Tennessee Volunteers / Georgia Bulldogs Game Stats and Trivia

by David Hooper on Oct 11, 2009 8:00 AM EDT in Tennessee Volunteer Football

Here are a few points of interest coming out of the Tennessee Volunteers / Georgia Bulldogs tilt.

Jonathan Crompton

20-27 passing for 310 yards, 4 TDs, and 1 INT. Using the NCAA formula, that gives him a passer rating of 212 - his highest ever. (His second-best mark was against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers for a 189 rating.)
8 different receivers caught Crompton passes. None of them were named Montario Hardesty.
Early in the second quarter, when driving in the red zone, hearty cheers of "Let's Go Crompton!" could be heard coming from the stands.

Georgia Offense

Zero plays run within the red zone. The deepest Georgia ever drove the ball was down to the Tennessee 35 for their field goal.
The 53-yard field goal was the only score for the Georgia offense. Considering that no passes were thrown deep within the red zone, it's fair to say that the field goal was the only scoring attempt by the Georgia offense.
Georgia has not rushed for 100 yards since their Arkansas game - a 3-game paucity of rushing.
Georgia's passing game managed a net 20/40 completions/attempts for 3.8 yards per attempt and 2 INTs.
Georgia went 3-13 on third down, and 0-2 on fourth down.

Tennessee Rushing

Montario Hardesty ended the day with 97 yards on 20 carries - just three shy of 100.
Seven Vols carried the ball for a net 162 yards. The 37 carries gave the Vols a 4.4 yards-per-carry average.

Penalties

The Vols were penalized 7 times for 47 yards. Four penalties came in the first quarter, two in the second, and one in the fourth.
The Bulldogs were penalized 9 times for 79 yards. One penalty came in the first quarter, four in the second, one in the third, and three in the fourth.

Special Teams

The Bulldogs scored 16 of their 19 points on special teams or defense: a kickoff return for a touchdown, an interception return for a touchdown, and a punt block for a safety.
Chad Cunningham punted 5 times. Excluding the blocked punt, he averaged 44.8 yards per punt with three landing inside the 20 and one touchback.
For Georgia, Drew Butler punted 6 times for a 49.8 yard average. His long was 61 yards; none were touchbacks and only one landed inside the 20.
Daniel Lincoln made his only field goal attempt (30 yards) and all six of his extra point tries.
Georgia's Blair Walsh made his only field goal attempt (52 yards) and both of his extra point tries.

Odds and Ends

Number of Plays: Tennessee 64 (37 run, 27 pass); Georgia 62 (22 run, 40 pass)
Time of Possession: Tennessee 34:05, Georgia 25:55
Total Yards: Tennessee 472 (previous season average: 376.8 yards); Georgia 241 (previous season average: 340.6 yards)
Number of Times That Rocky Top was played: 247
Length of drive from Knoxville to Athens: feels like 17 hours

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Wow

Number of Times That Rocky Top was played: 247

If that is accurate, no wonder my throat hurts so bad this morning. At least I know it’s not swine flu now….

Neyland Stadium: Home of the biggest bust in quarterbacking history.
I got bored and made a blog!! SCS

by VolBrian on Oct 11, 2009 8:08 AM EDT reply actions

I know, because our seats allowed us to see the dry-erase board on which the Georgia band director was keeping count of the number of times it was played. I’m not sure why – they may have thought it was funny. They realized a few minutes into the fourth quarter that it wasn’t really funny anymore and quit doing it. The count at that time was in the low thirties.

Lou Brock loves Lamp.

by birdjam on Oct 11, 2009 9:51 AM EDT up reply actions

lol

I thought that was an awfully high number. Great stuff about the Georgia band. I guess some things can only be appreciated by being there…..

I told you we would beat Georgia!! Now, as for those 9 wins in '09......
I got bored and made a blog!! SCS

by VolBrian on Oct 11, 2009 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, I made that up, just for fun.

by David Hooper on Oct 11, 2009 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Surprised

When I read through the post game rant over at Dawg Sports. I expected that beatdown to maybe temper some of the superiority complex of the Dawwwwwwwwwwg fans, but the whole “Tennessee completely sucks” argument is totally baffling to even me, and you know what I think of Georgia fans.

