FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – It took Matthew Stafford 27 career starts to log his first 300-yard passing game.

Saturday, Joe Cox did it in his fourth.

Georgia’s offense (and Arkansas’ too) ran rampant in Fayetteville, fueling the Bulldogs to a high-flying 52-41 win and showing that its performance the week before was no fluke.

“We have a lot of playmakers,” said Georgia receiver Michael Moore. “You saw two new starts last week, [corners Branden Smith and Brandon Boykin], and you saw new ones today. Everybody’s a playmaker. I want to call [punter] Drew Butler a playmaker because he booted one about 70 yards.

“We have a lot of playmakers on this team, and that’s what everybody’s going to find out. It’s not going to be a one- or two-man show like they say it was last year. We’re all going to make plays. Our offense isn’t going anywhere.”

With Cox and a varying cast of receivers exploiting a non-existent Arkansas secondary, the Bulldogs put up 530 yards of total offense a week after scoring 41 points against South Carolina – all following an offseason where the Georgia offense seemed like it would be the Bulldogs’ biggest question mark.

Cox, the Bulldogs’ embattled fifth-year senior, threw for 375 yards on 18-of-26 passing, tying Georgia’s school record with five touchdowns and connecting with four different receivers for at least 60 yards.

“We were having a tough time stopping them, and we knew as an offense we needed to put points on the board and counter everything they did,” Cox said. “We did a good job of answering.”

With Cox and Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett having a field day, both offenses traded shots all night long.

Fifteen of the game’s 16 scoring drives were under four minutes long. Nine were under two-and-a-half minutes. Five took less than a minute.

“We’re just really having fun out there,” said Georgia receiver Tavarres King. “We pride ourselves on having fun, and that’s what we’re doing. We’re having fun out there just doing what we love to do, and that’s playing good football.”

Georgia coach Mark Richt has spoken frequently about his team’s need to spread the ball around, to find offensive playmakers outside of receiver A.J. Green.

And while Green was as dominating and impressive as ever – accumulating 137 yards and two touchdowns on seven catches Saturday – other offensive weapons finally got into the mix.

King, a redshirt freshman, made the first big play of his Georgia career, hauling in a 50-yard touchdown pass from Cox in the third quarter, and adding another 14-yard reception.

Moore finally provided the encore to his Capital One Bowl performance, proving to be a solid option for Cox with six receptions for 91 yards.

The tight ends got in on the action too – freshman Orson Charles reeled in two consecutive passes for 62 yards and a score in the third quarter, and Aron White pulled in a 21-yarder for the Bulldogs’ first points of the game.

That depth provides reason to believe the last two weeks’ stunning offensive performances won’t be the last of the season for Georgia.

“We’re starting to get a collection of playmakers that are starting to make plays,” Richt said. “Now we’ve got more options than we had, and we’re probably going to be a little more difficult to defend, now that our guys opposite A.J. are starting to perform.”

Cox, often questioned about his arm strength, routinely dropped perfectly-placed deep balls into the hands of his receivers Saturday, earning himself the honor of being named the Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week on Sunday.

Cox connected for nine pass plays of at least 20 yards Saturday, and tailback Richard Samuel added an 80-yard touchdown run, the longest Georgia rushing score in an SEC game since Robert Edwards matched the feat in 1997.

Before the season, the Bulldogs may not have expected to put these types of points up, much less in conference games (93 the last two weeks) – but they’re rolling with it.

“We always know it’s going to be 60 minutes, and whatever that means is whatever that means, whether it’s 7-3 or a 52-49 game,” Cox said. “It’s always going to be a battle You’ve got to be prepared to play the whole time. You’ve got to be ready for every situation.”

The situation looks to be a positive one for the Georgia offense, especially with two consecutive home games next on the schedule, starting with an unranked Arizona State team, one it laid 27 on last season, on Saturday.

“We try not to listen to what you guys try to say, it’s just about us,” Moore said. “We have all the confidence in the world, the coaches have confidence in us, and that’s basically all we need.

“If we have confidence in each other we can go out there and do what we do.”

And right now, what Georgia does is score.