Late TD for UK

Georgia had the game well in hand with a 30-7 lead over Kentucky last week, but Wildcats Coach Mark Stoops called a timeout with seven seconds left.

Kentucky had a third down at the Georgia 1, and Stoops wanted to complete a drive that had started at the Wildcats’ 25 with 11:27 left.

On the drive’s 22nd play, Will Levis threw a touchdown pass to Wan’Dale Robinson to make the final 30-13 after Georgia blocked an extra-point attempt.

“I don’t know about the message [to his team], but I wanted to score,” Stoops said. “That’s a quality defense. You don’t know the way things are going to play out the rest of the year and we had an opportunity to score, so we did.”

Georgia Coach Kirby Smart said he didn’t have a problem with Stoops calling a timeout so his team could try to score in the final seconds.

“Mark’s got a job to do,” Smart said. “He’s trying to compete and score. I mean, why not? That’s what he came here to do, win the game and score points. I respect that. They had a long drive there.”

Kentucky is the only team to score two touchdowns against the No. 1 Bulldogs.

“I think it’s definitely a confidence booster,” Levis said of the last-second touchdown. “I think that was probably our best drive of the game and to finish off a drive with points feels a lot better than not.”