Senior running backs Nick Chubb and Sony Michel combined for 238
yards and five touchdowns to lead the seventh-ranked Dawgs to a
42-13 win against Kentucky in the 2017 home finale at Sanford Stadium Saturday
evening.
The Southeastern Conference Eastern Division champion Dawgs
improve to 10-1 overall and 7-1 in the SEC. This squad also became the first
Georgia team to go undefeated in a season against the rest of the SEC East with
a perfect 6-0 mark.
With Saturday’s win on Senior Day, the current Georgia senior
class improved to 38-12 in their careers, including an unblemished record at
home this season.
“What a great way for these seniors to go out – winning the SEC
East by going undefeated against the East,” head coach Kirby Smart said. “Our
seniors have given us tremendous leadership, and I’m happy and proud of them.
Our seniors have set the standard and our young players have bought in. It
helps to have such great leadership.”
Freshman quarterback Jake Fromm threw an interception on Georgia’s
first possession of the game, setting the Wildcats up deep in Dawg
territory. Kentucky capitalized on the opportunity with a 37-yard field goal
from Austin MacGinnis.
The Dawgs could get nothing going on their next offensive
series, until Kentucky roughed punter Cameron Nizialek to give Georgia a fresh
pair of downs at its own 34-yard line. Fromm marched his team down the field on
a 12-play, 75 yard drive capped off by an eight-yard touchdown rush by
Chubb.
Blake Bone hauled in a 45-yard pass on UK’s next possession to set
up another field goal — this time a 35-yarder form MacGinnis to put the score
at 7-6 in the Dawgs’ favor at the end of the first quarter.
Georgia’s offense started clicking in the second quarter as the
Dawgs put together two scoring drives to take a 21-6 lead at the half. One
score came through the air and the other on the ground when Javon Wims caught a
27-yard TD pass from Fromm and Michel bounced it outside for a 37-yard TD
rush.
Kentucky’s eight-play, 75-yard scoring drive to open the third
quarter made it a one possession game as Benny Snell Jr. knocked it in from
one-yard out to put the score at 21-13. It took just six plays on Georgia’s
next drive for the Dawgs to get back on the scoreboard. A 21-yard Chubb rush
set his team up deep in UK territory as Michel capped off the drive with an
eight-yard touchdown.
Chubb was not done. The senior surged over left tackle to
start the fourth quarter and raced 55 yards down the field to put him over
1,000 yards for the season as Georgia went up 35-13.
Michel added another touchdown early in the fourth quarter and the
Dawgs left Sanford Stadium with a 42-13 victory.
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