2012 sec football championship game predictions

Rested, prepared, and focused, it had the game won after the opening drive in the Cotton Bowl victory. To do that, Bama has to make it eight in a row over Georgia — the last Bulldog win was back in The streak includes two epic SEC Championships — and — and one all-time classic of a national title finish in a overtime win to close out the season.

Florida and Missouri are dark horse candidates to win the division. Ole Miss. There were big welcome ceremonies, with excited talk about what each school brings to the conference, and how great this was for the SEC. And then came the details. The move to 14 teams proved to be a headache for those charged with coming up with a new scheduling philosophy. The conference athletics directors logged plenty of miles flying to meetings, trying first to agree on an overall philosophy and then to hammer out logistics.

About the only thing that they ended up agreeing on was to keep the traditional, cross-division rivalries. After some brief worries, Georgia-Auburn and Tennessee-Alabama were saved.

When you look at a H2H comparison, both teams have faced off against 4 common foes, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida and Tennessee, and while both teams went SU, there are some massive differences.

Georgia went ATS in those 4 games, they were favorited by The Bulldogs posted They out-gained their opponents by 99 yards on average and won the TO battle by a margin of Alabama on the other hand only covered 1 of those 4 games vs. Tennessee in week 8 , while they were favorited by an average of Alabama may have put up more points and yards on average then Georgia did in those 4 games, but the defense against becomes the difference. The Crimson Tide put up Alabama gave up more points to Arkansas then Georgia did to all 4 teams combined!

What can Oregon do differently to reverse the drubbing they received from Utah two weeks ago? Fundamentally, there seems to be a valid case for the Bulldogs, whose raucous defense has looked like a college version of the old Pittsburgh Steel Curtain from the 70s, top-ranked in the nation while allowing less than seven points per game and wrecking opposing offenses almost every week with a tidal wave-like push up from led by NT Jordan Davis and friends.

On the surface, that looks like real trouble for Nick Saban, whose OL has been a recurring issue throughout this campaign and has not dominated like past Bama forward walls. It might be a mistake to short-change the Georgia offense, too, which has responded to rough-hewn QB Stetson Bennett, whose ability to improvise has kept alive many Bulldog drives.

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CO Gambling problem? Georgia punter Jake Camarda gives the Bulldogs a decided edge in the punting game, which can have a big impact on field position. Williams is one of the best kickoff returners with two touchdowns. Kirby Smart has won 65 games in his six seasons and will be making his second appearance in the College Football Playoff game. He's one of the premier coaches in college football. But he's facing the greatest of all time in Nick Saban, who is going for his eighth title overall and seventh in his last 13 seasons with Alabama.

Saban has also won all four meetings against his former assistant. Noah Cain is going from one disappointing rushing offense to another with his transfer destination.

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