Posted on 01/01/2026 9:15:47 PM PST by L.A.Justice
NEW ORLEANS -- Lucas Carneiro kicked a 47-yard field goal in the closing seconds, and the Ole Miss Rebels defeated the Georgia Bulldogs, 39-34, in the Sugar Bowl, securing a berth in the College Football Playoff semifinals.
Ole Miss advances to play the 12-2 Miami Hurricanes in a CFP semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 8. Miami, the No. 10 seed in the playoff, secured its final four berth with a win over No. 2 seed Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Eve, and has won two games in the CFP this season.
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It will be the longest 1:04 you have ever seen. Make sure give yourself plenty of time.
The Ole Miss kicker is very clutch. Congrats to the Rebels.
Agreed. The finalists will have played a fifteen-game season. But they do not want to mess with the regular season and traditional rivalries nor dump the now meaningless conference championship games (Alabama plays Georgia in the SEC Champ game; win or lose they both go to the playoff. Same with Indiana and Ohio State in the Big Ten.) Now we still have semis and a final where Miami is the only real surprise participant.
Wow!!! Indiana is the only team with a playoff to win. I feel so happy for Ole Miss fans after getting jilted by that drama queen Kiffin. UGa looked like a championship quality team going into the playoffs.
Dad said that when you transferred you sat out a year...
“Would Ole Miss beat Miami?”
not a chance ... and Georgia wouldn’t have either ...
Dawgs had zero pass defense all year in the backfield and it showed again against ole miss ... the dawgs also completely failed to pressure the ole miss quaterback ... no backfield pass defense and no quarterback pressure was a deadly combination: ole miss simply picked apart the dawg defense with the pass ...
Many people say Notre Dame should have been in the playoffs, not Alabama.
The SEC is obviously not all it’s cracked up to be.
Miami has pretty much made Notre Dame’s case.
I have nothing against Notre Dame, but they should choose a conference to play football in, like they do for other sports. Used to be that you could be unaffiliated, but that was YEARS ago.
They can’t have their cake and eat it, too. They want CFP to revolve around them.
Miami did, but Miami is in a conference.
Notre Dame needs to join a conference. Pick one. Any one. They’ll all be glad to have ND.
Like Notre Dame, Miami didn’t play in a conference championship game.
Neither did Ole Miss and Oregon.
So it pretty much shows that conference championship games are pointless.
That part is true. The conference championships are trying to stay relevant in this new era of CFP, but the fact is, now that we have expanded the field to 12, the conference championships aren’t worth much for strong conferences.
I would make it so that there is in essence an intra-conference playoff game.
Take the top four seeds in the conference. #4 plays at #1 and #3 plays at #2, the two winners are the conference representatives to the playoffs.
If you are out of the top four of your conference, too bad.
I love that idea.
TPTB should listen to the little people sometimes.
Looked like to me the refs were doing everything they could to give Georgia the win. Missed facemask penalty, two interference calls and an opportunity at the end with a safety and putting the teams back on the field for one last desperate attempt for Georgia. I was waiting for one of the refs to walk the ball into the end zone on Georgia’s behalf.
Its tough to beat the same team twice in one year. Years ago, Nebraska’s Tom Osborne had a rare win against Oklahoma in the regular season only to be paired up against them again in the Orange Bowl.
Tom Osborne was dead set against them as you could have two top teams put in a situation where a conference championship ruins the chance for one of them to compete for the national championship.
Was anyone paying attention?
Both Mendoza and Chamblis acknowledged their faith in their post game interviews.
And from what I gather from their personal stories that acknowledgement was genuine.
2026 may have only been one day old, but to see young men reach that kind of success in a sport where the shine is usually on the Godless, gives me hope for the coming year.
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