Stockton tosses 4 TDs, rallies UGA over Ole Miss

Gunner Stockton passed for 289 yards and 4 touchdowns, including 3 to choky extremity Lawson Luckie, and No. 9 Georgia overcame Trinidad Chambliss and No. 5 Mississippi's almighty discourtesy to rally for a 43-35 triumph implicit the Rebels connected Saturday.

Georgia (6-1, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) rallied aft trailing 35-26 astatine the commencement of the 4th quarter. Stockton's 7-yard touchdown walk to Luckie with 7:29 remaining gave Georgia a 40-35 lead.

Ole Miss (6-1, 3-1) was denied its archetypal roadworthy triumph implicit a apical 10 squad nether manager Lane Kiffin adjacent though the Rebels scored touchdowns connected their archetypal 5 possessions.

Stockton completed 26 of 31 passes and added a 22-yard scoring tally successful the important SEC showdown.

"It was a large day," Stockton said. "We conscionable played for each different and that's the champion portion of our team."

Stockton and the Bulldogs had nary turnovers.

In previewing the game, Ole Miss manager Lane Kiffin said winning astatine Georgia would mean the Rebels person taken "another step" successful their determination up the SEC. That looked apt erstwhile they scored touchdowns connected each of their archetypal 5 possessions, taking a nine-point pb successful the 3rd quarter.

Suddenly, the Ole Miss discourtesy mislaid its magic arsenic Georgia did not springiness up different archetypal down.

Following the archetypal punt of the crippled by either squad with 12:44 remaining, Stockton led a nine-play, 67-yard thrust capped by the 7-yard scoring walk to Luckie that gave the Bulldogs their archetypal pb of the 2nd half.

Following different halt by Georgia's defense, Stockton led a 10-play thrust to acceptable up Peyton Woodring's 3rd tract extremity of the game, a 42-yarder, to agelong the pb to 8 points with 2:06 remining.