It was a blowout. If there were any positives to take away from TCU’s 65-7 loss to Georgia in the CFP National Championship, it’s going to take a long time to find them and dig them up.
TCU simply wasn’t on the level with Georgia. They hung around, which ended up being just around one quarter. TCU was down just 10-7 with 4:45 to go in the first but the Horned Frogs entered halftime down 38-7 and UGA never looked back.
After the game, TCU backup quarterback Chandler Morris, potentially the quarterback of the future for the Horned Frogs, said that the program wants to be on the level of the Georgias and Alabamas of the college football world. In saying so, though, he basically admitted that TCU is not there just yet.
“We want to be on that tier where Alabama and Georgia are on,” he said, per ESPN. “We’re going to get away from it a little bit, but we’re going to use this as confidence.”
Again, it’s hard to take away anything positive from a beatdown of this magnitude in the biggest game of the season, but it shouldn’t take away from the fact that TCU made the championship in head coach Sonny Dykes’ first year with the program. TCU wasn’t expected to do anything in the Big 12, let alone play Georgia in the title game.
Dykes is hoping that somehow and some way, this bludgeoning by Georgia will serve as a catalyst for TCU moving forward.
“It will take some time for the sting to go away, I assure you. We will look back on this season and build on it from here,” Dykes said after the game.
“That’s the good thing, I think, about our program and, really, our coaching staff. We’ll look in the mirror,” Dykes continued, per On3. “That’s kind of what I told the players afterward. We’ve got to look in the mirror. And it all starts with me. Then it works down from there.”
TCU will have one massive disadvantage next season, and that’s the fact that the Horned Frogs will have to find a new starting quarterback. Sure, he struggled against Georgia, but senior Max Duggan was still a Heisman Trophy finalist after throwing for over 3,600 yards and 32 touchdowns with 423 rushing yards and nine touchdowns on the ground.`
Duggan will move on to try his luck in the NFL. TCU, somehow and someway, will have to find a way to move on from this beatdown as well.
