156
Kendall Milton’s 156 rushing yards were the most by a Georgia running back since D’Andre Swift ran for 179 yards against Kentucky in 2019. Milton scored two touchdowns and had a third score wiped off the board due to a questionable holding penalty. Even without that 36-yard touchdown run, Milton has now had two 100-yard rushing games in the past three games. He had just one 100-yard rushing performance in his previous 49 games at Georgia. “Really physical. He’s getting his pads down, running through contact,” Smart said. “He breaks a lot of arm tackles. You know, I saw two or three of their guys have to go out from having to tackle him ‘cause he’s really physical and downhill.” Milton is more focused on team success than his individual output. “It feels great, but the winning feels even better,” Milton said of his performance. “I feel like Coach Smart, he’s really put it into perspective. I feel like I’ve really seen this throughout my past years at Georgia that individual success is all good, but team success is what’s going to take you the furthest. I feel like everybody put that into perspective that it doesn’t really matter who gets the credit, which I feel like week in and week out that’s been shown.”
60
Georgia, the least penalized team in the SEC, accumulated six penalties for a total of 60 yards. Many of the penalties wiped out significant plays for the Bulldogs. The ACC officiating crew only flagged the home team three times for 15 yards. “I don’t ever talk about officiating, but it’s one of those where we go to a different conference and they have different standards,” noted Smart. “I guess they call it closer, more holdings, more personal fouls. They just have more fouls in their games than we average in the SEC. It just so happened that a lot of them went against us at inopportune times, but I don’t question officiating. I think those guys do a great job.”
175
Carson Beck threw for a season-low 175 yards, completing only 13 passes. His 20 attempts were also the fewest passes he has thrown in a game this year. Beck’s previous low in passing yards came against Missouri, where Beck threw for 254 yards. With the running game churning out 262 yards (6.7 per carry), the plan was clearly a run-heavy one, especially with Georgia missing three of its most effective pass catchers in Brock Bowers, Rara Thomas and Ladd McConkey.
16
Smael Mondon, Jr. and C.J. Allen combined for 16 total tackles, with each linebacker notching eight tackles. Allen has been thrust into a starting role with the injury to stalwart Jamon Dumas-Johnson. Georgia Tech ran complicated option-type run schemes out of the shotgun. The fits were not always perfect, but Mondon and Allen’s effort and production were needed to slow Tech’s tricky ground game.
87
Peyton Woodring is converting on 87 percent of his field goal attempts this year and hit an important 39 yarder against Georgia Tech. Woodring, a true freshman, has made 20 of 23 attempts on the season. Woodring started the season slowly, converting only 4 of his first 7 attempts. However, the No. 1 rated kicker coming out of high school in 2023 has converted every field goal attempt since the South Carolina game. His accuracy will be needed as Georgia looks to extend its 29-game winning streak against Alabama.