By: George Ahearn

​The patient wait forced upon college football fans from the semifinal games to the national championship is finally over, as tonight we will see TCU face off against defending-champion Georgia for all of the marbles.

This year’s national championship will take place in Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles- and unlike during any Rams or Chargers game – the stadium will be rocking – regardless of the ineptitude that was the decision to prohibit tailgating.

Both teams enter the championship coming off of nerve-wracking semifinal games, as Georgia beat Ohio State 42-41 on a missed field goal as time expired, and TCU was able to hold off Michigan, 51-45. Both of these semifinal games – as I promised you all they would be – were absolute electricity and created the best pair of semifinal matches in the Playoff’s history.

While our mouths were left watering after these two games, tonight’s national championship may leave much to be desired. 

​The semifinal matchups were seeded perfectly from a fan’s perspective. TCU v Michigan and UGA v Ohio State both projected to be intense, competitive games, and they absolutely delivered. However, the UGA v TCU matchup is skewed, and it is skewed heavily in the ‘Dawgs favor.

Georgia is currently 13.5-point favorites, with the line only going up as the day has gone on. A 13.5-point spread is the largest we’ve seen any team favored by in the national championship game since the inception of the CFP in 2014, and it’s the largest we’ve seen for a reason. 

​The Bulldogs enter this game after winning an all-time classic against Ohio State – a game in which they found themselves down double-digits in the fourth quarter. The ‘Dawgs -being as complete a team as they are – hadn’t faced a test of this caliber all season. Ohio State gave them fits, and Georgia was still able to come back and win that game.

You take that experience – coupled with the experience of head coach Kirby Smart and returning quarterback Stetson Bennett – and you’ve created the monster that will be Georgia in the national championship game.

Georgia already had the most complete roster in football – and now that they’ve gotten a taste of what a loss would feel like – are going to play with a chip on the shoulder – the same way they did last year when they won the national championship following a loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship.

Expect to see the Georgia Bulldogs we’ve seen all season, and don’t let your vision be clouded by the two semifinal games, the ‘Dawgs will roll. 

​While TCU has put together a magical season in coach Sonny Dykes’ first year at the helm, the magic almost always dies out, and, for TCU, the magic will finally end tonight. The talent across Georgia’s roster is simply too much for TCU to handle, and I feel as if all of America knows this, yet the magic of the Horned Frogs and the likeability of Max Duggan has created a façade in people’s minds that they have what it takes to pull off another upset.

The Michigan upset in itself was fluky, as we saw an immense amount of momentum-shifting plays and questionable calls go in TCU’s favor, and they still barely squeaked out the win. TCU has done the unthinkable this year – going from preseason unranked to playing in the national championship game – and they should be proud of that tremendous effort, but no magic can save them tonight. 

​This college football season has been one of the more entertaining in recent years, yet the only boring part of it has been the ‘Dawgs utter dominance in games we were expecting to provide us with shootouts.

I fear for us all that once again, the Georgia Bulldogs are going to display sheer dominance, and the hope in our hearts that TCU can pull off the upset will be relinquished even before halftime.

Winner: Georgia

Spread: Georgia -13

Score: Georgia 42, TCU 17

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