Georgia
PHOTOS – Georgia Escapes Down Defensive Day vs Miss State
Georgia narrowly escaped a sloppy defensive performance thanks to an explosive day on the offensie side of the ball vs Mississippi State. Here are the sights and sounds from the contest.
After a tipped pass led to an interception on the first drive of the game. Carson Beck was dialed in for the Bulldogs offense, throwing for over 300 yards and two touchdowns in the first half alone. Beck would finish the day with 459 yards and three touchdowns.
Georgia held a commanding lead of 27-10 after halftime but Mississippi State started to crawl their way back into the game after an interception in the end zone by Beck. They eventually brought it back within 10 points before Georgia then put on another touchdown to make it 41-24. Mississippi State then put on another touchowwn late in the game to close in the margin.
What was a first half dominating game by Georgia turned into a sloppy second half that Miss State make it closer on the score board.
The Bulldogs will travel to Austin, Texas next Saturday as they prepare to take on the top-ranked Texas Longhorns on the road. This will be the first meeting between these two historic programs as SEC opponents.
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ATHENS — Georgia coach Kirby Smart went viral on social media after the Bulldogs’ game against Mississippi State on Saturday night, and he didn’t even know it.
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Smart: Shove of Miss. St.’s Van Buren inadvertent
Georgia coach Kirby Smart said he was trying to get defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann’s attention when he shoved Mississippi State quarterback Michael Van Buren Jr. in the fourth quarter of a 41-31 victory at Sanford Stadium on Saturday.
Smart shoved Van Buren after the freshman was pushed out of bounds on Georgia’s sideline by safety Dan Jackson at the end of a 6-yard run with 2:55 left in the game.
Smart had taken off his visor and was yelling at someone on Georgia’s sideline when Van Buren ran into his path. He was not penalized for making contact with the quarterback.
“I think I was going after Schumann,” Smart told reporters after the game. “I was trying to get Schumann’s attention. We were trying to change personnel. I think it’s the play they came over to our sideline and trying to get Schumann’s attention. But, no, I don’t really remember it.”
Van Buren completed 20 of 37 passes for 306 yards and three touchdowns and one interception in his second college start.
“I’m not really sure what that was but I was just trying to play my game,” he said. “I didn’t really see it for real.”
Mississippi State coach Jeff Lebby declined comment on the incident after the game, saying he hadn’t seen what happened.
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Chaos swirls around Georgia election board, election measures – Washington Examiner
(The Center Square) – The Georgia State Election Board has faced backlash and lawsuits over the last few months, especially after passing a number of election rules just weeks before Election Day.
The Republican-majority board had a win this week though when a Fulton County judge dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday put forward by Democrats.
The party sued to force Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to launch an ethics investigation into the board, which could lead to the impeachment of board members, after he refused to consider the complaints. Fulton County Chief Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville ruled the governor can not be compelled to open ethics complaints.
Georgia is one of seven consensus swing states and will play a critical role in the 2024 presidential election. President Joe Biden won the state by 0.2% – about 11,000 votes – in 2020, one of two times since 1980 the Democratic candidate has carried the state.
The board says the election measures it has passed will help ensure election integrity, while Democrats say it will hinder voting.
In Georgia, early voting begins on Oct. 15.
One of the rules the board passed was to require an additional hand count of all ballots cast on Election Day, while another will allow local election board members to take “reasonable inquiry” before certifying election results.
Democrats have expressed concerns about the board’s measures.
“Last minute regulations from the Georgia State Election Board threaten the integrity of electoral processes and violate the constitutional separation of powers,” posted Right Count, an election integrity group. “Right Count is now taking action with current and former Georgia legislators to stop them.”
Republicans have supported the board’s decisions, and former President Donald Trump even praised the work of the three Republican board members at a rally in Atlanta in August.
In another controversial move, the board is continuing an investigation into the 2020 election in Fulton County, where Atlanta is located.
On Tuesday, the board voted to subpoena the election records from the county after the county and state election boards failed to reach an agreement.
Board member Dr. Janice Johnston said Fulton County had not complied with an order from the board to hire a monitoring team or answered other questions.
“The State Election Board reached out to Fulton County multiple times, attempting to establish an acceptable monitoring team,” Johnston said. “Fulton County has failed to comply with that decision.”
Democratic state Rep. Saira Draper spoke at Tuesday’s meeting.
“Not only is the nation watching us, the world is watching us,” Draper said. “We are amplifying lies and lies and misunderstandings, fundamental misunderstandings, of how election laws work.”
The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections has sued the board, saying the board has “no statutory authority to force the Fulton County BRE to accept, and Fulton County to pay for, election monitors hand-picked by the State Election Board.”
The same lawsuit called out the board’s “blitz of last-minute attempts to drastically impact the imminent general election.”
On Wednesday, Muscogee County Board of Elections and Registration filed an additional lawsuit against the board’s passing of the hand-counting provision.
Unless a judge rules on the decision prior to Election Day, that rule will stand and counties are preparing to follow it.
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