(SEC CHAMP) #2 Alabama Vs. #3 Georgia

[ndyeater]

So what is everyone thinking about this game?

 

[4irishnation]

Bama will be tough for Georgia to beat

 

[tko]

which aaron murray shows up? also, Richt reminds me of little game Stoops.

 

[Irish YJ]

My mind says Bama, but my gut says UGA. IMO, UGA has played a tougher schedule and is due if the coach doesn't get in the way. The SEC championship is also in Atlanta.

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

It will be a good game. Both teams seem pretty similar. It'll be fun to watch it play out. National semifinal.

 

[CTIDANDREW]

Hoping for a very sloppy defensive battle. Don't want either team to gain to much confidence, that a blowout victory will bring. A 10-6 victory to either team would be great.

 

[greyhammer90]

SEC championship playing for the right to play us... as it should be.

 

[NOLAIrish]

I hope Bama wins. I've had to hear all year that Bama would wipe the floor with Notre Dame. If we beat them, no one in the SEC can talk. If we beat UGA, the party line will be, "Yeah, of course you beat the fourth best team in the SEC. But Bama, Florida or LSU would've exposed y'all (The best SEC teams knocked each other out this year, just like every other time a non-SEC team won the championship, ever)."

Someone down here actually told me they were predicting the score of the NCG would be "37-14 SEC over Notre Dame." Apparently when we win, an entire conference gets to eat crow. It's going to be magnificent.

 

[ACamp1900]

I think Murraymaygive Bama problems... We will see...

 

[BGIF]

My mind says Bama, but my gut says UGA. IMO, UGA has played a tougher schedule and is due if the coach doesn't get in the way. The SEC championship is also in Atlanta.

"UGA has played a tougher schedule"?

This past week Sagarin had Ala with the 30th toughest schedule to date and UGA's was #46.

USA TODAY

Sagarin ranks GT about 8 pts better than AUB but that's not enough to overcome Bama's edge through the first 12 weeks.



Sagarin as of last week would make ALA a 10 favorite over UGA on a neutral field. The Georgia Dome is homestate for UGA but ALA seems to be more intimate with it from a Championship Game relationship.

 

[Irish YJ]

"UGA has played a tougher schedule"?

This past week Sagarin had Ala with the 30th toughest schedule to date and UGA's was #46.

USA TODAY

Sagarin ranks GT about 8 pts better than AUB but that's not enough to overcome Bama's edge through the first 12 weeks.



Sagarin as of last week would make ALA a 10 favorite over UGA on a neutral field. The Georgia Dome is homestate for UGA but ALA seems to be more intimate with it from a Championship Game relationship.

After looking back at the schedules, I'm probably wrong. I watched a lot of SEC games this year being in ATL, so maybe the Dawg fans have rubbed off on me a bit. SC/FL (UGA) vs TAMU/LSU (Bama). Both have one loss and one win against the two top teams on their schedule. Both lost to a two loss team. Bama's loss, while a good loss, was at home. UGA's loss, a bad one, was on the road (without a few players). I like UGA's win over Florida I guess better than Bama's win over LSU ( FL beat LSU). Bama does have wins over Mich and Miss St, but Miss St should have never been ranked like they were IMO. I think the East is stronger overall as well. Just my opion, but can't wait to see next week.

 

[ickythump1225]

I hate both of these teams so if it was possible for neither team to win that's what I would want. But I want Alabama, they are the defending champions. Also Bulldog fans are insufferable homers and perhaps the most annoying fanbase in the nation and their cupcake schedule shouldn't be rewarded and I don't want to hear annoying UGA homers for the next 6 weeks.

 

[IHateMarkMay]

I want bama, shut up these SEC homers, beating their perennial powerhouse. However, Georgia always plays better later in the season. After that blowout loss, they've played pretty dang good. Murray is the most efficient passer in the game and Bama's receiver just broke his leg. (saying he is only out 4 weeks...??? BS!) We'll see though.

