South Carolina knocked off unbeaten Georgia in double overtime for a major SEC upset Saturday, a stunning outcome that will surely dampen the previously unbeaten Bulldogs’ College Football Playoff aspirations.

Gamecocks kicker Parker White connected on a 24-yard field goal in the second overtime to secure the 20-17 victory before Rodrigo Blankenship missed his 42-yard kick on the ensuing possession.

The upset was the first loss for a team ranked in the top six of the Amway Coaches Poll and the first time an SEC team fell to an unranked foe.

In the first overtime, South Carolina running back Rico Dowdle helped position the Gamecocks for victory but White missed a potential game-winning 33-yard field goal.

The game almost ended in regulation, but Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm found Demetris Robertson for a 6-yard touchdown strike — on a 96-yard drive — to knot the game at 17 with less than 2 minutes remaining. But he couldn’t spearhead a game-winning drive once UGA took over on downs with 34 seconds left.Fromm(295 yards on 28-for-51 passing) struggled to drive UGA’s offense before the last drive of regulation, making several costly turnovers — one being an interception that turned into the first pick-6 of his career at the end of the second quarter. That score, an Israel Mukuamu 53-yard return, broke a 10-10 tie to give the Gamecocks a 17-10 lead — and the game’s momentum — heading into halftime. Fromm threw another pick early in the fourth quarter as the Bulldogs were trying to mount a comeback, and it was Mukuamu again who caused the turnover. Mukuamu also picked off Fromm in overtime.

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“Not as clean as I want it to be,” Fromm said. “There were definitely some turnovers and some incompletions. We should have played more clean. That’s part of it and you wish we had just executed better on offense.”

South Carolina coach Will Muschamp entered Saturday’s contest with a stellar game plan, and his team’s defense came up clutch with several sacks on Fromm and momentum-determining plays. The Gamecocks forced a fumble at the beginning of the fourth quarter and also deflected a field goal attempt by Blankenship right before the half.

“That was a great college football game, and you hate for anyone to lose in that situation, especially the way it happened,” Muschamp said, referring to Blankenship’s final miss. “My heart goes out to him in losing in that fashion.”

It was a humbling loss for Georgia, which enter as a 24-point favorite and will likely now need to finish without another loss in the SEC to make the College Football Playoff. Before the resume-staining loss, the Bulldogs had a 46% chance of reaching the playoff.

Georgia coach Kirby Smart blamed the defeat of the giveaways that plagued his team.

“You can’t beat anybody when you have a 4-0 turnover margin,” Smart said. “We didn’t force any on defense. We didn’t cause any problems on defense and we didn’t take care of the ball.”

South Carolina had a QB shuffle with redshirt freshman Dakereon Joyner taking over for starter Ryan Hilinski who suffered a knee injury midway through the third quarter.

Joyner finished 6-for-12 passing for 39 yards and also added 28 yards rushing.

Contributing: The Associated Press