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After an already historic season, the TCU Horned Frogs are looking to make a statement Monday night in the College Football Playoff championship against...

He is 177 yards shy of 4,000 yards passing this season and threw two fourth-quarter TD passes to lead the Bulldogs to a comeback win in the Peach Bowl semifinal against No. The victory against Michigan was TCU’s ninth of the season by 10 points or fewer. The Horned Frogs would be the first Big 12 team to win the CFP and the first from the conference to win a national title in football since Texas in 2005. He has the size (6-foot-4, 215 pounds) and speed to be the first receiver selected in the next NFL draft. Bowers leads the team with 56 catches for 790 and six touchdowns. Georgia QB Stetson Bennett has accounted for 31 touchdowns and was the school’s first Heisman Trophy finalist since 1992. He lines up all over the formation and will even take a handoff or two. Creating holes against All-America DT Jalen Carter, starting LB Jamon Dumas-Johnson and the rest of the Bulldogs’ big and athletic front seven likely will require a healthy dose of QB Max Duggan in the running game. The Bulldogs would become the first school to win back-to-back College Football Playoff championships since its inception in 2014 and the first repeat national champion since Southeastern Conference rival Alabama did it in 2011 and ’12. Georgia: A House Divided](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/north-texas-family-ahouse-divided-ahead-of-tcu-georgia-championship/3164901/) [Pepper the Cat Predicts National Championship Winner](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/pepper-picks-winner-of-college-football-championship/3164510/) [NBC 5 Exclusive Interview: TCU Former Coach Gary Patterson](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/former-head-coach-gary-pattersons-message-to-fans-as-tcu-seeks-title/3163630/) [Head Coach Sonny Dykes "Proud" of TCU Historic Recruiting Class](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/sonny-dykes-really-proud-of-tcus-historic-recruiting-class/3154620/) [Max Duggan Talks About Heisman Finalist Recognition](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/tcus-max-duggan-discusses-being-a-heisman-finalist/3142151/) Demercado — who rushed for a career-high 150 yards against Michigan — got his first carry on TCU’s third series. He went through pregame warmups with a bulky brace on his right knee, but did not appear to be running normally.

Georgia routed TCU, 65-7, in Monday's College Football Playoff final for its second straight national championship. Quarterback Stetson Bennett led the way with ...

Georgia [repeated as national champion](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/01/11/georgia-national-champions/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) and won its fourth title in school history. 3 TCU Horned Frogs](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/01/09/georgia-tcu-cfp-national-championship/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2), 65-7, in the College Football Playoff championship game Monday night at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. The Bulldogs are the first team to win back-to-back national championships since Alabama in the 2012 season.

Georgia: The Bulldogs are on the precipice of becoming the first team in College Football Playoff history to win back-to-back titles and join Alabama (2011 and ...

Georgia looks to defend its title when it faces TCU in the college football national championship game at SoFi Stadium. The game is in progress (ESPN).

The time and location for Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity’s interview with Georgia is hopeful to have tight end Darnell Washington back on Monday night after he exited the semifinal with a foot injury. They’ll be [joined by the Georgia Bulldogs](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2022-12-31/peach-bowl-georgia-defeats-ohio-state-recap), the defending national champions and a team everyone’s heard of, setting up the first Cinderella story in nine years of the CFP’s four-team bracket format. Trailing by 14 points in the fourth quarter against Ohio State, Georgia mounted a comeback and prevailed 42-41 after the Buckeyes missed a field goal in the closing seconds. The Bulldogs easily made up for the mistake with a 21-yard pass from Bennett to tight end Brock Bowers two plays later. In the show, Hypnotoad is a toad that has hypnotic powers capable of putting anyone and everyone in his trance. Bennett is 11-for-13 passing for 174 yards and one touchdown and leads the Bulldogs in rushing with 39 yards and two touchdowns on three carries. The Horned Frogs gained 10 more yards on a holding penalty against Georgia, moving them to the 31 yard line. The Georgia quarterback is now tied with Joe Burrow for the most touchdowns in a CFP national championship game. The nation’s top tight end is living up to the billing with five catches for 102 yards. The look on the faces of their fans says everything you need to know about how this game has been going for their team. The Bulldogs sacked Max Duggan twice in the same drive with less than nine minutes remaining in the fourth.

