UGA Football: Top Ranked Dawgs Holf Off Flashes

ATHENS, Ga. —Brock Bowers scored on a 75-yard touchdown run on the second play from scrimmage to get the No. 1-ranked Georgia football team up and running Saturday afternoon at Sanford Stadium. But the Bulldogs had to work all the way to the end to take down Kent State, beating the Golden Flashes 39-22.

Georgia (4-0) has now was 14 in a row on Dooley Field. This one started out like it might be a runaway thanks to Bowers’ big burst, but Bulldog miscues (three turnovers, multiple dropped passes and a successful Kent State fake punt) combined with a gritty performance by the Golden Flashes (1-3), kept the score close all the way through.

A Kendall Milton 1-yard run with 5:30 left in the game made it 39-22, and a Christopher Smith interception soon after finally sealed the victory. The Bulldogs finished with 529 yards of offense, while Kent State (1-3) had 281. The Golden Flashes were playing their third ranked opponent in four weeks, having already played at No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 18 Washington.

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UGA Football: Georgia vs Kent State Post Game Notes

Offensive Highlights: Top-ranked Georgia posted a 39-22 win over Kent State to improve to 4-0. Senior QB Stetson Bennett finished 27-for-36 for 272 yards and one INT plus a rushing TD. In the first half, he was 18-of-24 for 173 yards and the rushing TD.

Two Bulldogs had a team-high six catches apiece in RS-sophomore Ladd McConkey (65 yards), Kenny McIntosh (35 yards). Today, nine different Bulldogs caught a pass. Georgia had its longest TD-drive of the year (by time), chewing up 6:43 on a 12 play, 75-yard drive late in the 4th quarter for its final score.

Sophomore TE Brock Bowers led all rushers with 77 yards on two carries — both resulting in first half touchdowns. He struck paydirt from 75 yards out, marking the longest rushing TD by a Bulldog since 2020 when Zamir White went 75 yards against Florida on the first scrimmage play of the game. Bowers first TD today came on the second play. The previous longest rush for Bowers was 24 yards againt Tennessee last year. Bowers scored again on a two-yard rush in the second quarter. It marked the first time in his career he had two rushing TDs in a game. Georgia attempted its first fourth-down attempt of the year, and it was successful (4th and 1 from the 50). Georgia has now outscored its opponents in the first half 108-16 and 169-32 on the year.

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UGA Football: Bowers’ Highlight Reel Keeps Growing

There is almost certainly something Georgia tight end Brock Bowers can’t do on a football field, but we haven’t seen it yet. He hasn’t attempted a pass yet or tried a field goal, but everything else the star sophomore has been asked to do, he’s done at an extraordinarily high level.

“You saw it last year and in practice every day. Brock is a freak athlete,” wide receiver Ladd McConkey said Monday. “It’s nothing new to us. You get used to seeing it at times when he makes plays like that. He’s the real deal, and he deserves everything he’s been given. I’m just happy he’s on our team.”

The “play like that” McConkey was referring to was Bowers’ 78-yard catch and run for a touchdown in Georgia’s 48-7 win at South Carolina last week. Not a lot of tight ends have many 50-plus-yard touchdowns in their careers. Then again, not a lot of tight ends are like Bowers, who is building off his stellar freshman season by becoming one of the best and most explosive and versatile players in the country.

Bowers showed again Saturday, in No. 1 Georgia’s often sloppy and sluggish 39-22 win over Kent State, just why every Georgia player, coach and fan is happy the 6-foot-4 and 230-pound sophomore is a Bulldog.
On the Bulldogs’ second play from scrimmage, a second-and-10 from the Georgia 25-yard line, Bowers took a handoff on a jet sweep, ran around the right side, and was gone. One week after he scored on a 78-yard pass play, Bowers scored on a 75-yard run.

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