Georgia Buries Ole Miss 42-7 Behind Four Stockton Touchdown Passes
Georgia scored first, scored second, and Ole Miss never got within a county of it. The Bulldogs beat the Rebels 42-7, led 35-0 after three quarters, and the only thing the home team got for its trouble was a garbage-time run from Shekai Mills-Knight with 10:43 left in the fourth.
Gunner Stockton is the reason it was never close. He threw four touchdown passes on 9-of-15 passing for 186 yards, and three of them went to Talyn Taylor: 58 yards in the first quarter, 6 yards just before the third ended, and 65 yards after Ole Miss had finally scored. Add a 15-yard touchdown run of his own right before halftime and the quarterback accounted for five of Georgia's six touchdowns. The sixth was Craig Dandridge's 4-yard run to open the scoring.
The stat sheet makes the point twice. Georgia ran 45 times for 297 yards and handed out 5 sacks. Ole Miss ran 31 times for 66 yards, threw an interception, lost a fumble and came out with 252 total yards to Georgia's 483. Both teams passed for exactly 186 yards, which tells you the whole game was decided on the ground and in the turnover column. Trinidad Chambliss went 18-of-34 for 170 yards with the interception, and his 9 carries lost 12 yards.
Georgia moves to 8-1. Ole Miss falls to 6-3, and one more loss like this and it is a different kind of season conversation.
For fantasy, Stockton posted 40.2 points, a season high, and Taylor's 36 points came off just four catches. Those three touchdowns covered 129 of his 140 yards. That is efficiency. Horatio Fields, the lone Ole Miss name in the top three, caught 8 passes for 96 yards and nothing else, which was still enough for 17.6.