INDIANAPOLIS — Vince Dooley is 89 years old. He’s coming off a bout with COVID-19 that kept him from attending the Orange Bowl. But the program patriarch of Georgia football, the winningest coach in school history, wouldn’t miss this chance to see his Bulldogs play for the national title.
“I’m looking forward to it, but I’ll have to get some long underwear,” Dooley said last week before making the trip to Indy. “It’s going to be colder than hell up there.”
Cold. Windy. Icy. Periods of intermittent sunshine piercing the permagloom. This is drastically different from decades of marquee college football postseason games being played in the balmier climes of Florida, California, Arizona, Louisiana and Texas.