Arkansas needed its defense to keep this competitive into the second half, and it lasted about one quarter. Georgia led 21-3 at the break, and the Razorbacks' run defense — already thin with Maddox Lassiter out and two more names questionable — gave up almost nothing on the ground itself, managing just 17 rushing yards as a team.
By the fourth quarter the only question left was margin, and Georgia kept adding to it rather than easing off. Chauncey Bowens punched in three rushing touchdowns, the kind of workmanlike production that doesn't need style points when the other sideline can't get off the field.
Arkansas's offense never found a rhythm to match its defense's collapse. KJ Jackson played the first two series before Ryan Silverfield pulled him for AJ Hill, then brought him back for the final drive of the half — the kind of in-game shuffle that signals a staff still searching for its guy, not settling on one. Seven different Razorbacks combined for 20 carries and only 17 yards, a number that tells the story of the day as well as anything on the scoreboard.
For Georgia, this was close to the cleanest version of what the first two weeks promised — a healthy Stockton, a downhill run game in Bowens, and a defense that turned a hostile SEC road environment into a non-event. For Arkansas, the Utah blowout wasn't a bad week. Through three games it's starting to look like the level.