… for me isn’t who wins or loses. It’s whether the national championship game will be as entertaining as the SECCG was.
I’m betting not. And I rooted for the loser in that one.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
Get The Picture 
georgia kicked the irish butt, was that 1982 or 1983
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Really? On a Georgia blog and with access to the internets?
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More like Jan. 1, 1981
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Don’t be too hard on the man. I think this is just evidence that he got his money’s worth in the 80’s.
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No, his mom’s worth.
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I agree Senator, the SECCG was the best college football game I have seen in the last decade, even being on the losing side of it.
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A better question is whether it will be less boring than last year’s title game.
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Hope this game is better than that exhibition of football called the NFL wildcard games. Geez, that was some sorry football this weekend.
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That Cincy-Houston game hurt my eyes (especially AJ Green barely even having the ball thrown his way.)
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I have a buddy that’s a Bengals fan. Today he said ” now I know what you felt like after the Liberty Bowl.”
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Bama in a rout. That will be boring to everybody except Bammers.
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Damn, I hate being right all the time.
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Have some bammer friends up here in Chicago. They were bored with it.
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However, I can be pretty sure I will not be repeating the sequence of events contained in the brief synopsis of my SECCG viewing below (indulge me, it’s part of the healing process):
1. Watch SECCG at my brother’s place in Vinings. He has just moved back to Atlanta from Little Rock, so there is much mirth and fellowship; pretty sure we said “I love you, man” more than is appropriate.
2. [steps 2 though 7 all happen without a word being spoken, by anyone] The room is in a frenzy, anything is possible, and then just like that, time expires; Chris Connelly is in a crumpled heap on the wrong side of the goal line, no matter which angle I am viewing TV, and I tried several;
3. Brain attempts to go through the 5 stages of grief; it never gets past “anger.”
4. I walk into the kitchen, just off the TV-viewing room, and sit by myself and hold my head in my hands for about 5 minutes and contemplate having a good cry.
5. It becomes apparent to me that the cry will either come or it won’t, but it will be completely beyond my control if it does comes, and there’s a good chance it will be one of those very unmanly kind of cries with the sobbing and weird sounds.
6. Get up without a word to anyone, walk directly to my car, and leave. It didn’t occur to me until much later – when the suggestion was made very loudly and with lots of gesticulating – that my wife was with me watching the game, and I was her ride home.
7. Make two full laps on I-285, and try desperately to remember the phone number of the guy I bought weed from in college. For some reason, the fact that that was 15 years ago didn’t strike me as the more fundamental problem.
I can’t imagine a set of circumstances tonight that would create the conditions necessary to recreate steps 1-7.
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I feel your pain rabe76. I wasn’t going to snark the Senator’s post but now I cannot avoid it. It IS about who wins. That’s ALL that it is about and nothing else. Good game, lousy game, whatever–’cause nobody will remember what the game was like in 5 years, they’ll just remember who won. It’s all about who hoists the crystal at the ceremony. “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”–Vince Lombardi I understand and appreciate those who take solace in the fact that the Dawgs played a great game and came close. I, unfortunately cannot. The Dawgs lost the SECCG and will not be beating the living sh!t out of ND tonight and then getting the crystal at the ceremony. The real BCSNCG was played in the Georgia Dome and we already know the outcome. Personally I don’t really care who wins tonight ’cause it won’t be the Dawgs. End of story.
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I didn’t drink during the SEC Championship Game. By the time I woke up Sunday, I was so hungover I nearly drowned in the shower.
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Will probably tune in at some point. The whole thing is just one big reminder of how close we came. BLECH.
Also, you want to get drunk tonight, drink every time they say “storied programs”. *vomit*
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Here’s a thought: hard to be efficient at work when you spend all day on the toilet.
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Depends on where you work.
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Roll Plumbers!
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Roll Janitors!
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I want Bama to whip ND so we end up higher in the rankings this year. I see others have A&M higher than us and that annoys me.
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Is Brent Musberger announcing?
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No, he’s butchering.
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I also have my doubts that any ex-girlfriends will text me after the game to express sympathies/make sure I haven’t drunk myself into a coma.
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Is it possible for the losing team to lose in a horrible gut wrenching way and at the same time the winning team wins in such a way that the legitimacy of the win will always be questioned? I’m pulling for that.
