The Volunteers gave up a 63-yard, game-winning pass to Florida as time expired by rushing four and not dropping their safety into a three-deep prevent defense.
The difference in that play and the one the Bulldogs allowed was Georgia’s defense of the Tennessee Hail Mary was conceptually correct, just poorly executed. And Tennessee worked on it before the Florida Gators beat them on a last-second pass two weeks ago. Georgia worked on them before Tennessee struck gold on the Hail Mary. While every team works on those plays, they don’t always execute them. Our motivation is about us and trying to get better.” “That play was a factor, but there were a bunch of plays in that game that were a factor. So you have to execute prior to that so it doesn’t come down to that. More important than that is the discipline to stay on the sideline and keep your helmet on. Every college in America works on Hail Marys and those kinds of plays. “Every Thursday we go over that play and the play before that play,” Smart said at his weekly news conference on Monday. The aim, of course, is that it doesn’t happen again. The Bulldogs have gone over the Hail Mary almost every week since the ball fell into Jennings’ arms on Oct. That’s they day reserved every week for specialty plays, such as throwing a Hail Mary, defending a Hail Mary, onside kicks, fake field goals and such. Georgia actually watches that play on videotape every Thursday. Coach Kirby Smart makes it a point that they don’t. “But we’ve moved past that.”īut the Bulldogs haven’t forgotten about it. “Anytime you watch SEC Network, they like to play it up there, as far as the highlights for the last year,” senior defensive back Aaron Davis said. The Pittsburgh Steelers selected Dobbs in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft Jennings is out with a dislocated wrist. Neither of the Vols’ principal parties ― quarterback Josh Dobbs or receiver Jennings ― will be a part of the game Saturday. The teams will meet Saturday at 3:30 p.m. 7-ranked Bulldogs (4-0, 1-0 SEC) are about to see Tennessee for the first time since. It made for one of the most drastic 10-second turnarounds in the history of college football ― certainly in Georgia annals at Sanford Stadium.įast forward to today, and the No. That left Tennessee with 6 seconds, which was just enough time for quarterback Joshua Dobbs to lob a Hail Mary pass to Jauan Jennings, who was remarkably open in front of several Georgia defenders in the end zone to secure a 34-31 win over the Bulldogs. The Volunteers took over at the Bulldogs’ 43 after UGA was flagged for being offsides on the kickoff. The penalty was assessed on the ensuing kickoff, meaning Georgia kicked off from its own 20 rather than the 35. McGraw was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
But during the ensuing celebration, reserve defensive back Rico McGraw left the sideline and went into the end zone to participate in the jubilation – without his helmet. The Sanford Stadium crowd was going bonkers. It looked as if the Bulldogs had pulled out a stunning victory in what already had been a dramatic back-and-forth game. Georgia took a 31-28 lead on Tennessee with 10 seconds remaining when Riley Ridley hauled in Jacob Eason’s bomb down the left sideline for a 47-yard touchdown. Turn off your computer or simply skip the next couple of paragraphs if you don’t want to read about it again, because we’re compelled to recount the ending of the game. “That plays over in my mind every day,” said Gaillard, a junior and Georgia’s starting center.
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