Georgia football: D’Andre Swift’s greatest plays as a Bulldog

4. Swift puts the 2018 Cocktail Party out of reach

D’Andre Swift does his best work in the second half. Especially in close games or in situations where Georgia football needs just one more score to put the game away. That’s what Swift did with 4:39 left in the 2018 meeting with the Florida Gators in Jacksonville.

Georgia gave itself a two-score lead (29-17) on its last possession with a long pass from Jake Fromm to Terry Godwin. Georgia’s defense forced a punt and the offense took back over at its own 37-yard-line with eight minutes left in the game. Every yard gained and every second expired was another nail in the Gators’ coffin. Then Swift decided it was time to bury that coffin.

With 4:39 on the clock and Georgia facing a third-and-five at the Florida 33-yard line, Swift took a handoff and ran through a small crease on the left side of the offensive line. Nothing stood between Swift and the end zone beside a defender being blocked. Three Gators grazed Swift on the play and one more seemed to have a good angle, but neither had a realistic chance of stopping him.

Swift extended Georgia’s lead to 36-17 and Georgia defeated Florida in Jacksonville for the second year in a row.