The Bulldogs and their fans have been to the Sugar Bowl before. Lots. They've been to New Orleans before. But they haven't been to this New Orleans. The city that hosted the dazzling skill of Herschel Walker and witnessed Georgia's last Sugar Bowl win is not the New Orleans visitors will encounter in 2008.

The failure of the federal storm walls after Hurricane Katrina has changed New Orleans in ways that won't be understood or realized for decades. The slate hasn't been wiped clean as so many pundits like to claim— but it isn't exactly the same place it was on Aug. 27, 2005, either.

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