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Georgia Football: Fan journal from Georgia’s win in the Duke’s Mayo Classic

By Seth Saunders

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - SEPTEMBER 04: Georgia Bulldogs fans cheer on their team against the Clemson Tigers during the second half of the Duke's Mayo Classic at Bank of America Stadium on September 04, 2021 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - SEPTEMBER 04: Georgia Bulldogs fans cheer on their team against the Clemson Tigers during the second half of the Duke's Mayo Classic at Bank of America Stadium on September 04, 2021 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images) /
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(Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
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Every season, I meet my brother and my childhood best friend at a Georgia football game for a weekend of all things Dawgs.

My brother happens to live in Charlotte, so when the news dropped in early 2020 that Georgia football would open the 2021 season against Clemson in the Queen City, we all circled the weekend on our calendars to make it happen.

Our assumption, even when the game was announced, was that it would be a monster opener, most likely between Top 5 teams.

We figured it had the potential to be the host locations for ESPN’s College Gameday, and we also figured it would be the ABC Game of the Week, meaning it’d be a night kick.

As the calendar slowly flipped, all of those things came to fruition. Georgia-Clemson wouldn’t just be any opener, it would be the primetime main event to kick off the 2021 season with the eyes of the collective college football world casting their gaze upon the Duke’s Mayo Classic.

We starting making our arrangements for the opener to end all openers about six months ago. After months of planning and an agonizingly long wait, this is how it all turned out.

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