Stetson Bennett and Georgia advance to the national championship game for the second straight year, defeating Ohio State in the Peach Bowl.disciple who unceremoniously coached California for a while and groomed former Rams quarterback Jared Goff into a No. 1 draft pick. Dykes quietly moved across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex from Southern Methodist last December and turned TCU into blue-blood beaters in one season of masterful work.
TCU, not Big 12-to-SEC defectors Texas and Oklahoma, is the first school from that league to win a playoff game and advance to the national championship game. The CFP has not been kind to upstarts, which is a big part of why the playoff is expanding to 12 teams in 2024. TCU, which went 5-7 last year and began the season unranked, didn’t need expansion to gain access, though.One subplot for SoFi’s first college football national championship game that will connect to at least one interested observer locally? Dykes and Duggan are aided by offensive coordinator Garrett Riley, the younger brother of USC head coach Lincoln Riley.