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Bulldogs Make Final Preparations For Encounter With Commodores ATHENS, Ga. – The Georgia Bulldogs made final preparations to their game plan for this weekend's Southeastern Conference encounter with the Vanderbilt Commodores by holding a 90-minute practice at Sanford Stadium on Thursday. Following the team's normal protocol on Thursday's prior to road contests, the Bulldogs held the practice Between the Hedges with crowd noise being played over the stadium speakers for half of the workout to simulate game day atmosphere. Georgia (3-3, 2-2 SEC) will travel to for Nashville, Tenn., to meet Vanderbilt (2-4, 0-3 SEC) on Saturday at 12:21 p.m. ET at Vanderbilt Stadium. The game will be televised by the SEC Network with Dave Neal calling the play-by-play, Andre Ware providing color analysis and Cara Capuano reporting from the sidelines. All Georgia games are broadcast live on the Bulldog Radio Network on ISP Sports with Scott Howard (play-by-play) and Eric Zeier (color analysis). The radio audio can also be heard worldwide on both georgiadogs.com, the official website of UGA Athletics, on XM Satellite Radio channel 141 and on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 121. Prior to Thursday's practice, Georgia head coach Mark Richt talked about how the team has done in this week's preparation. "They're showing up, they're going to work and they got a reasonable amount of enthusiasm considering what's been going on," said Richt, who has won seven of eight meetings against Vanderbilt during his tenure at Georgia. "You don't want them to just be out there having the best time of their lives during practice because Tuesday's and Wednesday's are pretty tough work days anyway. I would say they are still grinding, they're still battling and they still want to prepare well." Saturday's contest is the second of three consecutive road games for Georgia. The Bulldogs fell to Tennessee in Knoxville, 45-19, on Oct. 10 to open the road swing. After this week's game against VU, Georgia will have a bye on Oct. 24 before meeting top-ranked Florida in Jacksonville on Oct. 31. The Bulldogs will have gone 35 days without playing a game at Sanford Stadium when they return home to face Tennessee Tech on Nov. 7. "We need momentum," Richt said in regards to the importance of the game against Vanderbilt prior to the bye week. "You gain momentum by executing well and by ultimately winning the ball game. It's like I said Sunday to the team – priority one. There's no priority but to focus on the preparation of this football game. The best thing that can happen to us right now is to win this game, but we got to earn it. This game is crucial. It's big." The last time Georgia played in Nashville in 2007, the Bulldogs defeated the Commodores, 20-17, with a Brandon Coutu field goal as time expired. Last year, UGA won its second-straight game over VU by a score of 24-14 in Athens. Vanderbilt's only win against UGA during the Richt era came in 2006 in Sanford Stadium by a 24-22 margin. In the all-time series between the schools, Georgia leads 49-18-2 overall including a 22-7-1 mark in Vanderbilt Stadium.
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