OXNARD, Calif. — When Georgia Southern takes the field in California for two games to open the 2025 season, most fans will be locked in on the action. What they won't see is the small miracle of logistics happening in the background, a nine-day operation that requires a caravan of buses, trucks and staff working around the clock to turn hotel ballrooms and borrowed practice fields into a temporary version of Statesboro west, some 2,400 miles away. Preparations didn't start this past offseason; they've been in the works since 2022.
The work began days before the team boarded a plane.