Opening the college football season with a marquee top 20 matchup provides plenty of motivation to get through sweltering summer workouts.
Starting with Louisiana-Monroe? That doesn’t quite register as much on the excitement meter for Georgia like getting a shot at a ranked Clemson team each of the past two years, but the Bulldogs aren’t framing it like that.
“It’s no different whether we’re playing Louisiana-Monroe, Alabama or Clemson,” senior defensive lineman Sterling Bailey said.