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Brandon Boykin Snowed Into SEC Championship Game

Brandon Boykin, perhaps Georgia's best player, on how he wound up sticking around for his senior season instead of entering the NFL Draft:

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"It's funny, what happened," Boykin said. "It actually was, like, a snowstorm in Athens, a blizzard, and I got stuck here for a couple of days. Just over the course of those days, I started talking to [Richt] and all the coaches and just thinking about things.

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"I felt like [the snowstorm] was kind of a sign from God."

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The Jan. 9-10 storm dumped almost nine inches of snow on the Athens area, a local record for a 24-hour period.

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Photographs by coka_koehler used in background montage under Creative Commons. Thank you.