“You love to have them. You’d love to know we were going to have four a game the rest of the way. I might start making plans.”
— Georgia coach Mark Richt on the Bulldogs having four takeaways a week after having five at Missouri
“It’s awesome to be able to control your own destiny. It’s not a good feeling to have to play behind somebody else. We lost it at the beginning of the year (and) then we got it back. Anything in life seems to mean a little bit more when you lose it and get it back. So we know how precious that is. If we keep this train on the track we can do something special.”
— Bulldogs quarterback Hutson Mason
“I think the fans and everybody else gets more riled up about it than we do.”
— Richt on uncertainty regarding Todd Gurley’s eligibility
“We walk away happy. We just got another SEC win on the road. A lot of people thought Arkansas was going to break that streak against us, just like last week.”
— Georgia senior cornerback Damian Swann on the play of the defense
“Maxey’s going to be OK. The term is ‘a burner.’ They’re usually OK the next week.”
— Richt on the injury status of starting fullback Taylor Maxey
“In that first half we weren’t ourselves. The only person responsible for that is me, I guarantee 100 percent. That’s on me.”
— Arkansas coach Bret Bielema on falling behind 38-6 in the first half
“Well, he is built for it. He’s very, very tough physically, mentally. He’s strong. I think he came from a high school, Cedartown, where they’re just tough. They coach tough. Their offseason is tough. He didn’t get babied in high school at all. He’s not one of those guys you can sit there and say was given anything just because he was a very good football player. He had to earn it every day.”
— Richt on freshman tailback Nick Chubb, who has had 345 yards and 3 touchdowns on 68 carries the past two games
“I was a lot more relaxed this game. Our line played very good, very well. There were holes everywhere. I just ran through them.”
— Chubb on how he felt in his second start
“I came and took on a block and I saw (Jordan Jenkins) come and hit to quarterback and I saw the ball. I knew all I had to do was get aroud that block to scoop the ball up because all I saw then was green grass.”
— UGA freshman defensive back Dominick Sanders on his 54-yard fumble return for a touchdown
“We knew we could do that because we do it in practice all the time. But it makes you feel so much better when you do it in a game. The fact that we’ve been able to do that for the past two weeks in the SEC on the road, that’s really something significant.”
— Bulldogs senior receiver Chris Conley on catching long passes. He had receptions of 48 and 36 yards and finished with 128 yards
“We heard a lot of the naysayers say we wouldn’t be anything without No. 3. We love Todd, but we feel like we are a team that has capable players to fill in for our starters when they go down. The guys took his loss to heart. We know how to win in this conference and we’ve got to continue to prove it.”
— Conley on playing without Gurley
