January 8, 2018.
Georgia vs Alabama -3.5 / 45
The student vs the master.
An all SEC championship.
FACTS
Nick Saban is 11-0 vs all of his former assistants who went on to become head coaches.
Teams who are on redemption tour and make it to the championship game, are 80% of the time going to accomplish winning at a high clip.
It’s pretty rare to see a freshman QB lead their team to a championship victory. (Joshua Hurts made it to the championship last year and his team failed short of winning).
TEAM ADVANTAGE POINT
Offense-Advantage goes to Bama.
QB-Bama (Hurts does not make much mistakes)
RB-Push (Both team with 2 stud running backs)
Defense-Advantage goes to Georgia.
Bama is very thin on defense, and due to the many injuries they encounter it puts them in a disadvantage. But make no mistake, if they were healthy, advantage would be Bama since they got top notch talent.
Special Teams
Injuries
Side Notes
After seeing each team compete in the playoffs, some things to note: Clemson has no offense, and Bama defense literally stop them from moving the ball. Georgia the team with the better defense could not contain Oklahoma offense and barely escape a win during sudden death OT.
So from the Sugar Bowl game, not much to take from that game as Clemson QB is trash with no passing game. So we can’t really credit Bama defense too much, but when you turn the ball over that defense make plays all day. Bama did manage to move the ball fairly decent against arguably the best defense in college (Clemson).
Rose Bowl, Georgia had to make a comeback to win this game and literally almost game it right back to Oklahoma before going into overtime. That to me is a no no. Georgia should have controlled the game from start to finish and kept it close the whole time. If you have a better run game and better defense and can’t keep it close the whole game or dominate them, that tells me something. Oklahoma has no defense, no excuse you can’t stay close.
Conclusion
I can see Georgia moving the ball on Bama defense a little better than what Clemson could do. But they will not do anything close to the way their offense played against Oklahoma, believe that. Bama offense did not produce very much points against a top 3 defense, but they should produce a little better against Georgia’s defense. This game will come down to the QB that will be clutch and perform the best. I have a hard time believing a freshmen QB will win a championship. With that said, this game will probably be close, unless the freshmen lose his cool and just completely shutdown and get blown out.
My Pick: Roll Tide ml, 5 units.
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