All The News And Notes From Georgia's Big 31-17 Win Over Tennessee Vols
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*Home Winning Streak & Dawgs After Dark: With the 31-17 victory over #7 Tennessee, 12th-ranked Georgia (8-2, 6-2 SEC) has won 29 consecutive home games dating to 2019, which leads in FBS and improves on its school record. In the Kirby Smart era, the Bulldogs are 48-4 at home including 13-0 in home night games. Georgia extended its current Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium winning streak in night games to 21 games.
*Bulldog Senior Class Gets 50th Win: With tonight’s victory, the 2024 Senior Class is an FBS-leading 50-4 which ties the school mark set by the 2023 Bulldog seniors who finished with a 50-4 mark.
*Georgia Extends Winning Streak In UT Series: The Bulldogs have won eight straight over UT, all by double digits, which is the longest winning streak for the Bulldogs in the series which dates to 1899. The Bulldogs are 8-1 against the Vols in the Smart era. Following last week’s contest, Georgia rebounded once again following a loss during a season. The Bulldogs are now 15-3 after a loss in the Smart era including winning nine straight after a loss.
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*Summary Of The Offense: The Bulldogs became the first team to score more than 19 points on the Vols this season as they were holding opponents to just 12.6 ppg which was 5th nationally. UT had allowed just three TDs in the first half all year. The Bulldogs posted a pair of TDs in the first half. Overall tonight, Georgia tallied 453 yards of offense on 71 plays.
*In the Red Zone tonight, Georgia finished 5-for-5 with (4 TDs, FG). The TD drives covered 75, 84, 87 and a season-long 92 yards.
*With the game tied at 17, Georgia’s first possession of the 2nd half began at the UGA 13. The Bulldogs went 87 yards on 12 plays in 7:27 as Carson Beck
finished the drive with a 10-yard TD scamper on a 3rd-and-7 as Georgia went up 24-17 with 5:32 left in the 3rd quarter.
*Georgia drove a season-long 92 yards on 12 plays in 6:21 for a TD capped by a Nate Frazier two-yard score for a 31-17 with 2:26 left in the game.
*At the half, Georgia and UT were tied at 17. The Bulldogs had 238 yards of offense on 41 plays.
*Senior QB Carson Beck finished 25-for-40 for 347 yards and 2 TDs as he improved to 21-3 as a starter and 8-3 against top 20 teams. He directed a 75-yard TD drive on seven plays in 2:13 to make it a 10-7 contest with 13:30 left in the 2nd quarter. On the next possession, he led an 84-yard drive on 10 plays in 4:26 to take a 14-10 lead with 6:36 left. The TD drives also featured a season-long 92-yarder on the final score of the night.
*The final possession of the first half led to a game-tying field goal after going 57 yards on 12 plays over the final 1:49
*Junior TE Oscar Delp was the top target in the first half with 4 catches for 56 yards and 2 TDs, all career-highs. He notched a 19-yard TD catch to cut the deficit to 10-7. It was his first TD of the year. Then, he added a 4-yard TD catch in the 2nd quarter to give him his first career game with a pair of TD receptions. In the second half, it was graduate Ben Yurosek who had a team-leading five catches for 51 yards.
*Ten different Bulldogs caught a pass tonight. Senior Dominic Lovett’s lone catch in the first half was the longest by a Bulldog, covering 38 yards on 3rd-and-8. Freshman Nitro Tuggle had two catches for 25 yards. Coming in tonight, he had one catch for 9 yards against Tennessee Tech on the year and had appeared in three games.
*Frazier Gets A Start: With junior TB Trevor Etienne sidelined due to injury, Nate Frazier (19 rushes, 68 yards, 1 TD) became the first freshman tailback to start for the Bulldogs since 2014 when Nick Chubb and Sony Michel did it. Prior to Frazier, Michel was the last one to do it as he got the nod in the 2014 Belk Bowl rout of No. 20 Louisville. In that contest, Chubb earned MVP honors after setting an SEC and Georgia bowl record with 269 rushing yards and two TDs on 33 carries. In 2014, Chubb made eight starts.
*Defensive Review: UT came in averaging 37.6 points a game and finished with 17 including getting shut out in the 2nd half for the second straight year.
UT had 313 yards of offense on 72 plays. At the half, UT had 17 points on 189 yards of total offense on 41 plays.
*UT took a 7-0 lead on its first possession, driving 78 yards on 12 plays in 3:47. The drive followed a three-and-out to start the game by the Bulldogs.
*Trailing 14-10, UT went 75 yards on 10 plays to reclaim a 17-10 advantage capped by a 27-yard TD by Dylan Sampson with 1:54 left in the first half.
*Tonight, Georgia’s top tacklers were Smael Mondon (8 plus a sack), KJ Bolden with a career-high eight and Jalon Walker with eight and a sack.
*Georgia finished with five sacks. Senior Chaz Chambliss notched two sacks to give him a team-leading 5.5 for the year. Senior Smael Mondon Jr., had his first sack of the year and Damon Wilson II picked up his second on the year.
*Special Teams In Action: Junior P Brett Thorson averaged 44.3 yards on four punts. Also, he made a tackle after a 26-yard return.
*Sophomore PK Peyton Woodring tallied seven points on a 36-yard field goal and four PATs plus handled kickoffs. He is now 16-for-17 this year on FGs.
*Bulldogs Cash Jones and Michael Jackson III served as the KORs while PR Anthony Evans returned after missing the past two games due to injury.
*Captains, Coin Toss And For Starters: Georgia’s captains were CJ Allen, Chaz Chambliss, Dominic Lovett and Tate Ratledge.
*Tennessee won the toss and deferred the ball until the second half.
*Two Bulldogs made their first career starts in freshman Nate Frazier (TB) and sophomore Monroe Freeling (LT).
*Up Next: The Bulldogs (8-2, 6-2 SEC) play host to UMass Saturday in Athens at 12:45 pm (SECN). UMass (2-8) lost to Liberty 35-34 in OT Saturday.
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