LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) – David Greene passed for 259 yards and set an NCAA Division I-A record for most wins by a quarterback as No. 8 Georgia downed Kentucky 62-17 on Saturday.
Georgia (8-1, 6-1 SEC) prepped for its upcoming showdown with No. 3 Auburn by scoring on six consecutive possessions against the Wildcats (1-8, 0-6), who have lost seven straight.
Freshman tailback Thomas Brown rushed for a career-high 130 yards and had three short touchdown runs for Georgia, which won its fourth straight game since its only loss, to Tennessee. The Bulldogs finished with a season-high 589 yards of total offense.
The Bulldogs’ point total was their highest since a 70-6 rout of Northeast Louisiana in 1994.
Greene is 40-9 as a starting quarterback, breaking Peyton Manning’s Div. I-A record for career wins.
Greene completed 14 of 19 passes, including a touchdown, and ran his streak of consecutive passes without an interception to 206, breaking the Southeastern Conference mark of 200 set in 1997 by Stewart Patridge of Mississippi. Fresno State’s Trent Dilfer holds the Div. I-A record of 271.
Fred Gibson (129 yards) and Leonard Pope (91 yards) each caught five passes for Georgia. Sean Bailey caught touchdown passes of 35 and 2 yards from backup quarterback D.J. Shockley.
After a sluggish first quarter, Georgia methodically built its lead to 34-3 early in the third quarter and weathered a brief rally by the Wildcats, who pulled within 34-17.
Greene and Brown re-entered the game at that point and led a 71-yard touchdown drive, capped by a 4-yard scoring run by Brown. He earlier scored on runs of 1 and 2 yards.
Kentucky’s backup quarterback, Andre Woodson, led all three of the Wildcats’ scoring drives and completed 17 of 26 passes for 206 yards. Freshman tailback Rafael Little caught six passes for 106 yards, including a 52-yard touchdown.
Georgia’s 62 points were the most by a Kentucky opponent in regulation since LSU beat the Wildcats 63-28 near the end of the 1997 season. Arkansas scored 71 against Kentucky in a seven-overtime game last season.
