Florida Gators vs. #1 Georgia Bulldogs 10/29/2022 CBS 3:30

Florida Gators (4-3, 1-3 SEC)
vs.
#1 Georgia Bulldogs (7-0, 4-0 SEC)

October 29 // 3:30 p.m. // Jacksonville, Fla.
(76,666)

CBS
Play-by-Play: Brad Nessler
Analyst: Gary Danielson
Reporter: Jenny Dell
Channel (Cox): 4 / 1004 [HD]
Channel (DirecTV): 47 [HD]

Gator Sports Network from LEARFIELD
Play-by-Play: Sean Kelley
Analyst: Shane Matthews
Reporter: Tate Casey
Station Freq.: Local Affiliates
Sirius Channel: 132 or 192
ESPN National Radio
Play-by-Play: Marc Kestecher
Analyst: Kelly Stouffer
Reporter: Ian Fitzsimmons
Sirius Channel: 156 or 206

FLORIDA
Head Coach: Billy Napier
Career Record: 44-15 (27-5 Sun Belt) [5th season]
Record at UF: 4-3 (1-3 SEC) [1st season]
Bowl Record: 2-1
Rankings: NR (AP) / NR (Coaches)
2022 Record: 4-3, 1-3 SEC

GEORGIA
Head Coach: Kirby Smart
Career Record: 73-15 (44-9 SEC) [7th season]
Record at UGA: same
Record vs. UF: 4-2
Rankings: 1 (AP) / 1 (Coaches)
2022 Record: 7-0, 4-0 SEC

 

NUMBER OF NOTE​

6.4
Florida ranks first in the FBS with 6.4 yards per
carry, which would represent a new school record if
the season ended today (Current Record: 5.9, 2008).
Last season, Florida rushed for 5.5 yards per carry,
which ranked fourth in program history and fourth
in the FBS

 

THE STORYLINE​

• Florida and Georgia are facing off for the 100th time in the 90th meeting between the two teams in Jacksonville.

• Georgia leads the series, 53-44-2, and owns a 47-41-1 advantage in Jacksonville.

• The Gators are 22-10 vs. the Bulldogs dating back to 1990.

• Week 9 marks Florida’s 18th game against the AP No. 1 team including the third across the last two seasons.

• Florida is 1-2 against AP Top-25 teams this season (W vs. No. 7 Utah, L vs. No. 20 Kentucky, L at No. 11 Tennessee).

• The Gators are making their 21st appearance on SEC Nation, which ranks third in the SEC.
» The Gators are 9-11 overall when appearing on SEC Nation and 5-6 when hosting the show.
» The Gators last appeared on SEC Nation when the show came to Florida-Georgia in Jacksonville in 2021.

• Georgia has eclipsed 500 yards of offense vs. Florida one time in the history of the rivalry (1976).

• Meanwhile, Florida has four 500-yard games against Georgia since 1995 alone (2020, 2001, 1996, 1995).

• This is the first meeting between UF HC Billy Napier and UGA HC Kirby Smart as head coaches.

• Across the team’s last three games, Florida is averaging 484.3 YPG, 274.0 passing YPG and 210.3 rushing YPG.

• The Gators’ 6.4 yards per carry ranks first in the FBS. Georgia is allowing 3.3 YPC this season (19th in FBS).
» The Gators boast three of the top-four rushers in the SEC in yards per carry: RB Montrell Johnson Jr. (first - 7.2),
QB Anthony Richardson (second - 7.1) and RB Trevor Etienne (fourth - 6.3).

• Richardson is one of nine Power Five quarterbacks with 1,300 passing yards and 350 rushing yards this season.

• Five FBS players have rushed for over 7.0 YPC, carried the ball 50-plus times and scored at least six rushing touch-
downs this season. Johnson Jr. and Richardson are two of those players, with Richardson being the only QB.

• Richardson’s six rushing TDs rank second among SEC QBs, t-seventh in the P5 and t-ninth in the FBS.

• Florida’s 213.1 rushing YPG ranks 16th in the FBS, ninth in the Power Five and third in the SEC.

