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BSB: Clemson Hands Dawgs Season’s First Shoutout
CLEMSON, S.C. – Second-ranked Clemson combined for a three-hit shutout of 10th-ranked Georgia Tuesday, winning 3-0 at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.
Fast Facts
• Georgia stranded a pair of runners in the third, fourth, fifth and seventh frames, going 0-8 with runners in scoring position. Tonight was the first time the Bulldogs have been shutout this season.
• Senior Slate Alford extended his on-base streak to 26 games with a two-out walk in the third inning.
• Junior Justin Byrd provided two scoreless innings with three strikeouts in his longest relief appearance since March 14 against Kentucky.
• A two-out RBI-double by Collin Priest off Charlie Goldstein (0-2) put the Tigers in front 1-0 in the first, and they added a run in the second and seventh innings. The Bulldogs employed eight pitchers on a staff night.
• With two outs in the sixth, Bulldog left fielder Daniel Jackson thew out Collin Priest at home to keep it a 2-0 contest.
Key Quotes
Ike Cousins Head Baseball Coach Wes Johnson
“It’s going to turn around for us, and that was the message to the guys, you just hope it’s sooner rather than later. We did some things better today that we challenged them with after the way last weekend went. It doesn’t always mean the results are going to show up right away. You have to be mature enough to trust the adjustments you made. There’s battles that you’re going to be in and you want to show progress in those. I thought our defense was fine and the pitching for the most part was good too except the walks we gave them scored, and the ones we got, our guys were left at third base.”
Box Score
Up Next
Georgia plays host to No. 14 Oklahoma on Thursday with first pitch at 7:02 p.m. EDT on ESPNU.
SB: Georgia Beats Tech in Atlanta
SOFTBALL | at GEORGIA TECH | W, 5-2
Winning pitcher: Lilli Backes (13-7)
Losing Pitcher: Sophia Voyles (11-6)
Season Record: 29-17, 6-14 SEC
ATLANTA – Senior Lilli Backes pitched a complete game and struck out eight batters to lift the 24th-ranked Georgia Bulldogs to a 5-2 win over Georgia Tech on Tuesday.
Georgia improves to 29-17 on the season.
FAST FACTS
- Backes went the distance, working seven innings in her start. She earned her 13th win of the season. She allowed two runs on six hits, striking out eight and walking two. She was one strikeout shy of tying a season high.
- The Bulldog offense scattered seven hits, led by a pair of hits from Tyler Ellison and two RBI from Sarah Gordon. The top four in the Georgia order all had a hit.
- Gordon’s two-RBI triple in the fourth broke open a four-run inning for the Dogs. A squeeze bunt and a groundout pushed two more runs across in the inning to go up 4-0 on Tech.
- Georgia has now won three straight over Georgia Tech.
Video Highlights
UP NEXT
Georgia is back in action next Thursday at Missouri. The three-game series begins Thursday at 7 p.m. ET, streaming live on SEC Network+ from Columbia.
College Football Playoff and ESPN Announce Dates, Times for 2025-26 CFP Bowls and National Championship Game
The College Football Playoff (CFP) and ESPN today announced dates, kick times, and broadcast information for the Playoff Quarterfinals, Playoff Semifinals, and the national championship game for the 2025-26 edition of the postseason event.
The exclusive home of the CFP since its inception in 2015, ESPN is in its second year of the current expanded package, which also includes all four games of the CFP First Round and a sublicense for two games to TNT Sports/WBD.
The 2025-26 Playoff schedule includes a New Year’s Day tripleheader of Quarterfinal games on ESPN with new kickoff times: the Capital One Orange Bowl (noon ET), the Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential (4 p.m.) and the Allstate Sugar Bowl (8 p.m.) will all start earlier than their traditional windows.
“This New Year’s Day schedule adjustment is the result of a thoughtful collaboration between the CFP, ESPN, the Capital One Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential, and the Allstate Sugar Bowl,” said Rich Clark, executive director of the College Football Playoff. “All three bowls shifting their start times allows us to place each game in an ideal window on New Year’s Day and provide the optimal viewing experience. New Year’s Day and college football are synonymous with each other, and these changes only strengthen that relationship.”
ESPN will present each of the four Playoff Quarterfinals, the two Playoff Semifinals, and the 2026 CFP National Championship, slated for Monday, Jan. 19, at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. The CFP National Championship returns to Miami for the first time since the 2021 contest, marking the second straight season the national championship game will be held in a city for a second time. After Atlanta hosted the title contests in 2018 and 2025, this will be the second time a city has hosted the game.
The quartet of 2024-25 Playoff Quarterfinals scored multi-year viewership highs with the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (17.3M viewers) becoming the most-watched pre-3 p.m. ET bowl game ever.
The CFP Semifinals produced the most-watched Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on record (20.6M viewers) and the second-most-watched Capital One Orange Bowl in nearly 20 years (17.8M viewers). The 2025 CFP National Championship between Ohio State and Notre Dame delivered 22.1 million viewers, the most-watched non-NFL sporting event over the past year. The showdown peaked with 26.1 million viewers.
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