SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE FOOTBALL MEDIA DAYS

July 21, 2026

Drew Bobo

Georgia Bulldogs

Press Conference

Q. Obviously team goals are at the top of the list, but what individual goals are you trying to attain to help that team get better?

DREW BOBO: One of my main individual goals is just to become better as a leader. As the season goes on, as we go into camp, I just want to become a better leader so I can help accomplish those team goals.

Q. Most people's dads don't coach them in college, and I know he doesn't directly coach you. But what's it like for you to play for your father and to play for someone who you've known, I guess, since you were a little boy? I don't know if there's a time that you didn't know Kirby. But what's it like doing that? And then what's your favorite moment with your dad these last however many years?

DREW BOBO: I think my dad does a really good job just kind of keeping coach and being my dad separate. Really when we're at the facility playing games, stuff like that, he doesn't treat me different than anyone else. But at the same time, when we're off the field, when we're on vacation, stuff like that, he doesn't bring football into that. So he does a really good job.

But it's really cool for me to be able to play for my dad, who I wanted to play for my whole life and be at Georgia where I wanted to be my whole life.

Q. You're standing in the tunnel at Sanford Stadium. You're seeing the hedges out there and you're seeing all those people screaming. Do you still get goosebumps?

DREW BOBO: Every time. Just walking through the dog walk before every game and seeing all those fans, seeing them just playing the fight song while we're walking in the stadium. Then you're standing in the tunnel, every time I get goosebumps.

Q. I want to ask about, when you were growing up in Colorado during that time, how did you watch Georgia games, or how did you stay connected? Was it stranger without Mike, being at Georgia at the time, because I guess you had just left, been there for four years?

DREW BOBO: I was in Colorado for five years, but Georgia was until -- I was there for my whole childhood until I went into middle school. But it was different because he wasn't there.

But at the same time, I was still a Georgia fan. It wasn't like Colorado State and Georgia were going to play each other. Every single Georgia game I would tune in and watch unless it was during a game. But I'd still be on the sideline at Colorado games, checking the scores on my phone and was still a Georgia fan.

Q. What's it like playing your senior season for the team that you were born in their hometown?

DREW BOBO: I mean, it's really cool for me to be able to do that. Playing for Georgia is something I've wanted to do my whole life. Going to school at Georgia, too, and graduating this past year and still playing at Georgia and staying all five years has been really cool to me.

Q. With your injury last season, I know you must be excited to play for this season. What games are you most looking forward to?

DREW BOBO: I'm just taking it one game at a time. I'm really excited for the first game and just getting out there, being in pads again and being able to play football again.

Q. Just talk about the relationship with Gunner, and why is it important for a second year of you two together in that center/quarterback relationship?

DREW BOBO: Yeah, I mean the center-quarterback relationship's really important because we do all the communicating. And I have to communicate down the offensive line and he has to communicate to receivers, stuff like that, the running back, and just being on the same page.

And really our whole time here, we've been kind of together going through the program and playing together. So it's helped create a really good connection and being on the same page while we make calls and do stuff like that.

Q. Coach Smart was just saying, we can barely get him to talk half the time but he leads from the front. How have you seen Gunner grow and develop as a leader of this football team?

DREW BOBO: I've seen him grow as a leader tremendously just because the guys we came in with always kind of looked up to him. And as he's gotten older, he's kind of taken control of the offense and just becoming a full team leader.

And just the way he does things, the way he goes about his daily, just practice, lift, stuff like that, the way he carries himself, everyone on the team could be a friend with the guy. And I'm just really impressed with how he's become a better leader.

Q. Kirby's sort of infamous or famous, however you want to put it, for the microphone at practice. Can you recall your first time getting that treatment and the most recent time, maybe?

DREW BOBO: Really, I can't really recall any specific microphone moments when I was on the microphone. But I just know that every time it happens, sometimes you don't even hear it because you're just getting ready for the next play, stuff like that.

But it just happens all the time. Everyone goes through it. And it's something he does to get us ready for games.

Q. New coaches come in and they talk about having to set the culture. Georgia's culture is not set. It's cemented. How important is it to walk in and have everything there, the players, the coaches, been there for years?

DREW BOBO: I think it's just the standard that Coach Smart has set. He set a very good standard for everybody. And it's held up by the leaders. I mean, as I've come through, I saw many great leaders like Sedrick Van Pran and Nolan Smith, stuff like that, and how they carried themselves and held the standard. And that's how I want to carry myself and hold the standard.

Q. Coaches can be targets of criticism on broadcast or in print. How tough is that on a family? Sometimes coaches can be criticized, and you're the son of a coach. Is it tough on a family when you see that about your dad?

DREW BOBO: Really, just all coaches can be criticized. I've been around it my whole life. So I just try to block it out. I really don't pay attention to stuff like that.

Q. Speaking of parents, this is maybe a little odd, but do you consider your mother tougher than your dad? She's had to raise how many kids?

DREW BOBO: Five of us total. But sometimes. My grandpa used to call her "The General" because my dad would always be coaching football or doing stuff like that, and she's just running five kids around, just trying to make sure we make it to practice. And I'm really appreciative of what she's done for me and the way she still does it for all of us.

Q. Couple years in the SEC, what's been the hardest stadium you've had to play in?

DREW BOBO: I mean, I really wouldn't say there's been a hardest stadium. They're all really different in different ways and can be difficult. They just get really loud and stuff like that. But just doing a good job of trying to block out the noise, because we get ready for it in practice.

But just the loudest one I've heard was probably Tennessee, three years ago. They busted a run on the first play and scored a 75-yard run and touchdown, and that's the loudest I've ever heard a stadium get.