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Yes, it is. A ref blown call can accomplish this.
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NOT POSSIBLE!!!!
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Nah I want Bama to win big and make us look like the real NC was played at the Georgia Dome. That weak moral victory is all I got. And no, I don’t have the stomach to watch the game.
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+1
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How about a Bama route but the entire nation sees the typical officiating we are used to in Bama games?
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As a Bama fan, I am certainly hoping for a less entertaining game. My fervent hope is that you guys are as much better than Notre Dame as I think you are, and that beating Georgia was the real national championship qualifier.
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Aww shucks Watchman…
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Am I watching the game tonight, yes I am. Am I excited about watching the game tonight? About as excited as I would be going to my ex fiancé’s wedding.
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+1
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Man I hate Musberger….
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Aw come on now..he’s only mentioned TWICE the long pass for a td against UGA in the SECCG. You know, during bama’s game with the domers. Not us..but..against someone else in the MNC game. He’s mentioned it. Twice.
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Nate my comment was before kickoff 😉
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Daaaannnnnggg…. ND’s coach is a leprechaun compared to the lady who is interviewing him. Not that that matters.
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Yallah Hammah
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SEC Baby !
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I don’t like to declare a game over halfway through the first quarter, but the national title game is over.
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The real national title game was a month ago, bro.
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Lacy is a beast. ND is going to have a lot of fun with him and that line tonight.
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In the words of Billy Packer – “This game is OVER.”
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Reminds me of UGA vs Hawaii
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Yeah, pretty much.
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Notre Dame really is taking this ACC membership thing to heart. Imagine how bad this would be if they’d decided to become a full member…
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You nailed that one and its just 2 mins in the second quarter.
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One more score and they can rest the starters so they’ll be fresh for the A-day game.
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lol!
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Dang now that is funny.
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Bama is nancing ND around, hilarious.
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Georgia would shred that ND defense……… and then some.
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+1. Is there a human being that knows anything at all about football that does not understand that if the Dawgs were playing ND tonight, UGA would be doing exactly the same thing to the Domers that Bama is doing?
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and so would A&M and South Carolina. UF wouldn’t score as much they’d beat this ND team pretty bad too.
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What if there was a National Championship game and Notre Dame forgot to show up.
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I just asked my 10 yr. old’ s magic 8 ball if I should stay up and watch the second half. It said “no”…..seriously. I guess that means I’ll see all of you tomorrow.
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Well, now we know for certain that the real championship game was a month ago in Atlanta.
On the plus side, I don’t have to stay up late tonight.
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They just said Bama averaged 9 yards per carry with ND putting 7 in the box against them. CFB stats is not responding tonight, but I recall hearing that ND had a tough defensive line. So my point is I am feeling a little better about our DL not being able to slow the Alabama rush attack in the 4th quarter.
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9 yards per carry in the first half.
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I just want Bama to have 351 yards of rushing tonight.
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What does this say about all the hoopla for Teo? Ain’t showing much when the competition gets tough. Only got all that crap cause he plays for nd.
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Well, ND hasn’t given up a 98 yard TD drive all year long. 😉
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I’m sick of hearing how good LSU or A&M must be.
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+1. A&M only scored one more point on Bama than Georgia. Also, what about the A&M DEFENSE?!?
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During halftime they said a lot of people considered the real bcs championship was played a month ago and the talking heads all agreed.
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+100, its like they are going out of their way to not give Georgia any credit, in other news, Christian Robinson is wishing he went to ND, he could have won all kind of trophies up there.
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SEC Fatigue Baby !
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How good is the SEC? nd was the best to send against Bammer?
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Actually, that would have been Oregon probably, but they lost to Stanford, so here we are.
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Can we start the petition here for Lacy to go pro early?
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Saban to the Browns.
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And take Lacy and McCarron with him.
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Never been so glad to be so wrong. The thought of ND breaking the streak was nauseating. This rocks.
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5 yards, 12 seconds short for the Dawgs and CMR. Dammit.
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aaaand that’s a wrap! 2013 season anyone?
Only 236 days until kick off at Clemson.
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There’s no continuuim for success. GA’s five yards from getting here.
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