An interception off a helmet? A touchdown after a blocked field goal? They helped fuel No. 1 Georgia’s win and, if the Bulldogs have their way, a clinching of the top playoff seed.
ATLANTA — No. 3 Texas Christian had fallen in overtime. No. 4 Southern California? Embarrassed out West.
Surely, top-ranked Georgia — the behemoth that won last season’s national championship, the juggernaut whose narrowest margin of victory this year came in an intrasquad scrimmage, the red-and-black program that looks more look like a blue blood just about every weekend — could restore order when it met a three-loss Louisiana State team in the Southeastern Conference championship game.