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ICYMI: Video/Transcript – Dominic Lovett and Damon Wilson Interviews

On helping new transfer receivers…

“It wasn’t honestly just me. It was really a team thing. As a team after practice, we would sit down and watch film, and all of us go over our goods, our bads, our ups and our downs. If you can’t take constructive criticism from your own teammates, then you won’t be able to take it from anybody. So, we as a team, help each other. We don’t nag on each other or get on each other. We just try to help each other out. We’re just trying to grow as a group.”

On preseason growth in the receiver room…

“I would just say all of us grew more comfortable with the playbook, understanding the scheme and not just looking at where you are on the field, but having conceptual learning, and learning the whole play instead of just knowing your position. It’s important because you might not be in that position at a different time. We might call a different formation, or you might be in a different role. So, just the biggest thing as a whole offense is just having interchangeable parts – people being able to switch to different positions and make sure we’re still doing our job.”

On Joenel Aguero…

“I’d say as far as confidence he also understands the scheme and conceptual learning. I feel like that the defense does the same thing that the offense does, which is switch. So, even with those younger guys and the older guys coming in, being able to be interchangeable parts and help out one another, I feel like that’s going to make our whole team more versatile. So, everybody helping everybody trying to achieve the big goal.”

On his weight-gaining process this offseason…

“After my injury, I was around 235 and then came home. My dad and I really focused on putting on weight and getting my legs balanced. And so, I tried to put on like 15 [pounds], and the highest I got to was about like 252. I think the season I’ll be playing around 248, 25. That’ll be my range.”

On the importance of strength conditioning…

“For me, I know my plan wasn’t just to be an edge rusher. I want to be able to play first and second down, and I need that extra weight to be able to anchor and hold my weight against bigger and more aggressive tackles and just the overall strike. And then injuries as well, it [strength-conditioning] helps prevent injuries in the long run.”

On matching up in practice against Monroe Freeling and their relationship… 

“Monroe has definitely gotten better. We’ve both gotten a lot better, and we’ve been able to see each other improve. I mean, coming in, we’re both roommates, so we talk a lot about football. Football is one of our biggest things, that’s how we connected. So, it’s just being able to have an offensive tackle who’s a close friend of mine, and then we can talk about just the small little details. We’re going to be good together for the next three or four years. Good roommate, good guy, good person.”

WBB: Georgia’s League Schedule Announced

The Southeastern Conference has announced Georgia’s 16-game league schedule for the upcoming 2024-25 campaign. 

The slate, which begins on Jan. 2, is broken up into eight home and eight away games, with the Lady Bulldogs playing each of the other 15 teams at least once. Based on this year’s rotation, Kentucky is the only team Georgia will play twice. 

Georgia opens league play at Vanderbilt and stays on the road for a matchup against Florida in Gainesville. Georgia’s first home game during conference action is a Thursday matchup against Missouri on Jan. 9. The Sunday matchups in Stegeman Coliseum feature Mississippi State on Jan. 12, Kentucky on Jan. 19 and Arkansas on Feb. 9

The Lady Bulldogs also host defending national champion South Carolina on Feb. 6 in Athens and welcome Texas for a Monday night tilt on Feb. 24. 

In addition to trips to Vanderbilt and Florida, Georgia will also travel to Texas A&M,  Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky, LSU and Tennessee. 

Dates, times and television designations will be announced at a later date. 

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SEC ANNOUNCES FOOTBALL TIE-BREAKING PROCESS

The Southeastern Conference on Wednesday announced new football tiebreaking procedures for the 2024 SEC Championship Game, the first football season since 1991 to be conducted without divisions.

In the event of a tie between teams competing for a place in the Conference championship game, the following procedures will be used in descending order until the tie is broken:

0. Head-to-head competition among the tied teams       
1. Record versus all common Conference opponents among the tied teams
2. Record against highest (best) placed common Conference opponent in the Conference standings, and proceeding through the Conference standings among the tied teams
3. Cumulative Conference winning percentage of all Conference opponents among the tied teams
4. Capped relative total scoring margin versus all Conference opponents among the tied teams
5. Random draw of the tied teams

If the regular season standings determine a clear Conference champion and two or more teams are tied for second place, the Conference champion will be the home team in the Championship Game and the tiebreaking procedures will be used to determine its opponent.

If a tiebreaker step produces standings with two teams tied for first place in the Conference, both will qualify for the championship game. To decide the seeding of the two teams, both will progress through the two-team tiebreaker procedures until the tie is broken, which will determine home/away designation for the SEC Championship Game.

The 2024 SEC Championship Game will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga.

The SEC Championship Game has been the most watched conference championship nationally for 15 of the past 16 seasons, including 12 in a row from 2008-2019. The only year it was not No. 1 was 2020 when the SEC did not have a traditional schedule due to the pandemic. The 2023 SEC Championship Game averaged 17.519 million viewers, +61% vs. 2021, and peaked with 22.350 million viewers. It was the most-watched Conference Championship Game on any network in five years.

Complete tiebreaker procedures and examples can be found at www.SECsports.com/FBtiebreaker.

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