UGA Football Fans Light Up Sanford Stadium Entering 4th Quarter vs. Auburn
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ATHENS - Kirby Smart and UGA Football are in a clash with Hugh Freeze and the Auburn Tigers.
Georgia was leading Auburn 21-10 heading into the fourth quarter, and then the Dawgs got a quick score to make it 28-10. Georgia fans continued its fourth quarter tradition for Georgia’s second home game of the season:
Haftime Notes:
*Summary Of The Offense: In the first half, Georgia built a 14-3 advantage with 193 yards of total offense on 33 plays.
*Senior QB Carson Beck was 14-for-16 for 124 yards and one TD, completing passes to seven different Bulldogs.
*Georgia’s opening TD drive covered 75 yards on 11 plays in 4:58 for a 7-0 edge. Beck was 6-for-7 for 60 yards on the first TD drive including a 33-yarder to sophomore Lawson Luckie to convert a 3rd-and-2 at the UGA43.
*Georgia’s second TD drive was five plays, going 49 yards in just 45 seconds, ending with an 11-yard catch by Dominic Lovett.
*The Bulldogs tallied 69 rushing yards. Junior Trevor Etienne had a team-high 54 yards on nine yards. He was the leading receiver too with a career-high five catches for 28 yards. Lovett, who now has two TDs on the year, finished with three receptions for 25 yards.
*The Bulldogs posted one TD in each quarter of the first half. Coming in today, the Bulldogs had tallied 40 points in the first half including just 14 in the first quarter (all against Tenn. Tech). The 2nd quarter in the previous four games featured 6 points against then #14 Clemson, 10 against TTU, 3 at UK and 7 at #4 UA.
*Defensive Review: In the first half, the Tigers had three points on 147 yards of total offense on 27 plays. Coming in today, the Bulldogs ranked 18th nationally in Scoring Defense at 14.8 ppg. Auburn came in averaging 33.4 ppg.
*In the first half this year, Georgia now has allowed 39 points. Georgia has allowed just 23 points in the second half this season.
*Auburn got the football to start the game after Georgia deferred the football until the 2nd half. Tyrion Ingam-Dawkins registered a sack on the first play from scrimmage for a loss of five yards. AU’s first drive covered 14 yards on six plays before punting. Ingram-Dawkins notched his second sack on AU’s second drive, resulting in a loss of seven yards. AU managed a 27-yard FG on its second possession to cut it to 7-3 with 56 seconds left in the 1st quarter.
*Georgia’s leading tacklers at the half were senior Dan Jackson, junior Malaki Starks and sophomore CJ Allen, all who had four each. Jackson blocked a field goal too. Last week at No. 4 Alabama, Jackson posted a career-high 10 tackles.
*Special Teams In Action: Junior Brett Thorson had two punts for a 41.5 average with no return. Both were placed inside the 20 including one downed at the AU3. After a defensive stop, Georgia took over at the AU49 and led to a five play, TD-drive in 45 seconds and a 14-3 edge.
*Sophomore PK Peyton Woodring tallied two points on two PATs and handled kickoffs too.
*Sophomore Anthony Evans had one kickoff return for 17 yards and one punt return for five yards. Coming in today, Auburn along with Georgia and Ohio State were the only three teams in FBS to hold opponents to negative punt return yards on the year.
*Senior Dan Jackson blocked a 54-yard field goal attempt to end the first half. In 2021, Jackson blocked a punt against No. 8 Arkansas. Jackson became the first Bulldog to block a field goal since 2022 when Nazir Stackhouse did it against LSU in the SEC Championship Game.
*Captains, Coin Toss and For Starters, It’s Homecoming: Georgia’s captains were Dillon Bell, Earnest Greene III, CJ Allen and Dan Jackson.
Georgia won the toss and deferred the ball until the second half. There was one first-time starter in redshirt sophomore Drew Bobo (C).
The Homecoming Queen was Maggie Epps, a senior native of Kennesaw, Ga., and a human development and family science major who is also on the Spirit Squad. The Homecoming King was Stephen Amolegbe,a native of Kennesaw, Ga. He is pursuing a bachelor’s in management information systems and a master’s of science in business analytics.
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