The lights began to turn on, tiny dots concentrated in the southeast corner of Notre Dame Stadium. Soon, light emanating from people’s phones had spread to a sizable portion of the stadium. Georgia was playing on the road earlier this September but it hardly looked like it. As Georgia’s Redcoat Band played the Krypton Fanfare before the fourth quarter, thousands of flashlight apps made Notre Dame Stadium look like a holiday light display.
In that moment, a recently formed practice solidified itself as a Georgia tradition.
“I wasn't expecting that at all,” Kenneth Hubbard said.
In the fall of 2015, Hubbard was a junior at Georgia majoring in economics.