Georgia Bulldogs UGA logoCOLUMBIA, S.C. – Georgia junior quarterback Aaron Murray entered Saturday night’s game at South Carolina hoping to notch his first victory over a top-10 team.
Instead, he had the worst performance of his career.
Murray completed 11 of 31 passes for a career-low 109 yards and an interception in the 35-7 loss. His previous low was 113 yards two years ago at Kentucky, and his 35.5-percent completion rate broke his former low of 40 percent in last year’s SEC championship game loss to LSU.
“We didn’t do well offensively in any aspect,” Murray said. “We didn’t execute tonight, and when you play a great defense like that, you only get so many chances.”
Murray had thrown at least two touchdown passes in every game this season but went without an aerial score for the first time since last season’s 20-12 win at Tennessee. He remains with 71 career touchdown tosses, one shy of David Greene’s program-record 72 compiled from 2001 to ’04.