MODERATOR: I’d like to welcome everyone to the Selection Sunday press conference for the 2023 Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl. Today we’ll be joined by our two head coaches and Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl CEO Gary Stokan. After opening statements, we’ll move to questions from the media. At this time, we’ll welcome head coach Lane Kiffin of the 11th-ranked Ole Miss Rebels and head coach James Franklin of the 10th-ranked Nittany Lions and Gary Stokan, CEO and President of the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl.
Gary Stokan: Just want to welcome everybody to the 56th Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl. We’re the ninth-oldest bowl game in the country, but the first game founded for charity. That’s in our DNA. We take great pride in that. We’re the most charitable bowl organization in the country out of all 44 bowls, where we’ve given over $62 million to charity.
We’re also famous for our southern hospitality and for both teams’ experience. Out of all 44 bowls last year, the bowl season ranked the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl as the No. 1 student-athlete experience bowl in the country. It’s very important to us to play great hosts to both teams, the players, the coaches, administration, and fans.
They say styles make great fights, and we’ve got a great fight with one of the top offenses in the country and the top total defense in the country. A Top-10 quarterback and a Top-10 running back against the No. 1 total defense in the country. We’ve got SEC versus Big Ten. I just want to congratulate both Coach Franklin and Coach Kiffin, who we know well. They’ve been in our bowl before, James at Maryland, where he beat Tennessee in 2003, and also Lane was here with Alabama in 2016 as well as with Tennessee in 2009. So it’s good to rally back with both James and Lane. Look forward to hosting you and your families, your players, your coaching staff, your administration, and your great fans.
With that, on behalf of our board, our staff, who are the best in the business, we want to welcome you to Atlanta, the capital of college football, for the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl.
Opening Statement, Lane Kiffin: Thanks, guys. Gary, thanks for having me. We couldn’t be more excited to be part of this unbelievable matchup and play a great university and program like Penn State and Coach Franklin and all the success that he’s had there and the great players and be…
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