Everyone knows what’s on the line Saturday.
If Georgia wins in Atlanta, keeping some positive mojo going in a city next door to campus whose domed stadiums have delivered more heartbreak and heartache than joy, the Bulldogs are Southeastern Conference champions and bound for the College Football Playoff for the second consecutive season and third time in six years under the watch of favorite son Kirby Smart.
It would also deliver the Bulldogs a second SEC title under Smart’s watch, which would be the second most in league history. If the schools with double digits conference titles were the four great, beloved golfers of the late 1950s through the 1980s, Alabama would be Jack Nicklaus.