Georgia Bulldogs Wait to Be Selected by Peach Bowl or Cotton Bowl on Sunday
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ATHENS - The Georgia Bulldogs will be selected to play a New Year’s Six Bowl game - the question is which one.
No. 3 Clemson’s destruction of No. 2 Notre Dame likely prevented the Bulldogs from playing in the Orange Bowl. No. 5 Texas A&M would have to jump the Irish and get into the College Football Playoff in order for the Bulldogs or the No. 7 Gators to be eligible for the Orange Bowl.
Saturday’s results mean the Bulldogs are all but certainly headed to either the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta or the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, TX. Although the CFP Committee will determine the pairings for both games, Oklahoma will likely play in the Cotton Bowl.
The question is who will play against the Sooners. Georgia and the Gators are both candidates to play in the Cotton Bowl. Insiders view the Fiesta Bowl as the likely destination of Pac-12 champion Oregon and Indiana.
Clemson has not looked better than it did during the Tigers’ lopsided win over the Irish. They’ll need to keep that up during the playoffs. Clemson played significantly better than Ohio State on Saturday. I’ll be curious to see the line on that game - if those two are matched up in one semifinal, which is expected. Ohio State has been extremely up and down this season.
Former UGA QB Justin Fields has been not good during portions of the season, and Saturday was a good example of that. The Buckeyes have the capability to beat Clemson for sure, but not the way the two teams played on Saturday.
Notre Dame will have to increase their play dramatically to beat or be competitive with with Alabama machine... if they get the chance that is.. Frankly, this seems like Alabama’s thing to lose. We will see. Clemson laid down a marker on Saturday with thier beating of Notre Dame. The Tigers certainly have plenty of fire power to keep up with Alabama, but the Tide is so steady everywhere. The quarterback. The running back. The receivers.
Someone is going to have to stop Alabama because they are not going to stop themselves.
The other thing that was so evident on Saturday was how much turnover there will be next season for the teams headed to the playoff.
Notre Dame - Ian Book. Gone.
Clemson - Travis Etienne and Trevor Lawrence. Gone.
Alabama - The Tide will lose their running back; the program’s best receiver; six of Bama’s starters on offense are seniors.
Ohio State - Justin Fields. Gone.
Then you’ve got Tennessee, and you have to wonder where the program goes from here. We’ve got rumblings of problems in recruiting
“I hadn’t seen no article or anything like that,” Pruitt said after the Vols’ loss to A&M on Saturday.
Yikes.
This can’t happen. The blocking and tackling of recruiting - these basics - can’t spill out into the open. ESPN is reporting that the Vols’ compliance department looking into alleged recruiting violations.
How is this out in the open? Is this an attempt by the Vols to fire Pruitt for cause? Because if that’s not the case this is total administrative failure. Something like this simply can’t get into the media’s bloodstream. It is a horrible look. If you are cleared by your own compliance department then no one believes you. If you can’t get cleared by your own compliance department…
Nothing about Saturday for the Vols was good.
SCOOP FOR YOUR SUNDAY: SEC fans should expect all but a couple teams in the league to play in bowl games this winter. The conference has let it be known around the 14-team league that teams who are selected for bowls should plan on playing in them - no matter how poor their record was in the regular season.
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