Category: UGA Football

UGA Football: No. 1 Georgia vs. Tennessee Postgame Notes

Undefeated SEC Regular Season: With today’s 41-17 victory, top-ranked Georgia (10-0, 8-0 SEC) posted a perfect 8-0 mark in the league for the first time in school history. The average margin of victory in these games was 31.9 points. Georgia now has completed league play undefeated eight times, and this is the first 8-0 mark since the SEC split into divisions in 1992. This is the third time that Georgia has gone 6-0 in the SEC East under Kirby Smart. Since 2017, Georgia is 27-2 against the East. Georgia is now 10-0 for the first time since 1982 when it went 11-0. The Bulldogs also started out 10-0 in 1980 and 1946. The 2011 team began the year 0-2 and then won 10 straight games to close out the regular season.

Defensive Review: Top-ranked Georgia, the national leader in Scoring Defense (6.6 ppg), held Tennessee to 10 points in the first half as the Vols ran 41 plays for 184 yards (159 yards came in the first quarter and only 25 yards in the 2nd quarter). UT added a TD in the 4th quarter to finish with 17 points as the Vols were averaging 38.2 ppg. Georgia opponents have scored just 76 points, and that tally through 10 games is the lowest in a season at this point since 1950 when it allowed 58.

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UGA Football: Game Notes – Georgia Takes on Vols on Rocky Top

Game & Broadcast Info
  • Kickoff: Saturday, November 13 – 3:30 p.m. ET
  • Location: Neyland Stadium (102,455) | Knoxville, Tenn.
  • 2021 Records: Georgia 9-0 (7-0 SEC), Tennessee 5-4 (3-3 SEC)
  • History: Georgia vs. Tennessee All-Time Series Results: UGA 25-23-2
  • Rankings: Georgia #1, Tennessee NR
  • TV: CBS – Brad Nessler (PxP), Gary Danielson (analyst), Jamie Erdahl (sideline)
  • Video Stream: CBSSports.com
  • Radio: WSB AM 750 – Bulldog Network | Affiliates | Scott Howard (PxP), Eric Zeier (Color), DJ Shockley (sideline)
  • Audio Stream: georgiadogs.com
  • Satellite: SiriusXM: 81/81/81
  • Web Stats: GameTracker
  • Twitter: #UGAvsTENN
  • ReBroadcast: SEC Network: TBA

 

Georgia 2021 Averages Tennessee
38.4 Scoring Offense 38.2
6.6 Scoring Defense 28.2
+2 Turnover Margin +3
430.0 Total Offense 457.7
190.0 Rushing Offense 217.1
240.0 Passing Offense 240.6
7.2 Punt Returns 10.1
21.9 Kickoff Returns 24.4

Dogs Atop The Polls

For the fifth straight week, Georgia is the unanimous No. 1 team in the AP and Coaches polls. This marks the first time since the 2008 preseason that the Bulldogs have carried the top ranking in both polls. During the 1982 regular season, the Bulldogs were ranked No. 1 for five straight weeks. Currently, Georgia is ranked No. 1 in the College Football Playoff poll. Before this season, the last time Georgia was No. 1 in the CFP poll was for two weeks during the 2017 season (Oct. 31, Nov. 7). The second 2021 CFP ranking will be released on Tuesday. Georgia is 4-0 versus ranked teams, including a pair of top-10 wins.

Georgia-Tennessee Series History

Georgia concludes an eight-game stretch of SEC contests against Tennessee. While the Bulldogs have already clinched the league’s Eastern Division, they are aiming to go a perfect 8-0 in the league for the first time in school history. Georgia has gone a perfect 6-0 in the SEC East two times (2017-18) under Kirby Smart. Since 2017, the Bulldogs are 26-2 against teams from the East.

With Georgia’s 44-21 victory in Athens last season, the Bulldogs moved ahead two games in the all-time series with UT 25-23-2. The series between the two teams dates back to 1899. The 2019 victory marked the first time the Bulldogs broke a tie to take a series lead over UT since 1981 when it went up 9-8-2.

Following the 1981 game, the teams didn’t play again until 1988 when the Bulldogs extended their series advantage to 10-8-2 with a 28-17 win in Athens. Then, the Volunteers won the next nine meetings. It would be 2014 before the series would be tied again (21-21-2) following Georgia’s 35-32 victory in Athens. UT claimed the series lead by winning the next two years while Georgia has emerged on top the past four seasons to take an edge in the series yet again.

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UGA Football: Jordan Davis Included As Walter Camp Player Of The Year Semifinalist

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia senior lineman Jordan Davis has been named one of 15 semifinalists for the Walter Camp Player of the Year, according to an announcement from the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

Davis, native of Charlotte, N.C., is one of four semifinalists from the Southeastern Conference.  The Walter Camp Player of the Year is voted on by the 130 Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors.  A list of five finalists will be announced on Dec. 2, and the winner announced on ESPN’s Home Depot College Football Awards Show on Dec. 9.

College Football Hall of Famer Herschel Walker is the only Bulldog to ever win the Walter Camp Player of the Year award in 1982.

