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By Marc Weiszer | Staff Writer | Story updated at 11:10 PM on Thursday, November 1, 2007
Don't get Asher Allen wrong. The Georgia sophomore cornerback loves playing in Sanford Stadium as much as the next guy who wears the red and black, but after four September home games, Allen was ready to become like Jack Kerouac and hit the road.

"I'm not going to lie, man," Allen said. "At the beginning I was tired of playing in front of the hedges. I was like 'Let's go see different venues.' Then when you leave you get homesick. You get tired of leaving every weekend. It's going to be really fun just to be back and finally get to play." Georgia hasn't played at home since a 45-17 win over Ole Miss on Sept. 29.

The Bulldogs played in Knoxville, Nashville and Jacksonville and will have gone five weeks between home games when Georgia hosts Troy for homecoming at 1 p.m. Saturday. It's the first time the Bulldogs went the month of October without playing a home game in half a century - since 1957.

"It's not good from an operations standpoint in terms of preparation," said Arthur Johnson, Georgia associate athletic director for internal affairs. "When we have this type of long break, our staff has to start almost like it's the first game in terms of getting ready for the game." That means doing such things as wiping all the seats down in a stadium that seats 92,746 and, checking to make sure the air conditioning and heating units are working and redoing other things on the preseason checklist.
"Week after week it's a little easier, but unfortunately we don't have any control over it," Johnson said.

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