Bennett also had a 1-yard rushing score against the Ducks. He directed the Bulldogs to seven touchdowns on their first seven drives and finished 25 of 31 for a career-high 368 yards and two touchdowns. In his Bulldog career, Bennett is 15-3 and has completed 63.2 percent of his passes (316-for-500, 4,669 yards, 41 TDs, 14 INTs).īennett earned Walter Camp National FBS Offensive Player of the Week honors while leading No. In 2020, he started five games and then got the nod in the final 11 contests of the 2021 national championship season. He saw action that season in five games including throwing passes in four of them. Bennett transferred to Jones College (Miss.) where he started in 2018 and then returned to the Bulldogs on scholarship in 2019. Senior Stetson Bennett, a native of Blackshear, Ga., began his career with the Bulldogs as a walk-on in 2017 when he was redshirted. Walker handles the snapping duties on field goals and PATs while Mote is called on for punts.Ĭareer Placekicking Statistics For Podlesny The Bulldog snappers return in senior Payne Walker and junior William Mote.
Camarda's career mark of 45.8 yards set the UGA record, topping the previous mark set by Drew Butler (45.4). pick, Tampa Bay), who averaged 46.7 yards on 47 punts last season. The Bulldogs are without four-year starter Jake Camarda (4th Rd. Early enrollee Brett Thorson, a native of Australia, handled the lone punt (a 53 yarder in the fourth quarter) in this year's opener. Podlesny has made 35 of 43 field-goal attempts in his career (81.4 percent) and drilled 116 of 117 PATs. Senior PK Jack Podlesny is back in 2022 for his third season as UGA's top kicker. The Bulldogs set a Draft record with 15 players taken, including five defenders in the first round, led by the first overall selection, junior Travon Walker. Georgia's championship season enjoyed a fitting exclamation mark at the 2022 NFL Draft. After the regular season, Smart was named SEC Coach of the Year for the second time in five years. The senior class also set the mark for most career wins by going 45-8. 1 Alabama, 33-18, in the championship game in Indianapolis. The third-ranked Bulldogs defeated #2 Michigan, 34-11, in the Capital One Orange Bowl in Miami and then No. The team set 21 school records, highlighted by the nation's top-ranked defense. It marked the fifth straight team to finish the regular season ranked in the top ten of the College Football Playoff rankings. 1 national ranking by all the major polls and the first ever to win 14 games. His 2021 team became UGA's first national champion since 1980, the first since 1982 to go undefeated in the SEC regular season, a No. His impact, along with a stellar coaching staff, players, and a passionate fan base has put Georgia on the national stage six years running.
That's what Georgia got when it hired Smart, the former Georgia player and Alabama defensive coordinator, to head the program in December of 2015. It ranks fifth among capacity for SEC stadiums and ninth for largest on-campus stadiums across the country.Ī 2021 College Football Playoff national championship, a 2018 CFP title game appearance, 2017 Southeastern Conference Championship, four SEC Eastern Division titles, 67 wins and six bowl victories are more than respectable rewards as Kirby Smart rolls into his seventh season. 10, 2011 versus South Carolina.ĭooley Field at Sanford Stadium grew to its current capacity of 92,746 in 2004. 1, 2001 versus Arkansas and lasted through Sept. The school record for consecutive sellouts is 64. Georgia has a streak of 58 consecutive sellouts that began Sept. The Bulldogs were 3-3 at home in his first season (2016), and the only loss since then came in double overtime to South Carolina in 2019. 886 winning percentage at home under Smart is the best in school history. In the Smart era, the Bulldogs are 31-4 at home including 29-1 since 2017. Saturday will mark the home opener for Georgia where the Bulldogs are 368-107-9. Georgia is 1-0 all-time versus Samford, winning 42-14 in 2017. In 2001, Muschamp left to become linebackers coach at LSU and Smart was promoted to defensive coordinator. Smart served as the defensive backs coach, and the defensive coordinator at that time was Will Muschamp. They are led by Chris Hatcher, who hired Kirby Smart for his first coaching job at Valdosta State in 2000. The Samford Bulldogs are part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). 8 Kennesaw State 27-17 in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 11 Oregon in Atlanta, third-ranked Georgia (1-0) plays host to Samford (1-0) Saturday at 4 p.m. DOGS RETURN TO DOOLEY FIELD AT SANFORD STADIUM FOR HOME OPENERįresh off an impressive 49-3 rout of No.
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