{"id":117107,"date":"2026-01-02T07:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/117107\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:07:11","slug":"mississippi-edges-georgia-to-win-sugar-bowl-advance-to-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/117107\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi edges Georgia to win Sugar Bowl, advance to semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; <\/p>\n<p data-dateline=\"\">NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Trinidad Chambliss passed for 362 yards and two touchdowns, and Lucas Carneiro kicked his third field goal of the game with six seconds left to put No. 6 Mississippi in front for good in a 39-34 victory over third-ranked Georgia in a College Football Playoff in the Sugar Bowl on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>In an unusual twist, Mississippi was awarded a safety on its final kickoff when Georgia\u2019s return team tried a cross-field lateral that hit the pylon.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia then recovered an onside kick and ran one more play in which they executed numerous laterals before the play fizzled, sending Mississippi (13-1, CFP No. 6 seed) on to a semifinal against Miami in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off on the heels of two lopsided CFP quarterfinals at the Orange and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2026-01-01\/rose-bowl-indiana-dominates-alabama-playoff-quarterfinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rose<\/a> bowls, the Sugar Bowl provided drama until the end.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing a 21-12 halftime lead turn into a 34-24 deficit with 9:02 to play, Georgia (12-2, CFP No. 3 seed) then rallied to tie it, first driving for Gunner Stockton\u2019s 18-yard touchdown pass to Zachariah Branch before Peyton Woodring\u2019s short field goal tied it with 55 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Chambliss responded by setting up the winning kick with a 40-yard pass to De\u2019Zhaun Stribling on third down from Mississippi\u2019s 30-yard line. A few plays later, Carneiro, who had already broken Sugar Bowl records with field goals of 55 and 56 yards, hit from 47 and sprinted triumphantly toward the Mississippi sideline as the Rebels (13-1, CFP No. 6 seed) jubilantly swarmed around him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Trinidad Chambliss passed for 362 yards and two touchdowns, and Lucas Carneiro kicked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[34272,423,10979,7217,62262,48,52,51,47,50,49,37250,1540,4453,18158,62263,15192,23176,62260,62261,1539],"class_list":["post-117107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-game","tag-georgia","tag-jan","tag-jordon-davison","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-matayo-uiagalelei","tag-miami","tag-mississippi","tag-no","tag-red-raiders","tag-seed","tag-semifinal","tag-sugar-bowl","tag-third-field-goal","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}