Georgia Bulldogs' Chubb stars again, off work early

photo Georgia running back Nick Chubb (27) runs away from Charleston Southern defensive back Troy McGowens (7) for a touchdown Saturday in Athens, Ga.

ATHENS, Ga. - It's good work if you can get it.

Georgia freshman tailback Nick Chubb's Saturday consisted of nine carries for 113 yards and two touchdowns as the Bulldogs walloped Charleston Southern 55-9. The 5-foot-10, 228-pounder from Cedartown was through for the day with 9:08 remaining in the second quarter, which is when he crossed the end zone for a second time.

"I'm happy to carry the ball any time I can get my hands on it," a smiling Chubb said afterward. "I'm just blessed to be here and have really enjoyed this experience. This is fun, and I'm feeling good.

"I've been taking care of my body with ice bags, yoga, stretching and things like that."

Chubb certainly showed no defects on his second carry, which was an 83-yard touchdown run to put the Bulldogs up 14-0. Heading over the right side, he quickly broke into open field and outran Buccaneers safety Larenzo Mathis down the sideline.

"It was a simple power play that was caught up in the middle, and I just bounced it outside," he said. "It was wide open. It was an easy, simple run. Anyone could have made that run."

Not just anyone could scored a touchdown on that play, and not just anyone could become the first tailback in the Mark Richt era to assemble six consecutive 100-yard games. Chubb now has 1,152 yards this season and 932 in the past six games.

Chubb's touchdown run was the longest for Georgia since Tim Worley's school-record, 89-yard score in the 24-3 upset of No. 1 Florida in 1985.

"My angle wasn't really good," Richt said afterward of the play. "The ball was designed to hit more inside than it did, and he did a good job of bouncing it outside. It was hard to tell who had good angles on him, but I just watched the TV replay, and it looked like he ran away from some folks that had pretty good angles on him.

"He's good ball security, and when you run like a track athlete, you don't have a football to carry to where you can swing your arms. When you have a football under your arms, it changes things for some people, but he probably runs just as fast with the ball as he does without it."

Quarterback Hutson Mason didn't expect that play to score but said Chubb "kicked it into a gear those other guys didn't have."

Contact David Paschall at dpaschall@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6524.

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