Georgia State quarterback Darren Grainger, center front, reacts after his team turned the ball over on downs with an incomplete pass on fourth down against LSU during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) In just under two weeks, Utah State will face off against Georgia State for the first time in program history. Here’s a longform breakdown of Georgia State’s history and how this season has gone for the Panthers. Georgia State’s football program is very young, dating back only to 2010. The Panthers began exploring the feasibility of a football program in the mid-2000s, officially announcing their intentions to field a Division I football team on April 17, 2008. Two years later in 2010, Georgia State played its inaugural season at the FCS level and in 2013 made the move to FBS, joining the Sun Belt Conference. The early goings of Georgia State’s history were, to put it mildly, rough. The first FBS season for the Panthers resulted in an 0-12 season followed up by an only slightly better 1-11 campaign in 2014. It wasn’t until 2015, the program’s third year at the FBS level,