3 takeaways from Texas's OT loss to UGA in SEC title game

Momentum goes back-and-forth in the second half

The SEC Championship Game has usually been a game decided by momentum in the second half. Texas had the momentum in this game for pretty much the entire first half. But the Longhorns weren't able to capitalize on five drives getting into plus territory against the Georgia defense.

Despite getting across Georgia's 40-yard line five times in the first half, the Longhorns only came away with two field goals. It goes without saying that Texas's two missed field goals earlier in the game came back to bite them.

The Ewers interception late in the fourth quarter on a potential game-winning drive was also extremely costly for the Longhorns.

Texas's offense got another chance to win, or at least tie, the game late in the fourth quarter after a huge interception by senior cornerback Jahdae Barron. Ewers and the Longhorns' offense took that Barron interception and drove down the field for an 11-play drive that resulted in a 36-yard field goal converted by kicker Bert Auburn to tie things up late in the fourth quarter.

That field-goal make by Auburn helped send the game to overtime. But Georgia's physicality and ground game powered the Dawgs to another SEC Championship, and a first-round bye in the 12-team College Football Playoff.

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