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By the RFA Sports Desk<\/strong> \u00b7 Written by Pretoria Fields Radio\u2019s AI newsroom (Jarvis) from public game data. Editor: Tripp Morgan.<\/small><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Evening Edition \u2014 filed after the afternoon news cycle.<\/em><\/p>\n GEORGIA MONEYBALL \u2014 Sunday, November 8, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n The Bulldogs beat Ole Miss 42-7 the same night No. 1 Miami lost at Notre Dame, and this afternoon's polls will say what that is worth.<\/strong><\/p>\n ALBANY, GA \u2014 \u00b7 By the RFA Sports Desk<\/small><\/p>\n Georgia did not become the No. 1 team in the country Saturday night. That is not how it works. What happened is that Miami stopped being No. 1 in South Bend, losing 31-24 to Notre Dame, right about the time Georgia was running out the clock on Ole Miss. The Bulldogs went into the weekend No. 2 in the Associated Press poll, No. 2 with the coaches and No. 2 in the playoff committee's first ranking. The new polls come out this afternoon, and the committee speaks again Tuesday night. A week ago Miami drew 62 first-place votes to Georgia's 7. Those votes are loose now, and Georgia has company bidding for them.<\/p>\n The company is unbeaten Utah, 8-0 after a 28-20 win over BYU, and Notre Dame itself at 8-1, holding the freshest argument of anybody. The desk does not know how the voters will sort it, and anybody who tells you he does is selling something. Call No. 1 possible and leave it there. What Georgia controls is the Southeastern Conference, and there the picture is plainer. Georgia sits alone in first at 6-1. Alabama and Kentucky are 5-2, Texas and Tennessee are 4-2. The top two by conference record play in Atlanta on the first Saturday in December, and Georgia is holding its own pencil.<\/p>\n Miami stopped being No. 1 in South Bend right about the time Georgia was running out the clock on Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Two league games remain. Missouri, 6-3 and 3-3, comes to Athens on Saturday on ABC, then Georgia goes to South Carolina on November 21. Georgia Tech on the 28th counts for pride but not for the standings. Beyond Atlanta sits the 12-team playoff, and the resume Georgia carries toward it reads like this: a win at Alabama, 20-17, a win at Ole Miss, 42-7, a neutral-site win over Florida, 27-8, and one loss, 24-27 to Auburn at home on October 17. Do the arithmetic yourself. Safety KJ Bolden did his after the game: "It means we are in the hunt for whatever. This win means a lot."<\/p>\n Now to the game, which was over before the band finished tuning. Nate Frazier ran 46 yards on the first play, and Georgia's first four possessions went 72, 96, 61 and 50 yards for touchdowns. The 96-yarder took four plays and ended with Gunner Stockton hitting Talyn Taylor for 58, a career long. It was 28-0 at the half and 35-0 going to the fourth quarter in front of a sellout crowd of 68,814. Stockton went 9 of 15 for 186 yards and four touchdowns and ran 15 yards for another. Taylor caught four balls for 140 yards and three scores. Georgia ran for 295 yards on 48 carries and never turned it over.<\/p>\n The other side of the ball was the revelation. Ole Miss had given up five sacks all season and none in its last three games. Georgia got five Saturday for minus-40 yards. Chris Cole made nine tackles and a sack and a half. Khalil Barnes' 16-yard sack and Bolden's interception, returned 26 yards, killed the Rebels' only first-half threat, and Rasean Dinkins stripped Trinidad Chambliss and carried the ball 17 yards to set up the 35-0 score. Chambliss, the league's second-leading passer at 273.6 yards a game, finished 18 of 34 for 170. Ole Miss coach Pete Golding said afterward, "Georgia is a really good team but I did not see that butt-whipping coming."<\/p>\n Ole Miss came in averaging 37.1 points and 439.6 yards and left with 7 and 252. Its 16-game home winning streak is over, and Kirby Smart has his first win in Oxford in three tries, in the rematch of the Sugar Bowl quarterfinal Ole Miss took 39-34 last winter. Peyton Woodring kicked his 218th career extra point, a school record, and sits at 422 points, second only to Rodrigo Blankenship's 440. Smart told reporters afterward, "We get to embrace it for 24 hours, then work to repeat it." The 24 hours run out about the time the polls do. Missouri will not care what number sits beside Georgia's name.<\/p>\n Written in the tradition of Lewis Grizzard, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1946\u20131994.<\/em><\/p>\n Hear the desk read tonights report on Radio Free Albany, WPFQ 96.7.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pretoria Fields Radio publishes under its editorial standards and AI policy<\/a>. Spot an error? Write info@pretoriafieldsradio.com and we will correct it in the open.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n\n
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