Gameday preview: Southern at Georgia

ATHENS, Georgia -- THE NEXT LEVEL: Jaguars plan to go full speed at Georgia, then heal up in the open week

Southern coach Dawson Odums was half-kidding when he said earlier this week, “Hopefully, we’ll come back with the same number of guys we go up there with.”

But realistically, the Jaguars’ physical condition coming out of this game is a legitimate concern.

Georgia’s players are bigger, stronger and faster than Southern’s overall. Additionally, the Bulldogs have about two dozen more scholarship players, enabling them to constantly rotate fresh players into the game to face weary ones.

In short, this is a physical mismatch.

“We definitely want to stay healthy because we have a whole season ahead of us,” nose tackle Gabe Echols said.



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