NEW ORLEANS — Georgia didn’t make the College Football Playoff this season but the Bulldogs still put the cap on a banner 2019 campaign here on the first day of 2020, bolting to a 19-0 halftime advantage on the Baylor Bears and ringing up a 26-14 Sugar Bowl win.
In the massive Mercedes-Benz Superdome, junior quarterback Jake Fromm and freshman wide receiver George Pickens played pitch-and-catch with Pickens pulling in 12 of Fromm’s passes for 175 yards and a touchdown. Named the game’s Most Outstanding Player, Pickens’ career-high 12 receptions tied Georgia’s bowl record for catches with Hines Ward, who had 154 yards on his 12 catches in the 1998 Outback Bowl win over Wisconsin.