Georgia narrowly escapes upset scare, beats Kentucky in Week 3
Georgia edged out Kentucky 13-12 on Saturday night in Lexington.
This game was much tougher than anticipated for the No. 1 Bulldogs. Kentucky made it into a 4-quarter game despite Georgia being favored by more than 3 touchdowns in the betting markets entering the night.
It was a game to forget for the Georgia offense. The Bulldogs managed just 1 touchdown drive the entire night and it didn’t come until there was 12:20 left in the 4th quarter. Georgia’s 4.4 yards per play are the lowest total for that offense since Sept. 4, 2021 when it beat Clemson 10-3.
Georgia’s defense played well for the most part in this game, but Kentucky was able to move the ball in the second half. The Wildcats sustained 4 drives of 10+ plays in this game, including a pair of 11-play field goal drives in the second half.
Carson Beck threw for only 160 passing yards in this game, which is his lowest passing total for any game since he became Georgia’s starter. There’s only been one other game in that span (Georgia Tech last season) where Beck has thrown for fewer than 200 yards.
Kentucky did have an opportunity to potentially take the lead late in the game. Facing a 4th and 8 near midfield with just over 3 minutes remaining, Kentucky elected to punt the ball rather than go for it and risk giving the Bulldogs the ball back at midfield. But Georgia didn’t concede possession again until there was less than 20 seconds left in the game.
With this victory, Georgia extends its win streak over Kentucky to 15 games. This is the first time UK has lost to Georgia by fewer than 10 points since 2016 — the Bulldogs’ first season with Kirby Smart at the helm.
Kentucky is now 1-2 on the season and 0-2 in SEC play following last week’s loss to South Carolina. Mark Stoops falls to 0-12 all-time against Georgia as Kentucky’s head coach.
My goodness. Whatever that was I hope we got it out of our system.
Great game Cats! Like your uniforms. Thanks for keeping our heads out of the clouds.
Texas easily takes the 1 spot this week.
Deservadly so. As a Georgia fan I hope they put us behinf them and Ohio State.
Georgia is headed back down to their historical and rightful place at 5th or 6th in the SEC.
Historically they have the second most sec championships tied with Tennessee
Georgia chokes. You know, I know, she knows, he knows, we know, they know, everyone knows. It’s just Mark Stoops chokes more.
If they were chokers, they’d have lost. Sometimes a team shows up on a mission. You win ugly or Spencer Rattler sends you to the Orange Bowl.
Don’t feed the jealous troll
Vols salty to be relevant again
You were born in the long summer child. Winter is coming.
I hate Bama. But what on earth are you going on abiut. As bad as they’ve owned us, It is nothing compared to what theyve done to the Vols. Thats some Notre Dame – Navy level stuff.
Tenn does an onside kick up 30-0 against Kent State. Then kicks two field goals up 65 and 68-0. Really classy stuff right there by Jellybelly Josh.
I think you can use the singular “Vol.” Seems to be a new troll for this season. I do think we look the best we have under Heupel so far, but we will know a lot more after next week.
Sir, please stand up. Your seat in the caboose is ready.
LOL…Kent State. Good Job I guess
@Voltrainconductor I’m gonna take off my troll hat for a minute and talk serious. No doubt, Kentucky deserved to win tonight. However in a season, sometimes a team that has no business winning shows up in God mode and the Football Gods are against you. If you want to win a title you’d better figure out how to win those ugly games you shouldn’t win. You either do that anf get that ugly win and drive on, or Spenser Rattler sends you to the Orange Bowl. You can talk all your BS, but at the end of the day you know I’m right. Every team that has won a title has faced some of that. You can’t hang 70 on Kent State every week.
I don’t know that Kentucky deserved to win, but they didn’t deserve to lose either- if that makes sense. That was a very solid game by both teams. Georgia is still the team to beat. I don’t know that there are any better defensive showings they will face this year- and on the road they got it done.
Fortunately we didn’t have you guys tonight. You’d have won. Buuuut, you were busy with Kent State. See you in Athens
Says the hillbilly clown. 1998.
Clown comment
Congratulations Dawgs. Even in a loss, I’m still proud of my Cats for the way they played and bounced back from the SC game. A few plays here or there and it might have ended differently. Good luck the rest of the season UGA.
Never easy against you guys. Good luck the rest of the way. (take it easy on us in BB.)
Kentucky always plays Georgia very closely. Good luck the rest of the season.
You guys, South Carolina and the Gators. Hate those games. You guys were the better team tonight. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good.
Wow! Heck of a bounce back game for UK. Almost got it done. Good game to watch
Quite the game. The SEC has been quite puzzling already this season.
absolutely
Well I hope the coaches can use this as a real world teaching moment to clean up a lot of things during the bye week. If not, this is going to be a long season. There were very close games in 2021 and 2022, so who knows.
Dawgs will be doubted now and I love it. Did what they had to do to get a W again in Lexington. Always crazy tough up there. Doubt the Dawgs and Kirby at your own risk. GO DAWGS!!!!!
Just a few more DUIs, speeding tickets, and arrests…and no one will doubt for a minute Kirby has lost the locker room.
