Georgia entered Saturday’s game against Tennessee with the longest win streak in college football, at 27 straight wins. In their final conference matchup of the regular season, the Bulldogs extended that streak further — and also broke a streak of Tennessee’s own.
The Volunteers entered the game with the third-longest home win streak in college football with 14 straight wins. The problem, however, is that Tennessee’s last loss at home was in 2021 against, who else, but Georgia — a 41-17 loss.
The Bulldogs now stretch its win streak to 28 straight — tying Alabama —and its regular season win streak to 37. They’ve also now won 27 straight SEC regular season games, one away from another Alabama team from the late 1970’s.
Georgia is also the most recent team to have three straight undefeated SEC seasons since Georgia from 1980 through 1982. That 1980s stretch made Georgia the first team to have three straight undefeated seasons in the SEC, while a win next week against Georgia Tech would give Georgia the first three-year undefeated regular season streak ever in college football.
Head coach Kirby Smart gave his respects and regards to the coaches he passed with this win. However, according to some of the players, it was just a cool accomplishment.
“It’s awesome,” tight end Brock Bowers said. “I don’t really think about it in the moment, but looking back on it, it’s pretty cool.”
The Bulldogs have continued to exert their dominance across the season and this game was no exception.
Georgia was dominant on both sides of the ball throughout the matchup and displayed how the team maintained this historic stretch.
Quarterback Carson Beck had 298 passing yards and three touchdowns in this game, his third game with three touchdown passes this season. Receivers Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint, Dillon Bell and Bowers all recorded at least 50 yards and one touchdown.
Despite the crowd noise and hostile environment, the Bulldogs still managed to put up the highest point total of any of Tennessee’s opponents this year.
“We understood that we were coming into an environment that was hostile and it’s gonna be loud and it’s gonna be us against them,” Rosemy-Jacksaint said.
“They struck first, but we had to come back on offense and execute and do what we do on a daily basis — get back in the game and keep our confidence going.”
The defense didn’t allow a single touchdown in the entire second half. While the unit did allow its fifth-straight opening drive touchdown, the group prevented the Volunteers from building much momentum outside of that.
The team also held the Volunteers to its second-fewest points this season, three points more than last week’s loss to Missouri.
