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ATLANTA--- There will be no trip to a conference championship game, no top-tier bowl game, no 10-win season for Georgia.

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Georgia's Washaun Ealey gains some of his 183 yards as Georgia Tech's Brad Jefferson is blocked by Ben Jones. Ealey and Caleb King combined to rush for 349 yards and two TDs for the Bulldogs.  Associated Press
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Georgia's Washaun Ealey gains some of his 183 yards as Georgia Tech's Brad Jefferson is blocked by Ben Jones. Ealey and Caleb King combined to rush for 349 yards and two TDs for the Bulldogs.

On Saturday night, none of that mattered.

Georgia exited Bobby Dodd Stadium with the one thing it could salvage from a season that most considered nearly buried: knocking off rival Georgia Tech.

The Bulldogs pulled off the 30-24 upset of the seventh-ranked Yellow Jackets, by beating Georgia Tech at their own game -- running the ball.

Georgia rushed for 339 yards, its most in nine seasons under Mark Richt and the most the Yellow Jackets have surrendered this year.

Georgia opened the game with a 10-play, 74-yard touchdown drive in which it ran the ball on every play.

Freshman Washaun Ealey and redshirt sophomore Caleb King gave Georgia its first pair of 100-yard rushers in the same game since 2004 against Vanderbilt.

Ealey rushed for 183 on 20 carries and King for 166 on 18 carries, including touchdown runs of 6 and 75 yards.

The Bulldogs were 0-5 against top-10 teams since the start of last season, and snapped Georgia Tech's eight-game winning streak. It was Georgia's eighth win in the past nine games in the series after last year's 45-42 loss.

Georgia (7-5) could now find itself in the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tenn., but other bowls including the Independence in Shreveport, La., remain possible.

The Bulldogs were 71/2 point underdogs after blowing a 20-6 halftime lead in a home loss to Kentucky last week but held off the Yellow Jackets' second half-charge.

With Georgia ahead by six, Blair Walsh's 55-yard field goal try with 3:03 left went wide left, leaving Georgia Tech the ball at its own 37. Walsh earlier converted from 22, 38 and 43.

After Walsh's miss, the Yellow Jackets (10-2) went deep twice and came away with two incompletions -- including Stephen Hill catching the ball inside the Georgia 5, but out of bounds with Reshad Jones covering. Georgia Tech again went deep to Anthony Allen and again Jones broke up the play.

On fourth-and-10, Demariyus Thomas dropped a sideline pass that would have been enough for a first down.

Reach Marc Weiszer at marc.weiszer@onlineathens.com.

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Comments

smartie

well, well. good beautiful morning to all the nerdy techsters who have ridiculed my prophetic words for weeks now. i would love to spend some quality time with you guys this morning, however, i'm a very busy man. perhaps my biggest fans, you know who you are, knave? sueboo? there you are! perhaps, you might peruse early morning breaking news article "bulldogs run over GT" (the ac's words, not mine. i would've chosen "steam rolled", or "crushed", given the way the dawg backs paraded up and down the field, as if it were a track meet), to read my words of wisdom concerning this exciting, yet predictable victory. i'm really disappointed that i can't chat with you guys today. i know that you have to feel the same. life just isn't fair. i really hope to here from you guys soon. i hope you have a wonderful, wonderful day!!

charliemanson

Congratulations Dawgs. With the way the GA Fans been acting this year, Richt might jump ship and take the FSU job that might come open next week.

johnston.cliff

What a fun game. The Tech defense couldn't do a thing with the blocking and running game that the Dawgs brought. King and Baley looked good and the offensive line played the entire game. Where has this Dawg team been all year? Go 'Cocks.

BLACKOUTDAWG1

Back at U Mr. Cliff. The Tigers strutted around all week with 6 straight wins and acted as though they were unbeatable. Well the old ball Coach showed up again. If U beat him, U just have to beat him. GOOD JOB AND GOOD GAME, NEVER UNDER-ESTIMATE THE SEC ON ANY DAY. GOOOOOOOO DAWGS

willienelson

I love my Dawgs! This was a great victory. We did run the ball well. But we still didn't stop Tech. Had Tech stayed with the run game on their last possession, our defense would have given up the victory. We would be sitting here this morning crying about a 1 point loss. We couldn't stop them. Paul Jones gave us that victory. Poor play calling at the end by the Tech coach allowed us to win. I remember a time when the SEC was head & shoulders above the ACC. Even a bad SEC team was expected to win against the best of the ACC. Yesterday, 2 SEC teams were underdogs to the ACC. Both won but our DAWGS were very lucky. I hope we look much different defensively next year. GO DAWGS!!!

JerryAtrick

willie - Don't forget the Gators having a bit of fun with The Criminoles as well. SEC Rules - ACC Pulls!

MyChronicleUserAccount

Geez, as predicted, fickle dawg fans....last week they hated Richt....glad the dawg fans can have some consolation. I do agree ACC aint the SEC.

justthefacts

Mychronicle, most of that noise was from bandwagon fans or UGA haters (like you). Great game. Good game planning from the coaching staff. Tech has a good team. I wish them luck the rest of the way. It does beg the question though. What if UGA played Tech's schedule? The ACC champion may not even be ranked in the Top 20 (if Clemson wins). BSC has to stop with the conference tie-ends.

csrareader

Georgia Tech is just another Vanderbilt with the luxury of playing an ACC schedule every year. Go Dawgs!

justthefacts

Perhaps UGA and USC should play in the ACC Championship game.

