Kentucky vs. Georgia by the numbers
No. 20 Kentucky (5-0, 2-0) at No. 1 Georgia (5-0, 2-0)
6 p.m. CDT Saturday (ESPN)
Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia
1 6-0 record since 1950 for Kentucky. A victory on Saturday would give the Wildcats a 6-0 mark for the second time since Kentucky won its first 10 games of the 1950 season. Kentucky won its first six games in 2021 before Georgia pinned the first loss of the season on the Wildcats to trigger a three-game losing streak. Kentucky has been 6-0 five times in school history.
3 Victories in 19 games against the No. 1 team in the AP Poll for Kentucky. This is the third consecutive season that the Wildcats have faced a top-ranked Georgia team. Kentucky defeated No. 1 Oklahoma 13-7 in the Sugar Bowl after the 1950 season, No. 1 Ole Miss 27-20 in 1964 and No. 1 LSU 43-37 in triple-overtme in 2007.
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4 Previous Kentucky-Georgia games have featured two ranked teams, with the Bulldogs winning all of them. No. 8 Georgia defeated No. 19 Kentucky 28-13 in 1946, No. 8 Georgia defeated No. 22 Kentucky 24-13 in 2007, No. 6 Georgia defeated No. 11 Kentucky 34-17 in 2018 and No. 1 Georgia defeated No. 11 Kentucky 30-13 in 2021. Kentucky’s most recent victory over a ranked Georgia team came in 1988, when the Wildcats upended the No. 11 Bulldogs 16-10. The Bulldogs are 29-3 against the Wildcats when ranked.
5 Consecutive games with a TD for Kentucky RB Ray Davis, who ranks second in the nation with 11 TDs this season. Davis is the first Kentucky player to score a TD in each of the Wildcats’ first five games in a season since RB Artose Pinner in 2002. Davis ran for two TDs in a 44-14 victory over Ball State on Sept. 2, caught a TD pass in a 28-17 victory over Eastern Kentucky on Sept. 9, had one TD run and one TD reception in a 35-3 victory over Akron on Sept. 16, ran for two TDs in a 45-28 victory over Vanderbilt on Sept. 23 and had three TD runs and one TD reception in a 33-14 victory over Florida on Sept. 30.
5 Consecutive Kentucky opponents have failed to reach 100 rushing yards. This season’s team is the first on record for the Wildcats to hold each its first five opponents in a campaign to fewer than 100 rushing yards. Georgia ranks ninth in the SEC this season with an average of 148.6 rushing yards per game.
9 Consecutive October games have been won by Georgia, the SEC’s longest current winning streak in the 10th month.
10 Teams have not recovered an opponent’s fumble this season, including three SEC members – Florida, Georgia and Missouri. Kentucky has lost two of its six fumbles this season.
13 Consecutive victories for Georgia against Kentucky to push the Bulldogs’ lead in the series to 62-12-2. The Wildcats’ most recent win over Georgia came by a 34-27 score in 2009. The current winning streak is the longest in the series. The teams have met annually since 1956.
21 Consecutive conference regular-season games have been won by Georgia. The Bulldogs have had one longer winning streak in SEC play. A 23-game streak that began in 1980 was ended by a 13-7 loss to Auburn on Nov. 12, 1983. Georgia has the fifth conference winning streak in SEC history that has reached 21 games. The record is a 26-game SEC streak achieved by Alabama across the 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980 seasons.
22 Consecutive victories for Georgia, the longest winning streak in program history. Georgia’s most recent loss was a 41-24 setback against Alabama in the SEC Championship Game on Dec. 4, 2021. The Bulldogs are tied for the fifth-longest winning streak in SEC history. The league record is 28 wins in row accomplished by Alabama during the 1978, 1979 and 1980 seasons and equaled by the Crimson Tide during the 1991, 1992 and 1993 seasons.
22 Consecutive home games have been won by Georgia, the second-longest such streak in school history and the longest current streak in the nation. Georgia had a 24-game home winning streak from 1980 into 1983. The current home streak began with a 21-0 shutout of Kentucky on Oct. 19, 2019, a week after a 20-17 loss to South Carolina at Sanford Stadium.
23 TD receptions for Georgia TE Brock Bowers, tied for second in school history with WR A.J. Green (2008-10). The only Georgia player with more TD receptions has been WR Terrence Edwards (1999-2002) with 30.
32 Consecutive regular-season games have been won by Georgia, the second-longest streak in SEC history. The Bulldogs haven’t lost in the regular season since a 44-28 setback against Florida on Nov. 7, 2020. The longest regular-season winning streak in SEC history lasted 33 games, which Tennessee achieved between a 13-7 loss to Vanderbilt on Nov. 13, 1937, and a 19-0 loss to Duke on Oct. 4, 1941.
42 Consecutive losses for Kentucky when playing a top 10 SEC opponent on the road. The losing streak started after the Wildcats upended No. 1 Ole Miss 27-21 in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sept. 26, 1964. Kentucky has beaten a top-10 opponent on the road since then, but the victory came in a non-conference game when the Wildcats downed No. 4 Penn State 24-20 in State College on Oct. 1, 1977.
260 Rushing yards for Georgia RB Daijun Edwards, the most on the Bulldogs this season even though he’s played in only the past three games. Edwards ran for 118 yards against South Carolina, 66 against UAB and 76 against Auburn. Georgia’s No. 2 rusher, RB Dillon Bell, has 98 yards in 2023.
364 Games have been played by Georgia since it was most recently shut out, the second-longest scoring streak in SEC history and the sixth-longest in major-college football history. The Bulldogs haven’t been blanked since losing to Alabama 31-0 on Sept. 30, 1995.
594 Rushing yards for Kentucky RB Ray Davis this season, the most in the SEC. With an average gain of 7.8 yards on his 76 carries, Davis has the best rate in the nation for any player with more than 52 rushing attempts.
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