• The Gators’ five sacks allowed are the fewest in the SEC and tied for the fifth-fewest in the FBS.
» G O’Cyrus Torrence is the top-rated guard in the country at 89.6, according to Pro Football Focus.

• UF opened the season with a 29-26 upset of No. 7 Utah, which tied for UF’s highest-ranked victory in a season opener in program history. Napier became the first UF HC to defeat a ranked team in his first game at the helm.

• Florida was one of two teams to face three opponents ranked in the AP Top 25 across the first-four weeks of the season (Texas Tech). UF was the only team to face three top-20 opponents through the first-four weeks.

• Florida has scored in 430 consecutive games dating back to 1988 -- an NCAA record and 56 games longer than any other college football team in the history of the sport.

• In Week 5, Florida became the first program to start football in the 20th century to win 750 games.

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MEASURING RICHARDSON’S PROGRESS UNDER CENTER​

• Across Florida’s last four games, QB Anthony Richardson has posted a 161.0 passing efficiency rating while
completing 59.8% of his passes for 944 yards (236.0 YPG), six touchdowns, and three interceptions.
» In that span, Richardson has rushed 33 times for 246 yards (7.5 YPC) and three touchdowns, equating to
61.5 yards per game on the ground.

• The three-highest passing yardage totals of Richardson's career (453 at No. 11 Tennessee, 240 vs. EWU, 185 vs. LSU) have all come in the last four weeks.

• In contrast, in the first three weeks of the season, Richardson had an 89.0 passer rating while completing 53.2% of his passes for 423 yards (141.0 YPG), zero touchdowns and four interceptions.

• Week 7 vs. LSU: Richardson passed for 150 yards and rushed for 100 yards for the third time this season.
» He is one of three Florida players to accomplish the feat in the last 25 years (Tim Tebow, Emory Jones).
» Richardson’s 81-yard touchdown run to open the fourth quarter marked Florida’s third-longest TD rush
since 1996 and the longest by a UF QB in that time.
» T-11th-longest TD rush in FBS in 2022; Second-longest TD rush in FBS among QBs in 2022

• Of Richardson’s 22 career touchdowns (13 passing, nine rushing), he has:
» Five scores of 70-plus yards, nine scores of 40-plus yards and 11 scores of 25-plus yards.
» Three 75-yard TD passes, five 40-yard TD passes, six 30-yard TD passes and seven 25-yard TD passes.

• Weeks 4 & 5 (at No. 11 Tennessee, vs. EWU): Richardson threw for 693 yards, four TDs and two INTs while
rushing 18 times for 107 yards and two TDs - equating to 800 total yards and six multi-purpose TDs.

• Week 4 at No. 11 Tennessee: Richardson completed 24-of-44 passes for 453 yards and two touchdowns
while rushing 17 times for 62 yards and two touchdowns on the ground.

• Week 4: Richardson finished with 515 total yards of offense, which ranks third all-time in a single game in
program history. His 515 yards of offense is the top mark in the SEC and ranks second in the P5 this season.
» 1. Emory Jones vs. Samford (2021) 2. Tim Tebow vs. Cincinnati (2009)

• Week 4: Richardson’s 453 yards passing ranks ninth in a single game in program history and ranks fifth in
the P5 this year (third in FBS). Richardson broke his previous career high of 168 yards passing by 285 yards.

• Week 4: Richardson became the first Florida quarterback to pass for 450-plus yards and two-plus passing
touchdowns while rushing for 50-plus yards and two-plus rushing touchdowns in a single game.

 

UF’S STRONG GROUND GAME LED BY NEWCOMERS
​

• Last season, Florida had one of the best rushing campaigns in program history, averaging 5.5 YPC (4th in
program history, 4th in FBS) and 208.7 rushing YPG (11th in program history).

• This season, Florida ranks first in the FBS with 6.4 yards per carry and three Gators rank inside the top-four in the SEC in YPC: RB Montrell Johnson Jr. (first - 7.2), QB Anthony RIchardson (second - 7.1) and RB Trevor
Etienne (fourth - 6.3).
» Florida is the only SEC team with three players inside the top-12 in the conference in YPC.

