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UGA-Nicholls: The numbers game

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Sept 9, 2016

A numerical look at the Georgia-Nicholls game on Saturday in Sanford Stadium:

2: Teams from Louisiana on Georgia's 2016 football schedule, neither of which is LSU — Nicholls on Saturday and UL-Lafayette on Nov. 19, also in Athens

$525,000: Amount Georgia will pay Nicholls for playing the game in Athens

73-7: Margin by which Nicholls lost to Arkansas in 2014, its only previous game against an SEC opponent

0: Players from the state of Georgia on Nicholls' roster

1: Player from the state of Louisiana on Georgia's roster, sophomore wide receiver Michael Chigbu (from New Orleans)

92,746: Seating capacity of Sanford Stadium, the largest venue in which Nicholls has played a game in its 45-year football history

3: Career games in which UGA's Nick Chubb has rushed for 200-plus yards, including last week against North Carolina. Only one player in UGA history has rushed for 200-plus yards in more games: Herschel Walker (nine games).

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Tim Tucker, a long-time AJC sports reporter, often writes about the business side of the games. He also had stints as the AJC's Braves beat writer, UGA beat writer, sports notes columnist and executive sports editor. He was deputy managing editor of America's first all-sports newspaper, The National Sports Daily.

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