Georgia 48, Vanderbilt 17

By PAUL NEWBERRY
AP Sports Writer

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Georgia finally got its offense going Saturday.

David Greene threw for 319 yards and accounted for three touchdowns, while Musa Smith rushed for 102 yards and scored twice as No. 5 Georgia routed Vanderbilt 48-17 to remain the only unbeaten team in the Southeastern Conference.

The Bulldogs (7-0, 4-0 SEC) scored on their first eight possessions in their highest-scoring game of the season. They led 31-10 at halftime, piling up more yards in the first two quarters than they had in four previous games.

Vanderbilt (1-6, 0-4) got a scare on its way to the game. One of the buses carrying players and coaches was involved in a wreck, but no one was seriously hurt.

Once they got to Sanford Stadium, the Commodores were no match for a Georgia team off to its best start since 1982.

The Bulldogs, who had been winning with defense and special teams, came in ranked 11th in the SEC and 94th nationally in total yards. That all changed against the worst defensive team in the conference.

Greene completed his first 11 passes, the streak broken on a drop late in the first half. That was one of the few mistakes by the Bulldogs, who passed and ran at will against the woeful Commodores.

Greene, who was averaging 208 yards per game, had 270 by halftime on 16-of-18 passing. He finished 20-of-23, throwing for two touchdowns and scrambling for an 11-yard score on his final play of the day.

Smith, who had TD runs of 1 and 14 yards, passed 100 yards early in the second half and got the rest of the game off. He wasn't slowed by a jammed neck, which caused temporary numbness in his arms the previous week against Tennessee.

Coach Mark Richt finally broke out some trick plays after conservative play-calling the first six games.

Early in the game, Tony Milton attempted to throw after catching a lateral pass in the backfield. Vandy foiled that bit of chicanery, but got burned on the opening play of the second period.

Greene fooled the Commodores with a play fake, hiding the ball against his body while the defense converged on the running back. Terrence Edwards suddenly took off down the middle of the field, sprinting past safety Jonathan Shaub to haul in a 65-yard touchdown pass that put Georgia ahead for good.

Greene's first TD was a 35-yard pass to Fred Gibson, who was demoted to second team the previous week because he wasn't giving enough effort.

Gibson began another game on the bench but came in on Georgia's second offensive play. He finished off the drive by faking out cornerback Aaron McWhorter, then catching the pass in the left corner of the end zone.

Gibson wasn't able to finish, going out with an injured left thumb.

Jon Stinchcomb, Georgia's best offensive lineman, also left the game in the first half after hurting his left knee. He didn't appear to be seriously injured, returning to the sideline in the second half with the knee taped and pads still on. The Bulldogs had no need to put him back in the game.

D.J. Shockley, who missed the previous month with a broken foot, took over after Greene went out. The redshirt freshman completed 7-of-9 for 94 yards and hooked up with Ben Watson on a 9-yard touchdown.

Vandy quarterback Jay Cutler, suspended the previous game after being arrested on campus, scored on a 1-yard run.

Kwane Doster rushed for 118 yards, including a 9-yard touchdown, but it wasn't enough to prevent Vandy from clinching its 20th straight non-winning season.

Kentucky 29, Arkansas 17

By DOUGLAS PILS
AP Sports Writer

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen threw for 253 yards and two touchdowns and the Wildcats took advantage of Arkansas' third-quarter mistakes in a 29-17 Southeastern Conference victory Saturday.

Derek Abney's 86-yard punt return for a touchdown and two touchdowns in 29 seconds following Arkansas turnovers gave the Wildcats (5-2, 1-2 SEC) 20 third-quarter points.

Arkansas (3-3, 1-3) led 10-9 at halftime, but quarterback Matt Jones threw an interception to Mike Williams on the first play of the third quarter.

Running back Artose Pinner gave the Wildcats a 16-10 lead on the next play with a 12-yard touchdown.

Abney struck next with his third career punt return for a touchdown and his second this year. Taylor Begley missed the extra point, but the Wildcats led 22-10.

The Razorbacks put together a nine-play score drive capped by De'Arrius Howard's 1-yard run to pull within five at 22-17 with 8:03 left in the quarter.

The Arkansas defense held Kentucky on the ensuing possession, but punt returner DeCori Birmingham dropped the rain-slicked football at the Razorbacks 17.

Three plays and 21 seconds later, Lorenzen hit Aaron Boone for an 18-yard touchdown pass on a backside screen for a 29-17 lead.

The Wildcats had a chance to tie the game before the half but Pervis Osborne blocked the extra point following Lorenzen's 4-yard touchdown pass to Tommy Cook.

Lorenzen converted three third downs on the 10-play drive with passes of 19 and 16 yards before the touchdown toss.

Kentucky threatened to take a 10-point lead after its first two possessions, but Arkansas cornerback Lawrence Richardson snuffed the Wildcats' drive.

Lorenzen connected with Ernest Simms, who hit a seam in the Arkansas secondary and was 41 yards downfield before Richardson caught him and punched the ball loose at the Arkansas 14.

