{"id":1802296,"date":"2023-01-11T10:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802296"},"modified":"2023-01-11T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:54:07","slug":"georgia-destroys-tcu-to-win-second-straight-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-destroys-tcu-to-win-second-straight-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Destroys TCU To Win Second Straight National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-destroys-tcu-to-win-second-straight-national-championship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802296&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Talent won.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TCU was the underdog, and TCU became the first college football Cinderella. The glass slipper was smashed to pieces at halftime after 10 days. The national championship game was varsity against JV, starters versus backups, and yes, the SEC against everyone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Georgia put an end to an amazing season by defeating Texas Christian 65-7 on Monday night. It was the largest margin for victory in the national championship game and any bowl game. Georgia&#8217;s third consecutive national title and its second straight title was secured with a record of 15-0. The Bulldogs could have easily been given the trophy in Atlanta, having won the Peach Bowl. That\u2019s how easy this was.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like for the past three or four months, we\u2019ve been looking to see if somebody could beat us,\u201d quarterback Stetson Bennett said. \u201cAnd we just ran out of games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody could.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T014844Z_1482800827_MT1USATODAY19755716_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T014844Z_1482800827_MT1USATODAY19755716_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg\" alt=\"Georgia\" class=\"wp-image-25302105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T014844Z_1482800827_MT1USATODAY19755716_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T014844Z_1482800827_MT1USATODAY19755716_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T014844Z_1482800827_MT1USATODAY19755716_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>After scoring a touchdown in the TCU Horned Frogs match, Stetson Bennett (12) celebrates with Sedrick van Pran (63).<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Sport<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After one sack on Max Duggan deep in TCU\u2019s own territory, Georgia\u2019s Bear Alexander looked up at the sea of fans wearing purple behind the end zone and waved goodbye. Only 42 seconds remained in the first period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>As it turned out, the Bulldogs had enough time to intercept Duggan twice more and add 22 yards of Adonai Mitchell touchdown to their incredible first-half point total. It was 38-7. The second half began with a 30-minute procession of red and black confetti, and a trophy presentation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Horned Frogs, thank you for coming. Perhaps next time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re a great team,\u201d Duggan said. \u201cEverybody knows how good they\u2019ve been this year and prior years and we knew that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It may have been something the Horned Frogs knew. But now they\u2019ve felt it in a historic way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis team is special,\u201d Kirby Smart, Georgia coach \u201cbecause they didn\u2019t have a flaw.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This team has replaced Alabama as the standard in this sport, with Smart equaling his former boss Nick Saban\u2019s feat of back-to-back titles, which the Crimson Tide won in 2011-\u201912. Georgia won the championship one year after taking down Alabama in the playoff. The team played two close games and held onto the top of the CFP rankings in every iteration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\" data-component=\"inlineSlideshow\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__header\">\n\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"button inline-slideshow__nav inline-slideshow__nav--prev inline-slideshow__nav--disabled\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<?php \/**\n * Carousel right alt - icon SVG\n *\/\n?><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Previous<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/button><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span>1<\/span> Of <span>25<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<button type=\"button\" class=\"button inline-slideshow__nav inline-slideshow__nav--next\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<?php \/**\n * Carousel right alt - icon SVG\n *\/\n?><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__interstitial\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__interstitial-ad-container ad\">\n<p class=\"ad__label\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After becoming one of the sport\u2019s most unlikely stories by leading Georgia to the national title last year, Bennett put the finishing touches on a legendary tale. Blackshear, Ga. native, threw for 304 yard and four touchdowns. He also ran for two more touchdowns in his final game with Georgia. He is the sixth and final quarterback to win back-toback national titles as a starting quarterback. By far and away, he\u2019s also the most unlikely \u2014 a former walk-on who once transferred to Jones Community College and had to prove himself time and again to Smart and offensive coordinator Todd Monken to earn the starting job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, he couldn\u2019t miss. Smart, Monken, and anyone else in crimson could not miss. TCU was defeated by Georgia at the line-of-scrimmage. TCU&#8217;s pass-catchers, especially tight end Brock Bowers, and receiver Ladd Mconkey proved too difficult to handle. Its secondary, questioned after a rocky performance in the semifinal against Ohio State, blanketed Quentin Johnston and the rest of TCU\u2019s receivers just about all night. Even Duggan couldn\u2019t batter his way out of this one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to enjoy watching this tape,\u201d Bennett said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/1455385917.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1455385917.jpg\" alt=\"Georgia\" class=\"wp-image-25301947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/1455385917.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/1455385917.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/1455385917.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Javon Bullard (r.), Georgia Bulldogs reacts to an interception in the second quarter of the College Football Playoff National Championship against the TCU Horned Frogs.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TCU was able to hold on for a few seconds, but it was only during the first quarter. Derius Davis, already down 10-0, took advantage of a rare Georgia coverage break to run 60 yards, setting up an easy 2-yard Duggan score.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For just a second, it looked like the \u2019Dawgs might be vulnerable. Bennett led them down the field and McConkey caught balls of 11, 11 &#038; 37 yards. This coverage-bust touchdown was key to a 70-yard, four-play drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Halftime was over, and Bennett had led Georgia on three more touchdown drives, of 92, 26 and 22 yards. All for touchdowns, and without any TCU responses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T032636Z_1321533899_MT1USATODAY19756279_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T032636Z_1321533899_MT1USATODAY19756279_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg\" alt=\"NCAA\" class=\"wp-image-25302119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T032636Z_1321533899_MT1USATODAY19756279_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T032636Z_1321533899_MT1USATODAY19756279_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T032636Z_1321533899_MT1USATODAY19756279_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/2023-01-10T032636Z_1321533899_MT1USATODAY19756279_RTRMADP_3_NCAA-FOOTBALL-CFP-NATIONAL-CHAMPIONSHIP-.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Bear Alexander, a Georgia Bulldogs defensive player (99), tackles Max Duggan (15, of TCU Horned Frogs) in the third quarter during the CFP national championship match.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Sport<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Horned Frogs made their season this season by returning to the Big 12, when everything seemed hopeless. This was against the SEC speed &#038; strength. There was no way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re setting that standard,\u201d McConkey added. \u201cNo one\u2019s [won back-to-back titles] in the CFP era. For us to go and be the first team, it\u2019s a great feeling.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With 13:25 left in the fourth quarter, Bennett was pulled. Smart called a timeout to establish a curtain call. Georgia led by 45 points at the end of the quarter. He was greeted by a sea of red and a standing ovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was special, coming off and seeing coach Smart,\u201d Bennett said. \u201cThat was really cool.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Talent won, but it turned out that Bennett wrote the underdog story that TCU couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Talent won.\u00a0 TCU was the underdog, and TCU became the first college football Cinderella. The glass slipper was smashed to pieces at halftime after 10 days. The national championship game was varsity against JV, starters versus backups, and yes, the SEC against everyone else.\u00a0 Georgia put an end to an amazing season &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1802299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,13659,6241,4977,4107,3819,9819,12710,7627],"class_list":["post-1802296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-championship","tag-destroys","tag-georgia","tag-national","tag-report","tag-straight","tag-tcu","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}