Georgia coach Mark Richt acknowledged that the Bulldogs had a plan to play quarterback Brice Ramsey early in this past Saturday’s game against Kentucky. But Hutson Mason changed those plans, and he has already altered the ones going into this week as well.
“Right now we think Hutson’s really playing well and I don’t think we’re in any rush to do that,” Richt said of getting Ramsey in against Auburn.
Ramsey, a redshirt freshman from Camden County, was prepared to play early against the Wildcats. Mason, a fifth-year senior, did not play particularly well in the loss to Florida the previous week. Meanwhile, the hard-throwing Ramsey had continued to show improvement in practice.
“We thought about it,” Richt said of playing Ramsey against the Wildcats. “But we also didn’t make any promises to anybody. Sometimes you’ll make a promise and the moment’s not right and then you don’t do what you said you were going to do and you feel bad about it. … But you’re doing what you feel like is best for the team in that moment.”
As it turned out, there was no reason to take Mason out of the game. Mason started out on first and never cooled down. He completed 13-of-16 passes for 174 yards and four touchdowns. He led the Bulldogs on touchdown-scoring drives on all five possessions he was the quarterback except one, when they took a knee to end the first half.
“He’s just made a lot of very good decisions,” Richt said of Mason. “He’s been very accurate. I thought last week, I don’t know how to describe it other than he just cut the ball loose with all the faith and confidence that everybnody was going to do their job.”
For the season, Mason is completing 69 percent of his passes for 1,515 yards with 15 TDs and 3 interceptions. Ramsely has played in five games and is 12-of-18 (67 percent) for 190 yards and 2 scores.
Ramsey could still play at any moment, Richt said. They just don’t have a rotation plan for this week.
“Mike (Bobo) and I have both learned not to say ‘it’s going to be this series no matter what,’ because sometimes circumstances change,” Richt said.
Hutson Mason’s play too
