SOUTHEASTERN ROUNDUP : Freshman Goes to the Air, Deflates Kentucky, 49-27

Coach Bill Curry of Kentucky snapped the ball to Johnny Unitas with the Baltimore Colts and Bart Starr with the Green Bay Packers, so he knows a good quarterback when he sees one.

Curry was duly impressed by Georgia freshman Eric Zeier, who led the 24th-ranked Bulldogs to a 49-27 victory over Curry’s Wildcats Saturday at Athens, Ga.

“I think he is sensational,” Curry said of Zeier. “I was amazed at Zeier’s accuracy. A lot of the throws and catches were just tremendous and we covered them as well as we could have.”

Zeier completed 19 of 23 passes for 302 yards and threw touchdowns passes of 22 yards to Arthur Marshall and six yards to Andre Hastings.

He engineered touchdown drives on seven of 11 possessions for the Bulldogs, 6-2 overall and 3-2 in the Southeastern Conference.

Georgia’s Garrison Hearst ran for 158 yards in 16 carries and touchdowns of 32 and seven yards.

Kentucky fell to 2-5 and 0-4.

Vanderbilt 30, Mississippi 27--Jeff Owen kicked a 42-yard field goal with 22 seconds left and the Commodores broke a 19-game SEC road losing streak by beating the Rebels at Oxford, Miss.

Vanderbilt (3-5, 2-3) controlled the ball for 41:18 as it won on the road for the first time since a 31-20 victory at Alabama in 1984. The Commodores had 326 yards in total offense, 228 on the ground.

Mississippi (5-3, 1-3) had a 27-19 lead in the fourth quarter when Vanderbilt quarterback Marcus Wilson ran 14 yards for a touchdown on a fourth-and-one play and tied the score by running for a two-point conversion.