Gunner Stockton accounts for 5 touchdowns, Georgia trounces No. 10 Ole Miss
By Ethan Stone
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Georgia at Ole Miss was heralded as one of the most intriguing games on the SEC schedule entering Week 10. It was hardly the matchup folks thought it was going to be, though.
That’s because Gunner Stockton and the Bulldogs absolutely trounced Ole Miss from start to finish to earn a 42-7 win. Stockton accounted for 5 touchdowns — 4 passing and 1 rushing — in yet another masterful road performance by the senior quarterback.
A good chunk of Stockton’s touchdown passes were thrown to Tayln Taylor, who put on his best Randy Moss impersonation with 4 receptions for 140 yards and 3 touchdowns at an average of 35 yards per reception. He didn’t know it at the time, but Taylor’s first touchdown proved to be the game-winning score with a little under 7 minutes remaining in the first quarter:
Stockton deserves a ton of credit for Saturday’s win. He wasn’t the main focus of Georgia‘s offense — that would be the run game, which we’ll get to in a minute — but he did a fantastic job of moving the Bulldogs down the field, protecting the football and connecting on the throws he needed to complete. He finished Saturday’s performance 9-of-15 for 185 yards and 4 touchdowns alongside 6 rushing attempts for 28 yards and 1 touchdown.
Which brings us to the run game, for which Ole Miss had zero answers.
The Bulldogs collected 295 rushing yards across 48 attempts at an average of 6.1 yards per carry. Every Georgia player who touched the football averaged at or better than 4 yards per carry. Nate Frazier led the way with 16 carries for 107 yards (6.7 yards per carry).
Essentially, Georgia’s run game set the tone. Stockton simply navigated the Bulldogs down the path to victory.
Georgia is in great shape entering the final stretch of the regular season. The Bulldogs are 8-1 on the year and 6-1 in SEC play entering Week 11’s matchup against Mizzou.
Ethan Stone is a Saturday Down South News Editor and an advocate for the return of the Seattle Supersonics.
