When Alabama football faced off against Georgia in last month’s SEC Championship Game, most experts (and some, ahem, other people) picked the Dawgs to roll into the playoffs as an unbeaten top seed. An Alabama win would require its best performance. As I wrote in this same preview for the SEC Championship Game:
If we get the best of the Alabama offense this year, more specifically the best of the Alabama passing attack, the Tide will have a great chance to take home another SEC title and playoff berth. If we see blown blocking assignments, dropped passes and Young holding the ball too long, it will be a long afternoon.