The name of the game for defense is to keep the other team out of the end zone.

Forcing turnovers and getting sacks are ways to do that.

Georgia football is finding ways to win tight games at the end and making enough stops with outcomes in the balance to hold a 7-1 record, but it’s doing that as one of the worst teams nationally in sacks and tied for last in the SEC in forcing turnovers per game.

The No. 5 Bulldogs , which plays at Mississippi State on Saturday Nov. 8, are still right in the mix with four games to go for a spot in the College Football Playoff, which debuts its first rankings on Tuesday night.

"We've been that way before," coach Kirby Smart said on Monday Nov. 3. "We have never been a sack machine if you look at us statistically. We've never been a turnover machine.

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