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Georgia Football Live Updates vs. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

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Georgia Football players react to recovering a fumble during UGA Football's Whiteout game against Western Kentucky.
Georgia Football players react to recovering a fumble during UGA Football's Whiteout game against Western Kentucky. | (Dean Legge / Dawg Post)

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ATHENS - Georgia Football will take the field Between the Hedges against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers Saturday. Stick with us as we give you more than just the score - insights to what's happening before, during and after Kirby Smart's Dawgs arrive in their all-white uniforms for the first time ever.

LIVE SCORE - Georgia 63 - Western Kentucky - 13

4th Quarter

(5:10) The Bulldog defense gives up their second touchdown of the game. With the reserves in, Western Kentucky scored on a 10-yard touchdown run by quarterback Brock Glenn

3rd Quarter

(4:17) The Bulldog defense strikes with a touchdown of their own. Blake Stewart picked off his first pass as a Bulldog, with Tyriq Green recovering his fumble in the end-zone for another Bulldog score. Georgia leads 63-6.

(14:04) - Backup quarterback Ryan Puglisi takes off for a big 70-yard touchdown run to kick off the 3rd quarter and increase the Bulldog lead.

2nd Quarter

(2:35) - Western Kentucky takes advantage of a Ryan Puglisi fumble and find the end-zone on a 15-yard touchdown run by quarterback Brock Glenn.

Georgia leads 49-6 after a missed PAT.

(5:51) - Wide receiver Landon Roldan takes a handoff for a nine-yard touchdown run. It was Georgia's seventh touchdown of the first half.

(7:44) - Gunner Stockton throws his 5th touchdown of the day to Talyn Taylor to extend the Georgia lead to 42-0. Stockton would leave the game after his record-tying touchdown.

(8:12) - Starting cornerback Demello Jones picks off a pass on the sideline and takes it 41 yards.

(9:22) - After another Bulldog stop on defense, Gunner Stockton hit a streaking Sacovie-White for a 70-yard touchdown. It was Stockton's fourth touchdown pass of the game and the Bulldogs lead 35-0.

(13:28) - Gunner Stockton finds London Humphreys in the back of the end-zone for a 3-yard score. The Bulldogs have scored a touchdown on their first four offensive drives. Gunner Stockton is curently 9/12 for 149 yards and three touchdowns.

1st Quarter

(7:37) - Running back Chauncey Bowens hurdles a defender after an impressive catch and run for a big 21-yard touchdown. The Bulldogs lead Western Kentucky 21-0.

(11:28) - The Bulldogs score easily on their second drive of the game. Gunner Stockton hit an an explosive 43-yard pass to freshman Craig Dandridge right before running back Nate Frazier found the endzone for a seven-yard score.

(12:19) - The Bulldogs force a 3-and-out on their first defensive series. Safety KJ Bolden and linebacker Chris Cole made two big stops on the drive.

(13:59) - Tight end Ethan Barbour scores on a 7-yard touchdown catch from Gunner Stockton. The first of his Bulldog career. The Bulldogs scored on just two plays after the recovered fumble. Georgia leads Western Kentucky 7-0.

(15:00) - Georgia wins the toss and defers to the second half. Western Kentucky fumbles the opening kickoff and Landon Roldan recovers. AJ Kruah forced the fumble and the Bulldogs take over on the 18.

Pre-Game

UGA's famed Redcoat Band is in white tops for the event today. The weather is holding for the time being. Clouds are very, very heavy right now.

No. 2 Georgia Football is listed as a massive favorite to beat Western Kentucky. Georgia has a streak of 85 straight sellouts Between the Hedges. Western Kentucky was blown out at Nevada this past Saturday. The Bulldogs slammed Tennessee State 63-3 a week ago in Athens.

Georgia averaged 10.1 yards a carry in the 63-3 rout of TSU to open the 2026 season. The Bulldogs gained 272 yards on 27 attempts. In 2025, Georgia averaged 182.1 rushing yards/game with 31 TDs.

Live updates will start around 10 AM ET - Please stay tuned.

Here is a graphic you can use to get ready for Saturday's game.

For this Saturday’s game against Western Kentucky, Georgia Football will wear an all-white uniform (helmets, jerseys and pants) for the first time in school history. Georgia is 4-0 in an alternate uniforms under Kirby Smart including black jerseys against Louisiana in Athens in 2016, versus Miss. State in Athens and Cincinnati in the Peach Bowl in the 2020 season. Also, to honor the 1980 national championship team, Georgia wore white jerseys and red pants in the 2020 season opener at Arkansas.

Series History: The Bulldogs lead the WKU series 1-0 with the lone meeting in Athens to open the 2006 season. Georgia posted a 48-12 victory. Georgia QB Matthew Stafford made his debut in the 4th quarter.

Did You Know? Earlier in their career, WKU defensive coordinator Davis Merritt and safeties coach David Metcalf served on Kirby Smart’s Georgia staff. Merritt was a defensive quality control coordinator during the Bulldogs latest two national championship teams (2021-22) while Metcalf was a defensive quality control assistant from 2022-25.

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Dean Legge
DEAN LEGGE

After two-plus decades of covering the Georgia Bulldogs and the SEC, Dean Legge is one of the definitive voices in Athens and beyond. Legge has authored two books - DAWGSTRUCTION and DOUBLE DAWGS - with each chronicling Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs' run to national titles in 2021 and 2022. Legge has been a Heisman Trophy voter since 2005 and a Biletnikoff Award voter since 2009. He’s covered SEC Championships, Peach Bowls, Orange Bowls, Sugar Bowls, the Rose Bowl Game, College Football Playoff National Championship Games, the NCAA Tournament, the College World Series as well as a slew of college football, basketball and baseball games. Legge graduated from Coker College in 1999 with a degree in Political Science. He played both tennis and basketball for the Cobras. After graduating, Legge completed his academic career at the University of Georgia where he earned a Master of Public Administration from the School of Public and International Affairs in 2001. In 2008, Legge was elected President of the Coker College Alumni Association. He served on the Board of Trustees at Coker from 2009 to 2017 and was a member of the Executive Committee, Student Services and Enrollment Committee and Athletic Committee in that time. Legge is a native of Tucker, Georgia.

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