Sophomore D'Andre Swift (9-for-49 yards) and junior Elijah Holyfield (6-for-50 yards, 1 TD) only played briefly in the first half.įor Starters: Senior C Lamont Gaillard started his team-leading 39th straight game while on defense, the team leader in starts is senior DB Deandre Baker now with 32 including a streak of 14 with junior RS J.R. Earlier this year against Middle Tennessee, he had a career-long 56-yarder for a TD. Junior wideout Tyler Simmonshad a 49-yard scamper for the first score and a 7-0 lead with 13:01 mark in the 1st quarter.
Freshman QB Justin Fields led the team with 100 yards on seven carries including a TD. Rushing Attack: Georgia, the SEC's rushing leader averaging 240.7 yards a game, tallied 426 including 168 in the first quarter. He is the first Bulldog to score a TD rushing and receiving since Mecole Hardman against Alabama in the 2018 National Championship Game. Simmons finished the half with 49 rushing yards and 81 receiving yards on two catches. Simmons Says Touchdown: Junior wideout Tyler Simmons enjoyed a big first half with a pair of touchdowns, one coming on a career-long 49-yard rush and the other on an 87-yard reception from Jake Fromm. UMass finished with 390 yards on 54 plays. The catch total was the 2nd most against Georgia in school history and the most in Sanford Stadium, his yards was third most against the Bulldogs. Isabella finished with 219 receiving yards on 15 catches. In the second half, the Minutemen scored 14 points overall with a 75-yard TD from Ross Comis to Andy Isabella to cut it to 59-20 and a 45-yarder from the same duo to make it 66-27 with 8:55 left. UMass got its first touchdown after a Bulldog turnover, needing to go only 16 yards on four plays to cut it to 14-7 in the first quarter. UMass won the toss and elected to take the football and then went three-and-out. Scoring Defense: In the first half, Georgia held UMass to 13 points as the Minutemen ran 39 plays for 206 total yards. Freshman QB Matthew Downing took over in the 4th and led a TD drive covering 75 yards in six plays in 4:10 to make it 66-20. Fields finished 5-for-8 for 121 yards and 2 TDs. On the next possession, Fields returned and Georgia kicked a 40-yard field goal after going seven yards in four plays On the 3rd possession of the 2nd half, Fields led the Bulldogs to another TD (9-80 in 5:24) including a 30-yard run to give him 100 yards on the day. Fromm started the second half and led the Bulldogs on a 4-play, 66-yard drive in 2:05 as freshman James Cook notched his first career TD on a 26-yard run. Second Half Offense: The Bulldogs went 4-for-5 in scoring (3-TDs, 1-FG, then ran out the clock). In week three, Georgia scored 42 points in the first half against Middle Tennessee en route to a 49-7 win. Fields was 4-for-5 for a career-high 124 yards and 2 TDs in the first half. Fields got the sixth possession and led another quick TD drive in 1:01 capped by a career-long 57-yard strike to junior Mecole Hardman to make it 42-7.
The big play on this drive was a 54-yard reception to tight end junior Issac Nauta. Fromm returned for the fourth possession, and connected on a 71-yard TD pass to junior Tyler Simmons for a 28-7 lead.įields got the fifth possession and marched the Bulldogs 72 yards down the field for a TD in 60 seconds. True freshman QB Justin Fields got the 3rd possession, which featured a career-long 47-yard rush by him, and he capped an 80-yard drive with an 11-yard TD pass to junior Riley Ridley. Sophomore QB Jake Fromm went 4-for-4 for 97 yards and one TD in directing scoring drives on the first two and then fourth possessions. Georgia had 431 yards of offense on 29 plays in the 1st half.
The only drive that did not result in a touchdown came on a fumble on a punt return. Quick Strikes: Georgia scored touchdowns on six of its seven possessions (3 plays, 66 yards in 0:57 10-68 in 4:58 7-80 in 2:57 2-73 in 0:48 3-72 in 1:00 4-81 in 1:01) to build a 42-13 edge by halftime. With today's 66-27 win, Georgia moves to 10-1 overall and the senior class improves to 41-11. Georgia's 66 points was the most since a 66-0 win over Troy in 2014. The school record is 713 against Florida Atlantic in 2012. A Whole Lot of Offense: The Bulldogs tallied the second most offense in school history with 701 yards (426-rushing, 275-passing) on 62 plays.
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