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Loran Smith: Spring training follows winter workout for the Orange Bowl champs

The Georgia football team, following another head turning successful season, will be into winter workouts momentarily. A few days to regroup and begin classes will segue into winter workouts.

Interestingly, it has always been that way, but for different reasons. Players buy in to today’s routine because it is significant toward their ultimate goal—to play in the National Football League.

There are at least two vignettes from the past, with which I am familiar, that might bring pause to your day—the 1939 and 1942 Orange bowls.

In 1939, Oklahoma was heavily shmoozed by Orange Bowl officials to come play in Miami.