12:25. OKLAHOMA 31, GEORGIA 24. No, that was exactly the start UGA needed. On the Dawgs’ first snap, Chubb runs through tackles at the line of scrimmage and rumbles 50 yards for a touchdown.
OU was up 17 with six seconds left in the first half. The lead’s already down to seven.
12:36. After a short Badet kick return, OU begins the half from its 14. Anderson gains three yards, then Mayfield loses two on a scramble. On third-and-9, a quick sling to Brown only gains eight, and Hardman returns a Seibert punt to midfield. Exactly the start UGA needed.
Some stats:
OU:
- Mayfield: 13-for-18 for 200 yards and a touchdown and two sacks, two non-sack carries for 12 yards, and a two-yard touchdown reception.
- Anderson: 13 carries for 125 yards and two touchdowns. (Sermon has two carries for 34 yards, too.)
- Brown: four catches for 76 yards and a touchdown.
Georgia:
- Fromm: 12-for-17 for 109 yards, a touchdown, and two sacks.
- Chubb and Michell: eight carries for 184 yards and a touchdown. Maybe, uh, give them the ball more.
By the way, this has been about the best display of first-down offense you’ll ever see. Georgia has run 16 plays on first down for 239 yards; OU’s run 19 for 182. Riley and Chaney had their respective units all sorts of prepared for this one.
0:00. OKLAHOMA 31, GEORGIA 17. An OU squib kick goes awry, and Georgia downs it at the OU 47 with five seconds left. That allows for a short pass to Godwin, a timeout, and a 55-yard attempt from Blankenship. He nails it. Georgia is still in trouble, but that was a gift three points from the Sooners. Never squib. Never ever squib.
0:06. OKLAHOMA 31, GEORGIA 14. This time Lamb takes an end around to the right, but this time he fires to Mayfield, who has drifted open in the end zone. Touchdown.
Dagger. Absolutely gorgeous dagger.
0:13. With Murray back in the backfield, Badet takes a jet sweep (well, a jet-sweep pass) around the right side, but Roquan Smith and Lorenzo Carter keep him out of the end zone. OU calls another timeout. Third down from the 2.
0:20. Tyler Clark blows up a handoff to Flowers, and OU calls timeout. Second down from the 6.
0:25. Sermon immediately flips the field back with a 31-yard run down the right flank, but Anderson is stopped for a yard, and Mayfield misses Lamb deep over the middle. On third-and-9, though, Mayfield hits Brown on a shallow cross, and he shoots upfield for 45 yards. Goodness, he’s fast.
After a six-yard pass to Lamb, Anderson gains three, and Mayfield sneaks ahead for a first-and-goal from the 2.
With 25 seconds left in the half, Oklahoma comes out with a weird quick-huddle thing, and Georgia calls timeout. OU comes back out with two quarterbacks (Mayfield and backup Kyler Murray) in the backfield, and Kirby Smart calls another timeout. Cat and mouse. OU’s about to score and gets the ball to start the second half. Smart has to do everything he can to hold the Sooners to a field goal.
3:28. Georgia’s not backed up for long, as Chubb bursts up the left sideline for 45 yards. But Steven Parker sacks Fromm on a perfect safety blitz — why are you throwing so much, Georgia? — and Tre Norwood breaks up a lob to Wims. On third-and-17, a dump to Michel gains nine, and Nizialek pins OU at the 10. No points, but the Dawgs flipped the field, at least.
5:37. Anderson’s back in, and his first carry gains seven yards. On second down, however, Mayfield gets a little too comfortable and waits too long to find an open man. David Marshall trips him up, and on third-and-12, a pass to Brown comes up short. Humongous stop by the Dawgs, even though Seibert’s punt takes an amazing bounce and goes out of bounds at the UGA 2.
7:42. A good Mecole Hardman kick return is negated somewhat by an illegal block, and UGA starts at its 20. Wims takes another short pass 16 yards, but after a short Swift run, Fromm misfires to both Ridley and Michel, and Nizialek half-shanks a punt to only the OU 42. Lots of pressure on the Georgia defense right now.
