Practice report: Georgia rallies to defeat ‘Boise State’ 38-34
ATHENS – Down 31-0 at halftime, Georgia rallied in the second half and scored a touchdown with 11 seconds remaining for a dramatic 38-34 win over Boise State Wednesday in Sanford Stadium.
OK, so it wasn’t the real Boise State. It was the Bulldogs’ scout team posing as the No. 5-ranked Broncos and going against Georgia’s varsity offense and defense in a practice game at Sanford Stadium.
Georgia coach Mark Richt said he spotted “Boise” the 31 points — they only played one half – to “create some drama.” And it did.
The Bulldogs were trailing by three inside the Boise 5-yard line late in the fourth quarter when Quantavious Harrow, playing the role of a Broncos’ defensive back, flew in and forced a turnover. But Boise was unable to run out the clock and had to punt the ball back.
Georgia won when Hutson Mason hooked up with Tavarres King on a fade route on third-and-goal.
“We had a great second half and just rolled right through them,” quarterback Aaron Murray quipped.
Richt was happy with the final result and the overall play of the defense but otherwise wasn’t particular thrilled.
“We would not have been ready today,” Richt said. “Even our pregame warmup left a little to be desired.”
Georgia’s defense was particularly resourceful, creating six turnovers and “at least” four interceptions, Richt said. Two of those picks were returned for touchdowns by cornerback Brandon Boykin.
“It was interception mania there for a minute,” Richt said. “But their offensive line didn’t protect very well and that’s the main reason why.”
UGA kept “unofficial official” stats for the scrimmage. Tailback Isaiah Crowell had six carries for 54 yards and a touchdown, Ken Malcome added 11 for 61 and a TD and Brandon Harton had five for 26 and a score for the Georgia offense.
Murray was 5-of-9 passing for 79 yards and Mason 7-of-9 for 98 and a TD. Tight end Orson Charles had three catches for 31 yards, King added three for 21, tight end Aron White had two for 46 and Harton ripped off 49 yards on one reception.
“I actually think it was the best we’ve done in one of these kinds of games” Murray said. “The offense was pretty sharp.”
Defensive end Abry Jones was the defensive star with three tackles and two sacks, cornerback Jordan Love had three stops, a sack and forced a fumble and safety Shawn Williams had an interception and pass break-up.
“As a defense, we took it as our first chance to attack what Boise does,” Abry Jones said. “I think we did a good job. Now we’ve got to go back and look at the film and see what we can do better.”
Also, place-kicker Blair Walsh nailed a 56-yard field goal in his only attempt.
Captains named
Georgia coaches appointed captains for the Boise State game before Wednesday’s scrimmage. They are center Ben Jones, defensive end DeAngelo Tyson, punter Drew Butler and Boykin.
Boykin said he was particularly proud of the honor.
“It means a lot,” he said. “Playing in the Dome in my hometown in the first game of my last year, I really appreciate it.”
Missing in action
Most of the players who have been out the last few days remained sidelined with injuries. Among them was TB Richard Samuel (quadriceps), FB Bruce Figgins (hamstring), TB Carlton Thomas (ankle) WR Malcolm Mitchell (leg muscle) and WR Marlon Brown (ankle).
Etc. . . .
Afterward, Richt said the tailback’s depth chart going into the final week is Samuel first, then Crowell, Harton and Malcome. . . . Georgia will hold a special teams practice today, then a closed situational scrimmage on Friday.
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411 comments Add your comment
TigerinGA
August 25th, 2011
3:57 pm
31-0 is about what I expect to see at end of half and I don’t see the “dawgs” making any sort of comeback. Prepare for a slaughter!!!!
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
3:57 pm
UGA 05, just remember, CPJ owns the SEC. 4-2.
Now did you graduate in 05? Or is that when your boyfriend popped your cherry.
WDE
August 25th, 2011
3:57 pm
@5 Time National Champs Nebraska the last time there was a meaningful discourse in Nebraska was well frankly never..Man you are easy !
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 25th, 2011
3:59 pm
Spurrier announced today that both Garcia and Shaw will play in the opener vs East Carolina.
Looks like the dogs will have another “wrinkle” to prepare for on Sept. 10.
This is gonna be fun.
WDE
August 25th, 2011
3:59 pm
@GT Joe CPJ owns the SEC..well if you leave out UGA…now isn’t it time for your ticklepile little guy?
TampaDawg
August 25th, 2011
3:59 pm
GT Joe is going talk up the bugs as if they are worth talking up. Last year was one of UGA’s worst years yes, but GT fan has NO ROOM to talk after losing to a 3-9 Kansas team, a 6-7 Clemson team, a 7-6 Miami team, a bad 9-4 NC State team (yes, they were bad, look at the teams they beat and the ones they lost to), and yes, a 6-7 UGA team. Might want to keep the noise down over there Mr. 1-9 over 10 years vs. UGA and hasn’t won a bowl game since 2004.
