They saw Georgia, the current American dynasty, take a cringe-worthy batch of horned frogs from the TCU, and leave them before 65-7 inside the SoFi playground, turning them into something that looks a lot like prey. They saw Georgia claim its first repeat national championship in the College Football Playoff era (and first overall in 10 years), become the fourth team ever to go 15-0, and go 29-1 over two seasons between which the NFL broke into late April/ Nissan selected their 15-man roster, including five fullbacks in the first round of the draft.
They saw collaborative greatness even if they didn’t see the competitive drama.
“Amal [Georgia fans] Seventh-year Georgia head coach and former Georgia player and Georgia Oldsman Kirby Smart said, “I understand the message I’m going to say.” “They can’t take that for granted. You can’t take opportunities like this for granted. And they showed up in full force. And they better never get tired of it because we need them.”
Two thousand miles from Athens, Georgia, they saw things they might never tire of. They saw a powerful group of Bulldogs sprinkle the field with both the elegant plays and the not-so-stylish stops needed to elevate college football to the finest form seen yet. Nine days after a 42-41 escape Ohio State At the National Semifinal Peach Bowl, they saw such a great urgency that led TCU coach Sonny Dykes to discover “a lot of pride in their performance in the way they played.”
They’ve seen something—really a thing—call to mind others who grace their repeat titles with stronger ones, like Nebraska in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl (62-24) or Alabama in the 2013 Bowl Championship Series game (42-14), and they’ve seen a towering reality boost. The idea that the best American football comes from the Southeast, a region that has eight consecutive national championships from four different universities.
Since Monday night, Georgia players have been running the open wilds of their creativity and reflecting their own set of threats, from 25-year-old quarterback Stetson Bennett IV rushing through a gap at 21 yards. That opened the scoring, Ladd McConkey catching a 37-yard touchdown pass from Bennett that McConkey ran on so undisturbed that he looked somewhat lonely, snagging Brock Powers on tight throws to collect seven passes for 152 yards and a yard touchdown. third quarter decline.
If you need Georgia to prove they can get down the field quickly, they can do that, with drives like four plays for 70 yards, five plays for 57 or four for 55. If you need them to show they can slow down effectively you can Doing so, with 11 plays for 92 yards or 11 plays for 66 yards. If you want schemes that leave people wide open, they have it, and if you want accurate passes like Bennett’s 22-yard touchdown pass to Adonai Mitchell’s well-guarded grandstand made it 38-7 at halftime, they’ve got it.
“[They] said De Winters, TCU quarterback. “We kept hitting ourselves, thinking too much, trying to run fast to the ball and things like that.”
In defense of this defense, people often experience personality disorders in the presence of grandiosity. Georgia accounted for 589 yards with a sweet balance of 254 (ground) and 335 (air), and Bennett floated in the quarter-ranked clouds long before landing a 226.9-yard touchdown, which Smart called “amazing” and “probably the best game of his career.” Bennett went 18-for-25 for 304 yards and four touchdowns, rushed for 39 and 2 more points, and had his second consecutive MVP in national title games.
And Smart said, “When you have a quarterback who can do protection and check things out and see what the defense is doing, and yet still hit you with his feet, you have a top-level quarterback.” “
This is a high-ranking quarterback from Georgia who walked at Georgia in 2017, transferred from Georgia to Mississippi College Prep in 2018, and then back again at Georgia in 2019 even as his coaches joined in for his omission. Then all these years later, he’s a two-title quarterback who spent the last quarter of college on the sidelines with calm nerve endings after Smart called a timeout to give Bennett a curtain call of which Bennett said, “Rally, I told all the guys, ‘What are we doing? Why don’t we have a play?'” “And then he realized why and felt the emotion ‘in the huddle, just as it is, just one last encounter with the guys, you know?
However, all the while, something similar art happened elsewhere in the game’s stats, even if it’s the art that causes the bruises. A TCU team (13-2) that only once gained fewer than 377 yards in a game all its spinning season suddenly gained 188. Beloved of an unlikely finalist who rushed for 263 yards in a dream. Fiesta Bowl semifinal victory over Michigan Suddenly rushing to 36. A sweet 32 touchdowns went to Georgia, nine of which went to TCU. TCU MVP, Wide receiver Quentin Johnston, caught one pass for three yards. He saw a noble early sack TCU star quarterback Max Dugan With a tough panel of advocates around him: Galen Carter, Nazir Stackhouse and Ishmael Mondon.
“I mean, they were good up front,” Duggan said. “They had some good blitz, some good pressure that went in. I held the ball too long, wasn’t going through the reads, and it was kind of causing trouble for the offensive line myself. It was kind of on me. But…”
But: “They had some good schemes.”
“As a kid, you know, you always dream about moments like this,” said Georgia fullback Javon Pollard, who intercepted two passes.
It all sent former defenseman and defensive coach Smart into an almost one-on-one discussion about his defensive scouting team, and it looked like TCU had come across something bigger, faster, and stronger than they’d ever seen. It’s something that reigns — and rains red and black — on football country now, standing 81-15 in a seven-season span for Smart, the former Georgia linebacker who once orchestrated the defense of another dynasty, Alabama. His final team in Georgia will find “consistency in performance [that] “It’s hard to find,” said Smart, and he admired it. And those who have watched Georgia, especially those of Georgia in red and black, will know that they have seen a level rarely seen in all of the years of art.
“It’s like in the last three out of four months we’ve been looking to see if anyone can beat us and we’ve sold out of matches,” said Bennett.
Then he finished: “Nobody can.”
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