I know after the UCLA game I made a comment that “your offense sucks, but not as bad as ours”, but I don’t think that was off the mark or a total generalization of an entire program like this type of argument is. Plus, I commented on how good their defense was, so there. ;-)

That post and that comment thread makes me think of someone laying in a bloody heap on the ground after getting a serious beatdown, but he’s still screaming “your mom” jokes at the giver of said beatdown.

T. Kyle King – You shouldn’t have banned Pound The Rock, and you guys need to learn how to take your lumps a little better over there IMO. I’m not the kind to go over to another blog and talk, but I don’t have a problem with others doing it there or here as long it follows the blog’s guidelines. You lost, take the lumps the best you can just as we did after Florida and UCLA, and move on to next week.

I’ll repeat – It’s just like I told the guy on the Strip yesterday, He was screaming at an unseen Tennessee fan that the Vols still wouldn’t go bowling (which is incredulous to think right now), so to his dismay I informed him with the last bit of voice I had left: “dude, you just lost by 26!!”. You could almost see the sadness come over his face……

As for why I’m typing this and not off celebrating like the Georgia fans said we should be doing? For one, it’s 8 am Sunday morning and I need the Motrin to kick in, and for two, I love the taste of Georgia fans’ tears, even if they do taste like:

Neyland Stadium: Home of the biggest bust in quarterbacking history.
I got bored and made a blog!! SCS

by VolBrian on Oct 11, 2009 8:25 AM EDT reply actions

I just checked that post

There’s no point in even responding to it in my opinion. I was curious to see what Kyle would have to say about this game after being so certain that Kiffin would drive this program into the ground. He is a solid writer so I was pretty disappointed that all he could come up with was “Tennessee Sucks”.

"I can't hear you, Rocky Top is playing."

by Getoffmyvols on Oct 11, 2009 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions

My thoughts exactly.

I know he is highly upset with his team’s performance, but I expected a little more out of the one Georgia fan I have a little respect for at all….

I told you we would beat Georgia!! Now, as for those 9 wins in '09......
I got bored and made a blog!! SCS

by VolBrian on Oct 11, 2009 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions

Although.....

I did just dig this gem out of the comments on his post. From T. Kyle himself:

Listen, I hope y’all win out; I hope the Rocky Top Talk commenter whose signature file has said for months that the Volunteers would win nine games and beat Georgia proves to be true.

Thanks for noticing T. Mind If I call you T.? ;-)

I did have to change it after yesterday though….

I told you we would beat Georgia!! Now, as for those 9 wins in '09......
I got bored and made a blog!! SCS

by VolBrian on Oct 11, 2009 9:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Took umbrage at the "Tennessee Sucks" comments...

Also the tired mantra of “Lane is a clown and will not be at UT after a couple of years.”

I paid him no respect due to the tenor of his writing. Probably should not have proclaimed “we stole your hobnail boot and used it on you”. I apologize to the writer and the genteel posters at dawgsports.com.

Peace and Good Luck

Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle... for this is the WINNING EDGE.

by pound the rock on Oct 11, 2009 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Hmmm

it’s fair to say that the field goal was the only scoring attempt by the Georgia offense.

It’s clear that Georgia wasn’t trying to win the game. They were just trying to shorten it and keep it close.

"I can't hear you, Rocky Top is playing."

by Getoffmyvols on Oct 11, 2009 9:24 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs

nice

lol, rec’d

I told you we would beat Georgia!! Now, as for those 9 wins in '09......
I got bored and made a blog!! SCS

by VolBrian on Oct 11, 2009 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions

No,no,no

QB Cox and the entire WR corps, oh, and the running backs and, um, the defensive backs, had the flu. But the punter and kicker were just fine.

by memphispete on Oct 11, 2009 9:52 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

this could be a fun week....

I told you we would beat Georgia!! Now, as for those 9 wins in '09......
I got bored and made a blog!! SCS

by VolBrian on Oct 11, 2009 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions

JoeCox

Once lost a dear friend of his in the mountains, so how can you expect him to play well in Knoxville?!

I got punk'd by UT's Athletic Department.

by bobo_the_vol on Oct 11, 2009 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Crompton

I think the most telling thing about Crompton’s performance yesterday was the Georgia fan sitting in front of us yesterday turning in the third quarter and saying to me, “I don’t know why you guys would ever run the ball against us.” And he was dead serious.

Lou Brock loves Lamp.

by birdjam on Oct 11, 2009 9:39 AM EDT reply actions 6 recs