3 reasons we can’t wait for an Alabama-Georgia SEC Championship Game
By Asher Fair
The college football season is winding down, but we still haven’t seen the best game this season will have to offer: the SEC Championship.
Week 9 of the college football season is coming to an end, leaving us with just four full weeks left of regular season action before conference championship games start and numerous bowl games start going down on a nightly basis.
But, even with what was billed as the “Game of the Year” featuring the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Ohio State Buckeyes now in the books, we still have an even more exciting matchup awaiting us even before bowl season officially begins: the SEC Championship Game likely featuring the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs.
Here are three reasons we can’t wait for the potential matchup to take place in early December.
3. Nick Saban vs. Kirby Smart
A potential Alabama vs. Georgia SEC Championship Game will not only feature the likely top two teams in the country, seeing as there are just two other unbeaten Power Five teams and neither one of these teams has any games left on their schedule that they will be underdogs in.
It will also feature the best coaching matchup in the country for a plethora of reasons. 65-year-old Nick Saban is in his 11th season at Alabama, and is looking for his fourth SEC title in a row as well as his fifth national title with the school. So it’s no surprise that he’ll be in the SEC title game yet again.
41-year-old Kirby Smart, on the other hand, is in just his second season as the Georgia head coach after Mark Richt left for Miami following the 2015 season. Smart also left a school at the end of 2015 — he left Alabama as the defensive coordinator under none other than Nick Saban.
What more could you ask for? First, you get potential No. 1 vs. No. 2 SEC title game that could end up being replayed just a few weeks later in the College Football Playoff in either the semifinals or the championship. Along with that, you get one of the best head coaches in the history of the game against a head coach who represents the next generation of great head coaches who got to this point in his career by leaving his position under the great head coach he is set to go up against. There is set to be a lot on the line in this one.