Greene's 40th win at QB sets mark in Georgia's win

He set an NCAA Division I record as Georgia routed Kentucky, 62-17.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Georgia quarterback David Greene continues to win football games, and continues to avoid throwing interceptions.
Greene passed for 259 yards on Saturday and set a NCAA Division I record with his 40th win as No. 8 Georgia routed Kentucky 62-17.
Georgia (8-1, 6-1 Southeastern Conference) prepped for its upcoming showdown with No. 3 Auburn by scoring on six consecutive possessions against the Wildcats (1-8, 0-6), who have lost seven straight.
Freshman tailback Thomas Brown rushed for a career-high 130 yards and had three short touchdown runs for Georgia, which won its fourth straight game since its only loss, to Tennessee. The Bulldogs finished with a season-high 589 yards of total offense.
Most points since 1994
The Bulldogs' point total was their highest since a 70-6 rout of Northeast Louisiana in 1994 and their best against a SEC opponent since beating Vanderbilt 62-35 in 1984.
"It's good to start matching up points with the yards that you gain," Georgia coach Mark Richt said.
Greene is 40-9 as a starting quarterback, breaking former Tennessee standout Peyton Manning's Div. I-A record for career wins. In four wins over Kentucky, Greene passed for 1,163 yards and eight touchdowns, including one on Saturday.
"He's a leader," Georgia receiver Fred Gibson said of Greene. "Things don't get done unless he starts them, and he is the commander of an army. He keeps everyone calm during tight situations."
Set two other marks
Greene set two other records Saturday. He completed 14 of 19 passes, including a touchdown, to run his streak of consecutive passes without an interception to 206. That broke the SEC mark of 200 set in 1997 by Stewart Patridge of Mississippi. Fresno State's Trent Dilfer holds the Div. I-A record of 271.
Greene's touchdown pass, a 1-yard toss to Leonard Pope, was the 68th of his career, breaking the school record he had shared with Eric Zeier.
Gibson (129 yards) and Pope (91 yards) each caught five passes for Georgia. Sean Bailey caught touchdown passes of 35 and 2 yards from backup quarterback D.J. Shockley.
Kentucky played without senior safety Mike Williams, who was suspended for the season on Friday for an undisclosed violation of team rules. That limited the options for a defense already thinned by injuries.
"We obviously couldn't run with their receivers," Kentucky coach Rich Brooks said. "They just ran by us."
Georgia methodically built its lead to 34-3 early in the third quarter and weathered a brief rally by the Wildcats, who pulled within 34-17.
Greene and Brown re-entered the game at that point and led a 71-yard touchdown drive, capped by a 4-yard scoring run by Brown. He earlier scored on runs of 1 and 2 yards.