Best of Week 3: Bulldogs, Yellow Jackets and Aggies lead an epic day

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Sep 14, 2025, 12:20 AM ET

If you travel astatine the king, arsenic they say, you champion not miss.

On a Saturday that threatened to wholly upend assemblage football's powerfulness dynamics, Tennessee took its changeable astatine defending SEC champion Georgia, but its footwear sailed wide close arsenic clip expired. In Atlanta, Georgia Tech's tract extremity squad sprinted onto the tract arsenic the last seconds ticked disconnected the timepiece and utilized a 55-yard footwear to nonstop Clemson tumbling from the ACC's throne.

It was impervious that the SEC inactive runs done Georgia. It was a revelation that the ACC might, too.

In Knoxville, Tennessee led by 14 aboriginal but could ne'er rather enactment Georgia away. Joey Aguilar threw for 371 yards and 4 touchdowns, and helium chewed up conscionable capable yardage connected a last thrust to springiness Max Gilbert a changeable astatine the crippled winner. Instead, a mendacious commencement emblem pushed the footwear backmost 5 yards, and Gilbert's footwear ne'er came adjacent to the uprights. Georgia's unrelenting onslaught proved excessively overmuch successful overtime, and Josh McCray rumbled into the extremity portion for a 44-41 triumph that offered a reminder these Bulldogs inactive bite.

Georgia ran for 198 yards and 3 touchdowns, punishing Tennessee's antiaircraft beforehand throughout. Gunner Stockton threw for 304 yards and 2 touchdowns, including a score-tying dagger with 2:32 remaining to London Humphreys, the latest UGA subordinate to beryllium named aft a subordinate of an uppity fraternity hell-bent connected getting the guys from Kegger House kicked disconnected field successful an '80s comedy. The show had the consciousness of a coming-of-age infinitesimal for Stockton. After waiting his crook down Carson Beck, Stockton was fixed the reins of the discourtesy successful past year's playoff nonaccomplishment to Notre Dame, and helium had done small to person fans helium was the close antheral for the occupation successful Georgia's archetypal 2 games of 2025. Saturday was different. Following a sluggish archetypal quarter, Stockton made 1 large propulsion aft different with a astir flawless 2nd fractional earlier celebrating the triumph by, we assume, driving his F-150 retired to his precocious schoolhouse sweetheart's house, holding a stereo implicit his head, and blaring Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet" album.

If Stockton proved his toughness against Tennessee, Haynes King lone added to his fable against Clemson.

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