as the skin linebackers coach in 2018 earlier than being promoted to the defensive coordinator position from 2019 via 2021. Lanning’s top-ranked protection helped information the Bulldogs to a nationwide championship. The previous Georgia defensive coordinator now inherits a program from now Miami head coach Mario Cristobal that established itself as a contender within the Pac-12 after successful two North division titles in 4 seasons. 

In a current article by ESPN, they went over 5 video games in September that they “cannot wait to see,” one among them being Georgia-Oregon. The Chick-fil-A Kickoff Sport ranked second behind Notre Dame at Ohio State, the primetime recreation that weekend and would be the web site of ESPN’s School Gameday. 

“The defending nationwide champions open up their season in Atlanta (in all probability the closest you will get to a neutral-site dwelling recreation) towards a Pac-12 favourite in Oregon. The Geese can have some familiarity with the Bulldogs with Dan Lanning as their head coach, who simply left Georgia after main an all-time nice protection that produced 5 first-round NFL draft picks.”

– ESPN Employees

With a 3:30 PM (EST) kickoff set to be broadcasted by ABC, Lanning will develop into simply the third former assistant coach to tackle Georgia head coach Kirby Sensible, becoming a member of the likes of Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman and South Carolina headman Shane Beamer. No former Kirby Sensible assistant has overwhelmed him in three tries; Pittman got here shut in 2020, holding a 7-5 halftime lead over the Bulldogs within the season-opening recreation. Nonetheless, Georgia would rating 32 factors within the second half to defeat the Razorbacks 37-10.

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