Championship weekend Picks

The next-to-last edition of the Picks blogs for the football season. Sorry I didn't do more picks blogs, but Georgia sucked, so what was the point?

Let's go over the picks of the championship games ONLY. Who really cares who wins Oregon/Oregon State or Boise State/New Mexico (or whoever they are playing) or UConn/SomeBigEast gawdawful team? The games that MATTER (sort of) will be the only ones we speak of here on this particular edition of The Picks.

with no FURTHER ado....

ACC Championship Game
Va Tech v FSU. Thank GOODNESS Boise State lost last week because I would HATE to have those blueshirts bragging that they beat the ACC Champs. But they didn't. They NEVER played FSU. And PS, Boise State didn't so much beat VaTech as the Hokies gave that game away at the end of the contest. RUN THE BALL MORONS! I still shake my head over the mismanagement of that clock. Did Les Miles handle the clock duties for Beamer? Won't matter. I like FSU's defense to shut down the three-headed rushing attack of the Hokies. And the FSU offense is head and shoulders better than the Hokie D. And FSU rubs it in with a special teams score from Greg Reid.

BigXII title game
Oklahoma v Nebraska. I will be rooting for the Boomers since I have an OU hat, and I think i'll be on the right side of this one since Landry Jones has all of those weapons at receiver. Blackshirts are nice but Nebraska won't go back-to-back in difference conferences next season. Sorry cornheads. OU.

SEC Title game
Auburn v SoCar
It will be difficult for me to watch Saturday’s SEC Championship game as a Georgia fan. Folks across Bulldog Nation will be tuning in and seeing Auburn, a team that Georgia led by two touchdowns AT Auburn, playing for a spot in the BCS Title game, go against South Carolina, the survivor of the weak SEC East. If you ignore the fact that Auburn has beaten the Gamecocks once this season and simply judge how each did against Georgia at home, you’d easily come to the conclusion that Auburn will take the game.

But the reason it will be difficult to watch this game as a Georgia fan is because you believe you should be there in Atlanta. Before non-Georgia fans laugh, consider for just a second how South Carolina “won” this berth, aka Georgia and Florida threw it away. Before the season started Georgia’s AJ Green lost his mind and sold his Independence Bowl jersey for some spending money and was subsequently suspended for four games to begin the year. Georgia’s record in those four games: 1-3, including 0-3 in SEC play. The contest against South Carolina was included in that 0-3 stretch, with the Gamecocks winning 17-6. In the fourth quarter of that game, the Bulldogs were knocking on the door trailing 14-6 when Washaun Ealey fumbled the ball into the endzone. With Green out, the Gamecock defense was crowding the box, daring Aaron Murray to throw to secondary receivers, which he was not allowed to do by the coaches even though he excelled in limited chances in that game.

Green’s absence would be noticed as well in the Mississippi State game as the offense was once again held out of the endzone until late in the game after the game had been decided.

In a deep hole thanks to the 0-3 conference start, Georgia still clung to a chance to get to the Georgia Dome, needing multiple losses and somehow everything broke the Dawgs way…until South Carolina managed to beat the Crimson Tide. Regardless, all Georgia needed to do was beat Florida then have the Gators in turn beat South Carolina, but as always, the Gators kept the Dawgs in place and edged Georgia in overtime.

The opportunities were there all season for Georgia, especially with Florida and Tennessee down and out. Sadly the combination of AJ Green’s suspension with Ealey’s fumbles and Murray’s one bad game happening to come against Florida coinciding with Alabama not helping out means the Dawg Nation will just have to think about what-coulda-been while Auburn faces South Carolina Saturday.

Auburn wins. (So does Oregon over Oregon State. The beavers lost to BOTH TCU and Boise for pete's sake!)
We get Oregon v Auburn for the BCS title and Georgia gets shut out of the Music City bowl for Tennessee (huh?) and has to go to the Liberty Bowl. Memphis!