Personally, Alabama and Georgia are very similar in terms of overall results. They caught a break and drew a weak intradivision schedule missing any factor team on the other side of the conference. They had two real games this season and played poorly in both but went 1-1 in the process.
You could make an argument that Alabama and Georgia are on top because of the 8-game conference schedule in a 14-team conference. The only good teams they played were interdivision while UF, USC, LSU, and TAMU all drew harder intradivision matchups and 3 dropped one of them. This is why the SEC has to expand to 9 conference games because I don't think this will be a rare exception but the rule of how divisions are decided in future years. Saban supported it from the outset but now that Alabama has benefitted from it the powers in the conference will get the wheels moving.
Anyway, there simply isn't a team in the SEC that has looked complete at this point. All have a deficiency but UGA's seem the most fixable. Alabama is simply going to find it hard to mask the secondary in this defensive scheme. Georgia can mask their quarterback behind their two backs and protect him better to avoid the stupid mistakes.
It's close but I think that is the difference: one team is probably better equipped personnel and scheme wise to mask their deficiency than the other.
You could make an argument that Alabama and Georgia are on top because of the 8-game conference schedule in a 14-team conference. The only good teams they played were interdivision while UF, USC, LSU, and TAMU all drew harder intradivision matchups and 3 dropped one of them. This is why the SEC has to expand to 9 conference games because I don't think this will be a rare exception but the rule of how divisions are decided in future years. Saban supported it from the outset but now that Alabama has benefitted from it the powers in the conference will get the wheels moving.
Anyway, there simply isn't a team in the SEC that has looked complete at this point. All have a deficiency but UGA's seem the most fixable. Alabama is simply going to find it hard to mask the secondary in this defensive scheme. Georgia can mask their quarterback behind their two backs and protect him better to avoid the stupid mistakes.
It's close but I think that is the difference: one team is probably better equipped personnel and scheme wise to mask their deficiency than the other.