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
3:59 pm
GT clearly has SEC speed, we’re 4-2 against the SEC under CPJ.
HEE HAW.
1eyedJack
August 25th, 2011
4:00 pm
GT’s blog has been up all day and hasn’t filled two pages. GT Joe has posted that much here. LOSER. No wonder you can’t fill that stadium.
TampaDawg
August 25th, 2011
4:01 pm
CPJs 4 wins .. 2 against Miss State (big freaking deal), 1 against Vandy (durpy dooo!) and 1 against UGA .. and he OWNS the SEC .. you’ve been eating too much HEE HAW to know how wack that comment was.
WDE
August 25th, 2011
4:02 pm
@Nothing Could Be Finer the Visor has also announced Garcia was suspended what 5 times already . We gave up listening to him years ago…be more surprised if he said they wouldn’t both play.
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
4:03 pm
Hey tampa, we beat missy state twice, didn’t ya’ll lose to them last year? HEE HAW.
1eye: 4-2 against the “vaunted” SEC. Face it, we would compete in the SEC about as well as UGA (which isn’t saying much). Cause clearly we have “SEC speed”.
TampaDawg
August 25th, 2011
4:03 pm
@5 Time National Champs Nebraska — as I have mentioned on here before, we have many meaningful debate discussions on here with fans from other schools like Auburn, Bama and Florida. It’s a select few who get what’s coming to them because they want to make sure they talk about trailor parks (I lived in Atlanta for a while, that city isn’t immuned), and wal mart, and incest and whatever. Otherwise, this would be a civil blog.
CPJ
August 25th, 2011
4:05 pm
Come getcha some of this here SEC speed!
1eyedJack
August 25th, 2011
4:05 pm
GT Joe, you might have had SEC speed, but now all you have is a bunch of guys who couldn’t get a better offer.
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 25th, 2011
4:05 pm
be more surprised if he said they wouldn’t both play.
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Actually you would probly be more elated.
Then you realized that Lattimore is coming to town.
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
4:06 pm
@ 5 Time Champ: yeah this would be a civil blog if not for those select few. An ignorant, misinformed blog, but a civil blog nonetheless.
1eyedJack
August 25th, 2011
4:07 pm
In a couple of more years ya’ll will be forced to give up football. Maybe ya’ll can start a zit picking team or better yet a baton twirling team.
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
4:08 pm
Tampa, that was a legitimate question for UGA 05.
TampaDawg
August 25th, 2011
4:08 pm
Yeah GT we did, do you want me to use the AJ Green excuse the way you use the Nesbitt one?
Big Dirty Dawg
August 25th, 2011
4:09 pm
Are we talking about football or track and field here? LOL
TampaDawg
August 25th, 2011
4:09 pm
No, actually it wasn’t .. it was more classless nothing to do with football gay slant crap. Congratulations on trying to justify it.
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
4:10 pm
Good one 1eye! very creative! I like baton twirlers.
TampaDawg
August 25th, 2011
4:13 pm
I find it amazing that on BSU blogs, there are UGA fans together yucking it up, talking smack and yet, still friendly. People inviting each other over to the tail gate tent even. Here, we have good debate conversation but we have to read crap that tries to get personal. Unbelievable.
5 Time National Champs Nebraska
August 25th, 2011
4:16 pm
Yawn…..
5 Time National Champs Nebraska
August 25th, 2011
4:18 pm
TampaDawg
August 25th, 2011
4:06 pm
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
3:57 pm
UGA 05, just remember, CPJ owns the SEC. 4-2.
Now did you graduate in 05? Or is that when your boyfriend popped your cherry.
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I rest my case Nebraska fan and Reverand Baby
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And your case is?
It would help if you added a little more to your comments. We don’t have the time to call the psychic hotline.
bugsquacher
August 25th, 2011
4:18 pm
GO DAWGS… BEAT THEM BOISE STATE PRETENDERS
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
4:18 pm
HAHAHA, a UGA fan talking about keeping it classy. This from the people that wear overalls to prom…with a tie.
DawginLex
August 25th, 2011
4:19 pm
Glad I avoided this today
Does anyone know if Richt is planning on playing Hutson Mason and Murray? Mason’s stats seem good in all the scrimmages.
Either way it sets up nicely to have 2 QB’s who can run the offense.
