Georgia Bulldog QB Gunner Stockton Has Monster Game In Win Over Ole Miss

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ATHENS - Dawg Post gives the latest news and notes from UGA Football’s epic 43-35 victory over Ole Miss in Sanford Stadium.

*Tough At Home And With College GameDay In Town/Series Update: With today’s win, the No. 9 Bulldogs (6-1, 4-1 SEC) improve to 54-5 at home under Coach Smart including 8-0 against top 10 ranked opponents as No. 5 Ole Miss falls to 6-1, 3-1 SEC. Overall, Smart is 111-20 in this is 10th season. Georgia notched another win with ESPN College GameDay in town too. Georgia is 9-2 when the show is on campus including nine straight wins dating to 2013. The Bulldogs improve to 34-14-1 in the series with the Rebels including 20-4-1 in Athens. Overall, Georgia is 37-3 in its last 40 SEC regular season games.

*Another Second Half Rally: In four of five SEC games this year, Georgia trailed at the half and they are 3-1 now in those contests. The Bulldogs were behind 21-17 at No. 15 Tennessee and rallied for a 44-41 win in overtime. Georgia trailed 24-14 and lost to No. 17 Alabama 24-21. Georgia fell behind at Auburn 10-3 and won 20-10. Today, Georgia trailed 21-20 and were down 35-26 to start the 4th quarter and came back to win 43-35. Today marked the 18th victory in the Smart era when the Bulldogs were tied or trailing entering the 4th quarter. It was the second such win in 2025 (@ No. 15 Tennessee).

*A Review Of The Offense: Georgia finished with 43 points, gaining 510 yards of offense on 80 plays.

*Redshirt junior QB Gunner Stockton finished 26-of-31 for 289 yards and a career-high 4 TDs plus 59 yards rushing and one TD. In the 2nd half, he was 12-for-12 for 135 yards and 3 TDs!

*Up 40-35 with 6:32 left in the game, Georgia added a 42-yard field goal. The 66-yard drive in 4:27 featured a 36-yard completion to Dillon Bell,

*Down 35-33 with 12:37 left in the contest, Georgia went up 40-35 with a nine play, 67-yard drive. It featured a 17-yard reverse by Dillon Bell and capped with a 7-yard TD catch by Lawson Luckie, his third of the day, the most since Mohamed Massaquoi against Ga. Tech in 2008.

*Trailing 35-26 with 4:12 left in the 3rd quarter, Georgia cut it to 35-33 with a 75-yard TD drive in 12 plays. It featured a 4th-and-one conversion by Josh McCray for two yards at UGA 44 and then a 26-yard completion to Zachariah Branch and capped by a three-yard TD pass to Nate Frazier.

*Down 28-20 with 14:46 left in the 3rd quarter, the Bulldogs went 75 yards for a score on nine plays to cut it to 28-27 on a three-yard pass to Luckie, his second of the game. Then, they went for a two-point conversion that failed as Stockton was sacked. 

*No. 9 Georgia went into halftime trailing 21-20 as the Bulldogs collected 251 yards on 38 plays.  

*Georgia scored on all four of its first half possessions, getting two TDs and two field goals. The Bulldogs were 6-fo-8 on 3rd down.

*Georgia got the football first after Ole Miss won the toss and deferred the ball until the 2nd half. The Bulldogs opened with a scoring drive that ended with a 51-yard field goal by Peyton Woodring. It featured a 36-yard completion off a flea-flicker pass from Gunner Stockton to Colbie Young.

*Down 7-3, the Bulldogs responded with a 75-yard TD drive on 13 plays. It featured an 11-yard TD pass to Lawson Luckie on 3rd-and-8 for a 10-3 lead.

*Trailing 14-10 in the 2nd quarter, Georgia answered with a 75-yard TD drive capped by a caerer-long 22-yard scamper by Stockton, his seventh rushing TD this year.

*Down 21-17 with 2:10 left in the 1st half, Georgia went 58 yards on 12 plays when Woodring made a 35-yard field goal to end the half down 21-20.

*Junior Zachariah Branch had a team-leading eight catches for 71 yards while junior Lawson Luckie had five for 43 yards and a  career-high 3TDs. *Senior Colbie Young had one catch for 36 yards on the opening drive and then missed the rest of the game due to an ankle injury.

*A Look At The Defense : The Rebels posted 351 yards of offense (88-rushing, 263-passing) on 60 plays and came in fifth in the FBS with 515 ypg. They scored on their first five possessions before being stopped on their final three drives.

*Ole Miss led 35-33 with 12:56 left in the game when the Bulldogs forced their first three-and-out and first punt by either team.

*Down 40-35 with 7:29 left in the game, Ole Miss was stopped with a three-and-out for the second straight possession of the contest.

*Down 43-35 with 2:00 left, Ole Miss was stopped on 4th down after picking up 12 yards on five plays.

*To start the 2nd half, Ole Miss took a 28-20 lead after a 75-yard TD pass from Chambliss to De’Zhaun Striblin, the longest allowed by Georgia this year.

*The Rebels second possession of the 2nd half resulted in a 12 play, 75-yard TD drive and a 35-26 advantage.

*Coming in today, the Bulldogs had allowed just 10 points in the 3rd quarter, and the Rebels scored 14 today.

In the first half, the No. 5 Rebels led 21-20 points with 183 yards of total offense on 35 plays, scoring on all three possessions. 

*The Rebels were 5-for-5 on 3rd Down in the first half and finished 0-for-4 in the 2nd half. 

*Georgia’s leading tackler at the half was junior CJ Allen with 10 including eight solo stops. He came in second in the SEC in tackles per game at 7.7

*Checking In On Special Teams: Junior PK Peyton Woodring had 13 points on two field goals (35, 42 and 51 yards) and four PATs plus handled the kickoffs with a pair going out of bounds. Woodring is 2-for-2 from 50+ yards this year and 5-for-8 from that range in his career. Coming in today, Woodring had 117 career kickoffs with only two out of bounds. This season, Woodring is now 9-for-10 in field goal attempts. Today was the seventh time he’s made three field goals in a game.

*The Bulldogs did not punt today, marking the first time since the UMass game in 2024 that they didn’t have to punt.

*Captains, Coin Toss And For Starters: Georgia’s captains were Oscar Delp, London Humphries, Daylen Everette and Quintavius Johnson.

*Ole Miss won the toss and elected to defer the ball until the second half.

*For the first time this season, Georgia did not have a new starting group on the offensive line as Earnest Greene  III returned at right tackle. Georgia’s front four was the same it used in week three in a road win over No. 15 Tennessee. The line featured Monroe Freeling (LT), Micah Morris (LG), Drew Bobo (C), Dontrell Glover (RG) and Greene III (RT). 

*The defense saw its first lineup change in the past four games after redshirt sophomore safety Kyron Jones went down with a foot injury earlier this week in practice. Jones had started the first six games this year. Today, senior JacCorey Thomas got his first start this year and fourth of his career. 

*Junior CJ Allen owns the longest streak at 10 games dating to 2024.

Up Next: Georgia (6-1, 4-1 SEC) has an open date next Saturday. It will be back in action Nov. 1 versus Florida in Jacksonville with kickoff at 3:30 p.m on ABC. The Gators face Miss. State this afternoon.