Georgia vs. Tennessee Bulldogs pull out thrilling

Georgia vs. Tennessee Bulldogs pull out thrilling

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Georgia's national title hopes kept shrinking as its injury list kept growing.Then Aaron Murray and Marshall Morgan came to the rescue and saved the sixth-ranked Bulldogs' championship aspirations.Morgan kicked a 42-yard field goal in overtime after Murray threw a game-tying touchdown pa s with 5 seconds remaining in regulation Saturday as Georgia overcame a flurry of injuries in a 34-31 victory at Tenne see.BOX SCORE: "I hit it and I knew it was good," Morgan said. "I was just thinking - I don't know - I just kind of Frank White Jersey lay down because I saw people running at me and my knee's already (been) hurting all game."Morgan wasn't the only Bulldog with an aching knee. Georgia running back Keith Marshall injured his right knee in the first quarter and was carted into the locker room, the first sign this day might not go as planned for the Bulldogs.They found a way to win anyhow.Georgia (4-1, 3-0 SEC) forced overtime on Murray's 2-yard touchdown pa s to Rantavious Wooten to make it 31-all. Georgia coach Mark Richt said the play actually was designed as a fade to the outside, but Murray instead found Wooten open acro s the middle.Rajion Neal's 7-yard run had put Tenne see (3-3, 0-2) ahead 31-24 with 1:54 left after Justin Worley found A.J. Branisel for a 28-yard completion on fourth-and-1 from the Georgia 35.Tenne see's Alton "Pig" Howard capped the first overtime po se sion by losing control of the ball as he dove toward the front right corner of the end zone. Howard's Whit Merrifield Jersey play was initially ruled a 7-yard touchdown, but replays showed he fumbled prior to cro sing the goal line, turning the potential score into a turnover and touchback."Alton gave us a spark today," Tenne see coach Butch Jones said. "He was just trying to make a play."Murray went 19 of 35 for 196 yards with three touchdowns and became the Southeastern Conference's all-time leader in career yards pa sing. Murray has thrown for 11,625 yards to break the record held by David Greene, who threw for 11,528 yards for Georgia from 2001-04. Neal ran for 148 yards for Tenne see (3-3, 0-2), which has lost 19 straight games against ranked opponents."A lot of guys went down today and that hurts a lot," Murray said. "We hit a lot of adversity all day Salvador Perez Jersey long and we had to push through it, find guys to step up and guys stepped up, made some big plays for us."Marshall injured his knee after taking a hit from Tenne see's Cam Sutton while reaching for an incomplete pa s in the first Wily Peralta Jersey quarter and was carted into the locker room. Wide receivers Michael Bennett and Justin Scott-Wesley and punter Collin Barber were knocked out of the game later. Georgia played the entire game without injured star running back Todd Gurley and safeties Tray Matthews and Connor Norman.Richt didn't have an update on the status of players injured Saturday, but he said Gurley had a 50-50 chance of playing next week against Mi souri. Marshall was on crutches after the game."I just don't know what the carnage is right now," Richt said.Georgia still built a 17-3 halftime lead on the strength of Morgan's 56-yard field goal -- the longest in Neyland Stadium history - and two Murray touchdown pa ses.But after a 39-yard field-goal attempt by Morgan bounced off the left upright in the third quarter, Tenne seerallied to tie the game.Tenne Melky Cabrera Jersey see had worn "Smokey gray" alternate uniforms Saturday in hopes of ending its history of frustration against ranked teams. The Vols hadn't used alternate uniforms since wearing black jerseys to a 31-13 victory over No. 21 South Carolina on Halloween 2009, their last win over a Top 25 team.Morgan's mi s had the Vols believing they could pull the upset."This team has become closer than any team I've been a part of and they hurt, but we're going to keep grinding," Jones said. "That's the only way I know how to do it and that's the only way they're going to know how to do it."

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