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The Power Five => SEC => Topic started by: Nashville4UGA on January 04, 2018, 05:37:42 PM
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Shouldn't we have a thread about this?
who ya got and why?
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my brain tells me bama 21 to UGA 17....
the bottom of that rock said different, though... UGA 24 bama 17...
should be a good game, regardless of all the not-so-happy folks out there who feel slighted.
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This is an intriguing matchup with the Master versus his Protege. Smart certainly knows how Saban thinks. I pick UGA in this matchup, but not for the reason stated above. I see it this way:
"Remember, in the last BCS Championship, Auburn had that thing seemingly in hand, and then it didn’t. Last year, Alabama owned the first half, but slowly, Clemson crept back into the game.
In the Rose Bowl, Oklahoma dominated early. In the Orange, Miami looked like it was going to run Wisconsin out of the building. In the Outback, that thing was over when Michigan was given a strong lead against a mediocre South Carolina offense.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Georgia learned from the Oklahoma game.
It started out doing more reading and reacting on defense, allowing Baker Mayfield and Rodney Anderson do what they do, and then hoping to making tackles to limit the damage. That really, really didn’t work, so what did the coaching staff do to adjust? It attacked.
The pressure started coming in the second half, not letting Mayfield dance around and get comfortable, while shoving the tempo back in the Sooners’ face. Georgia finished with five sacks and nine tackles for loss, but more than that, it became the aggressor.
The Dawgs will have to rely on the run defense that’s a whole lot better and stronger than it looked in Pasadena, and it’ll have to turn Hurts into Captain Checkdown while not allowing Hurts to turn losses into gains by running out of the pocket.
Georgia cannot wait until the second half to go into attack mode and will need to do so from the start."
UGA in a close one: UGA 31 and Bama 28
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I can't help but think about the last time Alabama was an underdog:
Alabama 38
Georgia 10
These are completely different squads and all, but still. UGA is built with the Bama blueprint, but without the recurring #1 recruiting classes. You can't out-Bama Bama. It was foolish to pick against the Tide back in 2015 and it's foolish to pick against them now.
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UCF is having a parade Saturday. I'll go with them.
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:88:Being the resident Bama guy I should reflect on this game but I am really conflicted. One side of my brain says Georgia because Hurts is so limited on his passing skills. The other side of my brain says Bama shuts down Georgias running attack and bama wins. 50 50 game. Toss a coin.
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I can't help but think about the last time Alabama was an underdog:
Alabama 38
Georgia 10
These are completely different squads and all, but still. UGA is built with the Bama blueprint, but without the recurring #1 recruiting classes. You can't out-Bama Bama. It was foolish to pick against the Tide back in 2015 and it's foolish to pick against them now.
Yeah, I'm going with that.
27-13 Bama.
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I'm with Bamajoe on this one, flip a coin.
@OrangeAfroMan (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=58) Alabama is the favorite in this game fwiw.
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Of course they are, bc they should be.
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i'll take bama, but not confident. should be a good game. good luck, uga.
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I see this as a 27-24 type game.
Fromm is going to have to take care of the football better than Kelly Johnson did last week.
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I would highly recommend the UGA players not run across the field barking at the Bama players when Bama takes the field.
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27-24 is the average of the Scoring Offenses and Scoring Defenses (Bama SO-UGA SD & UGA SO-Bama SD). 26.8 Bama and 23.7 UGA to be exact.
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I bet Saban could find a way to score 0.8 points....
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Bama is the favorite and they should be but the Dawgs are bringing more than 59 players this time.
23-20 UGA in an upset.
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Wow, both teams seemingly screwed themselves in OT there, but both came out okay. UGA hit the long FG to save themselves, and then Bama had 2nd and forever at the 42. How in the holy hell is a WR that wide open?!?
Anyways, very entertaining game. They say anytime UGA loses a championship game, a gator gets its wings (bad joke).
I hate Bama, but I hate UGA more. Glad to see them lose.
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Best national championship game to me and I didn't care which team won because they are both rivalries when UT becomes good again, but I called the Tua change before the end of the first half. Half my Bama amigos said that was a bad call with him not playing much during the season, but it was clear that was the only way Bama was going to catch up and win by throwing the ball. I could be wrong since I haven't looked at UGA's run/pass ratio from the first half to the second half, but it appeared to me Jim Chaney was trying to run the clock out in the second half and wear down Bama by rushing the ball with Sony and Chubb rather than mixing things up more with the pass and taking advantage of play action where they were more effective. Just my quick observations, but I could be wrong.
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Man, that one was tough to watch. Proud of our guys for giving it their all, but in the end Alabama made plays when they had to and had some things go their way and we didn't. OLine and secondary certainly need some upgrades, but the future is bright!
Coming into the season if you had told me that UGA would win the SECCG, Rose Bowl over Oklahoma and be playing in the CFB Championship game against Alabama and the game would be decided in OT, i wouldn't have believed you.
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Kudos to both teams for a well fought game and fabulous seasons.
And congrats to the Tide. They're king, yet again!
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Ga. became relevant again this year after an eternity of who cares bowls.
We beat the best offensive team in the country last week and lost to the best defensive team in the country this week in OT.
The thing is Ga. is two years ahead of schedule. 2 more recruiting classes will equal the playing field.
Losing was a disappointment but the truth is Bama should have hit the fg and never let it get that far.
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Yeah, that was an all-time choke job by the Bama kicker. 30-something yards...ball placed where you want it. And it was no good as soon as his foot touched it, lol.
I love the UGA kicker's look. Has talent, too.
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I had forgotten all about this, but I warned those guys on the B10 forum that expanding the playoff will get more all-SEC finals happening. After 2011 and their complaining about that and everyone loving the 4-team playoff, this year's Bama-UGA was exactly what I warned them about.
Same thing, if it goes to 8 teams - you'll have 3-4 SEC schools in it every year, and often 2 in the final.
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i'm not sure about every year, but i'd bet 2 out of every 5 we'd have 3-4. and 9 out of 10 we'd have 2.
unless they made some rules to limit conf appearances, most years would look like: 2 sec, 2 b1g, 1 acc, 1 pac, 1 bxii, 1 g5/ind team.