Head-to-head: Georgia and TCU have been four times with the Bulldogs winning all previous matchups. They weren’t ranked until the sixth week of the season.
A private university located in Fort Worth, Texas, with a student enrollment of about 10,500. TCU: The Horned Frogs are 13-1 this season, with their lone loss coming to Kansas State in the Big 12 championship game. A public university located in Athens with a student enrollment of 40,607.
Georgia: The Bulldogs are 14-0 this season, including a victory in the SEC Championship game. Opening line: The early betting line has Georgia as a 13.5-point favorite. 9 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California What: College Football Playoff Championship gameĭate: Jan. With the national championship game set, here is what you need to know: We played well enough to win, too – just well enough to win.” My concern is the men in our locker room. “Really, I know you don’t believe it, my heart goes out to those guys because they played well enough to win,” Smart said of Ohio State. Now, there is a chance to go back-to-back. In its next game, Georgia would avenge its SEC Championship game loss to Alabama the game to win its first national championship since 1980. Georgia has won 16 consecutive games, beginning with last season’s CFP semifinal win over Michigan. It gave me confidence, and everybody else had confidence when we went down the field.” I looked around, and there was just a whole bunch of just determined, strong stares from all the dudes. Where else would you rather be? Having the ball with two minutes left, and if you score a touchdown, you win the game. Defense stood up whenever we needed them to. “Just looking at everybody and saying, all right, hey, we haven’t played our best, and we haven’t done our jobs to the best of our ability, but we’re here now. Georgia had three seconds left to take a knee in victory formation before the confetti storm.īennet doesn’t remember what he said in the huddle before the game-winning drive, only that Georgia hadn’t played its best and there was still time to make it right. It was never close, sailing well wide left of the uprights. With eight seconds left, they attempted a 50-yard field goal. With just less than a minute to play, Ohio State drove to the Georgia 32-yard line. Explore Bradley: Ohio State could have won. The game-winner was set up by a 35-yard pass from Bennett to Kearis Jackson. The Bulldogs scored touchdowns on their final two possessions, the last on a 10-yard touchdown pass from Stetson Bennett to Adonai Mitchell with 54 seconds remaining. Georgia trailed by 14 points in both the first and the second half.
Let that dramatic victory be cause for celebration if only for a short time. “I want them to get away, remember what they’re fighting for and come back rejuvenated and ready to go because this is what you do it for.” “Our players have had a long season and a long week of practice this week,” Smart said after the victory. Just after the clock struck midnight, Georgia coach Kirby Smart wanted his team to celebrate, if only for a little while. 2 Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl, a 51-45 winner in the other national semifinal.
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