Football ***** Postgame Notes: UK vs. Georgia *****

[Jeff Drummond]

KENTUCKY FOOTBALL POSTGAME NOTES

No. 1/1 GEORGIA at KENTUCKY

KROGER FIELD – LEXINGTON, KY.

SEPT. 14, 2024



FINAL SCORE: No. 1/1 Georgia 13, Kentucky 12



Team Records and Series Information

• Kentucky is 1-2 overall, 0-2 in the Southeastern Conference, while Georgia is 3-0 overall, 1-0 in the SEC
• Georgia leads the series 64-12-2 and has won the last 15 in a row.
  • Georgia leads 31-7 in games played in Lexington and has won the last nine.

Next Game

• Kentucky concludes its four-game homestand by playing host to Ohio University on Saturday, Sept. 21. The game time is 12:45 p.m. ET and will be televised on the SEC Network.

Team Notes

• Kentucky’s 13 points allowed vs. Georgia is the fewest since allowing 12 vs. the Bulldogs in 1995.
  • This was the fewest points UK allowed vs. a No. 1-ranked team since 1959, a 9-0 loss vs. LSU.
• Kentucky has allowed 16 or fewer points in the last three home games vs. Georgia, first time to do that three times in a row in Lexington.
• Kentucky’s defense held Georgia to 262 yards of total offense, UGA’s fewest since putting up 260 against Texas A&M in November 2019.
  • 262 yards total offense is UK’s fewest vs. Georgia since 1996 (212 yards).
  • 262 yards total offense is UK’s fewest allowed vs. a No. 1-ranked team since 1964 when UK allowed 187 yards in the 1964 win over Ole Miss (played in Jackson).
• UK’s defense held UGA to its fewest passing yards – 160 – since Georgia Tech held Georgia to 146 yards in November 2022.
• UK allowed 166 passing yards or less in each of the first three games this season for the first time since 2010.
• The Wildcats ran 73 plays in tonight’s game, compared to Georgia’s 54. Those 73 plays are the Cats’ most since running 74 against Mississippi State in October 2022.
  • The Dawgs’ 54 plays are their fewest since running 51 at Georgia Tech in November 2021.
• UK notched 23 first downs tonight, most vs. a No. 1-ranked team vs. Mississippi State, also 23 in that game.
• UK’s 170 rushing yards is the most ever for the Wildcats against a No. 1-ranked team.
  • It is UK’s most rushing yards vs. Georgia since 2016 (186 yards).

Player Notes

• QB Brock Vandagriff completed a career-high 14 of his 27 pass attempts for 114 yards.
  • He added a career-high 13 rushes for 26 yards, including a career-long 17-yard dash for a first down in the first quarter.
• WR Barion Brown had three catches for a team-high 34 yards.
  • He now has 100 catches in his career, becoming the 20th player in Kentucky history with at least 100 receptions.
  • He’s tied for the fourth-fastest player in school history to reach 100 catches (29 games).
• WR Dane Key added three catches for 23 yards.
• RB Demie Sumo-Karngbaye set career highs with 22 carries for 98 yards. That’s the most yards ever for a Wildcat vs. a No. 1-ranked team.
• In just the second game of his college career, freshman RB Jamarion Wilcox, had a nine rushes for 43 yards, both career highs.
  • Eight of his nine rushes came in the second half, for three first downs.
• LB D’Eryk Jackson, DB Ty Bryant and DB Zion Childress tied for the team high with six tackles apiece.
  • Childress (-5 yards) and Bryant (-4 yards) had a tackle for loss each, while Childress and Jackson notched a pass breakup each.
• K Alex Raynor extended his streak to 10 straight field goals - a stretch that began last season against Tennessee at Kroger Field on Oct. 28, 2023 – with four FGs in tonight’s game.
  • Two of his four field goals were more than 50 yards, including his school-record 55-yard field goal to put Kentucky on the board first late in the first quarter.
    • He becomes the second player in school history with two 50-yarders in one game, with Joe Bryant doing so, also against Georgia, in 1977.
    • The previous school record was 54 yards, made by Austin MacGinnis against Tennessee in Knoxville on Nov. 15, 2014.
  • Raynor is now 17-of-18 at field goals and 52-of-53 at extra points in his career at Kentucky.
  • Raynor’s 12 points tonight is the most against a No. 1-ranked team since Patrick Towles scored two touchdowns vs. Mississippi State in 2014.

Game Captains

• C Eli Cox, DL Deone Walker, QB Brock Vandagriff, LB D’Eryk Jackson