Brock Bowers had one of the most memorable tight end performances for Georgia against Auburn football on September 30 the NCAA has ever seen — racking up 157 receiving yards and a touchdown on eight catches; good for a nearly-20 yard average per reception.
The performance was perhaps the highlight of Bowers’s three-year career, one that will likely lead to being selected in the top 10 (if not top five) picks of the 2023 NFL draft. It is not a stretch to say that the Bulldogs likely have no chance of winning that game without his monstrous day.
Big Game Boomer, a notorious Twitter/X list-maker and credentialed media figure, perfectly encapsulated Bowers’ dominance through hyperbole; in this case, listing the Georgia tight end’s Week 5 showing in the 27-20 Bulldogs win as the No. 1-50 best performance of the week in college football:
Top 50 Best Tight End Performances Of The Week pic.twitter.com/3nGxYVVyZm
— Big Game Boomer (@BigGameBoomer) October 2, 2023
Auburn football fan-least-favorite was listed No. 2 tight end ever in college football ahead of the 2023 season
Bowers has saved his best performances of the season against teams from the Yellowhammer State, putting up 121 receiving yards and two touchdowns on nine receptions against UAB in Week 4 before his destruction of Auburn football on Pat Dye Field. It should’ve been seen coming in many ways since Stadium Talk’s Tony Adame had him as the No. 2 tight end of all time after just two years — albeit with two championship rings on his hands — in Athens.
“Even with one year of college football remaining in the almost certain case he leaves school early for the NFL Draft, it’s a no-brainer to put current Georgia tight end Brock Bowers on this list among the greatest college football tight ends of all time,” Adame wrote on February 27, 2023.
“The Napa, California, native has been one of the Bulldogs’ best players in his first two seasons, leading his school to back-to-back national championships and making back-to-back All-American Teams along with winning the John Mackey Award in 2022. In 2021, he was the first tight end to lead a national championship team in receiving yards since Oklahoma’s Keith Jackson in 1985.”
In 2021, Ladd McConkey was the top performer in UGA’s offense against AU, but due to the lopsided nature of that game, he wasn’t a hero.
Bowers was a hero for Georgia in Week 5, and will forever be an anti-hero on the Plains for ripping out the hearts of a Jordan-Hare Stadium crowd that believed an upset was possible.