AUBURN, Ala. — Georgia schoolmaster Kirby Subtle celebrated a come-from-behind, 27-20 win at Auburn on Saturday by way of throwing his visor into the stands and saluting the Bulldog fanatics who made the shuttle to Jordan-Hare Stadium.

By no means thoughts that Georgia, the winner of back-to-back nationwide championships, entered the sport ranked Negative. 1 and two-touchdown favorites in opposition to unranked Auburn, which is to enter a fresh head schoolmaster in Hugh Freeze.

Subtle stated it’s by no means simple to win an SEC competition at the street. He stated he was once happy with the best way his group didn’t panic when it trailed for 3 quarters.

Quarterback Carson Beck, who was once making his first get started at the street, by no means were given rattled, Subtle stated. Beck completed with 313 passing yards, one landing and one interception.

In a while, Subtle stated the open: “We won, but we gotta get better.”

“Obviously we didn’t play our best game today, but we’re a very resilient team,” he stated. “[I’m] proud of the way we competed, and we got to continue to get better. I mean, that’s the most important thing for our team. So a lot of things we did wrong, a lot of things we did well, but we’re not going to get where we want to go if we don’t get better.”

That suggests no longer given up two submits and no longer permitting 219 yards speeding. Just right soccer groups, Subtle stated, don’t do this.

“I don’t know how good a team we’ve got,” he stated. “I really don’t. I don’t sit here and proclaim that we’ve got some unbelievable team, but I do think our team believes in each other. We connect [and] we step up when we need to step up.”

One simple dazzling spot for Georgia was once the play games of All-American tight finish Brock Bowers, who got here alive within the fourth quarter with six catches for 148 yards, together with the game-winning landing. He have been restricted to 2 catches for 9 yards earlier than that.

Subtle demurred when requested whether or not Bowers deserved to be within the Heisman Trophy dialog, pronouncing, “I hate getting into that debate.”

However that didn’t oppose him from hanging Bowers a number of the competition’s elite avid gamers.

“Who can argue that there’s a better football player anywhere in the country?” Subtle stated. “I mean, the guy has the greatest toughness and grit that I’ve been around, and he’ll do whatever you ask him to do for this team. I’ve got a lot of respect for that guy’s competitiveness.”

Georgia will host unbeaten Kentucky nearest Saturday.

“That’s a Mark Stoops team,” Subtle stated of the Wildcats’ head schoolmaster. “They’re going to be physical. He’s a defensive coach. They run the rock. I’ve always said our kids are the most sore they’ve ever been after playing Kentucky. It was that way last year. It was a blood bath last year up there and it’ll be the same way.”