UGA-Nicholls: The numbers game

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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