Georgia, ranked number 1, stopped Texas Christian's vaunted offense and ended their improbable season. The Bulldogs are the first team to repeat as champion ...

Before the season began, TCU was picked to finish 7th in the conference and was a 200-to-1 longshot to win the national championship. The bulldog is a common fixture at Georgia games wearing a UGA uniform and hanging out in an air-conditioned doghouse on the sidelines. Led by Bennett (a former walk-on QB), Georgia overwhelmed the Southeastern Conference - the best conference in college football. It came in to the title game with a 13-1 record and the Big 12 Conference champions. Georgia simply dominated to lead 38-7 at the break, scoring on all six of its possessions (the first team to do that in the playoffs). TCU started the second half on a positive note - forcing a Georgia punt. Georgia responded right away - with a 37-yard Bennett touchdown pass to extend the lead to 17-7. Before Georgia, no team had repeated as national champion in the CFP era. Like the Georgia QB, Duggan, the With an unrelenting and dominant performance in the national championship game, Georgia swamped Texas Christian University 65-7 to finish undefeated and repeat as national champions. It would be TCU's only points of the game. The Bulldogs marched down the field in less than three minutes slicing through TCU's defense.

'Georgia chose violence': Fairytale crushed as college football title game the biggest blowout EVER.

And with Texas and Oklahoma soon leaving - to join the Bulldogs in the SEC - they can aspire to be a yearly fixture in the soon-to-be 12-team playoff. But they were no match for the Bulldogs, the cream of the crop in the Southeastern Conference and a team loaded with five-star recruits almost everywhere. It was the biggest blowout of a team ranked in the top three of the Associated Press poll in college football history, and the largest margin of victory in any bowl game ever.

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 ...

A four-year starter who never played in a bowl before this season, Duggan led TCU on one of the most improbable runs in college football history. This year the Bulldogs never had to worry about Alabama. Bennett’s 22-yard score to Adonai Mitchell was a higher degree of difficulty, dropped in over a defender who had tight coverage. TCU (13-2), the first Cinderella team of the playoff era, never had a chance against the Georgia juggernaut. Twice Bennett ran it in himself; the former walk-on turned two-time national champion was barely touched on the two quarterback keepers. Smart is now 81-15 in his first seven seasons at Georgia with two national titles.

Yet nothing about the third-ranked Horned Frogs feels the least bit astonishing as they try to tame top-ranked Georgia in the national championship game on ...

The Horned Frogs have increasingly relied on Duggan's legs since the regular season ended, as he had three touchdowns on 30 carries between the Big 12 Championship and the CFP semifinal games. Meanwhile, BetRivers was offering a 63.0-point line with the Over backed by 71 and 63 percent, respectively. With Miller's status uncertain due to a knee injury, Duggan's legs could factor even more heavily into the game plan. Bowers has been extremely consistent this season, catching multiple passes in every game and at least four in nine of his past 12. TCU was still drawing 62 percent of the tickets. Winning it is another matter. The Bulldogs have their own motivation: winning a second straight title. With a slightly better winning payout, BetMGM was reporting 71 percent of the bets and 68 percent of the action backing the Over after the line opened at 61.5. The Bulldogs allowed 14 or fewer points eight times, including two shutouts. However, he has topped 64.5 receiving yards in only two of his past nine games and four times overall this season. "I think, in some ways we probably viewed ourselves as (a Cinderella team) early on because we were figuring this thing out," Dykes said. "So they're there for a reason.

Stetson Bennett passed for four touchdowns and rushed for two and top-ranked Georgia won its second straight national title by steamrolling No.

