INGLEWOOD, California (AP) — Stetson Bennett threw four touchdown passes and ran for two scores as No 1 Georgia demolished No 3 TCU 65-7 last night to become the first team to win consecutive College Football Play-off national championships.

The Bulldogs (15-0) became the first repeat champions since Alabama went back-to-back a decade ago and left no doubt that they have replaced the Crimson Tide as the new bullies on the block.

TCU (13-2), the first Cinderella team of the play-off era, never had a chance against the Georgia juggernaut. Unlike Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl semi-final, the Bulldogs would not succumb to the Hypnotoads’ spell.

Georgia turned in one of the all-time beatdowns in a game that decided a national title, reminiscent of Nebraska running over Florida by 38 in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl, USC’s 36-point rout of Oklahoma in the 2005 Orange Bowl and Alabama’s 28-point BCS championship blowout over Notre Dame in 2013.

But this was worse.

Too much talent. Too well-coached. Two straight titles for coach Kirby Smart’s Dawgs.

No team have ever scored more points in a national

championship game, dating to the beginning of the BCS in 1998.

The quarterback’s remarkable connection with tight end Brock Bowers was on display throughout, and that chemistry played a major role in making sure the Bulldogs became champions again.

Bowers finished with seven catches for 152 yards and a touchdown from Bennett, including a 22-yard TD catch that firmly shut the door on the Horned Frogs in the third quarter of this epic blowout.

Bennett is more than five years older than Bowers, but the quarterback has bridged that modest generation gap to form a partnership that got one last national showcase at SoFi Stadium.

In the first half, Bennett became the first player in Georgia’s lengthy history to rack up 4,000 total yards of offence over his career with plenty of help from Bowers. He also broke Aaron Murray’s single-season yards passing record for the Bulldogs in the first half, an appropriate punctuation to a season in which the Bulldogs broke open offences early with passing before running their way to victories.

Bennett is older than five starting quarterbacks of present NFL play-off teams, but he finished 29-3 as a starter at Georgia. Bennett joined Matt Leinart and A.J. McCarron as the only quarterbacks to lead their teams to back-to-back national championships in the 21st century when Georgia became just the fourth team to repeat since 1980.

“He’s meant a lot to me personally because of what he’s gone through and what he’s put up with from the outside noise,” coach Smart said on ESPN after the game. “But to this university, for a kid that was told that he wasn’t good enough, to come back and win two national championships, and he’s really phenomenal. He did some things tonight that are just electric, and he’s one of a kind.”