Georgia sophomore inside linebacker Alec Ogletree (9) is scheduled to play Saturday against Florida, which will be his first appearance since suffering a broken foot Sept. 3 against Boise State.ATHENS, Ga. – Georgia will employ its eighth different defensive starting lineup of the season Saturday afternoon when the No. 22 Bulldogs take the field against Florida in Jacksonville, and the mixing and matching will just be getting started.
Sophomore inside linebacker Alec Ogletree is back after breaking his foot during the first quarter of the season opener against Boise State, and junior outside linebacker Cornelius Washington returns following a two-game suspension for a DUI arrest. Yet the Bulldogs won’t have their entire defense intact until the third quarter, when junior strong safety Shawn Williams and sophomore noseguard Kwame Geathers come off suspensions they received for their actions in the Oct. 15 win at Vanderbilt.
“We haven’t played a game yet where we’ve had all of our starters,” junior safety Sanders Commings said. “We aren’t going to have those guys the first half, but in the second half we’re finally going to have our whole defense playing. We’ve got ‘Tree’ back in the middle, who’s extremely fast and can stop some of Florida’s speed.
“I think the defense will come out more hyped in the second half than we will in the first half.”
Ogletree lasted just two series against the Broncos, and the Bulldogs already were a man down because junior free safety Bacarri Rambo served a one-game suspension for violating team rules in the offseason.