ATLANTA - LSU is moving on to college football's national championship game, while Georgia is still trying to get the license number of that second-half steamroller.
The No. 12 Bulldogs dominated the No. 1 Tigers during the early stages of Saturday's Southeastern Conference title game at the Georgia Dome, but LSU broke loose for 35 points after halftime in applying a 42-10 flattening. By improving to 13-0, the Tigers cemented a spot in the Jan. 9 BCS championship game in New Orleans, where they won national crowns in 2003 and '07.
"I guess we just lost our focus coming out of the locker room at halftime," Georgia cornerback Sanders Commings said. "A lot of times their offense had a short field, and it was tough for us to play like that on defense. They got too many plays on special teams, and we just didn't play in the second half.
"I definitely don't think the score was a reflection of the game."
Saturday's title game was the 20th in league history and drew a sold-out crowd of 74,515.