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Tennessee football: Five takeaways from Vols’ loss to Georgia Bulldogs

By Caleb Calhoun

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE - OCTOBER 05: Juan Jennings #15 of the Tennessee Volunteers is stopped by the Georgia Bulldogs after running with the ball during the second quarter at Neyland Stadium on October 05, 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Silas Walker/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE - OCTOBER 05: Juan Jennings #15 of the Tennessee Volunteers is stopped by the Georgia Bulldogs after running with the ball during the second quarter at Neyland Stadium on October 05, 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Silas Walker/Getty Images) /
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Kirby Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs sent Jeremy Pruitt’s UT Volunteers to 1-4. Here are five takeaways from Tennessee football’s loss to the UGA Dawgs.

Well it was fun for a minute. In the first half, Tennessee football had a surprise lead over the Georgia Bulldogs, going up 14-10. However, they allowed a field goal and then two late touchdowns to fall behind 26-14 at halftime.

The Georgia Bulldogs then dominated a very sluggish second half, lulling people to sleep with too many missed calls and overturned penalties, that ended with UGA winning the game by a score of 43-14. That sent them to 5-0 on the year and 2-0 in the SEC while the Vols fell to 1-4 and 0-2 in the SEC.

Still, despite the loss, there were some interesting parts to this game. And believe it or not, Tennessee football may have a little bit of life going forward. So it’s not all doom and gloom on Rocky Top after this one.

UT was forced to punt on its first drive and then allowed Georgia to march down the field for a touchdown. But that’s when Maurer came to life, as he hit Marquez Callaway for a 73-yard touchdown pass.

On the next drive, the Dawgs drove back into the red zone, but penalties killed their momentum and forced them to kick a field goal. That’s when the Vols marched down the field and responded with a TD pass from Maurer to Jauan Jennings to go up 14-10. UGA then had to kick another field goal, and the Vols were up 14-13.

But they blew another chance after being stopped on 3rd and 2 in Georgia territory. And they missed a field goal on another drive. The Dawgs responded with two touchdowns following both drives to go into halftime up 26-14.

They were only up 29-14 late in the third, and the Vols did get a fourth down stop at one point. But Maurer had an interception, and another drive was stalled. Then Georgia scored a TD and had a strip-sack returned for a touchdown in the fourth, which resulted in the final 43-14 score.

So Georgia, did win in a blowout. But the Vols were able to keep things interesting through part of the first half. Here are five things we learned from Tennessee football’s loss at Neyland Stadium Saturday night.

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