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Georgia earned a 'culture win' on Saturday against Ole Miss

Jeremy Johnsonby: Jeremy Johnson16 hours agoJeremyO_Johnson
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Georgia inside linebacker CJ Allen (3) before Georgia’s game against Ole Miss at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. (Conor Dillon/UGAAA)

Georgia won the fourth quarter on Saturday. That won them the football game against Ole Miss. The Bulldogs were down 35-26 as the fourth when the fourth period began.

By the time the clock his zero inside Sanford Stadium, Georgia was leading 43-35. Ole Miss’ offense had run wild all day.

The Rebels had 338 yards in the first three quarters. They had 13 yards in the fourth quarter. Georgia outscored the Rebels 17-0 in the fourth quarter alone.

Georgia head coach Kirby Smart called it a ‘culture win’ on Saturday following the game. The Bulldogs keep finding ways to win games even when they’re not playing their best. The Bulldogs have won or tied in every fourth quarter of this season so far.

“I just told the guys, that’s a culture win,” Smart told reporters after the game. “You don’t win that game if you’re not physically tough, mentally tough. We call it hard to kill. The one thing we are, we’re hard to kill. We won’t go away. We’ve got to keep getting better. I’m so happy the players get return on the work ethic, physicality we play with, how we practice.”

Georgia linebacker CJ Allen echoed that. The workouts and practices are Georgia have become famously grueling but they have paid off in the eyes of the junior linebacker.

“I think that was something that was put in place way before we got here,” Allen told reporters. “That’s a culture thing. You know, fourth quarter, you go through all the programs in the summer, spring, all the running, all the conditioning, all the looks just for moments like that.”

Is culture the reason Georgia keeps crawling back into games?

Georgia has continued to find ways out of holes in games. They have a point in the game where something just changes. Smart doesn’t believe its adjustments.

“I don’t know that there’s enough time in the locker room to truly adjust,” Smart said. “You can recognize formation in the plays and play them better. We didn’t call a lot of different defenses. We obviously didn’t play real well the first drive of the second half for sure because that was a one-two punch and gone. Every time these kids walk off the field, they just believe they’re going to stop them the next time. They just do. We never got a stop once.”

There isn’t an explanation for it. Smart even tried the sarcastic halftime speech at halftime on his defense.

“I told the defense, I said, guys, we got them right where we want them,” Smart said. “We ain’t stopped them yet. We got them right where we want them. We’re coming out in the second half. And we’re hell in the second half. And that didn’t work. But we kept coming.”

The Bulldogs will be on a bye week this week. They were travel to Jacksonville to face rival Florida on Nov. 1. The Gators fired head coach Billy Napier on Sunday.


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