Auburn Stuns No. 1 Georgia 27-24 on Walk-Off Field Goal — SkimNews
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- Auburn rallied from a 14-0 hole with 24 unanswered points and beat No. 1 Georgia 27-24 on Alex McPherson's 34-yard walk-off field goal, ending a nine-game losing streak in the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry
- Gunner Stockton fumbled at Auburn's 44-yard line with under a minute remaining, recovered by Tigers safety Sylvester Smith-Reed — Stockton's third turnover of the game (two interceptions plus the fumble) and his first multi-turnover game of his career
- Auburn snapped Georgia's 53-game winning streak against unranked FBS opponents — the longest in the FBS — and beat a No. 1 Georgia team for the first time since 1942, with the Tigers entering as 18.5-point underdogs
- Byrum Brown posted 150 passing yards and 115 rushing yards, the first player with 100+ rushing and 150+ passing against a No. 1 team since Kyler Murray against Alabama in the 2018 Orange Bowl CFP Semifinal
- Alex McPherson wasn't at Sanford Stadium for the 2023 matchup while battling ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, which led to surgery to remove his large intestine and a 55-pound weight loss — his kick against Georgia was his first career game-winning field goal
- Georgia had been 95-3 under Kirby Smart when leading by 14 points (65-0 vs unranked opponents) and had won 58 consecutive games when ahead by two touchdowns before Saturday, but three personal-foul penalties and Stockton's turnovers flipped the game
- Alex Golesh, in his first season as Auburn's head coach, credited three defensive takeaways and zero offensive turnovers — a sharp reversal from the Tigers' three-turnover, 11-penalty loss at Tennessee on Oct. 3
Why it matters: Georgia drops from No. 1 heading into a bye week before facing rival Florida in Atlanta and No. 9 Ole Miss on Nov. 7, while Auburn's first-year coach Alex Golesh beats the top-ranked team in the country to announce his rebuild is ahead of schedule. The Bulldogs' 53-game unranked-opponent winning streak — the longest in the FBS — ends in the same rivalry they had dominated.
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