ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Burrow threw for seven touchdowns and 493 yards as No. 1 LSU collected a 63-28 victory over No. 4 Oklahoma in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal game Saturday.
Burrow tied the record for any college bowl game with his seven TD passes — which all came before the bands hit the field for the halftime show at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Justin Jefferson was on the receiving end for four of those scoring plays, also tying a bowl record. For good measure, Burrow scored an eighth TD himself on a 3-yard run in the third quarter.
LSU needed only three plays to race 42 yards for its first score - a perfectly thrown ball over Jefferson’s shoulder for a 19-yard TD less than 3 minutes into the game.
Oklahoma briefly put up a fight. Hurts’ 51-yard pass to CeeDee Lamb set up a 3-yard touchdown run by Kennedy Brooks that tied the score at 7.