Georgia Blows Out TCU 65-7, Repeats as NCAA Football Champion

Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett passed for 304 yards and four touchdowns and scored two TDs himself as Georgia beat TCU 65-7 in the College Football Championship game. The Bulldogs became the first team to repeat as national champions since Alabama in 2011 and 2012. It is the third national championship in program history; the Bulldogs also won it in 1980. Georgia finishes the season a perfect 15-0, while TCU ends at 13-2.

Georgia rolled up 589 total yards (254 rushing, 335 passing) while holding TCU to just 188 total yards. The Horned Frogs had three turnovers, while the Bulldogs had none. Even with the starters out for most of the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs’ offense couldn’t be stopped. Branson Robinson ran for two touchdowns in the final quarter.

The 58 point margin of victory was the largest ever in CFP/BCS history (back to 1998), as well as the largest in a post season bowl game that was a de facto national championship game in the years before the playoff. The record for that era was the 38 point margin of Nebraska’s 62-24 wipeout of Florida in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl, which made the Cornhuskers the 1995 season champions. This is also the largest margin of victory in post season bowl game of any kind, breaking the previous record of 56 points set in the 2008 GMAC Bowl, when Tulsa beat Bowling Green 63-7. The record was equaled in the 2018 Armed Forces Bowl, when Army beat Houston 70-14. Those are lower tier bowls so you may have missed them; in fact, the GMAC Bowl is now the Lending Tree Bowl. The largest victory margin in a major bowl game was 55, set in the 1953 Orange Bowl, when Alabama beat Syracuse 61-6.