It will be a meeting of familiar foes in the SEC championship game with No. 1 Georgia facing No. 8 Alabama in a game that has major College Football Playoff implications.
The Bulldogs and Crimson Tide have met four times in Atlanta during the past seven seasons. Three matchups decided the SEC title. A fourth in the 2017 season decided a national title. The two national powers also met in Tuscaloosa in 2020 and the 2021 playoff championship game in Indianapolis. Alabama won the first five of the six meetings, but Georgia did win the last one that was the first of its consecutive national titles.
The Bulldogs will assuredly be back in the playoff with a victory this season and be two wins from a historic third championship in row. The Crimson Tide will be looking upend their neighbors to the east and also earn their own semifinal berth if things break right on the final weekend.
The stage is set for a dramatic finish to the SEC’s last season before expansion brings in Oklahoma and Texas. Here are our picks for the game.
Scooby Axson
If Jalen Milroe wants serious Heisman Trophy consideration like he was proclaiming at the end of the Auburn game, then here is the chance to do it and that means getting the job done with his arm and feet. Georgia could probably lose and still make the playoffs, but the incentive for them is to show they are clearing the best team in the nation. The Bulldogs will start slow and then show its dominance in making this game a foregone conclusion in the second half and putting Milroe’s Heisman dreams to bed, while elevating Carson Beck into the final list of candidates, even though he won’t win. Georgia 35, Alabama 17.
Alabama wide receiver Ja’Corey Brooks (7) attempts to catch a pass against Georgia during the College Football Playoff national championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium, Monday,…
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Publish date : 2023-11-30 15:19:18
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