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The Georgia Bulldogs conducted a two-hour practice Wednesday, Dec. 9, in preparation for a top-25 matchup against Missouri, on Faurot Field in Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Mo.

The Bulldogs and Tigers’ kickoff is set for 12:00 p.m., ET on the SEC Network. Before practice, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart participated in the SEC Football Weekly Media Teleconference. Following practice, Warren Ericson and Jake Camarda offered these comments on the matchup with Vanderbilt.

Selected comments from Smart and the student-athletes follow:

Head Coach Kirby Smart
Opening Statement…
“Our team is excited to get back on the field and go play. We missed last week and have a really hot Missouri team we have a lot of respect for. Eliah [Drinkwitz] has done an unbelievable job with those guys and have them playing really well, really hard. You can see that they’re well coached. They have a lot of talented guys on defense and offense. I think their quarterback [Connor Bazelak] is playing very well.”

On how the cold weather will impact the game this week and if it makes him alter a game plan…
“Not really. We don’t control the weather. We practice in it all the time here. It’s been cold this week. We’ve been practicing outside, inside. We have to go inside a little bit, not by choice but because our fields base is under construction. We alternate who gets to go outside. We’ve told our team all along, that’s not something we can control. We worry about things we can control, and we control how we play and the guys playing in the game won’t be thinking about the weather—they’ll be thinking about the game.”

On whether he played in any cold weather games while at Georgia…
“Oh yeah. We had several. There was one at home against Auburn. I remember we played and it was really cold. What qualifies as cold to me is when you can see your breath. So, if you see that then it’s pretty chilly.”

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