Peach State College Football Preview
Saturday’s Peach State games
Fort Valley State (5-2/3-0) at Clark Atlanta (0-7/0-5)
1 p.m.
FVSU’s Central Georgians: WR Dequavious Walker, Sr., QB Garrel Quainton, Sr., West Laurens; DB Delvin Webb, Jr., Dooly County; DB Camron Young, Sr., Dodge County; WR Brandon Davis, Jr., Hancock Central; RB Jaylen Lowder, Jr., Veterans; OL Octavius Hall, Jr., Peach County; RB Kentavious Thomas, Jr., Baldwin; DB Brian Williams, Sr., Dublin; LB Larry Dumas, Jr., Lamar County; PK Eli Mashburn, So., Warner Robins; DL Zaquan Baldwin, So., Southwest; DL Demarquez Carter, Fr., Upson-Lee; OL Emanuel Boone, So., Westside; WR Aiden Stewart, Fr., Howard; WR Jhi-Marre Brown, Jr., Perry; DL Albert Sharpe, Jr., Southwest; DL Chris Carson, Fr., Warner Robins; DL Nathaniel Freeney, Jr., Twiggs County; RB DJ Brazil, So., Taylor County; OL Latorrence Jefferty, So., Upson-Lee.
Clark Atlanta Central Georgians: TE Felix Jones, Jr., Baldwin; OL Isaiah Goolsby, Fr., Southwest.
Arkansas Baptist (5-5) at GMC (6-2)
1 p.m.
GMC’s Central Georgians: WR Trey Brown, So., Macon County; WR Torenio Davis, So., Bleckley County; DB Branden Smith, Houston County; RB Tyler Jordan, Fr., Stratford; OL Cameron Brown, So., John Milledge; WR Will Clardy, Fr., West Laurens.
Mercer (3-4/2-2) at The Citadel (4-4/2-2)
2 p.m.
The Bears play their first game without QB Robert Riddle, who suffered a season-ending injury last week and underwent surgery last Saturday night. But Kaelan Riley was the SoCon freshman of the year a few years ago, and he engineered the win over VMI after Riddle went out with the compound fracture and dislocation of his ankle.
Mercer’s Central Georgians: QB Dylan Fromm, Fr., Warner Robins; LB Will Coneway, Sr., Washington County; DB Jacob Pierce, Fr., Veterans; LB KaShawn Baker, Fr., Crawford County; OL Caleb Etheridge, Mary Persons; LS Zach Lassiter, Fr., Bleckley County; OL Mitchell Lord, Fr., Washington County; WR Landon Miller, Fr., Rutland; WR Brandon Mays, Fr., Wilkinson County; P Parker Lee, Fr., Veterans; E Gavin Whitfield, Fr., Tattnall.
The Citadel’s Central Georgians: DB Destin Mack, So., Tattnall, and more than two dozen others from Georgia.
New Mexico State (0-7) at Georgia Southern (3-3)
3 p.m., ESPN3
Georgia Southern’s Central Georgians: DB Java’n Singletary, Fr., Veterans; WR Darion Anderson, Jr., Houston County; RB Jared Daniels, So., Macon County; OL Caleb Kelly, So., Northside.
New Mexico State’s Central Georgians: None, and nobody from Georgia.
North Alabama (2-5/1-2) at Kennesaw State (6-1/2-0)
3 p.m., ESPN3
Kennesaw State’s Central Georgians: RB Nykeem Farrow, Fr., Bleckley County; DB Je’Cory Burks, Fr., Perry; RB Preston Daniels, Fr., Washington County; DB Donte Justice, Fr., Baldwin; RB Kyle Glover, Jr., Dodge County; OL Antwann Fann, Fr., Perry; OL Sean Brown, Soph., Tattnall; DL Marquez Baxter, Fr., Southwest.
North Alabama’s Central Georgians: DB K.J. Smith, Sr., Perry; and a half-dozen Georgians.
Troy (3-3/1-1) at Georgia State (5-2/2-1)
7 p.m.
Georgia State’s Central Georgians: OL Trey Bonner, Fr., Jones County; P/PK Barry Brown, Jr., Dublin; OT Travis Glover, Fr., Dooly County; WR Jaquez Pennimon, Fr., Southwest.
Troy’s Central Georgians: QB Gunnar Watson, Fr., Taylor County; LB/DB Kevin Nixon, Jr., Peach County; S Kyle Nixon, Jr., Peach County; RB Trevon Woolfolk, Fr., Peach County.