• With five 200-yard rushing games including three-straight, Florida is averaging 213.1 YPG (18th in FBS).

• Johnson Jr., the 2021 All-Sun Belt Freshman of the Year, and Etienne, lead all Florida RBs in rushing yardage with 425 yards on 59 carries and 340 yards on 53 carries, respectively (50.9% of ALL rushing yardage).

• Johnson Jr. ranks T-fifth in the SEC and T-21st in the Power Five with seven rushing touchdowns.

• Johnson Jr. has six rushing TDs across the last five weeks with rushing TDs in five-straight games.

• Johnson Jr. is one of two FBS players with at least seven rushing TDs on fewer than 60 carries (QB Bo Nix).

• UF has rushed for 100 yards in nine-straight games dating back to 2021, including all seven games in 2022.

• Week 7 marked UF’s seventh game with three-plus players scoring a rushing TD since last season. Among SEC teams, only Georgia (eight), Tennessee (eight) and Ole Miss (seven) have as many or more

 

FLORIDA-GEORGIA RIVALRY HISTORY
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Notable Games
• Nov. 9, 1940 - Florida won 18-13, though many Florida fans arrived late due to road closures. The Gators held Georgia to 19 rushing yards and forced six turnovers. The Gainesville Daily Sun (now just The Gainesville Sun) dubbed it “the most exciting game ever seen in the series.

• Nov. 7, 1970 - The Gators trailed 17-10 in the fourth quarter, and with the Bulldogs headed in for another touchdown, Jack Youngblood stripped Georgia’s Ricky Lake at the goal line and recovered the fumble. Quarterback John Reaves followed the takeaway with a pair of touchdown passes to Carlos Alvarez in the final five minutes, leading the Gators to a 24-17 victory. “I just snatched it away,” Youngblood said after the game, noting he didn’t know who he stripped. “Heck, they do it all the time in the pros.”

• Nov. 8, 1980 - Run, Lindsay, Run. Lindsay Scott’s 93-yard catch and run for a touchdown--on third-and-11, with roughly a minute left in regulation to boot--saved Georgia’s unbeaten and national championship season. The touchdown gave the Bulldogs a 26-21 win. Oh, and future Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker rushed for 238 yards as a freshman.

• Nov. 10, 1984 - The No. 10 Gators shut out No. 8 Georgia, and then-freshman walk-on quarterback Kerwin Bell capped the 27-0 win with a 96-yard touchdown pass to Ricky Nattiel. Florida fans tore down the goalposts after the game

• Oct. 30, 1993 - Freshman cornerback Anthone Lott signaled for timeout just as Georgia attempted to snap the ball--and the play continued, with Eric Zeier throwing what was believed to be the game-tying touchdown pass. However, Florida was granted the timeout. Zeier and the Bulldogs had two more shots into the end zone, but connected on neither, and Florida held on for a 33-26 win.

• Oct. 28, 1995 - Steve Spurrier was told no one had ever scored 50 points in Georgia’s Sanford Stadium. Danny Wuerffel threw five touchdown passes,and backup quarterback Eric Kresser continued to throw late in the game, even with UF well ahead. “We wanted to try and make it a memorable
game for the Gators, and it was,” Spurrier said. In the two years the rivals played a home-and-home due to stadium renovations, Florida outscored Georgia 104-31

• Nov. 2, 2002 - Georgia entered 8-0 and ranked fourth, while the Gators were 5-3 and unranked. Guss Scott had a pick-six, and Rex Grossman threw a touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter to give the Gators a 20-13 upset

• Nov. 1, 2008 - In its 42-30 win the year before,the entire Georgia team ran onto the field and celebrated its first touchdown of the game. The fifth-ranked Gators responded in 2008 by calling two timeouts in the final minute of a 49-10 rout of the eighth-ranked Bulldogs. “Rules say you get three timeouts a half, and they only used two,” UGA head coach Mark Richt said.

 

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