Bennett connected on a 22-yard touchdown pass to Bowers with 10:52 remaining in the third quarter. Bennett, a former walk-on, finished fourth in the Heisman balloting this season. Branson Robinson rushed for two scores, Kendall Milton added one and Adonai Mitchell had a touchdown grab for the Bulldogs, who outgained TCU 589-188. The next two Bulldogs' touchdowns followed interceptions by Bullard. Bennett's six total touchdowns match the mark set by LSU's Joe Burrow in 2020 for most during the nine-season CFP era. Derius Davis caught five passes for 101 yards.

Georgia's 65 points were the most ever scored in a national championship game and the margin of victory the largest in bowl game history. It was a king-sized ...

It's also probably worth noting that Mack won $75 million on the Houston Astros to win the 2022 World Series, the largest reported payout in sports betting history. Georgia’s 65 points were the most ever scored in a national championship game and the margin of victory the largest in bowl game history. So while Mack lost his bet on Monday, he also sold a lot of mattresses.

To call Stetson Bennett IV and the Georgia Bulldogs overwhelming on Monday night would be an understatement. KEVORK DJANSEZIAN / GETTY IMAGES. A feel-good story ...

[hypnotoads](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/01/09/what-is-the-hypnotoad-tcu/) in Sofi Stadium and it’s unlikely it would have flipped the outcome. The [boredom](https://southboundanddown.com/2022/10/06/georgia-football-truly-vulnerable-just-bored/) that topples so many dynasties? It was a reminder of the gap between the Those concerns about arguably the fourth-best defense Smart has overseen in his [seven seasons](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/coaches/kirby-smart-1.html) as head coach? Georgia entered the national championship game as [13.5-point favorites](https://www.newsweek.com/early-betting-lines-cfp-national-championship-georgia-opens-135-point-favorites-over-tcu-1770602) and left zero doubt who the A-side attraction was as it outscored TCU by at least 10 points in every quarter. The carnage began almost immediately: Within 10 minutes, Georgia had amassed a double-digit lead and by halftime the Bulldogs had fashioned the second-largest midpoint lead (38-7) in the history of the national championship game. [2](#fn-2) [mailman’s cap](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/stetson-bennett-mailman-nickname-georgia/1jorg1vif1mhg1bcubbmbjwsph) to stand out as a recruit? He threw for 304 yards and four touchdowns and played only [one fourth-quarter snap](https://www.espn.com/college-football/playbyplay/_/gameId/401442010) as he became the eighth QB in the AP Poll era to lead back-to-back national title-winning teams. Not that there were many, as broadcaster Chris Fowler noted during the game. Only once in the past 19 seasons has a team overcome a 31-point halftime lead. With it, Kirby Smart became the first coach in the playoff era to go back-to-back, something his mentor Nick Saban never accomplished. A feel-good story doesn’t always conclude on a high note.

FORT WORTH, Texas – After winning her singles flight, freshman Yekaterina Dmitrichenko was named the Singles Runner-Up in the TCU Invitational on Sunday ...

[Avelina Sayfetdinova](/sports/womens-tennis/roster/avelina-sayfetdinova/12116) def. [Yekaterina Dmitrichenko](/sports/womens-tennis/roster/yekaterina-dmitrichenko/12135) def. Elsa Boisson/Emma Persson (Tarleton), 6-3

After TCU's disheartening 65-7 loss to Georgia in the CFP title game Monday at SoFi Stadium, a hopeful Sonny Dykes said the Horned Frogs have to "look in ...

"At the end of the day, we want to win championships," Morris said. We just have got to build from there, and this is going to be motivation for us in the future." "It will take some time for the sting to go away, I assure you," Dykes said. But as he spoke postgame, there was a sense that he was taking on the baton from Duggan heading into next season. "We're going to get away from it a little bit, but we're going to use this as confidence." From the game's first snap -- a bad omen where the Frogs were called for a false start -- any chance TCU had of pulling off a second, and more improbable, playoff upset appeared to vanish.