UGA Football: Ratledge, Mondon, Lassiter, and Thorson Speak With the Media Kentucky Week
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ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia junior linebacker Smael Mondon and true freshman place-kicker Peyton Woodring have earned Southeastern Conference weekly honors following the Bulldogs’ 27-20 win at Auburn, according to a league announcement Monday.
Mondon, a native of Dallas, Ga., has been named the SEC Defensive Player of the Week for the first time while Woodring, a native of Lafayette, La., has garnered his first SEC Co-Freshman Player of the Week honor in his career. Woodring is splitting this week’s award with Alabama’s Caleb Downs.
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AUBURN, Ala. – In its first road contest of the season, the top-ranked University of Georgia football team came from behind to defeat rival Auburn, 27-20, Saturday afternoon before 88,043 spectators at Jordan-Hare Stadium and a CBS national television audience.
Quarterback Carson Beck led Georgia (5-0, 2-0 SEC) as he finished 23-for-33 for 313 yards and one touchdown. Tight end Brock Bowers led all receivers with eight catches for a career-high 157 yards, while running back Daijun Edwards rushed 19 times for a team-high 76 yards and two touchdowns. Linebacker Smael Mondon, Jr. tied his career high with 11 tackles, including seven solo stops and two tackles for loss, while defensive back Javon Bullard returned from injury for a career-best 10 tackles.
The Bulldogs extended their school record for consecutive regular season wins to 32, which leads all of FBS, and is the second longest active streak in the NCAA behind DIII Mount Union (58 straight). This Georgia streak began during the 2020 season with a 31-24 win over Miss. State. on Nov. 21.
Georgia now has won 21 regular season SEC games in a row dating to a 31-24 win over Miss. State on Nov. 21, 2020. The school record is 23, set during a stretch from 1980-83.
Kirby Smart is in his eighth year directing the Georgia Bulldogs who are 85-15 in this span including back-to-back national championships in 2021 and 2022. This offseason, Georgia took a deep dive on the New Zealand All Blacks, the world’s most successful rugby team, or quite frankly, any sports team in history. The Bulldogs rank ninth all-time in victories among NCAA FBS teams with 872 after starting in 1892.
Due to the cancellation of a previously scheduled matchup at Oklahoma (who now will join the SEC in 2024), Georgia played host to four straight games to start the 2023 campaign and won them all. The last schedule that featured four home games to start a season was in 1999. That year, the Bulldogs also went 4-0, beating Utah State, USC, UCF and LSU.
Georgia has the nation’s longest active regular season winning streak in FBS that now stands at 31. The school record streak began with a 31-24 home victory over Miss. State on Nov. 21, 2020. The NCAA’s longest active regular-season win streak belongs to Mount Union as the DIII school has won 57 in a row.
Kirby Smart is in his eighth year directing the Georgia Bulldogs who are 85-15 in this span including back-to-back national championships in 2021 and 2022. This offseason, Georgia took a deep dive on the New Zealand All Blacks, the world’s most successful rugby team, or quite frankly, any sports team in history. The Bulldogs rank ninth all-time in victories among NCAA FBS teams with 872 after starting in 1892.
Due to the cancellation of a previously scheduled matchup at Oklahoma (who now will join the SEC in 2024), Georgia played host to four straight games to start the 2023 campaign and won them all. The last schedule that featured four home games to start a season was in 1999. That year, the Bulldogs also went 4-0, beating Utah State, USC, UCF and LSU.
Georgia has the nation’s longest active regular season winning streak in FBS that now stands at 31. The school record streak began with a 31-24 home victory over Miss. State on Nov. 21, 2020. The NCAA’s longest active regular-season win streak belongs to Mount Union as the DIII school has won 57 in a row.