Found November 28, 2012 on Leather Helmet Blog: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Aaron Murray
If we have learned anything from the media this season, it is that Alabama has played one of the nation's toughest schedules while Georgia has played mostly FCS schools. Georgia has no business even being in a championship game with a school that plays as toughest schedule as Alabama, right? Sagarin NCAA football ratings give Alabama the 39th toughest schedule in the country, while Georgia has the 42nd toughest. That’s pretty close. Georgia and Alabama equally could have lost two games during the regular season. Georgia was torched against South Carolina and could have lost to Florida, and Alabama was drubbed against Texas A&M and should have lost to LSU. But credit their staff and players for only managing to lose one. Aaron Murray will have to be great – not good – to take down this Tide defense, and he must take care of the football. If he looks at what Zach Mettenberger was able to do against the Tide secondary, it should give him confidence. Mett played his best ...
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