A game-by-game look at the Georgia Bulldogs' unbeaten season heading into the College Football Playoff championship game against TCU.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
- Updated
Georgia coach Kirby Smart’s message to his third-ranked Bulldogs before their 49-3 demolition of No. 11 Oregon couldn’t have been simpler.
“We’re going to play connected, we’re going to play aggressive,” he said before adding, “we’re going to be a hunter.”
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
- Updated
Georgia threw for more than 350 yards, scored on its first six possessions, had 15 receivers catch at least one pass and didn’t let an opponent in the end zone for the second straight week in a 33-0 win over visiting Samford on Saturday in Athens.
But Kirby Smart wasn’t impressed, even if the performance vaulted the Bulldogs to the No. 1 ranking atop the college football world, flipping with Alabama after the Crimson Tide’s lackluster performance in a 20-19 win at unranked Texas on Saturday.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
- Updated
Georgia has won each of its first three games by at least 33 points and the 10 total points it has allowed are the Bulldogs' fewest for a season's first three games in 95 years.
The Bulldogs forced six turnovers and have yet to commit one. The lone touchdown they yielded came in the final minute, against reserve players, when South Carolina was trailing 48-0.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
- Updated
Georgia will head into Saturday’s game at Missouri as the nation’s top-ranked team, even if it didn’t play like it in its win over Kent State.
The Bulldogs turned the ball over three times after not committing one in their first three games combined.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
- Updated
Georgia lost more than just its No. 1 ranking this week after learning it will be without standout defensive tackle Jalen Carter for a week or two as he recovers from a knee injury sustained in the Bulldogs’ sloppy, 26-22 win at Missouri on Saturday.
"We don't know how long it's going to be,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart, whose team fell a spot in the AP rankings, said. “But it doesn't look good for this week."
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
- Updated
Georgia didn’t play like a football team worthy of being called the nation’s top-ranked team for much of its 42-10 victory over Auburn, but the Bulldogs did enough to prove they merited a return to the top of the poll.
Second-ranked Georgia slogged through the first half en route to taking a 14-0 halftime lead against visiting Auburn before blowing out the Tigers in the second half to win the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry for the 15th time in the past 18 meetings on Saturday.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
- Updated
Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett knows what to expect when top-ranked Georgia enters the final stretch of the regular season that includes three ranked teams among its final five opponents.
“It’s tough,” Bennett said. “We are not King Kong standing atop the Empire State Building. We’ve gotta work and execute each week, go out there and expect a dog fight until it’s not one.”
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Georgia coach Kirby Smart called it the drive of the year.
The Bulldogs had possession after yielding a 78-yard touchdown pass that had pulled Florida to within 28-20 after opening the third quarter with 17 straight points, largely in part of two Georgia turnovers.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
The Georgia Bulldogs made their point perfectly clear.
Go ahead and rank the Bulldogs No. 3 in the College Football Playoff rankings, even if they’re defending champions and undefeated, as well as regarded as the best team by the media in the AP poll.
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10
- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
What does clinching top-ranked Georgia’s fifth SEC East Division title in the past six years with a 45-19 win over Mississippi State on Saturday mean to head coach Kirby Smart?
“It says we are now one week away from playing Kentucky,” he said. “And humility is a week away.”
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11
- By John Frierson Staff Correspondent
Powered by a dominant rushing attack, the No. 1-ranked Georgia football team held off Kentucky, 16-6, on a cold Saturday afternoon at Kroger Field.
With the win, the Bulldogs clinched a second straight undefeated run through their SEC regular-season schedule. It was Georgia’s 13th win in a row over the Wildcats.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
While producing consecutive 12-0 seasons for the first time in school history is a significant accomplishment, the top-ranked Georgia Bulldogs aren’t measuring themselves by what they do from September to November.
“It is special,” Bennett said about the Bulldogs’ regular-season success that has also seen them win 27 straight games. “But we didn’t enter this season trying to go 12-0. We wanted to go 15-0.”
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Top-ranked Georgia’s 50-30 throttling of then-No. 14 LSU in the SEC title game was a microcosm of the Bulldogs’ football season that has them 13-0 for the first time in school history.
“Our team kind of played this game like they played the whole season,” coach Kirby Smart said. “We were unbelievably well in spurts and unbelievably poor in spurts and answered the bell when they had to.”
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
- Updated
Of all the gaudy statistics, both good and bad, that can be associated with top-seeded Georgia’s 42-41 victory over fourth-seeded Ohio State as New Year’s Eve turned into New Year’s Day, the Bulldogs’ biggest advantage wasn’t a number, but a word.
