TCU has had the feel of a team destined for success this college football season, pulling off the improbable and scrapping its way into to the College Football Playoff national championship on Monday night.
Unfortunately for the Horned Frogs, defending champion Georgia was awaiting them in the title game.
The Bulldogs gave Sonny Dykes’s program all it could handle from the moment that Monday’s contest kicked off, racing out to a 38–7 halftime lead. Georgia outperformed TCU in every facet of the game, but the Horned Frogs also committed a handful of self-inflicted mistakes to dig themselves into a seemingly insurmountable hole.