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SEC Championship Preview (and others): Georgia v Alabama, folks

Before the season, if you said that Georgia and Alabama would be playing this weekend at the SEC Championship Game, you wouldn’t have batted an eyelid. But after the Alabama generally dreadful performances at the start of the season, including one where Crimson Tide had struggled – and I mean struggled – against South Florida, the prevailing thought that they wouldn’t make it was 60-40. Alabama was definitely helped by three factors: LSU couldn’t find a defense, and Auburn couldn’t work out a defense on 4th and 31. Oh, and Lane Kiffin continued his trend of ineptitude against Top 10 opponents. The third was Jalin Milroe, a freshman out of Katy, TX, who ran like Vince Young and had enough

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College Football desperately needs an eight-team play-off

After penning an overly-long article about Alabama and Ohio State and why Ohio State didn’t get into the play-off but Alabama did, we at the SEC Football Blog also thought it was time to say what should be done about College Football. Why? Because if we’re honest, we’re getting bored of the arguments about who should be in, and who shouldn’t. In the past, we hated the BCS and its computers, we hated the pollsters, we hated everything that defined a National Champion.  We hated the BCS so much that we put in a play-off committee to decide things. Who then screwed things up. They seemed to be able to shoot themselves in the foot, be inconsistent, and seem like they

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Alabama’s in, but the Crimson Tide deserve it?

I love SEC Football as much as the rest of ’em, but there’s no way I can look at myself straight in the face and say: ‘We had the best conference. We deserved two teams in the play-off. College Football is great.’ Why? As a conference (apart from Georgia, Auburn and Alabama), the rest of the conference weren’t particularly great…or stank out right. As a conference, big names like LSU and Florida were a side conversation, Mississippi State lurched from looking like world-beaters one week to ‘world’ the next, Texas A&M wasn’t in the discussion, Ole Miss and Missouri were mostly interesting because of their great offenses and terrible defenses….and we all know how bad Arkansas, Tennessee and Vanderbilt was. When your

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So where’s your SEC team going bowling?

Right, so we know that Auburn and Florida State will play in the National Championship Game/Rose Bowl, but here are the others – if the rumor mill is right: SUGAR BOWL/TWO HISTORIC PROGRAM BOWL: Alabama vs Oklahoma COTTON BOWL/ TWO TEAMS THAT MIGHT HAVE SEEN EACH OTHER BEFORE BOWL: Missouri vs Oklahoma State GATOR BOWL/TWO TEAMS WHO COULDN’T STOP ANYONE THIS YEAR BOWL (INDEFINITE): Georgia vs Nebraska CAPITAL ONE BOWL/ WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE BOWL: South Carolina vs Wisconsin OUTBACK BOWL/ .341 VS 50,000 .341S BOWL: LSU vs Iowa CHICK-FIL-A BOWL/ FOOTBALL’S FAIRYTALE VS JOHNNY FOOTBALL BOWL: Texas A&M vs Duke MUSIC CITY BOWL/ YOUNG TALENT VS TRIPLE OPTION BOWL: Ole Miss vs Georgia Tech LIBERTY BOWL/ WE PLAYED WELL AGAINST TEXAS A&M AND KEPT IT

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