 

[ndyeater]

I think Bama will win this one but for some reason i find myself rooting for uga

 

[Irish Insanity]

Bring on Bama pls. I have a bet going with a few friends which we all root for different teams (ND, U of M, FSU, and UGA.) We will win the championship, but its nice to rub it in that none of them even made it there. And as stated many times in the multiple new threads, to be the best you gotta beat the best. I want to dethrone the current champs.

 

[ndyeater]

Cant wait to just sit back and relax and watch this one haha

 

[NDFANnSouthWest]

I just hope the beat the **** out each other.

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

I don't see a Richt-led Georgia team beating a Saban-led Bama team, even though Georgia probably has more talent. Bama is who I would rather beat anyway.

 

[Rocky2820]

This isn't the same Bama team as last year. They can be beaten, but I predict they will win a close one over UGA. Coaching will be the x factor IMO.

 

[Joee]

I'm rooting for Georgia cause I live in Bama country and at least a Georgia win should dilute the local Roll Tide supremacists arguments.

 

[AllGoldEverything]

Thinkin we may match up better with the bulldogs

 

[DomeLover3]

Bama's 2nd leaving receiver broke his leg, I believe.

 

[greyhammer90]

I WANT BAMA

 

[ThePiombino]

Bama's 2nd leaving receiver broke his leg, I believe.

Yes, but he is only projected to be out 4-5 weeks I heard.

 

[tommyIRISH23]

I'm not feeling Alabama. I think LSU is the most overrated team in the country with a psychopath as a head coach. Their defense is decent, but offense is just flat ugly. Texas AM is a Big 12 Team that took the SEC poster child to the woodshed.

I like Georgia by 9 against Bama.

I think, for the first time, the SEC is a fraud living off their past accomplishments. When you start the season with 5 teams in the top 10 and play only inconference games with a few FCS teams tossed in the schedule youre garunteeing a few teams to stay highly ranked.

ex.

#2 vs #3-- 2 wins, but 3 only falls to 4.
#5 vs 7#-- 7 wins and 5 falls to 8.
#6 vs 5 teams ranked between #40-110-- #6 moves up to #5 because they dominate online junior colleges by 60 pts.

Its absurd. Florida is a tough team, they remind me of us. I plan on riding the moneyline on whoever ND plays because they will be +10 -14 dogs. I am confident ND would beat both Alabama and Georgia. Golson would be a nightmare for both teams. Our running game is tougher than any SEC running game. We beat Dlines up. I swear Theos mentallity is like this "damn the holes closed. Oh well. I am going to lower my shoulder and spear a DT in the chest. Hes not going to be having fun tackling me in the second half." Thats why we turn 1 yard gaines into 6-7 yard gaines in the second half. We dont just slide through holes, we beat the balls off the big men.

 

[BGIF]

Today's Sagarin Predictor Model puts Bama between 9 and 9-1/2 points over UGA on a neutral field.

Sagarin gives 3.14 pts for HFA but not sure either side gets that edge. It's Homestate cooking for UGA but it's not at mama's place. Bama's actually played post season in the Georgia Dome one more time than UGA. UA's made the trip there 5 times (2-3) to UGA's 4 (2-2). They've not faced each other in an SEC CG before.

 

[drayer54]

I'm cheering for AJ McCarron to cry.

Lots of tears. Pouting. Weeping.

Alabama fans should then rejoice that the players won't speak after the game and further embarrass the university.

 

[BGIF]

...

I think, for the first time, the SEC is a fraud living off their past accomplishments. When you start the season with 5 teams in the top 10 and play only inconference games with a few FCS teams tossed in the schedule youre garunteeing a few teams to stay highly ranked.

ex.

#2 vs #3-- 2 wins, but 3 only falls to 4.
#5 vs 7#-- 7 wins and 5 falls to 8.
#6 vs 5 teams ranked between #40-110-- #6 moves up to #5 because they dominate online junior colleges by 60 pts.

Its absurd. ...

