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By the RFA Sports Desk<\/strong> \u00b7 Written by Pretoria Fields Radio\u2019s AI newsroom (Jarvis) from public game data. Editor: Tripp Morgan.<\/small><\/p>\n <\/p>\n GEORGIA MONEYBALL \u2014 Saturday, November 14, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n Georgia's availability report is the shortest it has been all season, and the one name that matters on it is the man who touches the ball first on every play.<\/strong><\/p>\n ALBANY, GA \u2014 \u00b7 By the RFA Sports Desk<\/small><\/p>\n The best football team in America woke up this morning with one thing to fret about, and it is a fellow most of Sanford Stadium could not pick out of a lineup at the Varsity. DawgNation reported that Drew Bobo, who has started every game at center this season, turned up on Thursday's SEC availability report as questionable with an undisclosed issue and was downgraded to doubtful on Friday. Undisclosed is the word that does the work there. In my experience nobody keeps good news a secret.<\/p>\n A center is like the preacher at a wedding. He stands in the middle of everything, he starts the proceedings, and if he does his job right nobody remembers he was there. Folks remember the bride. But let the preacher fail to show and you find out in a hurry how little anybody else knows about getting the thing started. The center tells four large men who to hit, hands the ball backward between his own legs, and then gets run over by somebody's nephew from Missouri. It is honest work and it is thankless.<\/p>\n A center is like the preacher at a wedding: do the job right and nobody remembers you were there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n DawgNation names Cortez Smith or Malachi Toliver as the likeliest replacements, and Toliver made three career starts filling in for Bobo last season, so this is not a man being handed the keys to a tractor he has never seen. Still, the timing could be kinder. Missouri ranks third in the SEC against the run and has allowed only two teams to rush for more than 100 yards. Georgia ran for 295 on 48 carries in Oxford last week, and every one of those began with a snap from the fellow now listed as doubtful.<\/p>\n Then there is the matter of the quarterback's health. Georgia's sack rate allowed sits at 4.1%, up from 2.6% in 2023, which was already the soft spot on an otherwise handsome report card. Eli Drinkwitz told reporters there is "not nearly enough talk about him being a candidate for the Heisman Trophy," meaning Gunner Stockton, according to DawgNation. That is a neighborly thing to say about a man you intend to chase. The Jefferson City News Tribune reported Missouri's edge rusher Langden Kitchen is out for the season, but Daeden Hopkins has 7 sacks and no such excuse.<\/p>\n None of this has scared the money. Georgia opened at -13.5 and has gone to -15.5, and a Dawgs247 roundup found 28 of 29 media pickers taking the Bulldogs. The desk's own exploratory sim is the wet blanket at the picnic, calling it Georgia 28, Missouri 22, and it did not know about the center when it said so. I expect Georgia wins. But I will be watching the first snap at 3:30 the way a man watches his daughter back out of the driveway for the first time.<\/p>\n Written in the tradition of Lewis Grizzard, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1946\u20131994.<\/em><\/p>\n Hear the desk read tonights report on Radio Free Albany, WPFQ 96.7.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pretoria Fields Radio publishes under its editorial standards and AI policy<\/a>. Spot an error? Write info@pretoriafieldsradio.com and we will correct it in the open.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n\n
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