College Football 2024 kicked off just the way Bulldog fans would have liked.
With the Bulldogs soundly defeating their opposition and at home to boot. Even if home was 60 miles away from Sandford Stadium at the place where the Atlanta Falcons call home.
It took the Dawgs a little time to cut loose on the Clemson Tigers, though. More like half the game. When Kirby Smart’s team went to the locker room at halftime, they had the only six points in the game, courtesy of kicker Peyton Woodring’s feet. After the half, the Dawgs emerged a new team and imposed their will on the visiting Tigers.
Colbie Young scored the first touchdown for the Dawgs, then Nate Frazier, followed by London Humphreys, and Cash Jones, all taking passes from Carson Beck, who went 23 of 33 for 278 yards. By the end of the game, the Bulldogs tallied up 34 points, and the Tigers could only bank a field goal.
The second-half offensive flurry of the Bulldogs should reassure fans that the Dawgs haven’t lost their winning touch, even if some previous members have moved on and new faces have replaced them.
But Smart won’t tell you his team won because their opponents didn’t meet the challenge.
“That’s a really good football team we just played,” he said after the game. “The fact that we played and pushed through that is indicative of the things we built into our program. We had to out-physical them, I thought we did. We had to out-hustle them, I think we did.”
Today’s win extends the Bulldogs’ winning legacy. This is their 40th straight regular-season win, and they are 47-2 in the last 49 games they have played.
Obviously, the Dawgs keep finding ways to keep the winning vibes going.