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TUA UNBELIEVABLE!!! ALABAMA WINS. pic.twitter.com/Q2lC0zVi6v
— uSTADIUM (@uSTADIUM) January 9, 2018
Your winner and new college football national champion: Alabama.
The Crimson Tide overcame a missed game-winning field-goal attempt in the fourth quarter to capture a 26-23 victory over Georgia in overtime with a 41-yard touchdown pass from Tua Tagovailoa to DeVonta Smith.
Georgia kicker Rodrigo Blankenship drilled a 51-yard field goal to begin overtime.
The victory marks Alabama's fifth national championship since 2009 and gives Nick Saban his sixth as a head coach, tying him with Alabama legend Paul "Bear" Bryant for most all time.