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Georgia Knocks Off Alabama to Win National Championship

INDIANAPOLIS — If this is a new era of college football, with its sandlot schemes, pyrotechnic offensives and analytics dictating that fourth down isn’t for punts or field goals, the sport was dragged back to an earlier time on Monday night. Back to football’s prehistoric age, when championships were won with chin-strap busting defenses, offenses […]

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College Football Gets Its Inevitable Georgia-Alabama Title Rematch

Georgia, the defensive mammoth, and Alabama, the perennial juggernaut, seemed to be on a collision course to the top of college football all season. They got a shot at each other in the Southeastern Conference championship in December — a game in which the Bulldogs barely resembled the behemoth they’d been from their first game. […]

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With Exasperation, College Football Is Just Trying to Get Through the Playoff

In this malleable, ebb-and-flow pandemic world, there may be one certainty gleaned from the last nearly two years of living with the coronavirus: that here and there may not look very much alike. When New York City was all sirens, silence and grim isolation during the first wave of the pandemic, it was easy for […]

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Alabama, Michigan, Georgia and Cincinnati Make College Football Playoff

Kirby Smart, Georgia’s coach, signaled Sunday that he remained supportive of Stetson Bennett IV, who was 29 for 48 with two interceptions against Alabama. “Obviously, we have to play better in a lot of areas, but to put any part of that blame, or all of that blame, on Stetson, there’s a lot more to […]

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Alabama Beats Auburn in Iron Bowl Thriller

AUBURN, Ala. — When it ended, the University of Alabama football players galloped across the field, gesturing mockingly at the stunned Auburn fans at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Auburn’s players trudged toward their locker room. Some took a knee, some bowed their heads. Others stood still, staring up at the sky. The Tigers had contained Alabama, ranked […]

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