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College football - and Bulldogs - back with a bang Fresh off the first weekend of high school football games that counted, we find ourselves smack dab inside the college football season, as well. The Miami Hurricanes and Flori da Gators got the party started with their Saturday evening tilt in the old Citrus Bowl in Orlando, now known as Camping World Stadium. Then, while you were sleeping, Ar izona and Hawaii did battle into the wee hours of Sunday in Aloha Stadi um in Honolulu. Thus began the 151st season of intercollegiate gridiron competition, which began in 1869 with a game be tween the only two schools in Ameri ca fielding a football team at the time, Rutgers University and Princeton - then known as the College of New Jersey. Using rules set down by something called the The Football Association, Rutgers won that inaugural clash 6-4. Princeton won the rematch a week later, 8-0. By 1870, Columbia was fielding a team and, in 1872, Yale joined the fray. It wasn’t until 1912 that touch downs were universally recognized as counting for six points, thus, that is as good a year as any to trace our current game’s origins. It’s been thrilling generations of fans ever since. The first Thursday night slate of games kicks off this week featur ing none other than the defending national champions as Dabo Swin- ney’s very talented Clemson Tigers - favored by 36 points - welcome the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech into Death Valley. Might want to hide the women and children. The only Southeastern Conference team in action Thursday is Texas A&M, which hosts Texas State - a team the Aggies have never faced, oddly enough. There are also a smattering of games Friday, several of which in volve Big Ten squads, and everybody else begins play the following day. My beloved Georgia Bulldogs - who began playing football in 1892 - be gin their season Saturday, facing a Southeastern Conference foe on its home turf. The Vanderbilt Commodores will welcome the Dawgs to their Nashville home with upset on their mind. Hopefully, Kirby Smart’s Red Clay Hounds will be up to the challenge: starting 0-1 on the season and in conference play is not something any team wants to do. The Dawgs are ranked No. 3 in the poll recently released by AP, which means nothing since no teams had played a game when it was unveiled, and the AP poll doesn’t factor into the only “poll” that counts, the College Football Playoff rankings. But, better to be ranked third by so-called experts than 103rd, so we roll with it. Georgia’s regular season schedule sets up nicely and portends a very successful campaign for the Clas sic City Canines. The Dawgs have seven home games and just four road games, plus the annual Cocktail Par ty in Jacksonville. There is no LSU on this year’s slate, and the only current Top 25 team Georgia has to play away from home is Auburn, ranked No. 16 in the (rather meaningless) preseason AP poll. By that mid-November match up, that ranking could prove to have been just wishful thinking. The only other SEC road games are Saturday’s tilt at Vandy and an early October date at Tennessee. The 2019 Georgia schedule (clip and save): Saturday at Vanderbilt Sept. 7 Murray State Sept. 14 Arkansas State Sept. 21 Notre Dame Oct. 5 at Tennessee Oct. 12 South Carolina Oct. 19 Kentucky Nov. 2 Florida (in Jax) Nov. 9 Missouri Nov. 16 at Auburn Nov. 23 Texas A&M Nov. 30 at Georgia Tech Summary: Note the strategically placed off dates: after Notre Dame and before the resumption of the SEC schedule on the road at Tennes see and the week before the Florida game. The seven consecutive confer ence games beginning with Tennes see are a concern, but at least five of those are at home. Enjoy the season. In case you missed it: All three area high school teams fell in their season openers Friday. Coffee de feated Brunswick High 38-21, Fort Dorchester, S.C. downed Glynn Acad emy 31-6, and Charlton County beat Frederica Academy 20-7. Next week: Be on the lookout for The Islander’s special Football Page, featuring scores, stats, sched ules, point spreads, polls, photos and more! — Dave Jordan is a native of Ma- hleton, a University of Georgia gradu ate, and a diehard St. Louis Cardi nals fan. August 26, 2019, The Islander, Page 13 SGHS Diabetes Education Services Merit ADA Recognition The prestigious American Diabe tes Association Education Recogni tion Certificate for a quality diabetes self-management education and sup port (DSMES) service was recently awarded to the diabetes education programs at the Southeast Georgia Health System Brunswick and Cam den campuses. ADA believes that this program offers high-quality education that is an essential component of ef fective diabetes treatment. The Association’s Education Rec ognition Certificate assures that edu cational services meet the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Manage ment Education and Support. The DSMES Standards were developed and tested under the auspices of the National Diabetes Advisory Board in 1983 and were revised by the diabetes community in 1994, 2000, 2007, 2012 and 2017. DSMES services apply for Recogni tion voluntarily. Services that achieve Recognition status have a staff of knowledgeable health professionals who can provide participants with comprehensive information about dia betes management. “The process gives professionals a national standard by which to measure the quality of ser vices they provide, comments Sue Ullrich, R.N., MA.Ed., CDE, diabetes program coordinator, Southeast Geor gia Health System. “And, of course, it assures the consumer that he or she will likely receive high-quality ser vice.” Education Recognition status is verified by an official certificate from ADA and awarded for four years. For more information about the Health System’s diabetes education program, visit sghs.org/diabetes-ed- ucation or call 912-466-1689 (Bruns wick) or 912-576-6488 (Camden). Manning Aviation completes fuel farm Manning Aviation, the fixed-base operator (FBO) for the Brunswick Golden Isles Airport, has completed the construction of their new fuel farm and is providing service to its many commercial industrial and private aviation customers. The new facility offers two 20,000-gallon tanks of jet fuel and a 12,000-gallon tank for piston prop air craft AvGas as part of their $3.5 mil lion expansion project at the airport. “This is an important part of our operations here at the airport,” noted Robert Burr. “There are several com panies that fly very large planes from BQK and for long distances. That cre ates a demand for high quality fuel service, which is what customers have enjoyed from Manning Aviation for many years.” The new FBO building is scheduled to be completed and open for full ser vice to pilots and passengers in the coming weeks. W;& take intimidating and make it easy. 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