UGA Football: It’s Saturday in Athens
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ATHENS, Ga. āĀ The fifth-ranked Georgia football team opened its season Saturday afternoon with a 45-7 win over Marshall at Sanford Stadium, extending the nation’s longest home winning streak to 32 games. The sellout crowd of 93.033 saw quarterbackĀ Gunner StocktonĀ run for a pair of touchdowns and throw for two more, while the Bulldog defense held the Thundering Herd to just seven first downs.
Georgia (1-0) outgained Marshall 488-207, with the Bulldogs rushing for 239 and throwing for 249; five different Bulldogs scored touchdowns. Defensively, Georgia held the Herd to less than 100 yards of offense through the first three quarters and finished with six tackles for loss. LinebackerĀ Raylen WilsonĀ tied for the team lead with seven stops, including two for loss.
Fifth-ranked Georgia (1-0) extended its home winning streak to 32 games today with a 45-7 victory over Marshall (0-1). That is the longest active streak in the FBS. The NCAA record belongs to Miami (58 from 1985-94) while Alabama has the SEC mark at 57 (1963-82).
The Bulldogs are now 102-27-3 in season openers including having won 12 straight. UnderĀ Kirby Smart, the Bulldogs are 10-0 in season openers and improve to 51-4 at home. Georgia is 2-0 all-time against Marshall.
Georgia opened the season with 488 yards of total offense (239-rushing, 249-passing) on 76 plays.
Redshirt junior QBĀ Gunner StocktonĀ accounted for four TDs in leading the Bulldogs to a season-opening win. He was 14-for-24, 190 yards, 2 TDs, 152.3 rating plus a team and career-high 73 rushing yards on 10 carries with 2 TDs. He was making his second career start including first in Athens. Today marked the first two rushing TDs of his career.
ByĀ John Frierson
Staff Writer for UGA
Whatever Marshall tried to do on offense Saturday against fifth-ranked Georgia’s defense, the Bulldogs took it away. Through the first three quarters of Georgia’s 45-7 season-opening win at Sanford Stadium, when the starters were still mostly on the field, the Thundering Herd managed less than 75 yards of offense, no points and no third-down conversions.
“They played hard and ran to the ball,” Georgia coachĀ Kirby SmartĀ said.
It was a solid opening performance from a defense that knows that the standard is high around here.