Georgia defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt watches warmups before an NCAA college football game against Kentucky Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015, in Athens, Ga. Georgia won 27-3. (AP Photo/John Amis)ATHENS, Ga. – After going with the same starting offensive line the first eight games of the season, the Georgia Bulldogs shook things up before Saturday’s 27-3 win over Kentucky.
Only center Brandon Kublanow stayed in the same starting spot, as Isaiah Wynn shifted from left guard to left tackle, John Theus from left tackle to right tackle and Kolton Houston from right tackle to left guard. Dyshon Sims got the start at right guard, bouncing Greg Pyke off the first team.
“We went in after last week and talked about making some changes,” Bulldogs offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer said. “We huddled and wanted to do a better job of controlling the clock, and we weren’t just going to keep repeating the same old stuff. We have to look at the tape, but I thought our guys did a nice job.
“We controlled the ball for more than 37 minutes, and we had a lot of third downs that were manageable.”
Houston was flagged for clipping on the first play from scrimmage, and Wynn briefly left with an injury, but the Bulldogs wound up producing 390 yards, including 300 on the ground. Pyke did work his way back into more playing time at the expense of Sims.