55 F-100

Scratch 'em Dogs.... Just Like Fleas.... Go to H*ll.... You Bumblebees!

sueboo418

I still love my Yellow Jackets, win or lose, unlike some of you fair weather Dawg fans. Oh and smartie, GA did NOT run over Tech. Dawg fans are, for the most part a bunch of obnoxious rednecks and you have proven yourselves with some of these comments. I'd rather be a nerdy Techster than a UGA redneck anyday!!! Go Jackets!!!!

CorporalGripweed

Well, well. The cover photo of a Ga. player eating dirt is no surprise. They may have won the game but they still seem like a bunch of rednecks to me.

JerryAtrick

sueboo - Please don't sell me short when dishing out insults. I'm an obnoxious Gator! "It's Great to be a Florida Gator!" If ya got it, flaunt it!

jerryv31

Manson, Richt isn't going to FSU. Jimbo Fisher already has been named Bowden's successor. Thanks for your wisdom though.

jerryv31

Sue - thanks for your input. Guess we'll hear from you again this time next year.....Goooooo Dawgs!!! Oh, and good luck in that ACC "Championship" game.

Just My Opinion

sueboo, I was at the game last night and saw PLENTY of Tech nerd-rednecks!! I took my wife and kids for the first time and they were appalled at the poor losers we saw! Tech nerds cussing at us, yelling at us that our game meant nothing to them, boasting about going to the ACC title game. I LOVED IT!! Now my kids have it ingrained in them that Tech fans are a bunch of whiney, jerk fans, and it's all because the Tech fans are the ones who showed them! We even had one Tech fan yell at us that they hope we have fun playing at the Emerald Bowl! Huh?? Isn't the Emerald Bowl the game that the Techies went to like 2 or 3 years in a row?!?! LOL!!!

tom_dawg

johnston.cliff, it's Ealey not Baley. And the only reason King has started to play so good is because of Ealey. Don't get me wrong i'm glad this freshman from little class A ECI put a charge in him. Give the ball to Ealey 20-25 times a game and UGA's running game solved. If Richt was the coach everybody wants to think he is ,he would have known that from day one ,and Ealey would not have stood on the sidelines those first 5 games. It's gonna cost him a thousand yard season ,thanks coach. Also with all the problems the O line has had, why not play AJ Harmon, he's a bull in the trenches. Love them Dawgs........Arrrfff!!!!! To all the Techies and your great season, sike. get back in your nest it's called outside.

sueboo418

Just I think it's just that them dawgs tend to bring out the worse in Tech. I went to a game in Athens one time and that was enough for me. Thank goodness I did not have my daughter with me to hear the foul language coming from the rude GA fans sitting in front of us. It was a good thing I wasn't drinking like he was or there probably would have been a brawl.

JerryAtrick

sueboo, think of the terrible stress we have to endure when we are not allowed to lose ANY games?!?!?! Go Gators!

storiesihaveread

@jerry you all lost your prize player this year. It will be hard to replace him. The gators could be in some boiling water next year. To you dawg fans any bowl games on New Years Day that you will be watching, if so your team is not one of them. To you tech fans. Maybe one year again you will rein supreme and defeat the dawgs, this was just not your year.

csrareader

sueboo, how do you like taking your daughter to the Tech home games in the Atlanta ghetto?

LCC0256

The man's name is JOHNSON and he is one of the top 4 or 5 coaches in the country. If he would have had a couple of more good athletes on defense NO ONE would have beaten tech this year. He took a temporary leave of his senses on Tech's final drive but the man is human after all... and before the fickle band wagon - which way is the wind blowing Ga fans come up with mealy mouthed comments commensurate with the trash they leave behind at the games....i am a LIFE LONG DAWG FAN. 4 generations of my family graduated from UGA...my mother, uncle and grandparents were at the dedication game at sanford stadium in "29. The first game i attended was when coach butts (you know from milledgeville - one of the great offensive football minds from the last century) was still coaching. I dont have the animosity towards the techies my parents did because they suffered through lean years getting beat like a red headed step child by Coach Dodd & those great teams of the 50's (however my son refuses to wear gold or yellow to this day - due mainly to his grand-mothers influence on him) i was impressed with the character Tech's players showed in the loss. Did you see players from both teams praying?

imdstuf

Dawg fans will be mad if this game means Willie Martinez gets to stay! HAHA! Besides, its not like GT's defense has been good otherwise this year. They usually win by outscoring people. It sure did not hurt UGA that Nesbitt got hurt.

HotFoot

csrareader, you're obviously unfamiliar with Midtown Atlanta real estate. It is not a "ghetto". True, there are homeless people, but there are homeless people everywhere, especially in the big urban areas (shameful, but true). And Tech's campus is fantastic. Where else does it feel as if you're in the middle of a land grant institution...until you look up and see the magnificent high rises ringing the campus? UGA"s campus is also beautiful, but in a different way. IN any case, there is plenty to criticize about the JAckets' performance last night without slamming Atlanta.

justthefacts

LCC0256, the players from both teams pray after every game regardless of who wins. I agree, it is nice to see. Tech players were gracious in defeat unlike, sueboo who has to name call. I hope they win out.

Antknee

Well as I have always said,the Dawgs rule!Georgia Tech just couldn't do it.Congratulations Dawgs!!!

Just My Opinion

First off, LCC...I agree that Johnson is a great coach, and, personally, I love the option! I think it's a great scheme because anyone who comes up against it, really struggles to defend it! And the problems seen at the game, as far as the jerk fans, happens at EVERY SCHOOL...bar NONE!! Now, justthefacts, I do NOT hope that Tech wins out! Johnson is a great coach, but he is arrogant as hell! He always has been...remember him down at Ga. Southern and he was he same way. He needs to have more respect for the teams he faces and be more humble. I think losing out would do the trick. However, having said that, I'm thinking that Tech will beat Clemson!

Lp_J

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Lp_J

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