Georgia played three quarters of utterly sublime football tonight in Auburn, Alabama.
Then they played one that very nearly cost them their entire season.
Kirby Smart’s team almost learned a costly lesson in the importance of playing four quarters of SEC football. In the end, they hung on just long enough to secure a 21-14 victory in the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry and to clinch the SEC East.
The Red and Black staked themselves to a 14-0 halftime lead, then turned up the pressure even more in the third quarter, allowing only 25 yards of total offense while also tacking on an Eli Wolf touchdown to push the lead to 21-0.