9:12. FIELD GOAL. OKLAHOMA 24, GEORGIA 14. Mayfield looks left, then fires to Andrews over the middle for 29 yards, then two Anderson carries gain seven yards to set up another third down. On the second carry, about 600 pounds’ worth of Georgia defenders land on top of him, presumably knocking his breath out. He stays down on the sideline for a while.
With Anderson out, Mayfield fakes to backup Trey Sermon and runs an easy keeper for a first down. From the 32, two shots to Lamb can’t connect — one on a double-covered deep ball, and one off his hands on a slant — which sets up the first actual third-and-long of the afternoon. And the Sooners convert. A gorgeous screen to Lamb gains 14 into the UGA red zone.
Sermon gains three yards, then Lamb drops another contested pass over the middle. Third-and-long again, and Georgia finally gets a stop — Tyler Clark captures Mayfield in a collapsing pocket, forcing OU to settle for a 38-yard Austin Seibert field goal. Small victories.
14:00. TOUCHDOWN. OKLAHOMA 21, GEORGIA 14. Damn. Sony Michel, 75 yards. Touchdown.
Georgia used motion to get OU’s linebackers out of position, and Michel hit the jets.
This is a hell of a football game, you guys.
14:12. TOUCHDOWN. OKLAHOMA 21, GEORGIA 7. Mayfield finds Mark Andrews for 11 yards to start the quarter, then it’s Anderson again. He bolts left for 41 yards and a third touchdown in three OU drives.
Seventeen plays, 209 yards, 21 points. Mayfield is 6-for-7. Anderson has eight carries for 107 yards. This is already the third-most points Georgia has allowed in a game this year. Georgia will still probably make adjustments and figure some things out. But what’s the score going to be when that happens?
0:00. It took almost the entire first quarter for Georgia to force a third down, but on third-and-3, Mayfield easily finds CeeDee Lamb for 10 yards to the OU 48. That’s how a thrilling first quarter ends.
1:48. A Chubb cutback gains 11 to start Georgia’s third drive, then carries by Chubb and D’Andre Swift combine to gain seven. On third-and-3, Fromm easily finds Woerner to move the chains again. And for good measure, he connects with Woerner again for 11 yards to the OU 38.
An easy pass to Tyler Simmons gains nine yards, but after a false start, Pernell Motley eats up a quick RPO pass to Terry Godwin to set up a third-and-5. Fromm has to dump to Michel under pressure, and Motley takes him down three yards short. Rodrigo Blankenship’s 48-yard attempt drifts just left. Feels like a service break.
6:56. TOUCHDOWN. OKLAHOMA 14, GEORGIA 7. A nine-yard pass to Brown and a three-yard rush by Anderson move the chains for OU, and after an incomplete deep shot toward Brown, it’s the Rodney Anderson show. He bolts 45 yards down the left sideline, gains nine, then gains nine again for a touchdown.
OU has gained 140 yards in 12 plays. Goodness.
8:27. TOUCHDOWN. GEORGIA 7, OKLAHOMA 7. Exactly what Georgia needed. Chubb hits the corner on the first play of the Dawgs second drive and rumbles for 25 yards. Two plays later, Sony Michel races off right tackle for 20 more to the OU 29. Fromm fires high again to Woerner, who reels the ball in for a short gain, then the freshman makes a nice pass to Wims for 14 yards. From there, he finds Michel out of the backfield for a 13-yard score.
Not sure they even needed to throw the ball on that drive, but it worked.
11:31. TOUCHDOWN. OKLAHOMA 7, GEORGIA 0. After Jonathan Ledbetter eats up Rodney Anderson for no gain on OU’s first play, Baker Mayfield rolls right and hits H-back Dimitri Flowers wide open over the middle on back-to-back passes for 16 and 26 yards. After a hands-to-the-face penalty on a short Mark Andrews catch, OU is already inside the UGA red zone.
From the 15, Mayfield flips to Anderson for a two-yard gain, then hits Marquise Brown in the end zone off of play-action.
That was easy. Georgia will adjust, but it better happen pretty quickly.
13:37. Georgia comes out throwing, trying to get Jake Fromm in an early rhythm. He hits Javon Wims, who cuts upfield for 21 yards, but Wims drops a second pass. After a three-yard Nick Chubb run, it’s the first third-and-long of the game: Fromm has time but throws off-target on a pretty easy pass to tight end Charlie Woerner. Cameron Nizialek’s first punt is boomed into the end zone.
