SEC Championship Game Coverage: No. 8 Alabama prepares for No. 1 Georgia
Action 8 Sports Director Lindsey Bonner is talking to Alabama fans and hearing from Coach Nick Saban as the No. 8 Crimson Tide prepares to face No. 1 Georgia in Atlanta.
Action 8 Sports Director Lindsey Bonner is talking to Alabama fans and hearing from Coach Nick Saban as the No. 8 Crimson Tide prepares to face No. 1 Georgia in Atlanta.
“It should be a lesson for everybody in life: Overcome adversity, man,” Alabama head football coach Nick Saban said.
With Georgia’s No. 1 ranking on the line, Brock Bowers caught a 40-yard touchdown pass from Carson Beck in the final minutes of a 27-20 win over Auburn.
Auburn is seeking to show progress under first-year coach Hugh Freeze and beat the Bulldogs for the first time in seven years.
Alabama is No. 4 in the AP Preseason Top 25 Poll, the Crimson Tide’s lowest preseason ranking in more than a decade.
From 2016-2022, sportswriters have picked Alabama to win the SEC football title, but not this year.
Alabama is a tough team to catch on the rebound. Just ask Vanderbilt, and now Georgia.
The Georgia Bulldogs are the first repeat national champions in major college football since Alabama went back-to-back a decade ago.
After the best semifinal day in the nine-year history of the College Football Playoff, the title game will match the defending national champion against the closest thing the sport has had in years to a Cinderella team.
Auburn has been outscored 125-31 in the second half of their last nine games against Power 5 teams.