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Georgia 26, Missouri 22 | Faurot Field/Memorial Stadium - Columbia
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MISSOURI
2022National
Champions
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BY JEFF DANTZLER
This was the scariest game
of the regular season for
Georgia. The turnovers
came again. Georgia
coughed the football up three
times and the Bulldogs were
behind all night long. Missouri was
coming off a heartbreaking loss to
Auburn, which included a missed
field goal by kicker Harrison Mevis,
that would have won it for the
Tigers. Well he came back with a
tremendous performance against
Georgia, nailing five field goals to
put Georgia in a hole.
Mevis nailed a 56-yarder early
in the fourth quarter to give the
Tigers a 22-12 lead over the topranked
Bulldogs. Jack Podlesny
had provided all the Georgia
scoring. One of the best kickers in
Bulldog annals was four for four.
Mevis and “JackPod!” would be
named co-special teams players
of the week in the SEC. Georgia’s
running game picked up in
the fourth quarter and Stetson
Bennett made some clutch throws
as the Bulldogs came back.
A critical fourth down conversion
run by Kenny McIntosh set up
Georgia’s first touchdown, a oneyard
Milton rush, to cap a 10 play,
75-yard drive. Georgia then got a
stop, and the Bulldogs moved 68
yards in seven plays, with Daijun
Edwards scoring from a yard out. A
three-and-out stop followed, then
the Dogs went and won the game.
Georgia ate up the final 3:39 of the
contest, moving 42 yards in eight
plays to escape CoMo with a gritty
road win that would serve Georgia
well - especially on New Year’s Eve.
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