Pasadena, Calif. - Wilbur Brooks was a high school senior the first time the University of Georgia played in the Rose Bowl. At 90, the 1951 UGA graduate is at the game for the first time.

"Georgia won 9 to nothing but it was a very hard-fought game," he recalled of the team's first Rose Bowl, in 1943. "I have high hopes that they'll come home with a victory again, and that will make them have a perfect victory at the Rose Bowl!"

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Angie McBrayer, ex-wife of James Aaron McBrayer, leans her head on her son Sam McBrayer as she and her three children and two grandchildren (from left) Jackson McBrayer, 3, Piper Jae McBrayer, 7, Katy Isaza, and Jordan McBrayer, visit the grave of James McBrayer, Thursday, November 20, 2025, in Tifton. He died after being restrained by Tift County sheriff's deputies on April 24, 2019. His ex-wife witnessed the arrest and said she thought the deputies were being rough but did not imagine that McBrayer would die. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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