Georgia place kicker Marshall Morgan (13) is tackled by a flying Georgia Tech safety Isaiah Johnson (1) on a long run to the 1-yard line during their game on Nov. 29, 2014, in Athens, Ga.ATHENS, Ga. - Bulldogs freshman tailback Nick Chubb had the longest run for either team in Saturday's Georgia-Georgia Tech game with his 65-yard scamper in the first quarter.
Georgia junior kicker Marshall Morgan had the second longest, racing a fake-field-goal attempt 28 yards early in the fourth quarter. Morgan got to Georgia Tech's 3-yard line before he was leveled on the sideline, but Georgia had to settle for his 19-yard field goal and a 17-14 lead in its eventual 30-24 loss in overtime.
Morgan took a flip from holder Adam Erickson before racing around right end.
"Adam and I have been working on that toss for a long time," Morgan said. "I knew he was going to throw me a good toss, so it was really just about ball security. I didn't want to fumble it. We were hoping they would rush so I could take it outside, and when it happened, I just saw this huge, wide field."
The call occurred on fourth-and-12 from Georgia Tech's 31, and it was Georgia's first successful fake field goal since a 1997 loss at Tennessee, when holder Drew Cronic completed a 21-yard pass to Patrick Pass. Georgia's last fake-field-goal attempt that didn't work occurred at Auburn in 1998.
"We did it well in practice, and it gave me a lot of faith," Bulldogs coach Mark Richt said. "There were some looks on film where it would have been there and some looks where it wouldn't have. At the time that we called it, we felt it was the best percentage shot of it being there."
Drew's block party
Georgia senior defensive end Ray Drew blocked Harrison Butker's 37-yard field-goal attempt midway through the second quarter, but he didn't stop there. After the Yellow Jackets scored in overtime, Drew blocked the extra point to keep the score at 30-24.
Had the Bulldogs answered Tech's touchdown and made the extra point, Drew would have made one of the biggest plays in the history of this rivalry.
"I got through fairly easy on the first one, and there were some other opportunities where I almost got my hand on them," Drew said. "After that first one, it gave me all the confidence in the world that the guy in front of me couldn't stop me and that I had to go get it."
Chubb extends streak
By rushing 25 times for 129 yards and a touchdown, Chubb surpassed 100 yards for a seventh straight game. He is the first Bulldogs tailback to accomplish that since Herschel Walker surpassed 100 during all 11 games in the 1982 regular season.
Chubb had 14 carries for 117 yards in the first half, so his second-half totals were 11 rushes for 12 yards.
Odds and ends
Senior inside linebackers Amarlo Herrera and Ramik Wilson each tallied a career-high 19 tackles against Tech's triple-option. ... The Bulldogs picked up their 24th commitment for 2015 this past week, from cornerback Jarvis Wilson (6-1, 190) of Tupelo, Miss. A Rivals.com three-star prospect, Wilson previously was committed to Mississippi State. ... Damon Evans, who was Georgia's athletic director from 2004 until resigning in 2010 after a DUI arrest, was named this past week as Maryland's senior associate AD/chief financial officer. ... Redshirt sophomore cornerback Devin Bowman from Ridgeland High School did not dress out for Saturday's game.
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