With the exception of one night in Memphis when it refused to start after a coaches’ convention, Christian Robinson’s weathered 2003 Yukon has reliably taken him from one point to another for 13 years.



New Orleans. Mississippi. Key West.



Robinson’s father, Ken, gave him the Yukon as a gift when he was 15. Robinson drove it when learning how to drive. He drove it as a Georgia recruit in high school. He continued to drive it for work as a graduate assistant. It is beat up after 203,000 miles, but its new tires suggest it is prepared for more.



“That old white thing has already been everywhere,” said former Georgia tight end Arthur Lynch, one of Robinson’s close friends. “Old reliable, we call it.”



After all the destinations the Yukon helped Robinson reach, he was again inside of it earlier this year when he arrived at the place he waited five years to see.



This was early January.



Robinson...