AUBURN, Ala. – Georgia was the team entering Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday with the deep collection of touted tailbacks.
The Bulldogs would leave Jordan-Hare dazed and confused after the touted tandem of Nick Chubb and Sony Michel combined for just 48 yards on 20 carries. Georgia had 32 carries for 46 yards as a team, which included Auburn’s four sacks of Jake Fromm that totaled 37 yards.
“They were just very physical today, much more than we were,” Michel said. “Our goal is to come out and be more physical than teams, and we weren’t today. We’ve got to own up that we weren’t as physical as we wanted to be and go back, fix that and move on.”
Georgia toted a healthy average of 279.3 rushing yards a game into Saturday’s showdown. The Bulldogs had gashed Tennessee for 294 rushing yards, Vanderbilt for 423, Missouri for 370 and Florida for 292.
The measly 46 against Auburn represented the lowest ground total for the Bulldogs in the Deep South’s oldest rivalry in at least 50 years.