ATHENS, Ga. – The Georgia Bulldogs took the field for the first time from Sanford Stadium’s west end zone before Saturday’s season opener against Austin Peay, which wound up having five minutes trimmed from its fourth quarter.
Those two aspects were unique, but what transpired in between was not out of the ordinary.
Georgia, the No. 3 team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, routed Will Healy’s Governors of the Football Championship Subdivision 45-0 before a sellout crowd of 92,746. Starting quarterback Jake Fromm completed 12 of 16 passes for 157 yards and two touchdowns for the Bulldogs, while five-star freshman backup Justin Fields was 7-of-8 passing for 63 yards and a score.
“When you go into any game, you want to go 100-for-100 and throw 10 touchdowns and no interceptions,” Fromm said. “You want to make a great decision on every play. I thought both of us did really well taking the easy completions and not going broke taking a profit.
“The game overall went pretty well. It’s still hot, but that’s no big deal, because our practices are typically harder than games anyway. That’s the way they make them so the games are easy.”