There are at least seven power five conference football teams within 270 miles of Athens which means that traveling to those sites for the Bulldogs has often been by bus.
For the South Carolina game in Columbia, five chartered buses took the team and administrative staff to the capital city of the Palmetto State. It took less than three hours one way. The chosen route was U.S. 78 East until the traveling party connected with I-20 at Thomson, which became the Interstate thoroughfare to Columbia.
It was about as smooth of a trip as you could expect, mainly because three state trooper cars and one South Carolina trooper, who met up with the traveling party deep into the trip, escorted the Bulldogs with the greatest of alacrity.