Gunner Stockton completed 24 of 37 passes for 217 yards and ran for a game-sealing touchdown on Saturday night to help No. 10 Georgia rally for a 20-10 victory over host Auburn in Southeastern Conference play.
Zachariah Branch had nine receptions for 57 yards for Georgia (5-1, 3-1 SEC), which scored 20 unanswered points to earn its ninth straight win over the Tigers.
Jackson Arnold threw for 137 yards and added 55 yards and a rushing score for Auburn (3-3, 0-3), which dropped its third straight game. Cam Coleman had seven catches for 50 yards for the Tigers, who were outgained 296-277.
Trailing 10-3, Georgia knotted the score after Stockton’s 30-yard pass to Noah Thomas was followed by Chauncey Bowens’ 2-yard rushing score with 7:23 left in the third.
After an Auburn punt, the Bulldogs took its first lead on Peyton Woodring’s 53-yard goal at the 1:22 mark of the third. Woodring missed his first field goal of the season on the Bulldogs’ next possession – this time a 45-yard attempt going wide right.
Following Auburn’s third consecutive three-and-out, Georgia iced the game with a methodical 16-play, 78-yard drive spanning 8:45 of game clock Stockton sealed the Bulldogs’ second straight win with a 10-yard rushing touchdown with 1:53 remaining to give Georgia a 20-10 edge.
The Tigers opened the game with a dominant 14-play, 75-yard drive which spanned more than seven minutes and ended with a 2-yard touchdown run from Arnold.
After Georgia’s punt, Auburn tacked on with Alex McPherson’s 25-yard field goal at the 13:41 mark of the second quarter.
The Tigers were on the brink of extending its lead to three scores before Arnold was stripped as he was attempting to reach the ball across the goal line. The ball was recovered by Kyron Jones on the Bulldogs’ 1-yard line with 1:32 left in the first half.
Stockton then engineered an 88-yard drive in just over a minute, capped with Woodring’s 29-yard field goal to cut Georgia’s halftime-deficit to 10-3.
After Auburn tallied 10 points on 145 yards of offense in their opening two drives, the Bulldogs limited the Tigers to no points and 132 yards over its final eight drives.
Conversely, Georgia managed just 20 yards on its first three series before the offense awakened late in the first half.
