Georgia tight end Brock Bowers remembers big National Championship moment
It’s been over seven months since Georgia won the National Championship, but Bulldog fans aren’t going to let that one go anytime soon. After all, it was 41 years in the making…
Among the highlights of the game was freshman tight end Brock Bowers‘ score with 3:33 left to go in the fourth quarter to put Georgia ahead by eight points. On 3rd and 1, the Napa, Calif. native was on the receiving end of a Stetson Bennett RPO that called for Bennett to get the ball out quickly with an Alabama defender in his face. He hung it up in the air long enough Bowers thought he was going to get drilled, having his back turned to the Crimson Tide defense. But when he got control of the ball and turned upfield, what he saw was Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint engaged on a block and nothing else but green grass between him and the end zone.
“I remember they called it and I was like, ‘All right, let’s go,’” Bowers recalled in a recent interview session with Georgia media members. “I just remember doing my little stuff, going out. Stetson kind of floated it up there. I thought I was going to get whacked by someone because it felt like it was floating up there forever. Just caught it, Marcus (Rosemy-Jacksaint) made a great block, and just no one else was out there. Just ran it in.”
Bowers isn’t the only Georgia player to have been asked about specific plays from the National Championship Game. Of course Kelee Ringo has answered questions on his pick-six. Dan Jackson and other defenders have been asked about their blocks on that play. And then there’s Bennett who’s had to go step by step through almost the entire game. But don’t forget about Rosemy-Jacksaint either who was also asked about the final time the offense touched the ball in the 2021 season.
“What I remember was I’m blocking my man and I felt like three, four, five seconds went by. I just felt like I was holding the block forever,” Rosemy-Jacksaint said this spring. “I looked back to see what was going on, and I see Brock run into the end zone. And that was a huge play we needed. Like, that was a huge play. That was very exciting for me and for him.”
“I would argue the offensive drive prior to that (Kelee Ringo’s pick-six) did a lot to help that,” Smart added, agreeing that the Bowers touchdown was just as big of a deal in putting away the game despite not getting the hype that Ringo’s pick-six gets. “I would argue that a lot of the plays made in the red area did that. I never look at games and say one play did it because it’s not that way. There were so many plays made in that game that you could point that to.”
