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No. 10 Texas and No. 5 Georgia are dealing with off in a rematch of final season’s SEC Championship Sport.
Georgia leads 14-3 within the second quarter. Comply with alongside for the newest updates and evaluation from The Athletic’s crew of school soccer writers.
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A giant motive Georgia is forward is it’s enjoying loads cleaner. Getting into the two-minute timeout of the primary half, Texas has seven penalties for 43 yards, Georgia has zero. Texas has additionally had a pair drops and the sport’s solely turnover, an Arch Manning interception.
Q2 2:00 – Georgia 14, Texas 3
No three-and-out for the Dawgs this time.
Gunner Stockton finds Oscar Delp up the seam off of play-action, and Georgia is correct again close to midfield.
Q2 3:17 – Georgia 14, Texas 3
Texas has a wide-open DeAndre Moore on a crossing route on third-and-7, and Arch Manning overthrows his receiver once more. This one falls incomplete, forcing a Longhorns punt.
Q2 4:29 – Georgia 14, Texas 3
Texas’ protection bails out Arch Manning after the interception, forcing Georgia’s first three-and-out of the sport. Significantly better from the Longhorns on that facet of the ball, and the Longhorns get some added assist from a foul Georgia punt that lands on the Dawgs’ facet of midfield!
Can Manning capitalize?
I used to be simply about to say how clear a sport Arch Manning has performed tonight. Up till a second in the past, Manning had navigated the pocket and negotiated stress nicely, made good, correct throws and good selections.
He misses a throw there, and it turns into an interception. Killer turnover for Texas. The Longhorns wanted factors there.
Q2 6:04 – Georgia 14, Texas 3
Arch Manning’s first mistake of the night time is an enormous one. He airmails his receiver, and his third-down move lands proper within the arms of Georgia security KJ Bolden.
Georgia takes over. Intestine punch for Texas.
Q2 7:13 – Georgia 14, Texas 3
Huge harm for Georgia’s protection as star linebacker CJ Allen was proven on the ABC broadcast limping to the locker room with an obvious knee harm.
On cue, Ryan Wingo takes a tunnel display from Arch Manning 15 yards for a primary down, however a catch-and-run from Parker Livingstone on the subsequent play is negated attributable to a maintain.
It’s manner too early — manner, manner too early — to say Georgia can begin sitting on the lead. However the Bulldogs have a robust working sport and are constructed to play from forward, as was seen final week when it jumped out on Mississippi State within the first half. That’s a luxurious Kirby Good’s crew hasn’t had this season, when it’s needed to play from behind or go wire to wire in each sport besides Mississippi State and Kentucky.
Now it has a 14-3 lead on Texas. Don’t anticipate offensive coordinator Mike Bobo to cease being aggressive, however a lead performs into Bobo and Good’s want to run extra. It additionally lets defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann let free a bit extra with blitzes.
Q2 8:17 – Georgia 14, Texas 3
Texas’ protection lastly will get a cease, forcing Georgia to punt from their very own territory. However we’re already approaching must-score vary for Arch Manning and the Longhorns offense as they take over from their very own 30…
Texas' move catchers usually are not serving to Arch Manning a ton tonight. 4 drops; two by Ryan Wingo and a key one by tight finish Jordan Washington on second-and-10 that will have made it third-and-short. As a substitute, it was third-and-10, Georgia introduced stress, and Manning was compelled to do away with the ball shortly, which he did by hitting DeAndre Moore on the arms, however Moore couldn’t haul it in.
Texas particular groups coach Jeff Banks simply misplaced it on defensive again Warren Roberson, whose holding infraction negated a 59-yard return by Ryan Niblett. This season, Niblett has been a useful return specialist and spark for the Longhorns when the offense is gradual going. Niblett has two punt return touchdowns this yr.
Q2 11:24 – Georgia 14, Texas 3
HUGE play from Arch Manning. He stands within the pocket in his personal finish zone and finally finds Emmett Mosley IV, who executes a 40-yard catch-and-run to present Texas’ offense some life!
The momentum is short-lived, nonetheless, thanks to 2 consecutive drops on Manning’s subsequent two passes. Texas has to punt after one other catchable move from Manning falls incomplete.
Each of Georgia’s landing drives have gone for eight-plus performs, 66-plus yards and greater than 4 minutes. Bulldogs shifting the ball like few have all season towards this Texas protection.
Noah Thomas is a Texas A&M switch who wasn’t a focus the primary eight video games: 5 whole catches. However the harm to Colbie Younger, who basically performs the identical exterior receiver position, has thrust Thomas into a bigger position, and he’s thriving.
Thomas has each landing catches for Georgia, per week after racking up 78 yards, together with a landing, within the win at Mississippi State. The week earlier than, Thomas had a 22-yard landing catch towards Florida, his lone catch of that sport.
Q2 12:40 – Georgia 14, Texas 3
Ryan Niblett practically breaks one other huge kick return, however his run throughout midfield is known as again attributable to an apparent maintain. As a substitute, Arch Manning and firm are backed up inside their very own 10.
Q2 12:49 – Georgia 14, Texas 3
Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo calls a easy stick-and-out route for Noah Thomas on third down, and the Bulldogs' wideout executes it completely! Gunner Stockton delivers a pinpoint move, and Georgia is up by double digits early within the second quarter.
Q2 14:09 – Georgia 7, Texas 3
That’s the pace that made Zach Department a five-star recruit out of highschool.
The USC switch cuts again after a brief move, outruns two Texas defenders close to him and makes all of it the way in which contained in the 10-yard line earlier than taking place!
First-and-goal Georgia.
After 1 / 4, Texas is certainly on its heels a bit. Georgia OC Mike Bobo appears to be a step forward of Texas DC Pete Kwiatkowski, and the Bulldogs are averaging 7.9 yards per play. If Georgia places one other seven on the board right here, it should enhance the necessity for urgency from the Texas offense.
Q2 15:00 – Georgia 7, Texas 3
Georgia’s offensive line is completely dominating a Texas defensive entrance that’s among the many better of the nation. Two runs and two brief passes for the Dawgs to start out their second drive, and Georgia is already again contained in the Texas 40 as we hit the quarter break.