FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Chauncey Bowens ran for three touchdowns and No. 2 Georgia held Arkansas to just 17 yards on the ground in a 45-17 win Saturday.
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Georgia → run → win
Georgia (3-0, 1-0 SEC) led 21-3 at halftime and never truly needed to pass the football.
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Georgia → lead → football
Quarterback Gunner Stockton finished the game 10-of-13 passing for 147 yards with a touchdown.
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Stockton → finish → touchdown
He added a team-high 97 yards on the ground, including a 62-yard run on third down that set up Georgia’s third touchdown, Bowens’ second.
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that → add → touchdown
Arkansas passed most of the game, rarely with much success.
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Arkansas → pass → success
KJ Jackson played two drives before being replaced by AJ Hill.
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Jackson → play → Hill
Jackson reentered on the final drive of the first half and led the Razorbacks (1-2, 0-1) into the Georgia red zone for the first time.
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Jackson → reentere → time
An intentional grounding penalty moved them back and Max Gilbert kicked a 41-yard field goal just before the break.
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Gilbert → move → break
Seven players combined for 20 carries and 17 total yards rushing.
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players → combine → carries
Sutton Smith led with 17 yards on six carries.
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Smith → lead → carries
It was the Razorbacks’ worst rushing performance since picking up 16 yards against LSU in 2018.
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It → pick → 2018
Nick Frazier scored Georgia’s first touchdown, capping a six-play, 62-yard drive on the team’s first possession.
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Frazier → score → possession
He finished with 75 yards on 14 carries.
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He → finish → carries
Bowens ran for 39 yards on 11 carries.
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Bowens → run → carries
Stockton picked up his touchdown on a one-play series, completing a 61-yard pass to Craig Dandridge Jr. early in the fourth quarter.
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Stockton → pick → quarter
Jackson, who was replaced twice and reinserted twice, completed 20 of 27 passes for 212 yards.
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who → replace → yards
Hill went 8 of 14 for 76 yards.
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Hill → go → yards
The pair combined to lose 16 yards rushing, mostly on sacks.
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pair → combine → sacks
Jeremiah Smith became Ohio State’s career receiving yardage leader, Ja’Kobi Jackson scored twice and the Buckeyes rolled to a victory over Kent State.
Ohio State (2-1) took immediate control, scoring on its first four drives as it rebounded after last week’s 24-23 loss at No. 1 Texas where it squandered a 20-point, fourth-quarter lead.
“You’re looking for a response out of a group of guys coming off of last week, which I thought we did.
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we → become → I
And regardless of the opponent, you want clean execution on offense and you want a bunch of running and hitting on defense, and energy and passion and violence running around, which I thought we did,” coach Ryan Day said.
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Day → want → which
Smith had five receptions for 85 yards.
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Smith → have → yards
The junior needed 26 yards to surpass Michael Jenkins’ 2,898 yards from 2000-03 and become OSU’s record holder and got it on his second catch of the game, when he hauled in a 23-yard pass from Julian Sayin midway through the first quarter.
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he → need → quarter
They said 33 games, so I’m blessed.
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I → say → games
But I got two more (records) to get,” Smith said.
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Smith → got → records
Sayin completed 18 of 22 passes for 242 yards and two touchdowns.
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Sayin → complete → yards
The Buckeyes had seven pass plays of at least 20 yards, including Chris Henry’s 75-yard TD on Luke Fahey’s pass during the fourth quarter.
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Buckeyes → have → quarter
Rocco Becht threw for 212 yards with two touchdowns, Koby Howard scored twice and Penn State cruised past Buffalo.
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State → throw → Buffalo
Becht secured his Bowl Subdivision-leading 29th win and the Nittany Lions (3-0) capped their nonconference schedule in relatively easy fashion against an outmatched Mid-American Conference opponent that was outgained 305-80 in the first half.
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that → secure → half
Penn State’s defense forced three punts and a turnover in the first quarter while its offense scored on its first three drives to put the game out of reach before halftime.
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offense → force → halftime
Overall, D’Anton Lynn’s defense forced 10 punts and two turnovers and only allowed Buffalo’s Oliver Hautanen to kick a pair of field goals.
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Hautanen → force → goals
The Bulls (1-2) crossed midfield just three times.
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Bulls → cross → midfield
Howard, who was one of three Nittany Lions players to eclipse 100 all-purpose yards, ran for a 20-yard touchdown on a reverse and caught a 70-yard pass from Becht in the second quarter.
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who → eclipse → quarter
Ryan Barker opened the scoring for Penn State with a 48-yard field goal before James Peoples capped the team’s next drive with a 16-yard scamper around the right edge of Buffalo’s out-of-order defense to put Penn State up for good.
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Peoples → open → State