Category: UGA Football

ATHENS, Ga. — Bulldog starters Stetson Bennett, Malaki Starks and Jalen Carter have all earned Southeastern Conference weekly honors following Georgia’s 27-13 win over No. 1 Tennessee, according to an announcement Monday.

Bennett is the league’s Co-Offensive Player of the Week, giving him two of the accolades in his career.  Starks has now won the Co-Freshman Player of the Week for the first time while Carter is garnering Defensive Lineman of the Week honors for the second time in his career.

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ATHENS, Ga. — The Georgia defense quieted the nation’s most prolific offense. The Georgia offense was explosive at times and extremely efficient at others. And at the end, amid a roaring and raucous atmosphere Saturday afternoon at Sanford Stadium, the Bulldogs walked off of Dooley Field still undefeated.

Quarterback Stetson Bennett threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score, while the Bulldog defense sacked Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker six times during a battle of unbeatens that Georgia won 27-13.

According to the Associated Press, Saturday’s game was just the fifth regular-season meeting this century featuring teams ranked Nos. 1 and 2 in its media poll (the Vols were tied with Ohio State). In the first College Football Playoff rankings, released Tuesday, Tennessee was ranked No. 1 and Georgia No. 3, with Ohio State in between them. In the AFCA Coaches Poll, Georgia remained No. 1 this week and UT stayed at No. 3.

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No. 3 Georgia beats No. 1 Tennessee 27-13Bulldogs Topple CFP No. 1 Team:

• Georgia moves its record to 9-0 (6-0 SEC) with a 27-13 victory over #1 Tennessee (8-1, 4-1 SEC).
• Georgia improves to 3-5 all-time against the No. 1 ranked team in school history. The other wins over No. 1 teams came against Florida (28-3 in Jacksonville) in 1985 and Alabama (33-18) for the 2022 CFP National Championship.
• Tonight marked the highest ranked matchup in the history of Sanford Stadium that opened in 1929 with No. 3 Georgia beating No. 1 UT (CFP rankings).
• The Bulldogs now have won 24 straight regular season games including their last 17 SEC games in that span.
• Georgia now leads the UT series 27-23-2. They have won six in a row, all by double digits.
• Head coach Kirby Smart is now 6-1 against UT and 75-15 overall.
• With today’s win, Georgia is now 4-1 as the No. 3 CFP team in the land. On Selection Day in 2017, Georgia made the CFP and went 1-1, outlasting No. 2 Oklahoma in 2OT in the Rose Bowl and falling in OT to No. 4 Alabama for the national title. Last year, Georgia again was No. 3 on Selection Day and then beat No. 2 Michigan 34-11 in the CFP Semifinal/Capital One Orange Bowl, then No. 1 Alabama 33-18 for the 2022 CFP national title.

Defensive Honors The Standard:

• Georgia came in ranked 2nd nationally in scoring defense, allowing just 10.5 points a game while UT came in leading the nation in scoring (49.4 ppg). The Bulldogs built a 24-6 halftime lead and ultimately won 27-13.
• The 13 points was the lowest scored by the Vols under coach Josh Heupel.
• The Vols finished with 289 ya

Saturday’s mega-matchup of the top two college football teams in the country, Georgia versus Tennessee, had all of the makings of an instant classic between the hedges. But the Bulldogs’ defense wouldn’t allow it.

“I feel like the way we prepared through the week, man, the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday practices, those days we get after it — we practice hard, we really practice hard. I feel like the game isn’t won on Saturday, the game is won throughout the week,” said defensive back Javon Bullard, who had two sacks in Georgia’s 27-13 takedown of the Volunteers at Sanford Stadium.

It was a battle of unbeatens, a battle between the defending national champions and a resurgent Tennessee squad fresh off impressive wins against Alabama and Kentucky. It was a battle between the Volunteers’ turbo-charged offense and the Bulldogs’ super-stout defense.

“I didn’t know what to expect. We knew it was going to be a good game, and they’re a great team, so we went out and did what we had to do,” said wideout Ladd McConkey, who led the offense with five catches for 94 yards and caught a 37-yard touchdown pass that put the Bulldogs up 14-3 late in the first quarter.

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Saturday’s game with Tennessee will mark the first 1-2 matchup in Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium history and just the third top five matchup. In 1983, No. 3 Auburn edged No. 4 Georgia 13-7 while in 1942, No. 5 Georgia blanked No. 2 Ga. Tech 34-0.

Georgia leads the all-time series with Tennessee 26-23-2 including winning the past five meetings. The Bulldogs are 5-1 against the Vols under Kirby Smart, the lone defeat coming in 2016 on a Hail-Mary by Josh Dobbs in Athens. He completed a 43-yard pass to Jauan Jennings as time expired to lift No. 11 Tennessee past No. 25 Georgia 34-31. Last year in Knoxville, top-ranked Georgia posted a 41-17 win.

Along with CBS broadcasting the game, ESPN College GameDay and SEC Nation will be in Athens. This marks the eighth time GameDay comes to Athens.

Georgia (8-0, 5-0 SEC) remained in the top spot in the latest Associated Press (AP) poll while Tennessee (8-0, 4-0 SEC) moved into a tie with Ohio State (8-0) for No. 2. This Saturday in Athens will be the 25th regular-season game where the top two teams in the AP poll square off, and the first such meeting between the Bulldogs and Volunteers. The Bulldogs have been No. 1 now for the past four weeks. The last time the Vols were as high as No. 2 came in 2001, and that year they would finish fourth.

The Georgia-Tennessee game will mark the 53rd all-time meeting (including postseason games) between the AP’s No. 1 and No. 2 squads since the poll began in 1936. The last 1-2 regular season games both involved Alabama and LSU. In 2019, the No. 1 Tigers beat No. 2 Alabama in Tuscaloosa and went on to win the SEC and national title. In 2011, top-ranked LSU outlasted No. 2 Alabama in overtime. However, the two would meet again for the BCS national championship, and the Crimson Tide won the rematch.

The first College Football Playoff rankings of the season will be released Tuesday night. The Bulldogs were ranked No. 1 in the first five CFP rankings last year and earned a spot in the playoff as the No. 3 seed with a 12-1 mark. Georgia would beat No. 2 seed Michigan 34-11 in the Orange Bowl semifinal in Miami and then top seed Alabama 33-18 in the National Championship game in Indianapolis, Ind.

The Bulldogs outgained Tennessee by 100 yards (487-387) and forced the game’s only two turnovers that UGA turned into 14 points to help give Georgia a 10-0 start. Current Buffalo Bill James Cook set the tone during the rout last year in Knoxville by carrying the ball 10 times for 104 yards and two touchdowns. However, it was the Vols who struck first with a 77-yard scoring drive in the opening frame. The score was knotted at 7-7 and then 10-10 during the second quarter before the Bulldogs pulled away. Stetson Bennett finished 17-for-29 for 213 yards and touchdown pass to Cook while also rushing for a score. Current Miami Dolphin Channing Tindall had eight tackles, including a career high three sacks. He forced a fumble on one of his sacks that the top pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, Travon Walker, recovered at Georgia’s 27 yard line.

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