The 2023 Bulldogs, while not as talented and dominant as the 2021 or 2022 Georgia teams, make up for it with intangibles.
ATHENS, Ga. — Officially, the run didn’t happen. rumbled down the right sideline only in your imagination, not the scorebook, where a penalty negated all 44 of the glorious yards covered by the 320-pound defensive lineman. Never happened. Which is ridiculous because that run was all anyone on the Georgia football team could talk about afterward. Advertisement “On the sideline, you’re hoping something like that happens, but no idea it would be Naz,” Georgia center said of his roommate.
The defense did its job and got the takeaway. Then the offense drove from its own 30 to the other 30, and Woodring kicked the field goal. And when it went through, you could feel Sanford Stadium exhale. Smart said the decision to kick the field goal was his toughest call of the night. “There’s a lot of analytics that will tell you not to kick that field goal,” Smart said. “If we don’t hit the field goal and they go down and score it’s certainly a tough situation.