The 2019 LSU Tigers football team was well on the way to becoming one of the best ever after defeating seven Top-25 teams in the regular season and entering the College Football Playoff as the No. 1 overall seed.
To get to the National Championship in New Orleans, LSU had to get past the No. 4 Oklahoma Sooners.
LSU entered the 2019 Peach Bowl undefeated and 13-0. Oklahoma entered 12-1, with their lone regular season loss coming at the hands of the Kansas State Wildcats.
From the start, LSU had this game locked up.
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The Tigers led 21-7 after the first quarter. Quarterback Joe Burrow was fresh off winning the Heisman Trophy, and was playing for a championship.
With 12:03 to go in the first, Burrow found Justin Jefferson for a 19-yard touchdown pass to put the Tigers up 7-0.
Just under four minutes later, Oklahoma running back Kennedy Brooks scored on a three-yard touchdown run to make it an even 7-7 game.
Burrow threw an eight-yard touchdown to Terrace Marshall Jr. with 4:24 left in the quarter to put the Tigers up 14-7.
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With 1:16 left on the clock, Burrow hit Jefferson on a 35-yard touchdown pass to extend their lead to 21-7.
The Tigers would score the first points of the second quarter as Burrow threw a 42-yard pass to Jefferson for his third receiving touchdown of the game as the Tigers went up 28-7. On their next possession, Jefferson hauled in a 30-yard pass to make it 35-7.
Sooners quarterback Jalen Hurts scored on a two-yard run with 4:45 to go in the second quarter to cut the lead to 35-14.
Nearly 30 seconds later in the game, Burrow threw a 62-yard touchdown pass to tight end Thaddeus Moss to put LSU up 42-14.
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Just before halftime, Marshall caught a two-yard pass from Burrow to go into the locker room with a commanding 49-14 lead.
LSU scored first in the third quarter as Burrow had a three-yard touchdown run. The Tigers went up 56-14 with 10:11 left in the quarter.
With 4:19 to go in the third, Hurts ran 12 yards for a score and made it a 56-21 game.
In the fourth quarter, Oklahoma running back T.J. Pledger had a one-yard run to make it 56-28 with 9:39 to go in the game.
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Tigers freshman running back John Emery Jr. would score the final touchdown of the game on a six-yard run with 3:59 left to make the score 63-28.
Burrow finished the game 29-of-39 for 493 yards and seven touchdowns.
The hype around this game mainly focused on the Tigers and their quest for a championship. But during the offseason, Hurts had transferred to Oklahoma from Alabama and was a Heisman Trophy candidate.
But the Tigers’ defense was too much for Hurts and the Sooners offense to handle. In contrast, the LSU offense wore down the Oklahoma defense early in the game with their quick drives and put the game away at the half.
The win moved LSU into the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship game, where they defeated the No. 2 Clemson Tigers 42-25 to capture their fourth title in program history.
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