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This Year’s UGA Football Hype Video is Not as Good as Last Year’s UGA Football Hype Video


With two weeks (!) until UGA’s season opener against Louisiana-Monroe, it’s time yet again to evaluate the team’s annual preseason hype video.

I’m not sure whether it’s the maudlin tone, the too-vague platitudes (guarantee a national title or GTFO) or the fact that we still don’t have a starting quarterback, but the 2015 edition fails to live up to last year’s brilliant, understated, hang-on-let-me-grab-a-tissue clip.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

And let us not forget the greatest UGA football hype video of all time—albeit one that is particularly painful in restrospect:

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