SEC Championship thread

If ND had Gurley in the backfield or a QB like Murray who is a threat to throw the ball down the field they might, but they have neither.  Georgia has a NT that is better than anything ND has and they still couldn't slow them down.  Yeldon is a beast.  Sooner he is in the NFL the better.

if you change Jedi to Empire Strikes Back.

Te'o is a proper badass, but ND's schedule hasn't done them any favors.  Who in Christ's Holy Name would predict that in a conference championship game played against the (admittedly overrated) #3 ranked team in the country, Alabama would have TWO RB's combine for 300-plus yards rushing?

Seriously, stats like that don't appear in games of this stature since the days of Tom Osbourne and Barry Switzer (and the late Darrell Royal) winning national championships.

MANBALL. 

Sort of ironic that Romo will be working for Saban next year in Dallas.

Bowl may very well select Texas A&M instead.

Agreed on the last play. It looks like Murray was going to the receiver in the ends one but the deflection screwed up the play for them. Coaches did a terrible job of clock management as well.

...it's not unusual.

Mark Richt is a TERRIBLE game day coach.  There is a significant number of folks in this state who want to see him fired. 

Gerogia's high school infrastructure is to be envied when it comes to football talent; it is a tier below California/Texas/Florida, but on par with Ohio/Pennsylvania.  The fact that UGA does not contend for national championships the way Alabama does is something of a statewide disgrace...anyone with the ethics of Les Miles or Nick Saban coaching in Athens would own the crystal football until they saw fit to loan it to someone else,

It is to UGA's credit/detriment that they hired a good man with a reasonable sense of ethics (who graduated from "THE U", of all places) to coach their football team.

My theory is that the ESS EEE SEE should trade UGA to the B1G for ohio; both conferences would get what they wanted out of the deal.  The B1G would get one more program with a sense of honor, the ESS EEE SEE would get one more program without one.

too many teams have now played bama close this year.  if ND is on the plus side of the TOs, i think they have a shot; not a good one, but a chance nonetheless.

Bama is a much more complete team than ND, but ND is a team of destiny this year. They have found ways to win every game this year, regardless of whether or not they deserved to win.



I can see ND winning like how we won the Sugar Bowl. Bama will thoroughly outplay ND, but will make critical mistakes at the worst possible times. Yeldon will fumble inside Bama's 5, McCarron throws a costly pick, Bama makes a costly special teams error, or better yet, McCarron falls down the stairs and breaks his leg the night before the game.

I'd say that about Alabama, a bit.  But Georgia has the type of "NFL talent" that Illinois had for a bunch of years - kids who look good on paper but the coaching holds them down a bit.  UM would be very competitive with Georgia this year.

Bama pounded us with a bunch of inexperienced starters. They are experienced now.

We out gained ND and ran the ball fairly well.

Lacy & TJ will run all over them.