Georgia
Over 12 players out for SEC championship game
The Georgia Bulldogs will be without several starters in the SEC championship against the Alabama Crimson Tide. In fact, both teams are extremely banged up entering Saturday’s SEC championship.
Georgia has six players out for the game and safety Zion Branch has an injury designation (questionable) that popped up on Thursday. It is unclear what Branch’s injury is. Alabama has eight players out for the game and four players that are questionable to play.
Georgia running back Chauncey Bowens has been battling injuries and has not had a carry since he left in the fourth quarter of the Texas game. Bowens does not appear on the injury report, but he’s clearly not 100%.
Bowens is not the only injured Georgia running back. Freshman Bo Walker is out. “Bo is not going to be with us,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said after Walker was reportedly involved in a car crash. “He was required to have a surgery. He’ll be out for this game.”
Georgia’s running game will be missing a significant piece in center Drew Bobo, who left the Georgia Tech game with a foot injury. Bobo was seen with a boot on his foot and has been ruled out for the SEC championship. With Bobo out, Georgia is expected to start center Malachi Toliver.
Georgia is still without receiver Colbie Young. Georgia tight end Ethan Barbour is likely out for the year along with defensive lineman Jordan Hall. Defensive back Kyron Jones (foot) remains out. If Zion Branch is out, then Georgia will be without two key safeties. It is not all bad injury news for Georgia. Receiver Talyn Taylor no longer appears on the injury report.
SEC championship injury report
Georgia Bulldogs
- Tight end Ethan Barbour: Out (ankle)
- Safety Kyron Jones: Out (foot)
- Wide receiver Colbie Young: Out (leg fracture)
- Running back Bo Walker: Out
- Defensive lineman Jordan Hall: Out (knee)
- Center Drew Bobo: Out (foot/ankle)
- Safety Zion Branch: Questionable
Alabama Crimson Tide
- Defensive back Kameron Howard: Out
- Defensive lineman LT Overton: Out
- Running back Kevin Riley: Out
- Defensive back Dre Kirkpatrick: Out
- Offensive lineman Mal Waldrep: Out
- Defensive lineman Jeremiah Beaman: Out
- Linebacker Jah-Marien Latham: Out
- Linebacker Kelby Collins: Out
- Running back Jam Miller: Questionable
- Offensive lineman Kam Dewberry: Questionable
- Tight end Josh Cuevas: Questionable
- Tight end Danny Lewis: Questionable
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There’s one final game to be played this season within the Southeastern Conference, with the SEC Championship kicking off in Atlanta on Saturday. Now, two days out from the top-ten matchup, we have a better idea of who’ll be taking the field for Alabama vs. Georgia.
With this game, we have our final updates made to the SEC Availability Report. An initial one was already released on Wednesday, with another one to come on Friday, for the Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs.
Kickoff is set for Saturday at 4 p.m. ET. Here is that updated injury report from the SEC for Alabama as well as Georgia:
Alabama
Georgia
On Wednesday, Alabama had the more notable of the two reports to start, with eleven designations in total and four of those still undetermined for the Crimson Tide. The most important of those were obviously with questionable designations on their offense for Miller, their leading rusher with 493 yards and three touchdowns, and Cuevas, their top tight end with 341 yards and four touchdowns, and on their offensive line with Dewberry. Other names like Riley, their second-leading rusher, as well as Overton and Kirkpatrick Jr. were then already labeled as out for ‘Bama.
Georgia then had six designations, with all of them already labeled as out for the SEC Championship. Young, their second-leading receiver on the season, Jones and Hall on their defense, and Bobo on their offensive line were the most notable of the six already to be unavailable for the ‘Dawgs this weekend when they’ll be back inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
The Georgia Bulldogs (11-1, 7-1 SEC) face the Alabama Crimson Tide (10-2, 7-1 SEC) on Saturday, Dec. 6 at 4:00 p.m. ET in the 2025 SEC championship. The Georgia-Alabama game will be televised on ABC in the latest meeting between the two SEC powers.
The SEC championship will be played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. Last week, Georgia defeated Georgia Tech in the same venue that has haunted Georgia at times in the past, especially against Alabama. The Bulldogs lost to the Crimson Tide in the 2012, 2018, 2021 and 2023 SEC championships and in the 2017-2018 national championship in Atlanta.
Alabama continues to have Georgia’s number. The Crimson Tide beat Georgia in 2024 in the two schools’ first meeting of the Kalen DeBoer era. Alabama snapped Georgia’s 33-game home winning streak in a 24-21 victory over the Dawgs this season, which was Georgia’s only loss of the season.
“Looking forward to Saturday and the opportunity and challenge to face Georgia again this year,” DeBoer said ahead of the SEC championship. “It’s going to be an awesome environment, one our guys are excited about already. Really looking forward to it.”
Will Georgia beat Alabama? ESPN’s prediction
Georgia is a slight favorites against Alabama, which is a bit of a surprise considering Alabama’s success in the series. ESPN’s matchup predictor, which factors team performance, the football power index and other important variables, gives Georgia a 48.9% chance to defeat Alabama. The Crimson Tide have a 51.1% chance of beating Georgia.
ESPN’s SP+ also thinks Georgia will win. It predicts a 27-24 Georgia victory.
Georgia’s CFP chances
ESPN gives Georgia a 100% chance of making the playoff. Georgia’s real question for the playoff is can the Bulldogs get a first-round bye with an SEC championship loss? It would be unlikely for No. 3 Georgia to maintain a first-round bye, but if Texas Tech lost in the Big 12 championship, the Georgia could still have a bye in the playoff despite suffering an SEC title loss.
UGA has 7.6% chance of winning the national championship (fourth in the nation), according to the FPI. No. 9 Alabama has a 66.5% chance of making the playoff and a 2.8% chance of winning the national title (tied for eighth in the country).
Georgia football 2025 schedule
- Aug. 30: vs. Marshall (W, 45-7)
- Sept. 6: vs. Austin Peay (W, 28-6)
- Sept. 13: at Tennessee (W, 44-41 in OT)
- Sept. 27: vs. Alabama (L, 24-21)
- Oct. 4: vs. Kentucky (W, 35-14)
- Oct. 11: at Auburn (W, 20-10)
- Oct. 18: vs. Ole Miss (W, 43-35)
- Nov. 1: vs. Florida (W, 24-20)
- Nov. 8: at Miss. State (W, 41-21)
- Nov. 15: vs. Texas (W, 35-10)
- Nov. 22: vs. Charlotte (W, 35-3)
- Nov. 28: vs. Georgia Tech (W, 16-9)
- Dec. 6 vs. Alabama (SEC championship) at 4 p.m. ET
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Georgia Tech has agreed to a new five-year contract with head coach Brent Key, according to a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
The new deal will run through the 2030 season and includes a significant raise in salary, as well as increased investment for his staff. The Yellow Jackets are at their full revenue share for the program, and has allotted $150 million in resources for football over the next few seasons, which will entail a new performance center and a renovation plan for Bobby Dodd Stadium.
The deal, per Thamel, has been in the works for weeks.
Key has been speculated as a candidate for multiple jobs, most notably at Penn State. The Nittany Lions continue to swing and miss on replacements for James Franklin, who was fired in October. Key is 27-19 at Georgia Tech and went 9-3 in the regular season this year.
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