Richardson pounced on the ball and the Razorbacks needed just two plays to cover 86 yards for a 7-3 lead.

Fred Talley rounded the right side of the line and tiptoed down the sideline for 52 yards before Wildcats safety Claude Segaille pushed him out of bounds at the Kentucky 34. Fullback Mark Pierce took the next carry 34 yards running behind left guard Scott Davenport.

Arkansas took a 10-3 lead on David Carlton's 26-yard field goal on the first play of the second quarter.

Begley's 49-yard field goal gave Kentucky a 3-0 lead after its first drive.

Alabama 42, Ole Miss 7

By JOHN ZENOR
AP Sports Writer

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Santonio Beard rushed for 138 yards and tied a school record with five touchdown runs as No. 24 Alabama pounded 21st-ranked Mississippi 42-7 on Saturday.

The Crimson Tide (5-2, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) held Eli Manning to one completion for 1 yard in a six-possession stretch beginning in the second quarter. They sacked him four times and pressured him into a fumble and interception.

The Rebels (5-2, 2-1) blew a chance for their first 3-0 league start since 1970 and have lost 19 of 20 in Tuscaloosa and 16 of the last 18 meetings. It was the team's worst defeat since falling 45-7 to Alabama on the Rebels' last visit in 2000.

Alabama also got a rare win over a Manning, moving to 3-6 against Eli, Archie and Peyton.

Eli Manning finished 18-of-32 for 219 yards and was held without a touchdown pass for the second time this year. He had been sacked only four times in the first six games.

Alabama backup Brodie Croyle, meanwhile, did what Manning didn't have time to do with any consistency: throw downfield.

Starter Tyler Watts limped off the field after a sack early in the second quarter and didn't return. He had missed the previous two games with a sprained left foot, but Alabama officials did not release the nature of this injury.

Croyle was only 6-of-11 but threw for 179 yards, including a 51-yard TD pass to Dre Fulgham and a 64-yarder to Sam Collins that set up another score.

He mostly played a supporting role to Beard. The junior tailback scored just twice in his first six games and six times in two-plus seasons and was held to 23 yards in the Tide's last outing, a loss to Georgia.

He scored on his first two carries on runs of 25 and 35 yards and tied the mark Shaun Alexander set against Brigham Young in 1998. Beard carried just 13 times.

The Rebels rushed for 4 yards on 28 carries and were outgained 456-223.

Offensively, Mississippi's afternoon was summed up on one failed third-quarter drive.

The Rebels had first-and-goal at the 3 with a chance to cut it to 28-14. Ole Miss turned it over on downs after two stuffed runs and two incompletions.

The Tide then drove 98 yards in seven plays, covering most of it on Croyle's 64-yarder to a wide-open Collins on the right sideline. On the next play, Beard scored his fourth TD, a 2-yard run.

He added a 10-yard score with 3:50 left on another drive Alabama started after Mississippi failed to take advantage of a trip deep into Tide territory. That threat ended at the 16 after a 4-yard loss and three straight incompletions.

Manning completed all seven attempts in the first quarter, then struggled with no running support. The Rebels lost 2 yards on 14 second-quarter plays and didn't get a first down.

Florida 30, Auburn 23 (OT)

By EDDIE PELLS
AP Sports Writer

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- With a meltdown in progress and the program in peril, Rex Grossman threw one of the best passes of his life Saturday night to save the season for Florida.

Throwing off his back foot just as he was hit, Grossman hit Taylor Jacobs for a 25-yard touchdown in overtime to lift Florida to a 30-23 victory over Auburn after the Gators had blown a 16-point lead in the fourth quarter.

Clint Mitchell stopped quarterback Jason Campbell on fourth down on Auburn's OT possession, and Ron Zook's huge sigh of relief was drowned out by a roar at The Swamp usually saved for big wins over Tennessee and Florida State.

The Gators (5-3, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) snapped their two-game losing streak and kept their slim hopes for the SEC title alive. This win will go down as one of the most exciting in Florida history, although it probably shouldn't have been that way.

Auburn (4-3, 2-2) scored two touchdowns and two 2-point conversions to erase a 23-7 fourth-quarter deficit. After Florida missed on fourth-and-1 from its own 42 with 3:39 left, Damon Duval had a chance to win it with a 23-yard field goal with 30 seconds left in regulation.

But Bobby McCray leaped and blocked the kick to send the game into overtime, and Florida had another chance.

The first two plays netted nothing, and things looked bleak, but that's when Grossman stepped up.

The junior quarterback, his Heisman hopes all but gone, slipped a tackle by Dexter Murphy, shuffled in the pocket and, with all his weight on his hurting right knee, found Jacobs splitting the coverage in the back of the end zone for the go-ahead score.

Then it came time to stop Campbell, who entered in the fourth quarter and led the two touchdown drives to get an awful Auburn offense back in the game.

Mitchell did it on fourth-and-5, knocking the ball from Campbell as he wrapped him up. Ian Scott recovered, and the Gators avoided a huge embarrassment heading into their bye week.