Maybe Richt learned his lesson from the past?
bugsquacher
August 25th, 2011
4:19 pm
GEORGIA 24 BOISE STATE 21
TampaDawg
August 25th, 2011
4:20 pm
wow 5 time, didn’t know we had to spell it out for you mid west types. You come on here ranting about the UGA fans insults but this is the kind of crap that trolls on here and posts. Is that better?
DawginLex
August 25th, 2011
4:20 pm
Probably shouldn’t expect a answer should I?
Other than someone calling me trailer park trash
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 25th, 2011
4:21 pm
Either way it sets up nicely to have 2 QB’s who can run the offense.
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Thats what Spurrier is doing.
Both Shaw and Garcia have had really good practices lately.
bugsquacher
August 25th, 2011
4:22 pm
I heard Richt was planning to play Murray, Mason and Mettenberg. Oh yeah that’s right Mettenberg is starting for LSU this year….
Boise Dawg
August 25th, 2011
4:23 pm
Good question DawginLex. I was wondering why Mason was in at the end of the scrimmage if the point was to simulate a comeback? I assume Richt must feel pretty good about where Murray is right now…. I doubt Mason gets in if this is a close game, which it should be.
Delbert D.
August 25th, 2011
4:23 pm
Looks like LSU has a shoe fetishist: “…police seized 49 pairs of athletic shoes from Jefferson’s apartment.” Snipped from an article by the AP.
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 25th, 2011
4:24 pm
I heard Richt was planning to play Murray, Mason and Mettenberg. Oh yeah that’s right Mettenberg is starting for LSU this year….
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The dogs are gonna wish they had Mett back.
All indications show that Aaron Murray is in for a disappointing year.
Nothing Could Be Finer
August 25th, 2011
4:24 pm
Looks like LSU has a shoe fetishist: “…police seized 49 pairs of athletic shoes from Jefferson’s apartment.”
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Lotta
Shoes
U
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
4:25 pm
Rev: you have to suspend all common sense to read some of these UGA posts.
Pretend you were in the 3rd grade and it should make sense.
bugsquacher
August 25th, 2011
4:25 pm
My point exactly….. best QB of the bunch is now at LSU….. go figure…
bugsquacher
August 25th, 2011
4:26 pm
I guess we will see Mett in December at the SEC championship game
bugsquacher
August 25th, 2011
4:27 pm
guess we will play with the cards we have been dealt.
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
4:30 pm
what exactly is a squacher?
TampaDawg
August 25th, 2011
4:30 pm
Reverand and 5time .. just read the plethora of GT Joe posts and you will realize nonsensical approach to his posts. His gay rants, trailor park rants, wal mart rants .. all of them. And then he wants to end with “pretend you’re in 3rd grade and it should make sense” .. well if the freaking pot didn’t just call the kettle black.
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
4:35 pm
wal mart rants? when i say the CEO of walmart is a tech grad, that’s fact, not smack talk.
cleanup on aisle 4 HEE HAW
DawginLex
August 25th, 2011
4:36 pm
bugsquacher
Do you know how stupid it is to say that the best QB is over at LSU?
Mett has played ZERO downs or plays in the SEC. ZERO
Yet you name him better than Murray and Mason?
You do know he is 3rd on the depth chart at LSU right?
Behind Jefferson and pick six Jarrett Lee.
Yeah, he is Joe Montana alright
Geez
5 Time National Champs Nebraska
August 25th, 2011
4:38 pm
TampaDawg
August 25th, 2011
4:30 pm
Reverand and 5time .. just read the plethora of GT Joe posts and you will realize nonsensical approach to his posts. His gay rants, trailor park rants, wal mart rants .. all of them. And then he wants to end with “pretend you’re in 3rd grade and it should make sense” .. well if the freaking pot didn’t just call the kettle black.
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It’s spelled trailer.
GT Joe
August 25th, 2011
4:40 pm
Hey mutts, how does it feel to have Nebraska people (5 NCs), Tech people (4 NCs) and Florida people (3 NCs) talkin down to you UGA folks (2 NCs)?
MD
August 25th, 2011
4:42 pm
Nothing CBF… What indicators can you share with us that point to Murray having a disappointing year? Stats from scrimmages… Usually you’re pretty spot on even for a chicken but I’ll look forward to your answer
Delbert D.
August 25th, 2011
5:18 pm
I think it is simply and infearyority complex. But they say it is not a complex if they is really infearyor.
UGA '05
August 25th, 2011
5:22 pm
GT Joe, okay I’m back from having a life. So to clarify your question, ‘05 is just my favorite year as a UGA fan. Now I have a serious question for you, if you are mature enough to answer. What SEC teams has CPJ beat to own that 4-2 record. I know only one of them is UGA. What are the others?