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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) – Cory Phillips threw for 400 yards and tied a school record with four touchdowns in his first career start as No. 12 Georgia rallied to beat Kentucky 34-30 on Saturday.
Phillips, subbing for the injured Quincy Carter, completed 20 of 38 passes with TD passes of 85, 40, 27 and 15 yards.
The Bulldogs (6-1, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) overcame a 13-0 deficit in the second quarter in the game the saw the teams combine for 1,058 yards of offense. Kentucky (2-6, 0-5) gained 620 yards against Georgia’s defense, which entered the game ranked eighth in the nation giving up 268 a game.
Redshirt freshman Jared Lorenzen, who sprained the thumb on his throwing hand Thursday and was questionable for Saturday’s game, completed 39 of 58 passes for a school-record 528 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a 10-yard score for the Wildcats.
Lorenzen, who also broke Tim Couch’s single-game school record for total yards in a game, threw touchdown passes of 86 and 75 yards and had an 89-yard completion that set up the Wildcats’ first score. His 528 passing yards were the second-highest single-game total in SEC history.
Kentucky led 13-10 at halftime and scored on the first play of the second half on an 86-yard pass from Lorenzen to Ernest Simms to go up 20-10.
The Bulldogs then scored 17 unanswered points on two Phillips TD passes and a 33-yard field goal by Billy Bennett to take their first lead, 27-20, with 23 seconds to play in the third quarter.
The Wildcats needed only three plays to tie the game on Lorenzen’s 75-yard touchdown pass to Quentin McCord.
But Phillips, who came into the game with one career pass for nine yards, drove the Bulldogs 68 yards on their next possession and hit Terrence Edwards with a 27-yard TD pass for the game-winning score.
Kentucky’s Seth Hanson kicked a 38-yard field goal with 8:43 to play to cut the margin to 34-30. The Wildcats got the ball one last time with 2:30 remaining, but Lorenzen’s interception with 48 seconds to play ended any chance of a comeback.