Was entertaining watching him lose it Saban-style at the end.
What a classes bunch of criminals.
Mark Stoops is a coward. Didn’t take a shot at the endzone with 9 seconds. Didn’t go for a 4th and 2 from the 15 and settled for a fg. Then punter inexplicably from midfield. All against the #1 team in the country. He did not coach to win. Coward.
Could you please post your SEC coaching win/loss record for us?
I’m a Georgia fan and I feel like he shouldn’t have punted that last time. I have no win-loss record, but I do know when an underdog is at home in a game they really shouldn’t be in, you don;t punt it there.
What a stupid response. He is a coward of a coach. You must not have watched the game as a UK fan. H never tried to win. Which is his job. But sense you are butt hurt enjoy the losing.
I don’t think he’s a coward, but I also think the decision to punt was wrong. I can see taking the sure points going into halftime knowing you get the ball to start the 2nd half- but as a fan I would have liked to see a shot to the end zone.
Great game Kentucky!! The Dawgs hunkered down when they needed to. Focus on the next game.
Leghumpers will lose three this season.
If you love Danielson well there that explains everything.
Not surprised at all by how tough the ‘Cats played; hats off to y’all. I had a feeling the Kentucky coaching staff would be cleaning up a lot after the South Carolina game. If we don’t get more resilient on the road, it’s going to be a rough series of away games starting in a couple of weeks.
If this had to happen, this was the week for it to happen.
I feel much better about this Kentucky team tonight, than I did after the South Carolina loss last week.
Defense played lights out despite zero help from the offense.
That’s what I’m taking away from this
Pitiful, pathetic,,,,,, Not a number one team in my book.
Cool. Bump them down then
I was there. Kentucky needed to play the perfect game to win. If Brock had thrown one ball away 2 seconds faster then this might have turned out as a perfect game.
Kentucky competed very well, but UGA was still the better team on the field. They didn’t do enough to lose the game, and UK didn’t do enough to win the game.
The OC called a better game, but the one series when he tried hardest to go toe to toe with UGA bit UK in the butt. A little more pocket creativity and a couple more runs by Brock with the right openings … and, if it comes down to 4th down near scoring position… go for it.
To be the king you have to beat the king.
UK didn’t. But they sure looked a lot better than last week.
The O line remains a run blocking line first, which has to set up the pass for there to be success – as we saw tonight.
Our depth got you but you guys were the better team. Sometimes championship teams have to figure out how to win those games. We were lucky and had depth but you were the better team tonight
You shouldn’t have punted that last time though.
Stoops absolutely dropped the ball tonight. Punting on that last drive on the right side of the 50 with 3 mins left is inexcusable.
kirby owes the real dog fans an apology and he should donate his salary to charity for this disaster
also stop the beck for heisman he is part of the problem
we miss brock bowers and there is no pass rush
I disagree slightly. I thought the pass rush was fine, Vandagriff was scrambling on most pass plays. It was our run D that kept Kentucky’s offense in the game; the DL got no push and LBs struggled to tackle consistently. Beck wasn’t so much the problem, as the uncreative play calling. The one drive where Beck was called to push the ball downfield resulted in a TD. Every other drive featured too many runs.
Congrats to the Cats for playing great scaring the sh it out of Dawg fans. Ky always gives us all we can handle in Lexington. We may have beaten them 15 times in a row but it’s never easy and there is still much respect for them in the Dawgs nation.
That was ugly… lots of things to fix, or lose some games coming up.
Things I saw.
1. Poor tackling and lack of hustle most of the night
2. No edge/pocket containment
3. Tons of missed blocking assignments all over the field.
4. Missing some dudes in rotation showed
5. Bobo lacks creativity at the worst times, and the run up the middle 3 times and punt has snuck back into his playbook :(
Positives –
1. Still haven’t given up a TD
2. Glad we have a bye week
Georgia benefited greatly from ‘ blind eye zebra disease, maybe enough to tilt things just enough. Targeting being a big one, I have seen other teams suffer penalties, disqualification for a lot less than I saw last night. I wonder how many years, if ever, it will take for players to be raised with ‘ my helmet is for MY protection, it is not meant to be a weapon. Also sportscasters need to stop with the ‘ crown of the helmet ‘ myth. Any force able blow to the head an/or neck area, with any part of the body or equipment. One is not allowed to kick other players either. Ball carriers should be included as well.
If UK had been ranked I would vote them up, and UGA would not be #1.
Get that the narrative about Kentucky football was pretty dim after the loss to SC last weekend. And deservedly so. But there is a lot of talent on the Kentucky defense. I don’t know where it was last weekend, but it showed up for Georgia. I don’t think it’s an indictment of Georgia or their season at all. When you see their confidence and ability to execute on the road, you can see why they are the #1 team in the country. They found a way to win, never panicked and left Lexington with a W in a really good defensive ball game. And despite the negative comments about BVG, he just faced two of the best defensive matchups I think he’ll see all season. Surely the sledding will be a little easier going forward?
It is why they play the games. Things happen sometimes and it is a long season.