David Gabriel Georges carried the ball 12 times on Friday night and averaged 20.6 yards each time he did. Three of those carries went for touchdowns of 30, 67 and 67 yards. A fourth, an 88-yard run in the third quarter, was wiped out by a holding penalty.
Baylor School beat Knoxville Catholic 21-7 at Covenant Health Park in Knoxville to finish the regular season 10-0 and 5-0 in TSSAA Division II-AAA East Region play, per the school's game report. Baylor is No. 9 in the MaxPreps national rankings, and the win was its 22nd in a row dating to the start of 2025. Knoxville Catholic fell to 7-3.
Georges: 247 Yards and All Three Touchdowns
Georges, a senior running back who committed to Tennessee in July, scored on a 30-yard run on the first play of the second quarter, a 67-yard run on Baylor's first series of the second half and another 67-yarder with 11:11 left, per the Chattanoogan. The first quarter was scoreless, and Knoxville Catholic did not score until the fourth.
Tennessee coach Josh Heupel and running backs coach De'Rail Sims were in the stands, per 247Sports. Senior quarterback Keegan Croucher, an Ole Miss commit, went 15 of 23 for 129 yards while Baylor played without its top two receivers, per the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Georges ran for 1,756 yards and 27 touchdowns last season and was named a national player of the year, per the school's site.
Three Scoreless Quarters on the Road
The defense carried the night as much as Georges did: three scoreless quarters against a 7-2 Knoxville Catholic team on its own field, and a third East Region title in school history already in hand.
Baylor, the reigning Division II-AAA champion, opens the playoffs next week. The BallerTube high school football page has more from the week.