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Published Oct 21, 2024
The MyPerfectFranchise Daily Recap: Defense steps up in win over Texas
Jason Butt  •  UGASports
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Here is the Oct. 21 edition of The Daily Recap presented by My Perfect Franchise.

Offense needs to clean up issues

Georgia's defense stepped up in a major way to pull off a 30-15 win over Texas on the road. The offense, however, struggled quite a bit, which led to the Bulldogs only being able to come away with the 15-point victory.

Anthony Dasher noted that if the offense had played better, the margin of victory would have been much greater.

"While there are certainly mistakes the team must clean up – specifically on the offensive side – the fact the defense rose up and played to the standard Smart always talks about was good to see," Dasher wrote. "So was the fact Georgia’s offensive and defensive lines controlled the lines of scrimmage, something we haven’t been able to say very often this year. As for (Carson) Beck, six picks in two games against Alabama and Texas is not a good stat line. But neither were the considerable number of drops, or the final score might have been more impressive."

Defensively, however, the Bulldogs were back to their old selves.

"The Bulldogs not only recorded seven sacks, three by Jalon Walker alone, but Georgia held Texas to just two of 15 on third down and only allowed two passes more than 20 yards," Dasher wrote. "So, despite playing a game with more peaks and valleys than a drive through the Smokey Mountains, Georgia came to Austin and knocked off the No. 1 team in the nation."

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Georgia disguises defenses well

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said that Georgia's defense did a great job of disguising its looks against what as previously a high-octane offense.

Texas was limited to only 259 total yards.

"I wasn't necessarily surprised. I knew they'd be prepared, which they were," Sarkisian said. "They did a nice job of disguising, I'll say that. They held a lot of their two safety shells and then when they got out of that, there were some pressure packages and they were holding that shell even though they were going to poke one high defense. They're well coached. They made it difficult on us to find some explosive plays. We started to find some there in the second half, working the middle of the field a little bit more. But again, we knew they were a really well coached team.

"They've got talented players with talented coaches and it wasn't as if they were going to not come in here ready to go and play at a high level.So when you do that, you have to execute. You've got to execute not only physically, you've got to have a great plan and then when your opportunities come, you've got to try to take advantage of them. We just missed our opportunities in the first half. I thought we took advantage of a few more in the second."

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Georgia's Pro Football Focus player grades from Saturday's win over Texas.

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