ALABAMA (PK) MONEY LINE (-185) @5Dimes WINNER, THE CHAMPIONS
(This Selection Can't Be Rated Any Higher According To My "MODEL RATING")
BOL!
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GEORGIA's greatest drawback, is that they can't beat Alabama with this "better than average freshman quarterback". You simply do not beat Alabama with a freshman quarterback, who can't run and cause Alabama to worry about him as a triple threat because he is not. He is a very good freshman passer and game manager, no more and no less. If this freshman Georgia QB, leaves the pocket, against Alabama he could get seriously hurt. This freshman QB at Georgia is not a physical quarterback. Georgia has great running backs, but Alabama not having to worry about Georgia's freshman QB being a threat to leave the pocket if more than 5% of the time, in lieu of handing off to great running backs and throwing to good receivers, allows Alabama's great defense to control Georgia's (offense) running backs and successfully cover Georgia's receivers, while understanding that the Georgia QB's threat is solely to manage the game by handing off and passing. Rushing as a QB is simply not a Georgia threat Alabama has to be concerned about, unlike the Alabama QB, who can run as a key offensive threat and also manage the running game and pass good enough to make himself a triple threat. Alabama's QB by no means is one of their finest in the last several years, but Georgia not trumping Alabama with a better QB, makes Alabama able to easily beat Georgia. When the Georgia QB starts his second, third and fourth years at QB, he no doubt will improve. Then and only then, will he be capable of being a legitimate threat to offensively become enough of a concern to beat Alabama. But he is not there yet! In closing Kirby is no Nick, not now, not ever.