Title Game Was Biggest Blowout in Bowl History

Georgia beats TCU 65-7, largest defeat of any college bowl game ever
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Jan 9, 2023 10:15 PM CST
Bulldogs Demolish Horned Frogs in Championship Game
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart celebrates a win over TCU during the second half of the national championship NCAA College Football Playoff game, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, in Inglewood, Calif. Georgia won 65-7.   (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Stetson Bennett threw two touchdown passes and ran for two scores in the first half as No. 1 Georgia demolished No. 3 TCU 65-7 Monday night to become the first team to win consecutive College Football Playoff national championships. It was not only the biggest blowout in any college championship, it was the biggest blowout in any bowl game, period, notes the Athletic. The Bulldogs (15-0) became the first repeat champs since Alabama went back-to-back a decade ago, the AP reports. TCU (13-2), the first Cinderella team of the playoff era, never had a chance against the Georgia juggernaut. Unlike Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl semifinal, the Bulldogs would not succumb to the Hypnotoads' spell.

Georgia turned in the biggest beatdown in a game that decided a national title, reminiscent of Nebraska running over Florida by 38 in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl, USC's 36-point rout of Oklahoma in the 2005 Orange Bowl, and Alabama's 28-point BCS championship blowout over Notre Dame in 2013. But this was worse. Too much talent. Too well-coached. Two straight titles for coach Kirby Smart’s ’Dawgs. No team has ever scored more points in a national championship game, dating to the beginning of the BCS in 1998. With 13:25 left in the fourth quarter, Smart called timeout in the middle of an offensive drive so Bennett could exit to hero’s ovation in the final game of his circuitous college career.

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