NEW ORLEANS — It wouldn’t be a Washington Huskies game if it didn’t go down to the wire. But even for a team accustomed to stressful finishes, this was an extreme case.
Here were the Texas Longhorns, all but dead and buried, suddenly back alive and within range of scoring the winning touchdown in the Sugar Bowl. They were on the Huskies’ 13-yard-line, down six points, with a chance to absolutely steal a College Football Playoff semifinal game at the very end.
Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers threw the ball into the end zone once ... twice ... three times. All three passes fell to the ground incomplete. Washington held on for a 37-31 victory and will now play Michigan for the national championship next week, the last two undefeated teams in the country contesting the last game of the season.
