The only caveat I have about Georgia is that their most impressive game (to me) was yesterday's win against LSU. Brian Kelly is very good, but not as good as his SEC competition. His teams haven't been Death Stars like some of the other big time programs. Solid teams, to be sure, for the most part. Not asteroids.Georgia is just a juggernaut.
Like you Les, my heart wants Michigan, but my head says Georgia.
Just thinking back to Michigan's games against Kelly at Notre Dame during the years when Michigan absolutely stunk - during the Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke years 2009 through 2014 - Notre Dame was only 2-4 with Kelly at the helm! A constant Michigan meme is a pic of Kelly's face turning an incredible shade of magenta while chewing out his players in the Big House.
A coach who couldn't beat Rich Rod or Hoke-coached Michigan consistently? Tells me a lot.
So my wish-dream here is that Kelly's LSU made Georgia look more scary than they are. BUT:
It's a wish-dream because Thor would have to supernaturally arrive from Asgard and lend Michigan his hammer to beat Georgia, and I don't believe in the supernatural.
I might start believing in that if by some miracle Michigan takes the Natty.
Meantime, Michigan's only close call was against Illinois, a team built like Michigan and like Georgia, only Michigan's a better version of it, and Georgia is a bazillion times better. Another data point that discourages me from having an irrational belief in winding up with the Natty this year.
If I was coaching Michigan, I'd get on the ouija board and ask my mom (RIP) for a note saying I have to be excused from taking the test because I have a doctor's appointment.
"But it's such a special thing to make the Playoffs!"
"It was also a special thing to be the last Arrhinoceratops to see the Chicxulub Asterpoid entering Earth's atmosphere. But a big part of me says that I don't want to be that dinosaur."
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