One of the coaches involved in Saturday’s Georgia-Buffalo football game said Monday that the matchup “will go down in the history books at our program as one of the great opportunities that we’ve placed on our schedule.”
It wasn’t Georgia’s Mark Richt.
Buffalo has never kicked off in the Peach State, but that will change Saturdaywhen Jeff Quinn’s Bulls visit the No. 6 Bulldogs. The Bulls are no strangers to the Southeastern Conference, however, having lost 38-7 at No. 3 Auburn in 2006 and 41-10 last season at Tennessee.
“These kids have had a taste of these kind of games and opportunities,” Quinn said. “We have 16 returning starters who were at Tennessee who will be playing at Georgia, and I feel good about the maturity and development of our program. It will be important to see how we gauge against a top SEC team, and we just want to play one play at a time and compete as hard as we can and as long as we can and see where it ends up.”
Sanford Stadium will be the third-largest venue in which Buffalo has competed, behind Penn State and Tennessee.