Game of the Week: The #1 team in the country, Georgia Bulldogs, traveled to Lexington, Kentucky this past weekend. At 7:30 p.m. “Kroger Field” was electric and the fans were hoping for a miracle upset. The week prior Kentucky lost to South Carolina, but this week they are hoping to pull off the upset of the year. To start the game there were 3 straight punts. Then Kentucky went down the field and nailed a field goal. At the end of the first quarter, the score was Georgia 0, Kentucky 3. To start the second quarter, Georgia went down and made their own field goal however, Kentucky responded with their own field goal right before the end of the half. Kentucky had a 6-3 lead at the half. Kentucky continued their field goal dominance as they started the third quarter with another field goal. Kentucky now leads 9-3. Once again Georgia responds with a field goal of their own making the score 9-6. Then after a Kentucky punt, Branson Robinson rushed for a 3-yard touchdown to make the score 13-9. Kentucky only made one field goal in the fourth quarter and Georgia survived the potential upset 13-12.
Other Games: #16 LSU traveled to face South Carolina in a very hostile environment. This game was electric right out of the gate. South Carolina scored 17 straight points to start the game and go up 17-0. LSU then responded with a touchdown and field goal to make it 17-10. South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers had a 75-yard touchdown rush to increase the lead 24-10. Right before halftime, LSU scored another touchdown but missed the 2-point conversion. The score at the half is 24-16. South Carolina fans were going crazy and were hoping to keep up this performance for the rest of the game. However, that would not be the case. The second half just showed LSU’s dominance. With 0:01 second left on the clock, South Carolina had a chance to tie things up and go to overtime. South Carolina however missed the kick and LSU won 36-33.
Upset of the Week: A local team from Toledo, Ohio traveled down to Starkville, Mississippi to face SEC school, Mississippi State. The Toledo Rockets head coach, Jason Candle was looking for his second win against an SEC opponent. The last time Toledo beat an SEC opponent was back in 2015 when they beat Arkansas. Mississippi State is led by new head coach Jeff Lebby. Toledo came out of the game hot and scored a touchdown on their four out of five possessions in the first half. Toledo also had a stifling defense that held Mississippi State to only three points in the first half. Toledo led at the half 28-3. Toledo finished the game strong and won 41-17. Toledo quarterback Tucker Gleason threw for 285 yards and 3 touchdowns. However, even though Mississippi State was crushed and humiliated at home there were still some good things that happened. Mississippi State quarterback Blake Shapen finished the game 28-of-39 passing for 319 yards and threw for 2 touchdowns. Jeff Lebby states after the game, “We’re disappointed that we played and coached the way that we did in front of our home crowd with our students showing up the way that they did”. This win was a dominant one for Toledo and they hope to continue this momentum and move on to MAC play and keep winning.
“Week 3” ended and this week featured all SEC schools hopefully next week there will be more teams involved.
