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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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Texas vs. Georgia: Daring selections propel Bulldogs towards Playoff as Horns’ probabilities sink
The Bulldogs host Charlotte on Saturday after which end their common season towards rival Georgia Tech on Nov. 28 in Atlanta. That recreation will probably be performed as a neutral-site contest at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, as a substitute of at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Georgia Tech’s campus.
The Longhorns are at house for his or her closing two video games: vs. Arkansas on Saturday after which vs. No. 3 Texas A&M on Nov. 28.
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 consider he can be as a worthy inheritor to the legacy left by grandfather Archie and uncles Peyton and Eli.
Manning’s supposedly elite talent stage was imagined 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 staff.
Manning completed 27-for-43 with 251 yards, a landing and an interception. That’s nowhere close to ok, particularly when contemplating what Gunner Stockton did on the opposite aspect of the ball.
The opposite factor that's most likely going to close down this Texas as a 9-3 Playoff staff 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 Massive Ten mixed, plus Miami and Notre Dame.
After making what was primarily his faculty debut within the SEC Championship Recreation final 12 months towards Texas when Carson Beck obtained harm with Georgia trailing, Gunner Stockton is used to strain — and really comfy 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 answerable for its future to achieve the SEC title recreation. Behind that, Georgia is completed 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 comfy in that scenario.”
An excellent evening for Oklahoma followers obtained even higher after archrival Texas obtained throttled by Georgia.
That consequence, 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 School Soccer Playoff rankings on Tuesday regardless of the Longhorns’ head-to-head Crimson River Rivalry win earlier this season.
Neglect the speak of a three-loss Texas making the Playoff — a two-loss Oklahoma might very effectively render that time moot, with the added bonus of edging its archrival out of the 12-team area.
The preseason No. 1 staff 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 a whole lot of the identical issues which have hounded Texas all season. The Longhorns couldn’t run the ball, didn’t do a ok job defending Manning and had inconsistent play from their receivers.
On the defensive aspect, 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. Perhaps beating the Aggies, the SEC’s solely remaining unbeaten staff in convention play, to go together with victories towards No. 11 Oklahoma and No. 14 Vanderbilt, can hold Texas in play for a 3rd straight CFP look underneath coach Steve Sarkisian.
Georgia might transfer up a spot to No. 4 within the School Soccer Playoff rankings this week with Alabama dropping to Oklahoma. However are there actually three groups within the nation taking part in higher than Georgia?
Would you need your staff to face the Bulldogs? Ohio State is crushing everybody it faces, however Georgia is probably the most battle-tested and hardest staff within the nation. And don’t be stunned if it rides this momentum to a different nationwide title.
Mike B: The extent of this beating ought to completely get rid of Texas from the CFP dialogue. It gained’t after all however completely ought to.
Paul E: I’ve no canine on this battle. I’ve by no means been an enormous Georgia fan, however I’ll let you know, 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 a whole lot of respect for Sark.
Lionel B: Georgia seems like a terrific place to see a recreation.
That loss actually damages Texas’ possibilities of making the School Soccer Playoff. The Longhorns nonetheless might have a path if they’ll pull off an upset of Texas A&M on Black Friday, but when the offense seems prefer it did tonight, it’s exhausting to ascertain Texas pulling that off agains a stout Texas A&M protection.
It additionally seems like Georgia underneath Kirby Sensible has Texas’ and Steve Sarkisian’s quantity. The Dawgs have knocked off Texas 3 times of their three conferences courting again to October 19, 2024. And the UGA protection has a manner of maintaining the Longhorns’ offense in test, which it did once more on Saturday evening.
Georgia’s protection has been shaky at occasions this season, nevertheless it definitely wasn’t shaky tonight … not at one level on this recreation. Tonight’s recreation appeared like the real article.
That was the sort of protection Kirby Sensible loves and is thought for, and Texas had no reply for it. Georgia was quicker and extra bodily, and Texas appeared prefer it wished no a part of it.
Kirby Sensible after what is definitely Georgia’s most spectacular win of the 2025 season:
“I like this staff. This staff fights. They compete. They adore it. What a terrific ambiance to play in. Our guys got here out and competed. I although defensively, we stepped up towards a very good staff. 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 steadiness. Acquired a superb soccer staff, a whole lot of soccer left. You gotta be aggressive to win. This league’s tight, the margins are small. You gotta take probabilities when you possibly can.”
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Georgia beat Texas for the third time in 13 months, and the Texas teaching workers was badly outcoached tonight. That has been a theme of the three conferences between Kirby Sensible’s workers and Steve Sarkisian’s workers.
In some unspecified time in the future, it’s important to surprise if this Texas workers can win these sorts of video games, particularly towards Sensible (though a whole lot of coaches don’t match as much as Sensible).
For some time in his head teaching profession, Kirby Sensible was recognized for being conservative in his recreation administration, leaning on his protection. However as he’s purchased increasingly more into analytics — which regularly name for going for it on fourth down — Sensible has taken extra probabilities.
And he took an enormous 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. Sensible not solely went for it, however his offensive coordinator, Mike Bobo, dialed up a dangerous play: Quarterback Gunner Stockton went underneath 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. A number of performs later, Stockton hit a wide-open London Humphreys for a 30-yard landing.
Then Sensible went for the jugular: an onside kick, the primary of his tenure per Georgia’s communications staff. It caught Texas unexpectedly, with Georgia’s Money Jones making a clear restoration. Georgia’s offense took the sector once more, and shortly drove downfield once more.
After what has been a disappointing and confounding season for Georgia on protection, it seems prefer it’s getting proper at simply the appropriate 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 subsequent drive. However Texas was held to a area purpose on its opening possession, then went three-and-out the subsequent 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 compelled 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 seem like rounding into type. The shape individuals are used to seeing from a Georgia protection.
As Daniel mentioned, 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 appropriate quarterback for this staff.