Instead, they'll celebrate, and the Tigers will worry.

They lost the SEC's leading rusher, Carnell Williams, to a severe ankle sprain in the second quarter.

His backup, Ronnie Brown, ran for 163 yards and scored all three of Auburn's touchdowns, slipping through the porous Gators defense in the fourth quarter.

Grossman's winning throw to Jacobs was one of the few he tossed downfield all night. Grossman finished 27-for-35 for 242 yards, and he didn't throw an interception after throwing eight in the last two games.

He was hardly flawless, though. Three times, the Gators moved inside Auburn's 10, and they came out with field goals all three - turning what could have been a blowout into the 23-7 lead that Florida blew in the final quarter.

LSU 38, South Carolina 14

By MARY FOSTER
AP Sports Writer

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Marcus Randall hit his stride in the third quarter and so did LSU's defense, as the 14th-ranked Tigers beat South Carolina 38-14 Saturday night.

Making his first start at quarterback because of an injury to Matt Mauck, Randall completed 4 of 10 passes for 52 yards and ran five times for another 39 yards and a touchdown to help LSU (6-1, 3-0 SEC) scored 25 unanswered points in the third quarter.

Demetrius Hookfin had two interceptions, and the Tigers outgained South Carolina (5-3, 3-2) in yardage 132-1 during the period, and LSU held the ball for 10:52.

Mauck is out indefinitely after injuring his right foot in the Tigers' victory over Florida on Oct. 12.

After bumbling through the first half and trailing 14-6, the Tigers scored on their first possession of the second half. The 58-yard drive included three third-down conversions before Randall scored on a 12-yard run. He then hit Michael Clayton for the 2-point conversion, tying the score at 14.

Hookfin intercepted Corey Jenkins' pass on South Carolina's next possession, and less than four minutes later, John Corbello kicked his third field goal - a 37-yarder - to give LSU a three-point lead.

With LSU facing fourth-and-7, Corbello apparently kicked his fourth field goal of the game from 44 yards, but the Gamecocks were flagged for roughing the kicker, setting the Tigers up with first down at the South Carolina 13. Shyrone Carey took the handoff and scored to make it 24-14.

Just 15 seconds later, Hookfin latched onto another interception, taking it 10 yards to give LSU a 31-14 lead going into the fourth quarter.

Hookfin had a third interception that he returned for a touchdown, but it was nullified by a penalty.

Domanick Davis closed out the scoring with a 5-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to make it 38-14.

Randall completed 12 of 23 passes for 183 yards. Davis ran for 113 yards on 26 carries.

South Carolina, which had won four straight, including three SEC games, had little trouble with the Tigers in the first half, and LSU didn't live up to its ranking of No. in the country in total defense.

After giving up an average of 207.8 yards per game in the first six games, the Tigers allowed South Carolina to gain 212 by halftime, including 139 yards rushing.

LSU, which rushed for only 67 yards in the first half, drew eight penalties for 62 yards before halftime.

Because of the second-half turnaround, LSU ended up outgaining the Gamecocks 414 to 275.

Jenkins completed 5 of 12 for 62 yards and a touchdown. He was intercepted twice and sacked twice. Jenkins also ran for 41 yards on 15 carries.

Mississippi State 29, Memphis 17

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Fred Reid scored on a 1-yard run in the fourth quarter and the Mississippi State defense scored twice as the Bulldogs beat Memphis 29-17 Saturday night.

Mississippi State's 16 fourth quarter points erased a 17-13 Memphis lead. The Bulldogs (3-4) benefited from five interceptions by Memphis quarterback Danny Wimprine.

The victory was the Bulldogs' ninth straight over the Tigers (2-5).

Two of the interceptions led to Mississippi State's first and last touchdowns of the game. Jason Clark picked off a pass by Wimprine for a 20-yard score in the first quarter, while a 28-yard return by Michael Gholar with under two minutes remaining put the game out of reach.

Korey Banks had two interceptions for Mississippi State.

Memphis managed little offense in the second half, gaining only 23 yards on the ground and 98 in the air.

The Tigers led 17-13 after a first half of missed opportunities for both teams. Mississippi State failed to capitalize on turnovers and big plays, while the Tigers missed a 20-yard field goal.

Wimprine did connect on scoring passes of 12 yards to Travis Anglin and 59 yards to Tavares Gideon, who tapped the ball to himself, then shook a tackle before strolling to the end zone.

Stephen Gostkowski added a 48-yard field goal for the Tigers.

The Bulldog offense, which had only 66 yards passing in the half, never got in the end zone before the break. Mississippi State's only touchdown came on Clark's interception return, caused when Josh Morgan hit Wimprine as he released the ball.

Brent Smith had field goals of 28 and 42 yards in the half, the latter coming as time expired to cut the Tigers' lead to four. Smith hit his third field goal from 24 yards early in the fourth.

Reid, who ran for 59 yards, scored with just under 10 minutes left to give the Bulldogs the lead.