Georgia football ’s first-round playoff bye means the Bulldogs will have nearly four weeks between games before players strap on their helmets and face another team.

Coach Kirby Smart was asked Sunday Dec. 7 if wide receiver Colbie Young could be back in time for the Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl.

Young missed the last six games this season after sustaining a broken leg on Oct. 18 in a 43-35 win against Ole Miss .

Georgia would face the Rebels again in New Orleans in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal if they beat Tulane in a first-round game.

“I don’t know,” Smart said about Young. “We went over some injuries today. His name came up. I think it would be a stretch and we’re so far off. I was not thinking of being able to get him back when the injury occurred in the initial timeline. But

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