ATLANTA — Met with challenges all year, Georgia’s football team never said die.
The theme continued Saturday, as the No. 5 Bulldogs got the horrid taste of last year’s SEC Championship Game loss out of their mouth, beating No. 2 Texas in a 22-19 overtime thriller.
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