ENGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Stetson Bennett threw two touchdown passes and scored two in the first half as No. 1 Georgia demolished No. 3 TCU by Monday night 65-7 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship. They became the first team to win back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs (15-0) became the first repeat champions since Alabama’s winning streak a decade ago, and there was little doubt that they had replaced the Crimson Tide as the block’s new bully.<\/p>\n
The first Cinderella team of the playoff era, TCU (13-2), did not stand a chance against the Georgia juggernauts. Unlike Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl Semifinals, the Bulldogs were not defeated by the Hypnotoad spell.<\/p>\n
Georgia recalls Nebraska’s 38-point victory over Florida in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl, USC’s 36-point victory over Oklahoma in the 2005 Orange Bowl, and Alabama’s 28-point victory. and His BCS Championship blast at Notre Dame in 2013.<\/p>\n
But this was worse.<\/p>\n
Too talented. Too good at teaching. The Dogues, directed by Kirby Smart, won the title for the second time in a row.<\/p>\n
No team has scored more points in a national championship match since the BCS started in 1998.<\/p>\n
With 13:25 remaining in the fourth quarter, coach Kirby Smart called a timeout midway through an aggressive drive, allowing Bennett to earn the hero’s applause for the final game of his circuitous college life. bottom.<\/p>\n
He finished 18-for-25 with 304 yards and four touchdown passes.<\/p>\n
Georgia’s offensive linemen were snacking on chicken wings on the sidelines when the game ended.<\/p>\n
Smart is now 81-15 in his first seven seasons in Georgia, winning two national titles. His mentor, Alabama’s Nick his Saban coach, went 79-15 to win his three titles in his first seven seasons with the Tide.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs have been a different kind of dominant this season: less stingy on defense but more explosive on offense.<\/p>\n
Early on in Smart’s tenure at his alma mater, fans in Georgia worried whether Saban’s former defensive coordinator would be able to build an offense that rivaled college football’s high-scoring days.<\/p>\n
Under third-year coordinator Todd Monken, the Bulldogs have become prolific, creative, and aggressively diversified. They picked his 3-3-5 defense for his TCU from every angle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n