Georgia’s Stetson Bennett And The Long Road To Respect
The Lead
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3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The College Football Playoff National Championship is just six days away, a showdown between the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, and the No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs — who have made it this far with a QB who wasn’t even supposed to be their starter: Stetson Bennett. Today, The Athletic’s Seth Emerson tells the story of Bennett’s unlikely journey from walk-on to junior college to QB1 for a national title contender, and whether Bennett and the Bulldogs can defeat Alabama when it matters most.
Read Seth Emerson’s full story about Stetson Bennett: https://theathletic.com/2990959/2021/12/01/hes-just-a-baller-the-journey-of-georgia-qb-stetson-bennett-iv-a-long-road-to-respect/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:46.0 | The College Football National Championship is just six days away. |
| 0:57.0 | A showdown between the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide and the number three Georgia Bulldogs |
| 1:03.0 | who have made it this far with a guy who wasn't even supposed to be their starter. |
| 1:08.0 | Senior quarterback Stetson Bennett. |
| 1:11.0 | Bennett, pedal streamers, he's in a field, it's gone! |
| 1:17.0 | Get a mighty burn scores! |
| 1:19.0 | Next step Stetson Bennett can't do no wrong. |
| 1:23.0 | Today the Athletic Seth Emerson tells the story of Bennett's unlikely journey |
| 1:28.0 | from walk on to junior college to QB1 for Georgia. |
| 1:32.0 | If you had told me that as we were writing these stories about Stetson Bennett, |
| 1:36.0 | mimicking Baker Mayfield, that one of the two would be a starter in a national championship game |
| 1:42.0 | and it would not be Baker Mayfield. |
| 1:45.0 | I would have said, are we all drunk? |
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