To even say Georgia beat the brakes off of TCU in the 2023 national championship game would probably be an understatement. In winning 65-7 — a 58-point margin — the Bulldogs enjoyed the largest win in a bowl game in college football history.
At a certain point, with Georgia absolutely cruising through most of the night, head coach Kirby Smart decided to start taking some of his key starters out of the game with the outcome already decided. In fact, if you were to take a closer look, why it’s almost as if the Bulldogs transformed the pinnacle of college football into a de facto Senior Night. Because they did!
There was Stetson Bennett with about 13 minutes left in the fourth quarter:
Stetson Bennett gets his curtain call with 13 minutes remaining in the 4th quarter
What a career👏
— PFF College (@PFF_College) January 10, 2023
Then most of Georgia’s defensive leaders, like Jalen Carter, exited with a little over nine minutes to go for their own curtain call:
THERES OVER 9 MINUTES LEFT IN THIS GAME & GEORGIA IS CURTAIN CALL SUBBING THE ENTIRE DEFENSE 😵
— Cole Cubelic (@colecubelic) January 10, 2023
That’s right. Georgia was so dominant to repeat as champions; they got to say goodbye to almost all of their critical departing players with just about two-thirds of the fourth quarter remaining. Talk about getting your flowers at the expense of another helpless opponent — in this case, TCU.
College football fans couldn't believe Georgia actually did curtain calls with so much time left in the national title game
Georgia is straight flexin with these curtain calls. What a time to be a Georgia Bulldog fan 😎💪🏼
— Jonathan Pabon PT, DPT (@jjpabo24) January 10, 2023
The entire Georgia defense just got a curtain call like they were all starting pitchers.
— Xander Bohler (@xanbz) January 10, 2023
Georgia is using timeouts for ovations like curtain calls in Hamilton
— Gregory Butler (@gregjbutler) January 10, 2023
Georgia is doing curtain calls for their players early in the 4th quarter, but people had TCU winning this 😭
— Nicole (@Seddair) January 10, 2023
Gotta suck to be TCU, they just want this game to be over and go home and Georgia keeps stopping it with all these curtain calls 😂😂
— Andrew (@At_Dubb) January 10, 2023
Georgia just spending timeouts now to get curtain calls is wild in a national champ game #NationalChampionship
— Liam Tracy (@Ltracy24) January 10, 2023
13:25 left in the 4th and Georgia is doing curtain calls. That says it all.
— RebelRad (@SRadowick) January 10, 2023
Been a joke of a game. Non FBS teams put up a better fight against UGA this year https://t.co/eyBDFUpY4R
— Connor (@connor_n_25) January 10, 2023
Iconic. https://t.co/1tymEIyOlk
— Michael Gray (@mgrayuga) January 10, 2023
