BREAKING: UGA Football Stays at No. 1 After Week off | Florida Gators Next Up
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ATHENS - As expected, the UGA Football remained the No. 1 team in the country in the latest AP Poll. This comes a week after Kirby Smart and the top-ranked Bulldogs smothered Vandy and took the week off before the big showdown with the Gators on Saturday.
The No. 1 Dawgs had the week off while college football saw multiple top-ten teams struggle. Previously unbeaten North Carolina and Penn State both lost on Saturday. Washington, Texas and Oklahoma nearly lost on a turbulent weekend in the sport.
Alabama is back in the top ten after a second-half that powered the Tide to win over Tennessee. UGA is set to face three ranked teams over the next four weeks - No. 12 Ole Miss, No. 16 Missouri and No. 21 Tennessee.
Here’s what the rest of the AP Poll looks like:
1. Georgia (38)
2. Michigan (19)
3. Ohio State (3)
4. Florida State (3)
5. Washington
6. Oklahoma
7. Texas
8. Oregon
9. Alabama
10. Penn State
11. Oregon State
12. Ole Miss
13. Utah
14. Notre Dame
15. LSU
16. Missouri
17. North Carolina
18. Louisville
19. Air Force
20. Duke
21. Tennessee
22. Tulane
23. UCLA
24. USC
25. James Madison
Notes from UGA Football’s win over Vandy:
*Summary Of The Offense: Junior QB Carson Beck went 29-for-39 for 261 yards with 1 TD and one INT in a 37-20 road victory.
*Senior Daijun Edwards rushed for a career-high 146 yards on 20 carries including a career-long 62-yard gain in the 4th quarter. Edwards had the most rushing yards by a Bulldog since D’Andre Swift went for 179 against Kentucky in 2019.
*The Bulldogs had a season-high 281 rushing yards on 39 attempts for a 7.2 average.
*For the game, the Bulldogs had 542 yards on 78 plays with 37:19 in time of possession.
*In the first half, Beck was 17-for-20, 181 yards, 1 TD in building a 24-7 lead. The Bulldogs collected 275 yards of offense on 38 plays (7.2 avg.), scoring on their last four possessions of the first half.
*Georgia lost a fumble on its opening possession of the game at the UGA 29 and was trailing 7-0.
*On the 2nd possession of the game, junior center Sedrick Van Pran had an errant snap/fumble, recovered it and ran for six yards on a 3rd-and-1 at the UGA 38. On the drive, the Bulldogs eventually scored a game-tying TD, a one-yard plunge by Beck, his 3rd rushing TD. The drive covered 71 yards on 8 plays.
*On their 3rd possession, the Bulldogs took a 14-7 lead with 13:42 in the 2nd quarter on Kendall Milton’s 3-yard TD, his third of the year and 12th of his career, going 77 yards on 7 plays in 3:44.
*Following an INT by senior Tykee Smith, Georgia went 55 yards on four plays for a TD in 25 seconds, the quickest TD drive of the year.
*Junior Dominic Lovett had a team-high 9 catches for 72 yards and registered his first TD as a Bulldog (a four-yard catch) and fourth for this career (previous three at Missouri).
*Junior WR Ladd McConkey had a season-high 58 yards on four catches in the first half.