SEC Championship Preview
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LSU and Georgia will play for the SEC Championship Saturday. Just looking on paper this should be a blow out with LSU beating the pants off Georgia. But when Georgis was 0-2 I said in several posts that Georgia was the best 0-2 team in the country. They haven’t lost a game since them.
South Carolina was in the drivers seat for the East title after beating Georgia but I figured they would lose one conference game at Arkansas. What no one saw coming was the Auburn upset of the Gamecocks in Columbia. That meant the Gamecocks had to win out and of they lost at Arkansas like I thought they would. Meanwhile Georgia did not lose another conference game after losing to South Carolina.
It helped that they did not have to play any of the big three teams in the SEC West, but that’s the way it goes. So they have to try and slow down the number one ranked Tigers on Saturday.
Georgia has been playing really good defense and they move the ball on the ground pretty good this year behind their gigantic offensive line. If the offensive line gives Aaron Murray time he can pick you apart.
LSU is favored by 14 points for a reason though. Their defense is incredible. Georgia will have to hope for a game like the Alabama game against LSU where neither team could score. I don’t think LSU will run up and down the field on them but I figure LSU will score at least 21 points.
Can Georgia score in the 20s against LSU. The only way is if they can create turnovers and come up with some big special team plays. Georgia would like to keep the ball on the ground, run some clock and keep it low scoring. I don’t think their defense is good enough to do that.
But I Mark Richt shows why he is a great coach and keeps them in the game for 3 quarters. After that the LSU athletes will be to much.
LSU 24- Georgia 10