Mr. CFB What We Learned Week 13 Mr. CFB What We Learned Week 13

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Mr. CFB What We Learned Week 13 Mr. CFB What We Learned Week 13

Heres what makes college football the best game in the world: Just when you think youve got the rest of the season figured out, we get yet another crazy Saturday.Four of the top nine teams (Ohio State, LSU, Clemson, Oregon) in the College Football Playoff rankings lost on Saturday. It was crazy.But it seems pretty obvious that that the top four teams in Tuesday nights new CFP rankings will be: 1Georgia (12-0)2Michigan (12-0)3TCU (12-0)4USC (11-1)And if Saturdays conference championship games involving these teams go chalk, that top four, as the referee says will stand.But Paul Millsap Jersey the biggest question going into Tuesday is Whos No. 5? No. 5 is important because that would be the team that has the best chance to move into the Top Four if someone stumbles on Championship Saturday. The candidates for No. 5 would be:Ohio State (11-1) Only lo s to No. 2 Michigan.Alabama (10-2). Two lo ses to LSU and Tenne see at the buzzer.Tenne see (10-2). Beat LSU and Alabama.Tune in Tuesday night (ESPN, 7 p.m.) Where those three teams are positioned will be critical.And now, here are Five Things We Learned on the 13th Saturday of the 2022 college football season:1LSU is out: No. 5 LSU had a chance to make history if it could have found a way to beat 4-7 Texas AM in College Station. Instead, the Aggies rose up and played their best game of the year, winning 38-23.Had LSU won and then beaten Georgia in the SEC championship game, the Tigers would have become the first two-lo s team to make the CFP. LSU (9-3) can still win the SEC championship, but will not get in the final four with three lo ses.Still, it has been a very good first season at LSU for Coach Brian Kelly.This is not a step back, said Kelly Denver Nuggets Hats after the game. This was a bump in the road and they are going to learn from it.2Win or lose vs. LSU, Georgia is in playoffs but the stake are still huge:Scroll to Continue Georgia beat Georgia Tech 37-14 to post its second consecutive 12-0 regular season. Thats a first in school history.Aside from the SEC championship, which Georgia last won in 2017, the No. 1 Bulldogs playing to become the No. 1 seed in the CFP The top seed, and the top seed only, gets to choose its site for the semifinals on Dec. 31. The two choices are Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.Obviously Georgia would choose Atlanta, which is only an hour away from its campus.If Georgia loses to LSU and Michigan becomes the No. 1 seed I it is expected that the Wolverines would choose Atlanta. Then Georgia would be in Glendale unle s the Bulldogs dropped all the way to the No. 4 seed.3Caleb Williams of USC is probably going to win the Heisman Trophy, but let me make the case that Bryce Young,, who won it last season, should win it again.Williams caught a break in his Heisman pursuit with two huge nationally-televised games with UCLA and Notre Dame the past two weeks. Williams completed 18 of 22 pa ses for 232 yards and a touchdown against Notre Dame. He also ran Gary Harris Jersey for three touchdowns. It was a true Heisman moment. Hell get to play in another nationally-televised game that will be in prime time on the East Coast when the Trojans play Utah in the Pac-12 championship game Friday night.But Young, a native of Pasadena and the 2021 Heisman winner, has just been brilliant and at times literally carried this team. Saturday against Auburn he was 20 of 30 pa ses for 343 yards and three touchdowns in a 49-27 win.On the season Young, who has played in a lot of pain (shoulder) this season, has thrown for 3,007 yards, 27 touchdowns and five interceptions.I cant say enough about what the has meant to our program and our university, Coach Nick Saban said. 4You have to be impre sed with what South Carolina and Shane Beamer did in the final two weeks of the regular season.On Nov. 12 South Carolina got embarra sed 38-6 by what turned out to a 6-6 Florida team. There were critics who said that Beamer, in his second season at South Carolina, was in over his head.Beamer kept encouraging his players privately and publicly he insisted Weve got a good football team."Turns out Beamer was right. On the week after stunning Monte Morris Jersey Tenne see 63-38, South Carolina went on the road and beat No. 8 Clemson 31-30, snapping the Tigers 40-game home winning streak.South Carolina finishes 8-4 in Shane Beamers second year.5Having written all that, Georgias Kirby Smart is your SEC Coach of the Year:What do you mean, Barnhart? How can Kirby Smart be the coach of the year when hes got the best players?Heres how: People a sume that it is easy to coach talented players. And Georgia had to replace a bunch of them, including eight draft choices (five in Troy Daniels Jersey the first round) off a national championship defense.Last seasons generational unit at Georgia led the nation in scoring defense giving up only 10.2 points per game. This season, with eight starters gone, Georgia is allowing 11.3 points per game, which again leads the nation.It is hard to manage a team that that is trying to repeat. The letdowns are inevitable. And Georgia is 12-0 for the second straight season. Georgia had some rough patches. All teams do. But the only real scare was at Mi souri on Oct. 1 where the Bulldogs had to rally to win 26-22.Theres some really good coaching going on in Athens and Smart is the leader of the bunch.
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