Photo by Mark Cornelison.
From Commonwealth Stadium:
- Final: Georgia 42, Kentucky 38.
- Dobbs intercepts Cobb screen pass with 46 seconds left. The big lineman reaches up and grabs ball with 1-hand.
- Georgia called for face mask penalty — Cobb was grabbed by face mask. Cats on 14 with 51 seconds left.
- UK facing 4th-and-2 with 58 seconds left.
- A 29-yard pass from Cobb to Grinter on first play. Then Dixon gains two yards to Georgia 32. UK calls time with 1:27 left.
- UK starts drive at own 37 with 1:46 left. Cats need a touchdown.
- Third-and-goal from 11, Stafford scrambles and throws over about four defenders and A.J. Green makes a great catch in back of end zone for TD. Georgia now up 42-38 with 1:54 left. Just a great play by both quarterback and receiver.
- Stafford to Massaquoi for 77 yards all the way down to UK 7. Moreno gets four yards on first down. But on second down, UK’s Sam Maxwell sacks Stafford for loss back to 11. Georgia calls time with 2:05 remaining. Third-and-goal.
- Georgia takes punt, start at 16 with 3:55 left.
- Massaquoi fumbles for second time. Micah Johnson forced it. McAtee recovers. UK has it with 9:28 left.
- Kentucky has to punt and Georgia starts drive on own 35 with 10:17 left.
- Massaquoi fumbles, caused by Kelley and UK gets it back.
- Cobb and Moreno have eached scored three touchdowns today.
- Cobb sneaks it in from a yard out and Kentucky is back on top of this see-saw 38-35. There’s 12:15 left. Guy kickoff return set up a three-play, four-yard drive.
- Winston Guy takes kickoff 96 yards for UK.
- Takes two plays for Georgia to go back in front, 35-31 at 13:49 mark. Stafford throws 42 yards to Green, his first catch of the day. Then Moreno goes 18 yards for the score. This qualifies as a shootout. The kickoff out of bounds was big.
- Through three quarters, Georgia outgained 307-244.
- Kickoff, Kentucky kicks it out of bounds. Georgia takes over at 40.
- The time out pays off. Dixon scores from 14 yards out and Kentucky is now back in front 31-28 with 14:26 left. That was a three-play, 29-yard drive.
- End of third quarter: Georgia 28-24.
- UK makes a great call, calling a time out with 12 seconds left in third so Georgia would have to punt into the wind. The Dogs do, and get off an 18-yard kick. UK takes over at Bulldog 29-yard line.
- Masthay’s 60-yard punt, and Miller tries to catch it at 3, goes into end zone, he gets it back out to 3 to avoid safety.
- Bulldogs go 80 yards in eight plays to re-take the lead 28-24 with 3:21 left in third. Moreno goes 20 yards for touchdown, breaking about four tackles on the play. But big news is that Trevard Lindley is out with a bad knee. Brooks came over to talk to the corner during the drive, but he remains seated on the bench. At one point, Stafford completed four straight passes for 53 yards.
- Lindley is out with a bad knee, and Georgia is driving.
- Kentucky turns the Florida table. Danny Trevathian blocks punt of Georgia’s Chris Mimbs. UK takes over at Bulldog 9. First play, Cobb rolls left and keeps rolling right into the end zone for UK’s first lead of the day, 24-21 with 7:31 left in third quarter. Remember, the Cats had two punts blocked at Florida just a couple of weeks ago.
- Kentucky drives down and Lones Seiber boots a 40-yard field goal with 9:19 left to cut the Georgia lead to 21-17. Seiber is now 7-of-14 on the year. He is 2-for-5 on kicks of 40-or-more yards this year.
- Almost forgot the field-goal kicking contest at halftime.. Meck missed. Shuck made.
- Moreno gained 43 yards on his first five carries of the first half, then just 14 on his next six.
John Clay is a sports columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A native of Central Kentucky and graduate of UK, he covered UK football for 13 seasons before being promoted to columnist in 2000. He lives in Lexington with his wife and two sons. You can e-mail him at jclay@herald-leader.com.
The defense needs to get a couple of turnovers to get us ahead. The offense has found a rhythm that will allow us to win with a few turnovers if they go our way.
GOOD JOB DEFENSE on Georgia’s first possession!!! Set the tone for the 2nd Half!!!
After looking like a middle school team on Georgia’s first two possessions, these ‘Cats have skipped high school and gone right to college!
They gotta keep up and not lose focus!!
Why is Lindley sitting out?
Where is Trevard Lindley? Is he hurt?
Never mind. Tom Leach said something about his knee being a problem, but I saw him get blown away, along with half our defense, on Moreno’s TD run.
Georgia has made the necessary adjustments against that little pitch play - it’s not going to work this half…need to come up with something new.
Randall Cobb has become a MAN today!
Ooops…spoke too soon about the defense ‘growing up’- we need a turnover next time on defense!!!
Wow! At this rate what do you see the final score? 52-49 Kentucky?
It’s a moot point now, but TV replay showed Cobb scored on the ‘reviewed’ play. Maybe they ruled his forward motion had stopped, who knows, but the ball came down on the goal line before his knee touched the ground. Pretty obvious.
They wore UK down. Not enough yalent.
That was talent
Heartbreak Hotel
I pray that Randall Cobb does not feel responsible for this loss. Without him, that is a 30 point beating.
We played a good game against a strong team. It was almost like a
win!111 I just want to beat Tennessee.