Guess we didn’t learn just a ton about OU’s defense there, but you’ll take a four-and-out on every possession.
15:00. Oklahoma wins the toss and defers to the second half. Really curious about how both of these defenses will handle the unique tests ahead of them. We’ll find out something about OU’s D first.
The Rose Bowl has traditionally been a showdown between the West Coast and Middle America as the Pac-12 and Big Ten champions have gone to battle in sunny Los Angeles. But in 2018, thanks to the College Football Playoff, it will give two of the nation’s top four teams a rare opportunity to watch the Parade of the Roses live. Kickoff in the semifinal game between the No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners and No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs is scheduled for 5 p.m. ET and will be broadcast on ESPN (live stream).
It’s the Bulldogs’ first Rose Bowl since the 1942 season when they beat UCLA in a 9-0 barnburner. For the Sooners, it’s their first postseason trip to the City of Angels since the 2002 season, when Nate Hybl led the team to a big win over Washington State.
2017 Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield will try to outgun a Bulldogs offense led by a potent three-headed rushing attack. Georgia ran for an impressive 5.8 yards per carry this fall. The Bulldogs need to be just as productive to keep up with the Sooners’ third-ranked passing offense on Monday.
- Time: 5 p.m. ET
- Location: Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.
- TV: ESPN
- Streaming: WatchESPN
- Odds: Georgia is favored by 2.5 points
OU heads in ranked a paltry 95th in Def. S&P+. The Sooners are the only CFP team without a top-10 defense, and they’re not even close to that mark. They’ve gotten away with it because of their absurdly good offense, but it’s safe to assume that Mayfield and company aren’t going to put up 50 points on UGA. The Sooner D is going to need to make some stops.
Despite the overall numbers, OU has spent half the season playing solid defense. The other half, not so much.
Question 1: What kind of personnel package allows you to matchup?
Oklahoma’s base “21 personnel” grouping (two RBs, one TE, two WRs) is difficult to match up against. A head coach from the Mike Leach tree who also regularly trots out a TE and FB is pretty unique, but the way the Sooners do it really complements the air raid elements.
Miami safety Nadab Joseph visited Georgia late in the recruiting process but appeared set to stick with his commitment to the Alabama Crimson Tide this morning. But it was not to be, and the Bulldog coaching staff landed one nationally ranked recruit on the day. Joseph is tabbed the #18 cornerback in the nation and the #161 prospect overall by 247Sports. Joseph was an LSU commit prior to his Tide pledge, but had been on the UGA staff’s radar for quite a while.
A laundry list of big-time ball-carriers is the foundation of any RBU argument. For Georgia, guys like Frank Sinkwich, Charley Trippi, Willie McClendon, Rodney Hampton, Lars Tate, Garrison Hearst, Terrell Davis, Knowshon Moreno, Todd Gurley, and even current Bulldog Nick Chubbreinforce any RBU claims in Athens. You may have noticed how I didn’t even mention the legendary Herschel Walker, who is arguably the greatest college football player, regardless of position, in history:
Back on point - the great thing (and there were many great things) about this game is the redemption and the fact that we will not have to hear about the November 11 loss ever again. Ever. Yeah, we might get to see a highlight whenever someone features Auburn in the future. But that game was nothing but a bad memory that has been instantly erased. We had the last laugh and they don’t get a mulligan. That must burn.
Can Jake Fromm live up to the pressure of his first bowl game?
Fromm usurped Jacob Eason’s starting role as a true freshman this year, and while he shined in the SEC title game, the young passer will face more pressure than ever before to perform in the biggest game of UGA’s season to date. Fortunately, the Bulldogs don’t need him to be prolific in order to win. Fromm only has three games this season in which he’s thrown for 200-plus yards. If the Sooners can’t stop the Georgia running game, Eason could have all the latitude he needs to pick the Oklahoma secondary apart.
Mayfield’s singular talent could be enough to push the Sooners to victory, but a more balanced Georgia team takes this one in a high-scoring affair.
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