One great season.
One bad game.
The Georgia Bulldogs have been brilliant defensively under first-year coordinator Dan Lanning but stumbled like everybody else has against high-powered LSU, which racked up 481 yards in its 37-10 trampling earlier this month at the Southeastern Conference championship game in Atlanta. The Bulldogs are headed back to the Sugar Bowl for a second consecutive season after missing the College Football Playoff and will challenge Baylor, the runner-up to Oklahoma in the Big 12 Conference.
“I love our players, and they’ve really bought into what we’ve tried to do,” Lanning said while seated in a locker room in Mercedes-Benz Stadium. “Tonight didn’t exemplify what we’ve done all year, but this year has been a really good year from the standpoint of a lot of guys have contributed and done a lot to help us play good ball.
“We weren’t able to carry that over, but that’s no discredit to what they’ve done all year.”