Tennessee vs. Georgia 2012 results: Vols fall short, Dawgs’ mighty freshmen overwhelm

In any game, there’s usually a lot of good, some bad, and a lot of ugly -- and that rings true especially for Georgia’s win on Saturday. Bulldogs fans over at Dawg Sports, SB Nation’s Georgia Bulldogs blog, fully realize this, but credit the team’s resilience, and believe that Saturday’s win is the type of win that all champions need to have.

Every champion has a moment like this. Sometimes a few. Auburn certainly did in 2010. Back in 1980 in the 3rd game of the season, Scott Woerner practically beat Clemson by himself. Later in the year, we hung on for dear life against Jim Carlin’s South Carolina Gamecocks featuring George Rogers. In that game, Carolina was driving for the win late when we got a break. Rogers fumbled a pitch on about the Georgia 18 and we jumped on it preserving a 13-10 victory. By all accounts, Georgia was looking ahead to the next week against Florida and we all know how that one ended up. Was yesterday’s victory (one of) our 1980 moment(s)?The Bulldogs will face another tough SEC test on Saturday, when they head to South Carolina to take on the No. 6 Gamecocks.

Here are the video highlights from Saturday’s game in Athens.

In the second half Georgia got rolling again, starting with Murray’s arm. Murray found Michael Bennett twice for eight and 32 yards to give Georgia a two touchdown lead. After Cordarrelle Patterson answered with a Tennessee touchdown, Marshall had his second 70+ yard rushing score to put Georgia up two touchdowns at the end of the third. Tennessee scored once in the fourth, but couldn’t manage the second crucial score.

But Tennessee had no aspirations of going down that easily with WR Cordarrelle Patterson finding pay dirt on a 46-yard reverse. Georgia answered back with Keith Marshall busting off his second 70-plus-yard touchdown run of the day as he sprinted 72 yards through a gaping hole.

Tennessee had their chances in the fourth after RB Rajion Neal cut the lead the deficit to 7 with a 9-yard rushing touchdown. Ultimately, though, they’d come up short with the three aforementioned turnovers (two interceptions and a fumble) putting a damper on their final three drives.

Here’s the wild end to the second quarter between Tennessee and Georgia captured in .gif form. Down 27-17, Tyler Bray hit Zach Rogers for a 4-yard touchdown to cut the lead to 27-23. The PAT was no good.

On the ensuing kickoff, Georgia decided it would be cool to touch it as it went out of bounds at the half-yard line.

And now, a look at how fast Gurley is, via his third touchdown on the day against Tennessee:

He’s fast too!

Georgia’s Keith Marshall rips off a 75 yard touchdown run to give the Bulldogs a 14-7 first quarter lead over Tennessee.

Tennessee (3-1, 0-1 SEC), meanwhile, comes to Athens looking for its first conference win. The Volunteers dropped their conference opener at home against Florida on Sept. 15. The Vols are eighth in the nation in passing, according to ESPN.

With a win, Georgia would set up a monstrous showdown with South Carolina on Oct. 6. A Tennessee victory, meanwhile, would keep its slim SEC East title hopes alive.