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ATHENS - UGA Football QB Gunner Stockton and junior PK Peyton Woodring have collected Southeastern Conference weekly honors after the Bulldogs’ 44-41 overtime win over No. 15 Tennessee in Knoxville.
Stockton, a native of Tiger, Ga., made his first career road start and went 23-for-31 for a career-high 304 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. He added 13 carries for 38 yards and a score. Late in the fourth quarter on 4th-and-6 at the Tennessee 28 with Georgia down 38-30, Stockton delivered a perfect strike to London Humphreys in the corner of the end zone before hitting Zachariah Branch for a two-point conversion to tie the game and send it to overtime. The Bulldogs piled up 502 total yards and went 5-for-5 in the Red Zone.
Woodring, a native of Lafayette, La., drilled all three of his field goals and was 3-for-3 on PATs to help clinchGeorgia’s third win over the year. He put Georgia up 27-21 near the end of the third period with a 48-yard field goal as the back and forth battle continued in Neyland Stadium. Woodring also handled eight kickoffs and all those were touchbacks.
Following an off week, the No. 5 Bulldogs (3-0, 1-0 SEC) play host to No. 14 Alabama (2-1, 0-0) on Dooley Field in Sanford Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 27. ABC will televise the matchup at 7:30 p.m.
The sixth-ranked Bulldogs (3-0,1-0 SEC) rallied past No. 15 Tennessee with a 44-41 win in overtime. Georgia improved to 11-7 in overtime games including 5-2 in true road games and 4-2 overall under Kirby Smart. This was Georgia’s first OT game since a 44-42 win in a school-record eight OTs against Ga. Tech last year in Athens.
With Saturday’s win, Georgia extended its school best winning streak against the Vols to nine straight dating to 2017. Also, the Bulldogs improved to 10-0 in SEC openers in the Kirby Smart era. Georgia leads the all-time series 30-23-2 dating to 1899. Today marked the fourth straight ranked meeting between the teams, all wins by the Bulldogs. It was the first OT game in the series since 2013 here, a 34-31 win by the Bulldogs.
