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GEORGIA MONEYBALL — Thursday, September 24, 2026

Georgia's first availability report of Oklahoma week lists Nate Frazier and Isiah Canion as questionable, and Kirby Smart swears they could have played anyway.

ALBANY, GA — · By the RFA Sports Desk

The SEC's first availability report of Oklahoma week arrived Wednesday, and DawgNation reports it carries two familiar names: running back Nate Frazier, nursing a leg and a rib, and receiver Isiah Canion, nursing a leg, both souvenirs from the Arkansas trip. Both are listed as questionable, which is the most honest word in football because nobody, including the men wearing the injuries, knows what it means. Kirby Smart called them day-to-day and said both 'could have played if they needed to.' Day-to-day is coach for hurt enough to mention, healthy enough to play, and none of your business either way.

Why the fuss over one rib? Because the margins Saturday figure to be thin. The DawgNation Daily podcast spent a whole episode this week weighing what one more significant injury would do to this game, noting the Sooners' offense is already limping into Athens with troubles of its own. When both teams are counting their walking wounded like a preacher counts the collection, a running back's rib stops being a footnote and starts being the ballgame. Georgia would rather not find out what the offense looks like minus Frazier against the best defense it has seen all year.

Day-to-day is coach for hurt enough to mention, healthy enough to play, and none of your business either way.

The Bulldogs, to their credit, are not buying the discount talk about Oklahoma. Tight end Lawson Luckie met the media Tuesday and waved off every suggestion that the Sooners have slipped, saying the film shows 'the same Oklahoma that I heard all these stories about having this unbelievable defense.' The tape, he said, does not say what the talkers say. The week's locker-room sermon, per his teammates, is 'match their intensity' — which is what you preach when you suspect the other fellow plans to bring some.

Elsewhere in the republic, Kentucky walked into College Station and beat ninth-ranked Texas A&M 31 to 21, scoring 21 unanswered points in the third quarter and handing first-year coach Will Stein a ranked scalp in his very first road game. That was the weekend's finest ambush, but not its best theater. That honor goes to Oxford, where Ole Miss beat LSU 32 to 24 and Trinidad Chambliss threw for 363 yards to spoil Lane Kiffin's homecoming as LSU's head coach. Lane returned to the town he left, and the town declined to be gracious about it.

Meanwhile Athens is setting extra places at the table. Georgia will host more than two dozen top recruits for the Oklahoma game, headlined by three five-star defensive linemen — Kellan Hall, Asher Ghioto and Prince Che — with five-star quarterback commit Jayden Wade back on campus for good measure. DawgNation's Jeff Sentell calls it a key weekend for the 2028 class. So everybody who is anybody will be in Sanford Stadium Saturday. The only two gentlemen whose attendance remains in doubt are Frazier and Canion, and they will let us know day to day.

The Notebook

• LOCK OF THE WEEK: The Fighting Irishmen visit the Boilermaker Welders Saturday at 2 Eastern, favored by 27 and a half. The desk calls it a lock and suggests you not overthink it.
• SCOREBOARD: Alabama 50, Florida State 36. The Tide trailed by 15, sat through two lightning delays, then rode Keelon Russell's 320 passing yards and three touchdowns to 615 total yards.
• BY THE NUMBERS: Georgia's sack rate allowed has climbed from 2.6 percent in 2023 to 3.8 this fall — the one line on the ledger moving the wrong direction.

Written in the tradition of Lewis Grizzard, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1946–1994.

Hear the desk read tonights report on Radio Free Albany, WPFQ 96.7.