Category: UGA Football

UGA Football: Everything You Need to Know About the National Championship Game Between Georgia and TCU

Game & Broadcast Info

 

  • CFP National Championship Game
  • Kickoff: Monday, January 9 – 7:30 p.m. ET
  • Location: SoFi Stadium (75,000) | Inglewood, Calif.
  • 2022 Records: Georgia 14-0 (8-0 SEC), TCU (13-1, 9-0 B12))
  • History: Georgia vs. TCU All-Time Series Results: UGA 4-0
  • 2022 Rankings: Georgia #1 CFP, TCU #3 CFP
  • TV: Chris Fowler, Play-by-Play; Kirk Herstreit, Analyst; Holly Rowe and Molly McGrath, Sideline
  • Video Stream: ESPN+
  • Radio: WSB AM 750 – Bulldog Network | Affiliates | Scott Howard (PxP), Eric Zeier (Color), DJ Shockley (sideline)
  • Audio Stream: georgiadogs.com
  • Satellite: SiriusXM 81 and 84
  • Web Stats: ESPN.com
  • Twitter: #NationalChampionship and #CFPPlayoff

 

STAT COMPARISONS

 

Georgia 2022 Averages TCU
39.4 (9th) Points/Game 41.1 (5th)
14.8 (5th) Points Allowed/Game 26.4 (–)
201.9 (22nd) Rush Yards/Game 204.5 (19th)
293.0 (15th) Pass Yards/Game 269.6 (–)
494.9 (8th) Total Offense/Game 474.1 (13th)
304.6 (11th) Total Defense/Game 395.3 (–)
-1 (–) Turnover Margin +9 (20th)

 

TEAM STATISTICS

 

Georgia 2022 Stats TCU
551 207 SCORING 575 370
39.4 14.8 Points Per Game 41.1 26.4
343 223 FIRST DOWNS 308 286
2826 1120 RUSHING YARDAGE 2863 2129
201.9 80.0 Average Per Game 204.5 152.1
4102 3144 PASSING YARDAGE 3,774 3,405
293.0 224.6 Average Per Game 269.6 243.2
6928 4264 TOTAL OFFENSE 6,637 5,534
494.9 304.6 Average Per Game 474.1 395.3
19.5 19.1 KICKOFF RETURN AVERAGE 19.8 22.7
12.6 18.3 PUNT RETURN AVERAGE 12.0 6.4
41.2 42.4 Average Per Punt 40.1 43.7
62-643 78-562 PENALTIES-YARDS 67-694 74-610
33.22 26.37 TIME OF POSSESSION/GAME 31:00 29:00

 

BULLDOGS BATTLE TCU FOR CFP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Top-ranked Georgia enters the CFP National Championship Game with a 14-0 mark following its 42-41 victory over No. 4 Ohio State at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta. The Bulldogs are aiming to become the first team in the CFP era to win back-to-back national championships. A year ago, Georgia was seeded No. 3 and beat No. 2 Michigan 34-11 in a semifinal and then No. 1 Alabama 33-18 for the championship. Also, the Bulldogs will be looking to become just the third FBS team in the modern era to cap a perfect 15-0 season with a national title as Clemson did it in 2018 and then LSU in 2019 when it beat the Tigers.

Georgia has won 16 straight games going back to last season’s CFP semifinal/Capital One Orange Bowl win over Michigan. The school record is 17 in a row set from 1945-47. The Bulldogs are now 4-1 in the CFP in Kirby Smart‘s seventh season at the helm. In just his second season in 2017, the Bulldogs reached the CFP and won a thrilling semifinal over No. 2 Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl Game (54-48 in double overtime). Then, the Bulldogs were stunned by No. 4 Alabama 26-23 in overtime in Atlanta to miss out on a crown. Georgia has won three consensus national championships in its history, claiming the title in 1942, 1980 and 2021.

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UGA Football: Smart, Bennett, and Bullard Take Part in CFP Teleconference

COACH SMART: First of all, I’d like to thank the CFP for taking the time to put this together and having a great original semifinal game there at the Peach Bowl and now headed to the National Championship.

Our kids are really excited ready to head out to Cali we’ll be doing later this week. Looking forward to the opportunity. I’ve got a lot of respect for TCU and their program and Coach Dykes, what a tremendous job he’s done there.

Had the great fortune of seeing him and Max out at the Heisman Trophy ceremony and have so much respect for their program, them as people. And what a great opportunity it is to play in a large setting, in a great setting for a CFP National Championship.

Kirby, you probably know there’s a record number of points scored in those semifinals. With the playoff bracket being expanded, do you see any evidence of guys even at this point just being tired, what’s your reaction to that?
COACH SMART: I don’t know how to pinpoint it. I don’t know. Traditionally the teams that are in these games, they’re pretty good offensively. But you’d like to say they’re also pretty good defensively, but I think the studies and numbers indicate that as the season goes on and especially the semifinal and final games, scoring has to be going up. What that is, I can’t really pinpoint it. I don’t know that I would say it was just being tired because you could say that’s relative to offense as well that you can get tired on offense. You can get tired on defense.
But I certainly think it’s hard to play quality defense any more because I know we try really hard here and I know they do at TCU as well. Joe Gillespie does an unbelievable job, their defensive coordinator. And it seems that tackling becomes worse as the season goes on. And there’s more scoring. But I don’t know why that is.
I’ve been a part of some unique national championships with the LSU/Alabama ones and the rematch that was lower scoring but outside of that I’ve been part of a lot of shootouts.

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