The biggest takeaway from Saturday’s 16-6 win by Georgia at Kroger Field is perhaps that Kentucky showed they could hang with the No. 1 team in college football. However, winning and hanging are two very different things.
Georgia ran the ball at will against what has been a stout Kentucky defense for most of the season, but the defense was able to bow up in the red zone. Those critical stops gave the offense multiple opportunities to climb back into the game. Rich Scangarello’s offense was able to create four scoring opportunities but three of those ended with no points with the last two occurring in the red zone.