Ashton Alexander competes in Equitation over Fences against Georgia on Friday, November 10, 2017 in Auburn, Alabama.

Not even a power outage could slow Auburn on its way to its fifth national championship.

The No. 2 Tigers defeated No. 1 Georgia 10-5 Saturday at the NCEA national championship, providing the Tigers a national title in equestrian over the SEC champion.

Auburn won the final two events in fences to secure what amounted to be a blowout.

Auburn has won national titles in equestrian in 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2018.

Auburn unofficially grabbed an 8-5 lead during the fences competition, which was good enough for the national title, but the electricity went out at the Extraco Events Center in Waco, leading to the event to be placed on hold for more than 30 minutes. Scoring had yet to be manually confirmed in three of four events, providing the possibility of Georgia actually picking up a necessary point or two to keep Auburn from claiming the title with two events remaining.

Why does it matter? A manual check on scores reveal mathematical errors, which could change the outcome. That happened at the 2014 SEC Championship, when Georgia unofficially defeated South Carolina and was even handed T-shirts to celebrate before scores were manually confirmed, showing that South Carolina had actually won the SEC title.

Georgia thought for two hours it had won the national title as scores were checked manually. Even South Carolina tweeted at the time Georgia had “unofficially won” the national title before it was revealed South Carolina had won.

Auburn grabbed a 6-1 lead halfway through the event, which included a 4-0 sweep of Georgia in the first event: Equitation on the Flat.

Georgia’s only event win was in Reining as the Bulldogs secured three of four points, including the biggest victory coming by 5.5 points as Annabeth Payne knocked off Betsy Brown, who rode the horse Snoop Dogg.

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