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Brian Kelly contrasts 2 Notre Dame games against Georgia with Saturday’s LSU matchup
By Keith Farner
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Brian Kelly is more familiar with Georgia than the typical coach coming into the SEC for the first time.
Notre Dame played Georgia in 2017 and 2019, and Kelly on Monday was asked if he took anything from those games to use this week when LSU meets Georgia in Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game.
“Structure defensively is very similar,” Kelly said. “Certainly the personnel is different, but structure is the same. You know what you’re going to get. Offensively, they’re a little bit different with Coach Monken. He’s got a creative bent to him that’s a little bit different than what they had in ’17 and ’19. There’s similarities there that we take as a crossover more than anything else. This then becomes, how do you handle Brock Bowers. How do you handle some of the matchup situations that you have to deal with. The quarterback is totally different.”
Georgia won both games, 20-19 in the first meeting in South Bend, and 23-17 in Athens.
“Structure is one thing in terms of knowing what the structure looks like, but then you have to game plan against individuals and I think that’s where this becomes really different,” Kelly said.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
