Bryce Young sets all-time SEC Championship Game record for passing yards

Alabama quarterback Bryce Young had a record-setting night tonight for the Crimson Tide in a number of ways. In the first half, he set the SEC Championship Game record for most passing yards in the first half with 286. Near the end of the game, he set the all-time passing yardage mark in the SEC Championship Game with 421 passing yards.

He completed 26 of his 44 pass attempts for 421 yards, while tossing in three touchdowns and no interceptions. Not only that, he had three carries for 40 yards and a touchdown on the ground.

With the performance, he topped the record set by Mac Jones in the 2020 SEC Championship against Florida. Not only did he break several records tonight against Georgia, but he also likely locked up the Heisman Trophy.

He was already the front-runner for the award coming into the SEC Championship Game, and his historic performance likely sealed the deal for the calm, cool, and collected Californian.

The hardware doesn’t stop there, as Young also won the 2021 SEC Championship Game MVP trophy.

Alabama won the game in a 41-24 beatdown. A Georgia defense that looked historic all season, looked anything but historic on Saturday night. The Georgia Bulldogs once again could not get it done against their nemesis, Alabama.

The Crimson Tide repeated as SEC champs and now they will look to repeat as national champs in the upcoming College Football Playoff.

Bryce Young’s magical 2021 season

The California native has calmly dissected defenses all season long in his incredible 2021 campaign. Coming into the SEC Championship Game, he completed 68.9 percent of his passes for 3,901 passing yards, while tossing in 40 touchdown passes and just four interceptions. Those were his passing stats coming into the SEC Championship Game and he only padded those stats after his historic evening in Atlanta on Saturday night. Simply put, he’s one of the more poised and unflappable quarterbacks you’ll ever watch play the game.

One of the most decorated prospects out of Southern California

As a high school prospect coming out of prestigious Mater Dei (Santa Ana, California), he was one of the most decorated quarterbacks out of Southern California in the past 25 years. In the 2020 recruiting class, he was ranked as the nation’s No. 3 overall prospect, according to the On3 Consensus Rankings, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.

Bryce Young and Alabama will now wait to see who they will face in the upcoming College Football Playoff.