OXFORD, Miss. (Interstat) — Gunner Stockton accounted for five touchdowns and Georgia’s defense controlled the game as the Bulldogs beat Ole Miss 42-7 on Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Georgia scored in every quarter and led throughout, improving to 8-1. Ole Miss fell to 6-3. Attendance was 68,814 at the Football Bowl Subdivision game.

Stockton, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound quarterback from Tiger, Ga., threw for 186 yards and four touchdowns and ran six times for 28 yards and another score. Craig Dandridge Jr. opened the scoring with a 4-yard run at 10:16 of the first quarter. Stockton then hit Talyn Taylor for a 58-yard touchdown at 6:18. Ole Miss’s Lucas Carneiro missed a 56-yard field goal attempt later in the quarter. In the second quarter, Stockton found Ethan Barbour for a 3-yard touchdown at 14:16 and scored on a 15-yard run at 2:42. Peyton Woodring missed a 49-yard field goal just before halftime.

Taylor finished with four receptions for 140 yards and three touchdowns. His 58-yard catch and run gave Georgia an early cushion, and he added scoring catches of 6 and 65 yards. Barbour had one catch for 3 yards and a touchdown. Dandridge ran once for 4 yards and a score. Jaden Reddell had two carries for 18 yards and two receptions for 25 yards. Sacovie White-Helton ran once for 14 yards, and Nick Peal had two carries for 18 yards. Lawson Luckie caught one pass for 11 yards. Drew Miller punted three times for 133 yards for Georgia.

Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss completed 18 of 34 passes for 170 yards. Shekai Mills-Knight led the Rebels on the ground with 13 carries for 52 yards and a touchdown and added two receptions for 15 yards. Horatio Fields caught eight passes for 96 yards. Caleb Odom had three receptions for 23 yards, Traylon Ray had two for 17, Johntay Cook II had one for 8 and Michael Smith had one for 5. Makhi Frazier ran four times for 8 yards and caught four passes for 22 yards. Joshua Dye ran three times for 13 yards and made one tackle. Deuce Knight completed 3 of 4 passes for 16 yards and ran twice for 5 yards. Oscar Bird punted six times for 253 yards.

Georgia’s defense held Ole Miss without a point until after halftime. Chris Cole led the Bulldogs with nine tackles, 1.5 sacks and two quarterback hurries. Raylen Wilson had seven tackles and a quarterback hurry. Rasean Dinkins had five tackles, a sack and two quarterback hurries. Gabe Harris Jr. and Demello Jones each made five tackles, and Ellis Robinson IV added four. The Bulldogs also got production from their front seven and secondary while limiting the Rebels’ passing game for most of the afternoon.

Ole Miss got its lone touchdown when Mills-Knight scored on an 8-yard run. Carneiro made the extra point. Georgia answered with Stockton’s 65-yard touchdown pass to Taylor at 9:06 of the fourth quarter, and Woodring made the extra point. The Rebels’ defense was led by Kam Franklin and Antonio Kite, who each made six tackles. Joenel Aguero had six tackles and a quarterback hurry. Jaylon Braxton and Anthony Robinson III each had five tackles. Nick Cull had four tackles, and Luke Ferrelli had three tackles and a quarterback hurry. Will Echoles recorded a tackle and a sack. Michai Boireau and Suntarine Perkins each had four tackles, while Jehiem Oatis, Jalyn Crawford, Ladarian Clardy, Jamarious Brown and Jayden Curtis each had two. Keaton Thomas made three tackles. Jordan Renaud, Tah’j Butler, Andy Jaffe, Jonathan Maldonado and Deuce Alexander each had one tackle, and Joshua Dye added one tackle for the Rebels.

Georgia finished with 42 points and Ole Miss finished with 7. The Bulldogs improved to 8-1, and the Rebels fell to 6-3. Georgia’s previous win came against Florida, and the Bulldogs will next face Missouri. Ole Miss had won its previous game against Auburn and will next play at Oklahoma.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Georgia 42, Ole Miss 31. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Georgia with a 63.7 percent probability to win. Georgia had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus-3.5. The total score of 49 went over the over/under line of 56.5.