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Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton threw 4 landing passes and rushed for one more because the No. 5 Bulldogs routed No. 10 Texas 35-10.
Stockton hit Noah Thomas with two first-half TD passes and added one every to London Humphreys and Lawson Luckie within the fourth quarter after which completed off the scoring with a TD run. Stockton ended the sport with 229 yards passing.
Texas quarterback Arch Manning had 251 yards passing with one landing and one interception.
Georgia improved to 9-1 total and 7-1 within the SEC, whereas Texas fell to 7-3 and 4-2.
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Give Arch Manning this a lot credit score — he clearly has improved because the 2025 faculty soccer season has gone on.
However he’s nonetheless nowhere close to the quarterback we had been led to imagine he can be as a worthy inheritor to the legacy left by grandfather Archie and uncles Peyton and Eli.
Manning’s supposedly elite ability degree was alleged to make the distinction in video games like this. And whereas he was snakebit by some drops early, he additionally overthrew a number of receivers downfield to price his workforce.
Manning completed 27-for-43 with 251 yards, a landing and an interception. That’s nowhere close to adequate, particularly when contemplating what Gunner Stockton did on the opposite facet of the ball.
The opposite factor that's most likely going to close down this Texas as a 9-3 Playoff workforce dialog — and good luck to the Horns beating A&M with their offense — is that there might be 10 10-win groups within the SEC and Huge Ten mixed, plus Miami and Notre Dame.
After making what was basically his faculty debut within the SEC Championship Sport final 12 months towards Texas when Carson Beck obtained damage with Georgia trailing, Gunner Stockton is used to strain — and really snug within the highlight.
Stockton now has two video games this 12 months throughout which he’s thrown for 4 touchdowns and run for one more. They’re each towards top-10 opponents — towards then AP No. 5 Ole Miss final month and towards No. 10 Texas tonight.
It was simply one other wild day within the SEC with Texas A&M’s heroic rally to edge South Carolina, Brent Venables’ defensive genius effort for Oklahoma to take down Alabama and Georgia’s continued dominance of Texas.
Oh yeah, Ole Miss needed to scrap and claw to carry off Florida. So what did all that do to the highest of the convention standings?
Texas A&M is 7-0 and accountable for its future to achieve the SEC title sport. Behind that, Georgia is finished in convention play at 7-1, whereas Alabama and Ole Miss have rivalry video games to play to attempt to get to 7-1. It’s going to be enjoyable to see what occurs in two weeks when the Iron Bowl and Egg Bowl are performed.
Gunner Stockton on the pivotal fourth-and-1 name that swung the sport:
💬 “Trusting our preparation, believing in what we do and attempting to get in the long run zone. Simply being snug in that scenario.”
A superb evening for Oklahoma followers obtained even higher after archrival Texas obtained throttled by Georgia.
That outcome, coupled with one other incredibly gritty Sooners road win over Alabama earlier Saturday, ought to put present No. 11 Oklahoma effectively above No. 10 Texas within the subsequent Faculty Soccer Playoff rankings on Tuesday regardless of the Longhorns’ head-to-head Crimson River Rivalry win earlier this season.
Overlook the discuss of a three-loss Texas making the Playoff — a two-loss Oklahoma could very effectively render that time moot, with the added bonus of edging its archrival out of the 12-team subject.
The preseason No. 1 workforce that Texas was anointed for the primary time in class historical past this 12 months is now an extended shot — at greatest — to make the Playoff.
It was quite a lot of the identical issues which have hounded Texas all season. The Longhorns couldn’t run the ball, didn’t do a adequate job defending Manning and had inconsistent play from their receivers.
On the defensive facet, Georgia broke Texas’ protection with 21-point fourth quarter and picked aside the Longhorns secondary, which was more healthy than it has been in weeks with two beginning safeties again.
Texas nonetheless has Arkansas and No. 3 Texas A&M left on the schedule. Possibly beating the Aggies, the SEC’s solely remaining unbeaten workforce in convention play, to go together with victories towards No. 11 Oklahoma and No. 14 Vanderbilt, can preserve Texas in play for a 3rd straight CFP look below coach Steve Sarkisian.
Georgia could transfer up a spot to No. 4 within the Faculty Soccer Playoff rankings this week with Alabama shedding to Oklahoma. However are there actually three groups within the nation enjoying higher than Georgia?
Would you need your workforce to face the Bulldogs? Ohio State is crushing everybody it faces, however Georgia is probably the most battle-tested and hardest workforce within the nation. And don’t be shocked if it rides this momentum to a different nationwide title.
Mike B: The extent of this beating ought to completely eradicate Texas from the CFP dialogue. It received’t after all however completely ought to.
Paul E: I’ve no canine on this struggle. I’ve by no means been a giant Georgia fan, however I’ll inform you, Kirby can coach.
Bret A: I’ll cease complaining about Money Jones now.
Ken S: I’ll say this for Texas—class act of a head coach. Have quite a lot of respect for Sark.
Lionel B: Georgia appears to be like like an amazing place to see a sport.
