It’s game day, Dawgs!
Your Georgia Bulldogs will shortly take on the Florida Gators in the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, gracing the turf at EverBank Field for the last time until 2028. In short, we need to make this one count. To beat the Gators so badly the construction crews are finding shreds of bloody jort littering the joint for weeks. Are you hyped yet? If not let me help:
On the injury front Georgia appears to be about as healthy as they have been all season heading into this afternoon. The loss of Colbie Young (second on the team in receiving yards and among the best blocking receivers in the rotation) to a fractured leg during the Ole Miss game hurts for sure. And Kyren Jones’ presence at safety makes that unit a slightly less physical group. But all in all, the ‘‘Dawgs are in way better shape than the Gators.
The Bulldogs got a boost against Ole Miss from the return of the healthiest complement of offensive linemen they’ve had all season. And yesterday Coach Searels also got excellent news in the form of a commitment from 6’8, 310 pound tackle Jarmaine Mitchell.
Mitchell is On3’s top-rated JUCO offensive tackle for 2026, and the fact that Georgia is pursuing him (and a couple of other high school tackles) strikes me as noteworthy. The Dawgs signed six offensive linemen in the 2025 class and seven in the 2024 cycle. The fact that they’ve again gone heavily after the position in this class (Mitchell is the fifth offensive line recruit) including taking a JUCO tackle who will actually be draft eligible after next season signals to me that we should expect some attrition at the position this offseason.
One place the ‘Dawgs appear unlikely to suffer attrition? The athletic director’s chair. After his name cropped up as a candidate to replace the recently fired Scott Woodward at LSU, Bulldogs AD Josh Brooks (an LSU graduate) took to social media to shoot down speculation that he might take the same post at his alma mater.
Who could blame him? The LSU athletic director’s post is currently a political hot potato being tossed around amongst a meddling governor and the big money boosters who actually run the program. I wouldn’t want to step into the middle of that either, especially if it meant leaving the relative tranquility of Athens.
Finally, your mandatory R.E.M. tailgate tune, featuring the legendary Patti Smith. Gators: they taste like fear.
Go ‘Dawgs!!!
