AP says that Michael Penix Jr. threw to 430 yards and two scores for New Orleans. Washington beat Texas 37–31 at the Sugar Bowl on the Monday night to make it out of the NCAA Football Playoffs championship game.
This is the last game of the season for both the sixth-year QB who has had two knee injuries and the Pac-12, which is having a rough time.
The Husky’s are placed second and are 14-0. Next Monday night, No. 1 Mi will play them in Houston.
If the Huskies win, it would be the first national title for them since 1991 and the first for the Pac-12 since 2004.
Next year, ten schools will leave the Pac-12 and enter other Power 5 leagues. One of them is Washington. Michigan and the Huskies will both be in the Big Ten.
In the last season of the four-team playoff, the Pac-12 or the Big Ten will go head-to-head. In 2024, the playoff will have 12 teams.
This is like the first season, if Ohio State beat Oregon. No. 3 At the 12:15 mark, Texas had four chances for goals after getting possession from the UW 12.
However, Quinn Ewers failed every one of them. The last pass was a fade with Adonai Mitchell, and she was well covered, nevertheless the pass missed the target.
The team threw to 318 yards and a touchdown in Ewers’s first CFP game. It was also Texas’s last football game as a Big 12 school before moving to the Southeastern Conference.
It hadn’t been enough to defeat Penix and all of his good targets, though. There was a lot of worry about the Texas Longhorns making the college football playoffs until they played Washington in the Sugar Bowl on the January 1.
At the squad’s viewing party in Austin, everyone was very happy with the selection committee’s choice.
It’s still pretty new for the managers at Washington or Texas. The Huskies have only had Kalen DeBoer for two years.
“I would be delighted a decade ago if your had advised me this is the stuff we’re playing in and when we are right away,” he stated.
During his two years in Fresno State, he learned not to set due dates. The first year he was in charge of Fresno State, they went 3–3, and the next year, 2021, they went 9–3.
He said to them, “Don’t underestimate whatever you can do or how fast you can do it.”
The Longhorns had an 8-5 record last year. In Sarkisian’s first season, 2021, they went 5-7 the previous year.
Ford stated, “We thought there would be far better times.” “Everyone proved more motivated than ever following the season.”
January 1 is the Rose Bowl. Ohio State (12-3) plays Alabama (12-4), which is ranked fourth in the division. On January 8, the national title contest will be held in Houston.
He was returning to defense during the game on the line. Jackson was sure that Ewers would ask Mitchell to help him again. The defense was ready this time.
On an Allstate Sugar Bowl University Football Playoffs Semifinal, Jackson jumped through the air or hit the ball backwards with no time left. This gave the Huskies a crazy 37–31 win.
He stated, “That’s the moment most individuals dream of.” “Everyone loves the last game.” Everybody wants to run the game.
Penix threw for more than 430 yards, which marked the fourth-best passing game in CFP history.
However, Washington did not really get ahead. Texas was down by thirteen points at the fourth quarter and tried to come back.
In its final seven minutes, it cut its deficit to one point twice. DC had a 37–31 lead with 1:09 left in the game. Texas tried to kick a field goal from the wrong side, but Washington recovered.
Texas got the ball back at its very own 31-yard position with just under forty seconds left after forcing them to go three and out.
The Longhorns possessed four chances to decide the game on the inside the Huskies’ 15-lawn line. Washington would win, though, and it would be its 21st consecutive win.