Georgia to honor Mike Leach during Peach Bowl, calls him ‘a legend who changed the game’
By Keith Farner
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Georgia will join most teams across college football with a helmet sticker honor of Mike Leach on Saturday night.
College football teams and coaches have worn various shirts, sweatshirts, cheerleading tops and headset stickers during bowl season to highlight the Mississippi State coach who died earlier in December.
Georgia and Ohio State are set to kick off at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday night in Atlanta at a College Football Playoff semifinal to be televised on ESPN.
Honoring a legend who changed the game ?☠️ pic.twitter.com/OYOmKIWNtu
— Georgia Football (@GeorgiaFootball) December 31, 2022
Leach, who helped revolutionize football from high school to the NFL with the Air Raid offense, died after complications from a heart condition, the school said. He was 61.
Kirby Smart has noted that Leach’s influence has trickled down to the high school level where many programs deploy Leach’s Air Raid tendencies.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
