The No. 4 Georgia Bulldogs aren’t anticipated to face a real problem till Week 3 when the Bulldogs play the No. 18 Tennessee Volunteers on the street. Georgia is favored to beat Tennessee, who has had a tumultuous offseason after making the School Soccer Playoff.
The Volunteers misplaced beginning quarterback Nico Iamaleava to the NCAA switch portal within the spring and needed to scramble to discover a new starter forward of the 2025 season. Iamaleava transferred to the UCLA Bruins.
Curiously, Tennessee discovered their alternative from UCLA. The Volunteers added quarterback Joey Aguilar, who transferred from UCLA this spring. Aguilar by no means performed a snap for UCLA. He spent the primary two seasons of his faculty profession with Diablo Valley Group School (a junior faculty) earlier than transferring to Appalachian State. He transferred to UCLA after the 2024 faculty soccer season, however was solely with UCLA within the spring. Now, Aguilar has been named as Tennessee’s beginning quarterback.
What’s going to Georgia face in Joey Aguilar? Aguilar is a giant, veteran quarterback with a number of expertise (25 begins) from his time at App State. Aguilar has first rate mobility and rushed for no less than 200 yards and a number of speeding touchdowns in each seasons at App State.
He has two profession begins in opposition to Energy 4 opponents getting into the 2025 season, so the competitors he is confronted is a little bit of a query. Aguilar has been productive as a starter.
The 6-foot-3, 225-pound senior handed for 3,003 yards and 23 touchdowns final season. Nonetheless, he is thrown double digit interceptions in every of the previous two seasons together with 14 picks through the 2024 season. Georgia will attempt to pressure Aguilar into errors when two SEC rivals meet on Saturday, Sept. 13. Aguilar and Tennessee hope to snap an eight sport dropping streak in opposition to Georgia.
Joey Aguilar stats
2024 (App State): 3,003 passing yards, 23 touchdowns and 14 interceptions
2023 (App State): 3,757 passing yards, 33 touchdowns and 10 interceptions
