CFP National Championship ·

CFP National Championship

CFP National Championship pres. by AT&T
No. 3 Georgia14-133
No. 1 Alabama13-218Final
Mon, Jan 10 · Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Ind. (neutral site) · Crowd 68,311 · IndoorsESPN

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

No. 3 Georgia beat No. 1 Alabama by 15 points, the CFP National Championship.

It was played at a neutral site: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN.

How the game turned

Georgia aheadAlabama aheadBiggest swing
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Q4 10:14 Georgia 13, Alabama 18

Georgia 28% to win

Young 3-yd TD pass to Latu, two-point try fails, Alabama goes ahead 18-13

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 9:55 · Georgia 0, Alabama 3Reichard 37-yd field goal, Alabama goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q2 11:12 · Georgia 3, Alabama 6Georgia's win chance fell from 60% to 55%.Reichard 45-yd field goal, Alabama goes ahead 6-3
  3. 3Q3 1:20 · Georgia 13, Alabama 9Georgia's win chance rose from 48% to 74%.White 1-yd TD run, Georgia goes ahead 13-9
  4. 4Q4 10:14 · Georgia 13, Alabama 18Georgia's win chance fell from 59% to 28%.Young 3-yd TD pass to Latu, two-point try fails, Alabama goes ahead 18-13
  5. 5Q4 8:09 · Georgia 19, Alabama 18Georgia's win chance rose from 36% to 61%.Bennett 40-yd TD pass to Mitchell, two-point try fails, Georgia goes ahead 19-18

Georgia's lowest chance to win was 28 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

The biggest swing

With 10:14 left in the 4th quarter, Alabama's chance to win went from 41 percent to 72 percent when Alabama scored a touchdown.

The score went from Georgia 13, Alabama 12 to Georgia 13, Alabama 18.

The play: Young 3-yd TD pass to Latu, two-point try fails, Alabama goes ahead 18-13.

It was Georgia's first win over Alabama since the 2007 season, after 7 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Georgia finished the 2021 season 14-1, No. 3 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  2. Alabama finished the 2021 season 13-2, No. 1 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  3. Georgia's first game of the 2022 season: W 49-3 vs Oregon, Sep 3, 2022

    about 8 months later

  4. Alabama's first game of the 2022 season: W 55-0 vs Utah State, Sep 3, 2022

    about 8 months later

  5. The teams' next meeting after Jan 10, 2022: Alabama 27, Georgia 24, Dec 2, 2023

    about 23 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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