That loss actually damages Texas’ possibilities of making the Faculty Soccer Playoff. The Longhorns nonetheless could have a path if they will pull off an upset of Texas A&M on Black Friday, but when the offense appears to be like prefer it did tonight, it’s arduous to ascertain Texas pulling that off agains a stout Texas A&M protection.
It additionally looks like Georgia below Kirby Good has Texas’ and Steve Sarkisian’s quantity. The Dawgs have knocked off Texas 3 times of their three conferences relationship again to October 19, 2024. And the UGA protection has a means of preserving the Longhorns’ offense in verify, which it did once more on Saturday evening.
Georgia’s protection has been shaky at occasions this season, however it actually wasn’t shaky tonight … not at one level on this sport. Tonight’s sport appeared like the real article.
That was the type of protection Kirby Good loves and is understood for, and Texas had no reply for it. Georgia was quicker and extra bodily, and Texas appeared prefer it needed no a part of it.
Kirby Good after what is definitely Georgia’s most spectacular win of the 2025 season:
“I really like this workforce. This workforce fights. They compete. They find it irresistible. What an amazing ambiance to play in. Our guys got here out and competed. I although defensively, we stepped up towards a extremely good workforce. Arch was getting higher and higher, and our guys stepped up.
“I believed offensively, we did some actually good issues. Tried to maintain them off stability. Acquired an excellent soccer workforce, quite a lot of soccer left. You gotta be aggressive to win. This league’s tight, the margins are small. You gotta take possibilities when you’ll be able to.”
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Georgia beat Texas for the third time in 13 months, and the Texas teaching employees was badly outcoached tonight. That has been a theme of the three conferences between Kirby Good’s employees and Steve Sarkisian’s employees.
Sooner or later, you must surprise if this Texas employees can win these sorts of video games, particularly towards Good (though quite a lot of coaches don’t match as much as Good).
For some time in his head teaching profession, Kirby Good was recognized for being conservative in his sport administration, leaning on his protection. However as he’s purchased increasingly into analytics — which frequently name for going for it on fourth down — Good has taken extra possibilities.
And he took a giant one within the second half.
Then he did it once more. After which but once more.
It began when Georgia confronted fourth-and-1 from its personal 36, late within the third quarter, clinging to a 14-10 lead. Good not solely went for it, however his offensive coordinator, Mike Bobo, dialed up a dangerous play: Quarterback Gunner Stockton went below heart, faked a handoff, then rolled out and hit Chauncey Bowens for a 10-yard acquire.
4 performs later, Georgia confronted fourth-and-5. It lined up shortly for the not-unusual effort to get the protection to leap. This time it really labored, and Georgia obtained one other set of downs. Just a few performs later, Stockton hit a wide-open London Humphreys for a 30-yard landing.
Then Good went for the jugular: an onside kick, the primary of his tenure per Georgia’s communications workforce. It caught Texas unexpectedly, with Georgia’s Money Jones making a clear restoration. Georgia’s offense took the sphere once more, and shortly drove downfield once more.
After what has been a disappointing and confounding season for Georgia on protection, it appears to be like prefer it’s getting proper at simply the fitting time.
It was evident from the beginning. In its seven earlier SEC video games, Georgia gave up a landing on the opening possession all however as soon as, and in that exception, Kentucky obtained into the tip zone on the following drive. However Texas was held to a subject objective on its opening possession, then went three-and-out the following drive.
And that three-and-out appeared like classic Georgia: Cornerback Demello Jones threw down Ryan Wingo after a brief acquire on first down, then a blitz by Quintavius Johnson pressured Texas quarterback Arch Manning to dump off early, and linebacker CJ Allen clobbered the receiver for a 2-yard loss.
Defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann dialed up blitzes all through the sport, creating strain in methods Georgia has struggled to do that 12 months. And after Texas ran the ball effectively on the primary drive, the Bulldogs stiffened up.
The query for Georgia’s protection was by no means expertise, however expertise. A lot of the five-stars and different blue-chips are first -or second-year gamers. Because the protection will get extra snaps, they look like rounding into type. The shape individuals are used to seeing from a Georgia protection.
As Daniel stated, we actually must cease overlooking Gunner Stockton.
The unheralded Georgia quarterback simply went 24-for-29 with 229 yards, 4 landing and an interception.
He additionally finishes as Georgia’s second-leading rusher with 29 yards and one other landing on the bottom.
He will not be fairly the underdog story that Stetson Bennett was, however he’s clearly the fitting quarterback for this workforce.
The main focus is at all times going to be on Arch Manning. However he was clearly the second-best quarterback on the sphere tonight.
Bear in mind the preseason when he was the famous person and Gunner Stockton was an afterthought? The type of QB a workforce wins with and never as a result of? Properly, Georgia received this sport tonight due to Stockton and never despite him.
It’s time for individuals to comprehend simply how gifted Stockton is. You don’t set all the highschool passing data in Georgia with out expertise.
Remaining – Georgia 35, Texas 10
At one level late within the third quarter, Georgia was clinging to a 14-10 lead with a scuffling offense.
Then Kirby Good reminded everybody why he’s among the finest coaches in faculty soccer, and Gunner Stockton proved as soon as once more he’s a respectable star quarterback.
What an evening for the Georgia Bulldogs!
