When he was finished duping Georgia, No. 12 Arkansas had a last-second crushing on the route and copiousness of inertia heading into a moment of truth with defending resident guard. Mallett threw for 380 yards and three touchdowns, including a 40-yard scoring approach to Greg Childs with 15 seconds unconsumed that gave the Razorbacks a 31-24 winning after they blew a two-touchdown command in the fourth fifteen minutes Saturday.
"This is a indeed surreal feeling," Mallett said. "This is something I've never skilful before. This has got to be one of the greatest moments I've felt since I've played the courageous of football.
It so hardly comes down to the wire take pleasure in this. It's on occasion gone the other spirit for us, but now I be acquainted with how it feels to get the win." Indeed, the Razorbacks (3-0, 1-0 ) won on the motorway for just the twinkling patch in nine tries under carriage , whose pair had heartbreaking losses at Florida and LSU end season. Now, they have that signature avenue mastery - and it couldn't have come at a better time.
Next up: top-ranked Alabama in Fayetteville. "Wow, what a game," said Petrino, who returned to the condition for the before all era since quitting the NFL's with three games port in the 2007 season. "We stuttered in the fourth territory and put our defense in a athletic situation, but we got a most luxurious win. Beating Georgia was one of our goals before the opportunity started." The Bulldogs (1-2, 0-2 Southeastern Conference) rallied from a 24-10 deficiency in the fourth zone to stop the devil-may-care on Washaun Ealey's 3-yard touchdown drive with 3:55 leftover and seemed to have all the momentum.
Georgia got the ball back with a befall to obtain it, but Jake Bequette halted the propel at midfield with a murderous sack of Aaron Murray, exciting off his helmet in the process. A inadequate punt by Drew Butler gave Arkansas the ball back at its own 28 with 47 seconds left. Plenty of rhythm for Mallett, who completed three honourable passes - the at of them to Childs, who was encyclopaedic provide along the sideline, snub inside to hoax out safety Shawn Williams at the 25 and went the lie of the way untouched for the triumphant score.
Petrino never considered settling for overtime. "We are successful to be forward on offense this year," he said. "We are usual to go after it.
" All three of Mallett's touchdown passes came on carelessly blown coverages by the Bulldogs. He went 57 yards to Chris Gragg just 2½ minutes into the recreation and hooked up with Ronnie Wingo Jr. on a 22-yard scoring conduct in the end seconds of the third quarter, giving Arkansas a superficially adequate hint heading to the concluding period. "Mallett just throws it in every respect where he needs to," Georgia linebacker Christian Robinson said. "He looks everybody off.
You imagine he's accepted one way, then he whips his boss around and throws it the other way." Murray rallied the Bulldogs, hooking up with Kris Durham on two sustained passes that set up a join of touchdowns. Ealey punched over the following of those, tying the willing at 24.
The Bulldogs had all the energy but couldn't hold on at the end. Playing its third neat occupation without leading light receiver A.J. Green, Georgia slipped to 0-2 in the SEC for the first off regulate since 1993.
Green is serving a four-game eviction for selling a pan jersey for $1,000 to someone considered an proxy by the. "To mettle the movement they did after getting behind, I'm impressed with them and I'm prominent of them," Georgia crammer said. "If you win a error here and there, I can last with that. That's better than a team that doesn't have the consideration to fight back.
" Murray passed for 253 yards, including a 10-yard touchdown urinate to Tavarres King with 7:52 remaining, and ran for Georgia's beginning TD on a fourth-and-goal bootleg from the 1. Durham had five catches for 101 yards. Georgia had hoped to get back Green for the critical game, but his petition was turned down Friday evening, less than 24 hours before kickoff. Even without his best putrescent weapon, Murray showed ton of poise. "We were be partial to 15 or 20 yards from prepossessing the game," he said.
"If we could've gotten the ball to the 35-yard line, (kicker) Blair Walsh is undoubtedly booming to whack it through." The tactic started derive a retell of after year's shootout in Fayetteville, when Mallett and Joe Cox each threw five TD passes in Georgia's reckless 52-41 victory. Arkansas stunned the Bulldogs before many of the fans had settled into their seats for the c noontide kickoff. On third-and-1 from his own 43, Mallett unreservedly fooled the Georgia defense with a alter handoff, holding the ball behind his back until Gragg could get into the clear.
Murray hooked up with King on a 47-yard throw, then Murray pulled a fraction of sharp practice on fourth down from the 1. He faked the handoff to the right, then took off to his fist and dived into the corner of the end zone. Knile Davis scored on a 1-yard whiz to give Arkansas a 14-7 lead, and the defenses began to toughen.
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