The 2024 college football regular season has been completed, and this weekend's schedule consists mainly of conference championship games. The schedule looks weird because so much conference realignment occurred this year. For example, the ACC championship game features Clemson (9-3) vs SMU (11-1), and the Big 12 game has Iowa State vs Arizona State (both 10-2). In the Big Ten, the match-up is Penn State (11-1) vs Oregon (12-0). The Pac-12 was considered one of the five power leagues, but that one no longer exists. Its former members are scattered all over the map now.
This mumbling has mainly been an introduction to comments about the SEC championship game (to be shown on ABC at 3:00 Central from Atlanta). The competing teams are Georgia (10-2) vs Texas U (11-1). Georgia gets credit for handing the longhorns their only loss (30-15 in Austin), but Texas U is still favored to win today by 2.5 or 3.0 points, depending on where you look.
Georgia's losses came against Alabama (41-34) and Ole Miss (28-10). Texas U has some wins that seemed sort of impressive at the time, against Michigan (7-5), Oklahoma (6-6), Vanderbilt (6-6), Florida (7-5), Arkansas (6-6), and Kentucky (4-8). The only longhorn wins against teams with at least eight wins came against Colorado State (8-4) early and Texas A&M (8-4) late.
I'm not in love with the Georgia Bulldogs, but I despise the Texas U longhorns. The realization that Texas U might win a championship in their first season as an active SEC member makes me want to puke. College Football News expects both teams will struggle, but predicts a 27-23 win for the Bulldogs. Texas U losing is the outcome I want to watch on TV this afternoon.
Update 7:05 PM Saturday: There was a lot of back-and-forth scoring, and the game ended 16-16 in regulation. Georgia won the game in overtime 22-19, scoring a touchdown after holding Texas U to a field goal. It wasn't the type of ass-whipping I hoped to see Texas U suffer, but I'll take a Bulldog win any way I can get one.
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