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As Alabama players stormed the field and confetti rained from the Georgia Dome roof, Georgia players made a painfully familiar walk to the locker room. Most made the trek stoically, some with million-mile stares and a few obviously fighting back tears. Unlike the scene a year ago when Georgia players trudged to the locker room after a 42-10 loss to LSU, the Bulldogs didn’t leave the field as the SEC East’s feel-good story after rallying from an 0-2 start to the season. This time they had plans to be here, they planned to win here, and they weren’t shy about saying it. This season was less about surprise and all about expectations. It was their team, their time and there were going to be no regrets, as the team’s motto goes. "Several guys came back to be deemed SEC champions, to play for a national championship," Georgia senior receiver Tavarres King said. "Those dreams were crushed tonight. You can imagine everybody is pretty mad and sad. After all those hours you put in for 60 minutes, it’s just sad it has to end like this."
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Alabama was a state away from the Georgia Dome this time last year, caught up in a BCS beauty pageant with Oklahoma State while LSU was strutting around this field with the biggest prize of all. Getting a shot at LSU in the national championship game with some funky BCS math couldn’t ease the sting—no matter how good it looked. "Having to watch that was one of the worst days of my football life," Alabama linebacker Nico Johnson said of last year’s SEC title game. Starting to see where this is headed? So when Georgia decided against spiking the ball with 14 seconds to play and setting up for a final play or two; when the Dawgs put an entire game of strongest man wins on a hurried final pass play from the Alabama 8, two years of work—last year and this year—had come to this. For Alabama, it has come full-circle: A season as the controversial champion. A new season as the hunted unbeaten. A week as the upset victim of the year. And finally, a moment of good fortune in a week of crazy that allowed the Tide back into a national title chase that made this SEC game that much more important.
Alabama vs. Georgia: Tide's SEC championship as prized as Notre Dame bout - NCAA Football - Sporting News
 

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He had just come up with the final stop in a game that featured far fewer stops than we're used to, at least in clashes of Southeastern Conference powers. Somewhere, somehow, a slugfest had morphed into a shootout. But C.J. Mosley ended it, blitzing, leaping and tipping Aaron Murray's last pass. Intended for the end zone, the ball instead fell into the arms of Georgia receiver Chris Conley, who fell 5 yards short as time expired. And after the confetti had fallen and the wild celebration had subsided and No. 2 Alabama had been crowned champion of college football's best conference, Mosley had a confession: the linebacker liked it better this way – a 32-28 victory over No. 3 Georgia, two teams trading haymakers, swapping touchdowns instead of scrapping for field goals. "It was just back and forth, back and forth," Mosley said. "They made plays. We made plays. That's when your true ability comes out, when you're able to bounce back from a big play or to make a big play."
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Mark Richt’s wife, Katharyn, waited for him in the hallway outside the Georgia locker room. She sat on a black platform in the middle of a small, tight group. Nobody spoke much. You could smell the diesel fumes from the buses idling around the corner, and hear the blowers on the field piling up Alabama’s victory confetti, but here in the hallway it felt like a hospital waiting room, with family and friends trying to accept this little death. The players were out there in the buses. They had tried to explain what it felt like at the end, when they had the ball at the Alabama eight-yard line, with a chance to win the best SEC title game there ever was and advance to the national championshp game, and could not get all the way home. A TV guy asked Todd Gurley, the freshman running back, a convoluted question about frustration and comebacks and pride, and Gurley just looked up at the end and said, "I mean, it’s life, man."
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But for Georgia the wait continues because on this night, the Bulldogs were 5 yards short. In a heavyweight battle that will go down as one of the best, if not the best, SEC Championship games in the event's 21-year history, Georgia's Chris Conley caught a tipped pass on the 5-yard line as time ran out and Alabama held for a 32-28 victory before a breathless crowd of 75,624 at the Georgia Dome.


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So what's the verdict, Irish? You have the next 37 days to decide. The film will show Alabama beat Georgia 32-28 in this de facto national semifinal creating as many questions as answers. In one glorious afternoon turned into night, the No. 2 Tide looked both unbeatable and vulnerable.Georgia's Aaron Murray -- 1-10 against ranked teams in his career -- was going to finally do it, until he didn't. A tipped pass at the end allowed the game's final seconds to bleed out with receiver Chris Conley laying at the Alabama 5.


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