Jake Camarda was the Georgia punter in the game. So that's the challenge that we all have.”ĭavis is the only Georgia starter on offense or defense remaining from the 2018 SEC championship game with the Tide. What happened the year before that doesn't matter. “I think that you've got to line up and play well in this game. “I think that's what's happened in the past in games really doesn't have a lot of impact on what happens in the future,” Saban said. Alabama returned 12 total starters from that game after having five offensive players drafted in the NFL first round. Georgia has 13 starters back from last year’s game including eight on offense. Both teams are different in a lot of ways.” I think anybody with good coaching sense would tell you that. What happened in those games will have no relevance to this game. I think every team is independent of the previous. “Do you talk about it? We talk about the opponent every week we play somebody, right?” he said. Smart isn’t making the Bulldogs’ recent history with the Crimson Tide a focal point this week, at least publicly. I’m just looking toward the future right now.” It doesn’t matter what we did back then, it matters how we finish. “I guess if you want to look in the past, I guess for all the Georgia historians out there, but I’m moreso thinking about now. “I wasn’t playing for Georgia in 2008,” Dean said. Inside linebacker Nakobe Dean said he wasn’t necessarily hoping to get another shot at Alabama in Atlanta. The pendulum has swung the other direction with top-ranked Georgia (12-0) favored by 6½ this time. I know people want to make it that, make it some kind of overlap.”Īlabama (11-1) was a six-point favorite in last year’s game. “I don't think there's any overlap between the two. “Obviously, this year is this year, and every year is independent of the previous,” Smart said. The 2021 Georgia team’s focus isn’t on making up for falling short against Alabama whether it was last year, three years ago or beyond, coach Kirby Smart said. “This is the game we need to have and we’re going to prepare like champions.” “Look, we want to go 1-0, if we were playing it doesn’t matter who from out West, we want to make sure that we win this game,” nose guard Jordan Davis said. Winning championships - the SEC this week and the national title at the end of the season - are on Georgia’s goal list, not so much beating Alabama. “It would mean we won an SEC championship for the University of Georgia,” Bennett said. So, quarterback Stetson Bennett was asked Monday, what would it mean to beat Alabama this time? That’s six straight wins for Alabama and talk of the Bulldogs unable to get over the hump continuing until they do. Losing another halftime lead in Tuscaloosa last season as Mac Jones and company won 41-24. Second-and-26 in the 2017 national championship overtime loss.īlowing a lead in the 2018 SEC championship game that included a fake punt being foiled. Getting smacked down 38-10 in Athens in 2015 in Mark Richt’s final season. Alabama and into playoffįalling five yards short in the 2012 SEC championship game. More: Georgia football aims to build off scintillating regular season vs. It probably doesn’t need to beat Alabama Saturday in the SEC championship game to get in the four-team bracket but beating what’s been college football’s marquee program will once and probably for all stop the Bulldogs from having to hear about the Crimson Tide’s stranglehold on them the last 13 years.īy now, Georgia fans know the litany of letdowns against Nick Saban’s powerhouse football factory. Top-ranked Georgia football has plowed over so many opponents week after week behind its suffocating defense that it enters the final weekend before the College Football Playoff selections sitting pretty.
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