Expats reader Eddie van Hoglen was fortunate enough to attend the Razorback game in Athens last weekend, and kind enough to write up his firsthand observations for us. What follows is his story of that momentous day. Read on, and enjoy!

I made it in and out of Athens and didn't get mugged, stabbed, shot, or punched. I flew into Atlanta on Friday afternoon and considered for a moment to head straight to Athens due to the way traffic was. I instead made it to my hotel in downtown Atlanta and prepared myself for the trip to Athens on Saturday.

I was invited to tailgate with a group of Georgia fans that are friends of mine. So I showed up right about 9:00 Saturday morning and took in the scene. I saw a few Razorback fans here and there but I didn't see as many as I expected. So I took the temperature of the Georgia fans before the game. And the talk was mostly about A.J. Green being suspended and complaints about how the Georgia football program had become a "mediocre" program. (Hmmm, where have I heard this before?) Anyways, Georgia fans weren't all that confident but not because they considered Arkansas better. But because they were down on their Dawgs after losing the previous week to South Carolina. I informed them that Arkansas wasn't exactly a running juggernaut anylonger and that Stephen Garcia didn't beat them the previous week it was South Carolina's freshman running back Marcus Lattimore. This seemed to bring some of that Georgia optimism out that I was looking for. So as gametime approached their fervor increased along with the confidence of Georgia fans.

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