Scuzz
2010
Hurt and out for the second half.
Sweet hayzoos. Remember when it was a 10-7 game? There were probably a lot of TCU +13 degenerates who thought “Hey, maybe…”
My wife and I watched the first half. We then went to bed, and I said “never underestimate the ability of a team I like to blow a lead.” But, as we see, for once I was wrong.
This was sort of like watching a Little League team show up only to find they were playing the mid-1970s Cincinnati Reds. I feel a little bad for TCU, who definitely have some quality players and a good coach, and punched above their weight. It cannot be easy being a Texas school that has to watch as the best in-state prospects get recruited out of state (often by the, ahem, SEC). Of course, every school in Texas now has that problem I think.
Bennett is a pretty amazing story though. I don’t follow the pros, so I have zero clue if he has the size or whatever to be an NFL QB, but as far as college players go, talk about a fairy tale career.
morlac
2013
Wow, they turned the 4th qtr of a Natty into a Spring Scrimmage.
Poor TCU, helluva run though.
Might need to update the thread title and remove the Not…giggle.
Bring on the 3peat!
He’ll get to play in the NFL but teams seem him as a backup at best. There was question whether he’d even get drafted, but I don’t see how a team doesn’t take a chance on the guy. He could easily prove everyone wrong at that level too.
If you need or have room for a QB with potential in the sixth round, maybe even higher than that, you should take Bennett. Winning two National Championships and passing for 4000 yards in a season is nothing to sneeze at IMO. Also, he plays in the SEC, where there are future NFL players all over the teams he beat.
Poor Max Duggan. Dude fought so hard to make his comeback, played like crazy to get his team to the National Championship, then goes 14/22 for 150 yards and two absolutely crushing interceptions. Combined with TCU’s defense being completely outplayed, the Horned Frogs never really had a chance.
Meanwhile Stetson Bennett likely just solidified his shot at the NFL as either a late round pick or a free agent pickup. 18/25 for 300 yards and 4TDs (plus 2 rushing TDs) is a damn fine stat line for a championship game and a nice cap off to a great final season. Geogia’s O-line deserves a ton of credit for that stat line as well, and their defense showed once again why they were #1 practically the entire season and have now won back-to-back National Champions. I am not a huge fan of the SEC, but I am a fan of Georgia football because they do it right. They play as a team, they win (and lose) as a team, and they do it without all of the self-aggrandizing bullshit you see from some other schools.
eliandi
2016
Dykes and TCU pulled a rabbit out of a hat all season long, punching way higher than they should have. The Michigan game was a perfect example.
But last night just did not have an answer. Georgia players out played them, and the Georgia coaches had a great game plan.
I’m hopeful with a good recruiting and portal class TCU can swing even harder next year!
morlac
2017
Bennet will be drafted, I’d guess the 5th or 6th. Right system and ya never know, wouldn’t bet against him. It would just be icing on magical cake anyway. Dude is set for life in GA. No meals, beers, or opportunities will go unoffered. Good for him!
TCU will build off this run for sure, good chance the Big 12 is theirs moving forward with the migrations to the SEC.
Yeah, despite my mixed feelings about sports in general and college football in particular, I retain a soft spot for my alma mater UGA. In a conference with a lot of big personalities and lots of trash talk, the Dawgs have generally kept it more or less classy. Vince Dooley was old-school that way, and Smart seems also to understand the value of low-key approaches and letting the playing talk for itself.
As strong as Georgia looked and as much of the real National Champion they looked, they were about a 50/50 shot of not even making the final game when OSU missed their last second field goal last week. So we’d be talking about the National Champion being a team that didn’t win their own conference.
Scuzz
2020
IIRC it wouldn’t be the first time.
Scuzz
2021
I remember watching Bennett a couple years ago and he looked lost on the field. Now he looks like the most pro ready QB. How much of that is the Georgia offensive dominance though, nobody knows. Just look at the history of Alabama QBs as pros.
morlac
2022
Well folks were saying the real national championship game was UGA vs OSU. Gotta have a little luck to repeat for sure. Playoffs should be fun.
True, but that’s why they play the games, as the saying goes.
Oh true. Just saying that Georgia being an invincible juggernaut (which is what they looked like yesterday) was based on the flip of the coin a week earlier.
rshetts
2025
This really applies to any drafted QB. So many schools have had that rap but the truth is that drafted QBs fail far more than they succeed, no matter what school they came from. Part of the issue with top drafted QBs is that usually the team that they end up with is crap. That’s why they drafted so high. No matter how good a QB is he stills need tools in the shed or he will fail.
Absolutely. Which is why arrogance is so unbefitting any of these teams; there but for the grace of God (and the ref) go I and all that.
rshetts
2027
There is always that “any given Sunday” aspect to football but Georgia, in spite of having some close calls, won every single time for two full seasons. I don’t know, maybe its just me but I think that if you can put two back to back undefeated seasons together, winning the National Championship both years, you deserve to brag a bit.
Georgia players picked up by sideline mics commenting on the TCU WRs: “They ain’t got no Marvin Harrison.”
Also true. And even if OSU shanked that FG, the fact that they were in that situation to begin with means they didn’t do what was necessary to win, and Georgia did. Etc.
Though we all know that sic transit gloria mundi and all that. Who knows how long it will be before a new kid in town shakes things up? Well, new as in probably “yet another program from the limited pool of top-end programs.”
