ATLANTA -- Jalen Hurts checked the notifications on his phone amid the raucous celebration going on inside Alabama’s locker room after beating Georgia to the win the College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T early Tuesday morning. The quarterback’s battery was low, so he found a charger in Tua Tagovailoa’s stall that was beside his and plugged it in.
As it turns out, even Hurts needed a spark from his backup.
This wasn’t the game he or anyone had imagined. The sophomore from Houston, Texas, technically got the win as the starter, improving his record to 26-2, but he wasn’t the reason Nick Saban won his fifth title at Alabama and his sixth overall.