{"id":136200,"date":"2018-01-09T08:05:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=136200"},"modified":"2018-01-09T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T17:24:08","slug":"tide-takes-national-college-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=136200","title":{"rendered":"Tide national college football champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-107202\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crimsontidefb-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crimsontidefb-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crimsontidefb-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crimsontidefb-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crimsontidefb.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 A 13-point halftime lead wasn\u2019t enough against Alabama. Neither was a 20-7 advantage in the third quarter, or a field goal on the first possession of overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Tide earned their fifth national championship since 2009 by outlasting SEC-rival Georgia 26-23 in OT. Tua Tagovailoa threw a 42-yard touchdown pass to DeVonta Smith on the Crimson Tide\u2019s second play of overtime to complete the comeback victory over the Bulldogs in Atlanta. The freshman quarterback was sacked for a 16-yard loss on the previous play before sending Alabama to its 11th national championship.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia had the ball first in overtime, and Rodrigo Blankenship kicked a 51-yard field goal. The long kick came after Andy Pappanastos missed from 37 yards out in the final seconds of regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa entered the game at the start of the third quarter with the Tide trailing 13-0. He led Alabama to two touchdowns and two field goals in regulation, including a game-tying, seven-yard scoring strike to Calvin Ridley on fourth-and-4 with 3:49 left in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Tagaovailoa was 14 of 24 for 166 yards after replacing Hurts, who completed just three of eight passes for 21 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Fromm was 16 of 32 for 232 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. He heaved an 80-yard scoring pass to Mecole Hardman to put Georgia ahead 20-7 with 6:52 left in the third period before Alabama came storming back.<\/p>\n<p>Hardman also had a one-yard TD run for the Bulldogs, who end up 13-2. Georgia is still seeking its first national title since 1980.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the sixth national title for Alabama coach Nick Saban, tying him with former Crimson Tide coach Bear Bryant for the most all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 A 13-point halftime lead wasn\u2019t enough against Alabama. Neither was a 20-7 advantage in the third quarter, or a field goal on the first possession of overtime. The Crimson Tide earned their fifth national championship since 2009 by outlasting SEC-rival Georgia 26-23 in OT. Tua Tagovailoa threw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136221,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136200\/revisions\/136221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}