Davis is already a Bednarik Award semifinalist after tallying 21 stops, including 3.5 tackles for loss and two sacks, through the Bulldogs’ undefeated start.  He has been instrumental in a defense that ranks first nationally in Scoring Defense (6.6 points/game) and Red Zone Defense (56 percent) and second in Total Defense (231.8 yards/game), Passing Yards Allowed (151.1 y/g) and Rushing Defense (80.7 y/g).

The No. 1 Bulldogs (9-0, 7-0 SEC) travel to Knoxville, Tenn., to take on Tennessee (5-4, 3-3) on Saturday.  CBS will televise the matchup at 3:30 p.m.

UGA Football: Check Out What Kirby Smart Said at the SEC Weekly Teleconference

University of Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart met with media on the Southeastern Conference’s weekly teleconference call while Sedrick Van Pran and Kearis Jackson offered post-practice comments.

Head Coach Kirby Smart
Opening Statement…
“Our guys have had three good days of prep; we continue to work. Got started with a lot of them on Sunday, a lot of them came in to watch tape, we really got a head start there. Monday and Tuesday have been good practices. The hope is to get the same kind of energy and enthusiasm today to prepare a really good football team, one of the hottest football teams there are in terms of scoring points. They have done a tremendous job on offense with scoring a lot of points, they are really fast. It has just been tough preparation to prepare for these guys offensively and defensively. They do a tremendous job playing with a lot of energy and enthusiasm, you can tell.”

On Jamaree Salyer…
“Yeah, the ground game is important. The passing game is important. The play-action game is important. The screen game is important. They are all important. So, we have to do a tremendous job in all facets of it. It is one of those deals in that a little bit of it is dictated by how they play you defensively. If teams continue to play tight techniques, tight fronts, put people in the box… I mean there is a lot that goes into the ability to run the ball. That is a big part of what we do that sets up other things. As far as Jamaree goes, like I said yesterday, he has gotten better. He has been able to do some weight bearing things. He did that all in walk-throughs, all the practice stuff, conditioning as well, we are hopeful. But we won’t know more until after practice today.”

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UGA Football: George Pickens is Back………………….Sort Of

Kirby Smart revealed yesterday that George Pickens has been doing more with the team, specifically working with the scout team. I do not believe he is taking on contact yet while on the field.

Here’s what he said during his Tuesday media session:

“George has done a little more work than he’s done in the past. We’ve had George at practice, catching passes against routes on air, but that’s really been it, the things that y’all have seen. He’s done more competitive periods in terms of scouts and looks and getting confidence, being able to go up against some DBs and things. But he’s not taking reps with the one or two offense because we don’t know when he’s going to be ready, and those reps are too valuable. We can’t give them to him and not have another player that’s going to play in the game. But when he’s cleared to play in the game, he’ll start getting some of those reps. I don’t know a timeline. I wish I did.”

“Just like those other guys—Darnell, Tykee, JT coming off his injury, Dom (Dominick Blaylock) coming off his injury—there’s a process that has to happen. You don’t come back from an injury and jump right back in where you were,” Smart said. “It’s hard, because you have to get all the reps, the volume of reps, the work. There’s only so many reps to give on actual execution. Dom’s been down on the scout team this week giving a great picture.”

UGA Football: Frierson Chats With Lewis Cine

Like almost all of his teammates on the top-ranked Georgia football team, Lewis Cine listens to music before games. The free safety isn’t trying to pump himself up, however. There’s nothing loud or aggressive blasting through his headphones. Instead, Cine is trying to slow everything down to a calm, measured state.

Whatever the 6-foot-1 and 200-pound junior from Cedar Hill, Texas, is doing, it’s working. Cine has started 21 straight games and is second on Georgia’s top-rated defense with 40 tackles.

During a Quick Chat on Monday, Cine, who has Haitian roots, talked about what he does to relax, being his own man, his creative side, and much more. Here’s some of what he had to say:

Frierson: What do you do when you want to get away from school and football?

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UGA Men’s Basketball: Georgia Tops FIU, 58-51, in Season Opener

51
FIU 0-1,0-0 C-USA
58
 Georgia 1-0,0-0 SEC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
FIU 27 24 51
Georgia 22 36 58

Team Statistics

Team Statistics
Game Stats FIU UGa
FG% .339 .351
3FG% .333 .200
FT% .500 .714
RB 36 46
TO 16 15
STL 9 9

ATHENS, Ga. – Powered by a second-half rally, the University of Georgia men’s basketball team opened the 2021-22 regular season with a 58-51 victory over Florida International Tuesday evening before 6,023 spectators at Stegeman Coliseum.

Graduate Aaron Cook led Georgia (1-0) in scoring with 10 points, along with eight assists, six rebounds, and three steals. Senior Braelen Bridges, junior Jaxon Etter, and sophomore Kario Oquendo each tallied nine points, with Bridges hauling in a team-high eight boards.

For the evening, the Bulldogs shot 35.1 percent from the field, although their clip rose to 41.4 percent in the second half. On the defensive end, Georgia outrebounded FIU (0-1) by a 46-36 margin and held the Panthers to 33.9 percent shooting.

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