UGA Football: Alabama Hands Bulldogs First Home Loss Since ’19

ATHENS, Ga. — In front of a sellout crowd of 93,033 Saturday night at Sanford Stadium, No. 17 Alabama handed fifth-ranked Georgia its first home loss since 2019, 24-21, snapping the longest win streak in the Football Bowl Subdivision at 33 games.

Alabama led 14-0 a minute into the second quarter, and then held off Georgia just enough the rest of the way, including stopping the Bulldogs (3-1, 1-1 SEC) on fourth down at the Crimson Tide 8 with 13:20 remaining in the game, with Alabama ahead 24-21. Georgia got 227 yards on the ground, including the first career 100-yard game from Chauncey Bowens, who ran for 119, and quarterback Gunner Stockton was 13 of 20 passing for 130 yards and a touchdown.

A year ago, Alabama (3-1, 1-0) snapped Georgia’s record 28-game SEC regular-season game win streak with a victory in Tuscaloosa. On Saturday, the Bulldogs had few answers for Alabama’s offense early in the game, and then couldn’t quite make enough plays offensively to tie or take the lead after cutting the Tide lead to 24-21 with 6:30 left in the third quarter.

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UGA Football: Georgia vs Alabama Postgame Notes

Home Winning Streak Ends
With a 24-21 loss to No. 17 UA, Georgia had its school record 33-game home winning streak end tonight, and it was the longest active streak in the FBS. During the streak, it featured 10 wins over ranked teams. The Bulldogs are now 52-5 at home in the Kirby Smart era including 49-2 since 2019. Before tonight, Georgia’s last home loss came in 2019 to South Carolina 20-17 in double overtime.
Reviewing The Offense
Fifth-ranked Georgia finished with 357 yards of offense (227-rushing, 130-passing) on 53 plays in the loss.

Redshirt junior QB Gunner Stockton was 13-for-20 for 130 yards and one TD. In the first half, he was 6-for-10 for 79 yards and one TD as the Bulldogs trailed 24-14.

The leading rusher for the Bulldogs was redshirt freshman Chauncey Bowens (12-for-career-high 119 yards, 1TD plus a career-high four catches for 22 yards). He is the first Bulldog to go over 100 yards rushing in a game since Nate Frazier against UMass last year when he went for 136 yards on 21 carries.

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