{"id":80128,"date":"2026-10-17T20:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/auburn-stun-no-1-georgia-on-last-gasp-field-goal-as-top-ranked-teams-fall-in-successive-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:56:30","slug":"auburn-stun-no-1-georgia-on-last-gasp-field-goal-as-top-ranked-teams-fall-in-successive-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/auburn-stun-no-1-georgia-on-last-gasp-field-goal-as-top-ranked-teams-fall-in-successive-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn stun No 1 Georgia on last-gasp field goal as top-ranked teams fall in successive weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Alex McPherson\u2019s 34-yard kick seals 27-24 upset<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Georgia lose two interceptions and late fumble<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alex McPherson kicked a game-winning 34-yard field goal as time expired and Auburn, led by quarterback Byrum Brown\u2019s dominant running game, upset No 1 Georgia 27-24 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second straight week the top team in the AP Top 25 lost to an unranked opponent after then-No 1 Texas fell to Oklahoma last Saturday. Auburn\u2019s win meant the team ranked No 1 in the AP Top 25 lost in consecutive weeks for the first time since October 1990, according to Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/17\/auburn-georgia-college-football-upset-mcpherson-field-goal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex McPherson\u2019s 34-yard kick seals 27-24 upset Georgia lose two interceptions and late fumble Alex McPherson kicked a game-winning 34-yard field goal as time expired and Auburn, led by quarterback Byrum Brown\u2019s dominant running game, upset No 1 Georgia 27-24 on Saturday. It was the second straight week the top team in the AP Top &#8230; <a title=\"Auburn stun No 1 Georgia on last-gasp field goal as top-ranked teams fall in successive weeks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/auburn-stun-no-1-georgia-on-last-gasp-field-goal-as-top-ranked-teams-fall-in-successive-weeks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Auburn stun No 1 Georgia on last-gasp field goal as top-ranked teams fall in successive weeks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}