Georgia Bulldogs NCAA Football Champs 2021

2021 - Bulldogs Stun The Crimson Tide for 2021 NCAA Champs

The 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship was a college football bowl game played on January 10, 2022, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. The eighth College Football Playoff National Championship, game determined the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for the 2021 season. The game featured the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide and the No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs, both of whom represented the Southeastern Conference. The game began at 8:16 p.m. EST and was broadcast by ESPN. Georgia entered the game seeking its third national championship, while Alabama entered seeking its 19th.

The game started slow offensively, as a field goal on Alabama’s opening drive proved to be the only point of the first quarter. After Georgia scored a field goal of their own to tie the game early in the second quarter, the Crimson Tide kicked two more field goals to extend their lead to six points. A Georgia field goal with just over three minutes in the second half narrowed the deficit to three points, and the game went to halftime with Alabama leading 9–6. Looking to reinstate their six-point lead, Alabama’s 37-yard field goal attempt was blocked and Georgia drove down the field to take their first lead by scoring the game’s first touchdown. Alabama responded, scoring nine unanswered points with the help of a recovered fumble, to retake the lead by five points. This would be their final points of the contest; Georgia scored two touchdowns to take an eight-point lead and Kelee Ringo capped the win with a 79-yard interception return. The game ended, with Georgia defeating Alabama by a score of 33–18 and winning their third national championship in school history, and they’re first since 1980.