Bryce Young, No. 4 Alabama beat No. 1 Georgia in SEC championship game

ATLANTA — Mater Dei alumnus Bryce Young threw for 3 touchdowns and ran for different arsenic fourth-ranked Alabama rolled implicit No. 1 Georgia 41-24 successful the Southeastern Conference title crippled Saturday, a effect that apt sends some powerhouse programs to the four-team College Football Playoff.

Young acceptable SEC title records with 421 yards passing and 461 yards full offense.

Georgia (12-1, No. 1 CFP) cruised done the regular season, hardly challenged and a unanimous prime arsenic the nation’s No. 1 squad for the past 2 months. The Bulldogs boasted a fearsome antiaircraft portion that had allowed lone 6.9 points a game.

Young made them look similar a scout team, surely bolstering his Heisman Trophy chances arsenic good arsenic moving connected to an adjacent bigger crippled connected the last time of 2021.

The playoff tract volition beryllium announced Sunday, with the semifinals acceptable for the Orange and Cotton bowls connected Dec. 31.

Alabama (12-1, No. 3 CFP) had six violative scoring drives — 5 covering astatine slightest 75 yards, the different 62 — and finished with a staggering 536 yards against a squad that was giving up conscionable nether 231 per game.

The Tide’s defence wasn’t excessively shabby, either, fundamentally sealing the triumph with Jordan Battle’s 42-yard interception instrumentality to the extremity portion with astir 12 minutes remaining.

Georgia’s Stetson Bennett threw for 340 yards and 3 touchdowns, but helium besides had 2 important picks. Freshman Brock Bowers made 10 catches for 139 yards.