“Our guys are extremely resilient,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Georgia coach Kirby Smart’s message to his third-ranked Bulldogs before their 49-3 demolition of No. 11 Oregon couldn’t have been simpler.
“We’re going to play connected, we’re going to play aggressive,” he said before adding, “we’re going to be a hunter.”
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Georgia threw for more than 350 yards, scored on its first six possessions, had 15 receivers catch at least one pass and didn’t let an opponent in the end zone for the second straight week in a 33-0 win over visiting Samford on Saturday in Athens.
But Kirby Smart wasn’t impressed, even if the performance vaulted the Bulldogs to the No. 1 ranking atop the college football world, flipping with Alabama after the Crimson Tide’s lackluster performance in a 20-19 win at unranked Texas on Saturday.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Georgia has won each of its first three games by at least 33 points and the 10 total points it has allowed are the Bulldogs' fewest for a season's first three games in 95 years.
The Bulldogs forced six turnovers and have yet to commit one. The lone touchdown they yielded came in the final minute, against reserve players, when South Carolina was trailing 48-0.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Georgia will head into Saturday’s game at Missouri as the nation’s top-ranked team, even if it didn’t play like it in its win over Kent State.
The Bulldogs turned the ball over three times after not committing one in their first three games combined.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Georgia lost more than just its No. 1 ranking this week after learning it will be without standout defensive tackle Jalen Carter for a week or two as he recovers from a knee injury sustained in the Bulldogs’ sloppy, 26-22 win at Missouri on Saturday.
"We don't know how long it's going to be,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart, whose team fell a spot in the AP rankings, said. “But it doesn't look good for this week."
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Georgia didn’t play like a football team worthy of being called the nation’s top-ranked team for much of its 42-10 victory over Auburn, but the Bulldogs did enough to prove they merited a return to the top of the poll.
Second-ranked Georgia slogged through the first half en route to taking a 14-0 halftime lead against visiting Auburn before blowing out the Tigers in the second half to win the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry for the 15th time in the past 18 meetings on Saturday.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett knows what to expect when top-ranked Georgia enters the final stretch of the regular season that includes three ranked teams among its final five opponents.
“It’s tough,” Bennett said. “We are not King Kong standing atop the Empire State Building. We’ve gotta work and execute each week, go out there and expect a dog fight until it’s not one.”
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Georgia coach Kirby Smart called it the drive of the year.
The Bulldogs had possession after yielding a 78-yard touchdown pass that had pulled Florida to within 28-20 after opening the third quarter with 17 straight points, largely in part of two Georgia turnovers.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
The Georgia Bulldogs made their point perfectly clear.
Go ahead and rank the Bulldogs No. 3 in the College Football Playoff rankings, even if they’re defending champions and undefeated, as well as regarded as the best team by the media in the AP poll.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
What does clinching top-ranked Georgia’s fifth SEC East Division title in the past six years with a 45-19 win over Mississippi State on Saturday mean to head coach Kirby Smart?
“It says we are now one week away from playing Kentucky,” he said. “And humility is a week away.”
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- By John Frierson Staff Correspondent
Powered by a dominant rushing attack, the No. 1-ranked Georgia football team held off Kentucky, 16-6, on a cold Saturday afternoon at Kroger Field.
With the win, the Bulldogs clinched a second straight undefeated run through their SEC regular-season schedule. It was Georgia’s 13th win in a row over the Wildcats.
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
While producing consecutive 12-0 seasons for the first time in school history is a significant accomplishment, the top-ranked Georgia Bulldogs aren’t measuring themselves by what they do from September to November.
“It is special,” Bennett said about the Bulldogs’ regular-season success that has also seen them win 27 straight games. “But we didn’t enter this season trying to go 12-0. We wanted to go 15-0.”
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Top-ranked Georgia’s 50-30 throttling of then-No. 14 LSU in the SEC title game was a microcosm of the Bulldogs’ football season that has them 13-0 for the first time in school history.
“Our team kind of played this game like they played the whole season,” coach Kirby Smart said. “We were unbelievably well in spurts and unbelievably poor in spurts and answered the bell when they had to.”
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- By Jon Gallo Staff Correspondent
Of all the gaudy statistics, both good and bad, that can be associated with top-seeded Georgia’s 42-41 victory over fourth-seeded Ohio State as New Year’s Eve turned into New Year’s Day, the Bulldogs’ biggest advantage wasn’t a number, but a word.
“Our guys are extremely resilient,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said.
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