It's not absurd, it's shrewd. Twenty years ago SEC Commissioner Roy Kramer put together the strategy.Under the old SEC format there was an axiom "you can't win the SEC with two losses" that goes back 70 years or so. They powers that be played each other, and knocked each other off. Kramer convinced the powers that be that adding teams, splitting into divisions, adding MORE cupcakes on a coordinated basis, locking up bowl slot contracts, increased revenue sharing to allow the VU's and UK's to get compensated for their beatings, AND a post season championship game would guarantee the SEC a post season additional bump in the polls thus securing a slot in the NCG.

It works. Feeding 30-35 recruits a year into the football factories doesn't hurt either. But the plan was by design. It would preclude a Notre Dame from getting their choice of bowl bids as was the case in the 60's and 70's.

Then SEC Commissioner Kramer became the first BCS Czar ensuring that his work would be protected by a secret coaches poll which is required to vote the winner of the NCG game #1 regardless of other games. He boxed the likes of ND out of the selection process then guaranteed there would be no repeat of '77 when ND knocked off #1, a couple of other top teams lost their bowl, and ND leaped over Alabama based on destroying unbeaten #1 Texas while Bama played a weaker opponent in the friendly confines of the Sugar Bowl. NEVER AGAIN, the SEC said and they've made that happen.

ND can win the NC now only because they will have beaten the SEC's hand picked candidate.

The SEC's motto should be "nosus decipio", We cheat.

They got the rules changed to give them an unfair advantage. Their reply, "you can do the same thing" which set off the Conference Alignment Wars which continues today with ACC founder Maryland going to the Big Ten.

Absurd? I understand your point but the John D. Rockefeller's, Andrew Carnegie's, the ruthless, successful robber baron types would say, "Well done, SEC, brillant strategy and excellent execution."

 

[tommyIRISH23]

It's not absurd, it's shrewd. Twenty years ago SEC Commissioner Roy Kramer put together the strategy.Under the old SEC format there was an axiom "you can't win the SEC with two losses" that goes back 70 years or so. They powers that be played each other, and knocked each other off. Kramer convinced the powers that be that adding teams, splitting into divisions, adding MORE cupcakes on a coordinated basis, locking up bowl slot contracts, increased revenue sharing to allow the VU's and UK's to get compensated for their beatings, AND a post season championship game would guarantee the SEC a post season additional bump in the polls thus securing a slot in the NCG.

It works. Feeding 30-35 recruits a year into the football factories doesn't hurt either. But the plan was by design. It would preclude a Notre Dame from getting their choice of bowl bids as was the case in the 60's and 70's.

Then SEC Commissioner Kramer became the first BCS Czar ensuring that his work would be protected by a secret coaches poll which is required to vote the winner of the NCG game #1 regardless of other games. He boxed the likes of ND out of the selection process then guaranteed there would be no repeat of '77 when ND knocked off #1, a couple of other top teams lost their bowl, and ND leaped over Alabama based on destroying unbeaten #1 Texas while Bama played a weaker opponent in the friendly confines of the Sugar Bowl. NEVER AGAIN, the SEC said and they've made that happen.

ND can win the NC now only because they will have beaten the SEC's hand picked candidate.

The SEC's motto should be "nosus decipio", We cheat.

They got the rules changed to give them an unfair advantage. Their reply, "you can do the same thing" which set off the Conference Alignment Wars which continues today with ACC founder Maryland going to the Big Ten.

Absurd? I understand your point but the John D. Rockefeller's, Andrew Carnegie's, the ruthless, successful robber baron types would say, "Well done, SEC, brillant strategy and excellent execution."

I understand what you're saying, and your explanation only adds to my anger over the whole thing. What I mean by absurd is not that the SEC does it, college football is a business, what drives me nuts is how objective fans and analysts can't see (probably more of refusing to acknowledge) what's going on, and how pathetic this is. People, I guess, are sheep and will digest and regurgitate whatever bullshit they are fed. I dont know how people dont call these schedules out for what they are.

Although, I do remember Herbstreit going on a rant about these teams playing cupcakes and how its a disgrace.

How much will SOS count for in the playoff format?

 

[ACamp1900]

I want UGA... always respected Richt... with Bama it would be straight hatred.