ATHENS, Ga. – Before tearing multiple knee ligaments at Tennessee last season, Georgia tailback Nick Chubb had tied Herschel Walker’s school record with 13 consecutive 100-yard games.
Now Chubb is on a different streak, one he hopes to reverse Saturday afternoon when the No. 12 Bulldogs (3-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) play at No. 23 Ole Miss (1-2, 0-1).
After exceeding expectations following his return from injury with 222 yards on 32 carries in the 33-24 win over North Carolina in the season opener, Chubb has been held to 80 yards on 20 carries by Nicholls State and to 63 yards on 19 rushes by Missouri last Saturday night. The last time Chubb went two straight games without amassing 100 yards, Todd Gurley had yet to serve his four-game NCAA suspension midway through the 2014 season, but the 5-foot-10, 220-pound junior is not sounding the alarms heading to Oxford.
“We’re feeling good about everything,” Chubb told reporters this week. “We’re all working hard.”
Georgia expected to be a run-first team entering Kirby Smart’s inaugural season as head coach, and that was reflected in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, when the Bulldogs had 52 carries for 289 yards. The Bulldogs rushed 39 times for 167 yards against Nicholls State, an FCS program with 22 fewer scholarships than Georgia, and had 38 carries for 101 yards at Missouri.