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Alabama wins SEC West in Iron Bowl, moves closer to playoff bid - College Football - SI.com-via rbr

On Saturday, No. 2 Alabama won its second straight Iron Bowl, 29-13, clinched the SEC West and secured a spot in the conference title game. The Tide will play No. 10 Florida in the Georgia Dome on Dec. 5. That idea seemed far-fetched 10 weeks ago, when the reigning conference champs were reeling from an unexpected loss to Ole Miss. That setback seemed to shake the very foundation of Alabama’s program.
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t only seemed to shake the foundation because guys like you said it did, Zac. The team stayed true to the process and focused on the next game.
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No. 2 Alabama faces Florida as SEC's last hope for playoffs | College Football-via rbr
Urban Meyer and Florida started the SEC's seven-year reign over college football with a national championship in 2006, adding another two years later. Alabama won three of four from 2009-12. Back then, the SEC champion was a virtually automatic entry in the title game. But the SEC hasn't won since then with the Tide losing to eventual champion Ohio State in last season's semifinals. If Alabama loses, that mini-drought will stretch to three seasons. The Tide is trying to become the first team to win back to back SEC titles since Tennessee in 1997 and 1998.
Hard to believe that no one has back to back conference titles in 17 seasons. Hopefully the Tide is able to break that trend.
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Florida's defense faces challenge of containing another Heisman candidate running back - Orlando Sentinel-via rbr
Cook finished with 183 yards, his fourth consecutive game with at least 100 yards on the ground. If there is any consolation for the Gators defense, it would be the fact that most of those yards came in the fourth quarter. Through the first three quarters, Cook managed just 13 carries — five of those went for zero or negative yards. Compare that to his 13 carries in the final period, during which he rushed for 150 yards and failed to generate positive yardage just twice.
 

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Gators' offense fails to carry its weight during lop-sided loss to FSU - Orlando Sentinel-via rbr

On Senior Night in the Swamp and with College Football Playoff semifinal implications in play, the Gators turned in their worst performance of the fledgling Jim McElwain era. To be run off their home field by their in-state rivals in such a high-stakes game was bad enough. But McGee felt he and the offense were personally responsible for Saturday night's 27-2 loss. Florida's defense kept the Gators in the game for three quarters before collapsing from carrying the entire load.
Pretty common theme here. Florida has a salty defense but an absolutely atrocious offense. They have managed a total of 49 points in regulation in the past four games, with 24 of those coming against the same South Carolina defense that allowed 23 to The Citadel in a losing effort. The past two weeks they have been taken to overtime by the vaunted Florida Atlantic Owls and shut out by the Florida State Seminoles. Barring any more crazy bounces, this should be another game featuring a low-scoring first half with the Tide pulling away against a worn down defense late.
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Kirby as good as gone:
Mark Richt fired: Alabama's Kirby Smart a leading coach candidate | [url]www.ajc.con-via rbr[/URL]
Kirby Smart: The Alabama defensive coordinator is an obvious candidate given his connections, and there is considerable sentiment among those close to McGarity to pursue Smart. He’s a former Georgia safety, he was an assistant under Richt in the mid-2000s, and he’s served under the tutelage of Nick Saban at Alabama the past eight years. The question is whether Georgia will take a gamble on someone who not only has no head coaching experience, but has also been running Saban’s defense.
The Georgia Bulldogs finally came to terms with the fact that Mark Richt was never going to win them a national title, and now Kirby Smart is the leading candidate to succeed him. This is going to be a tough situation, as a large section of the fan base is upset about Richt's firing, particularly those who share his beliefs and value them over wins and losses. Some are already comparing Kirby to Will Muschamp and predicting failure. I would assume that he would jump at the opportunity if offered, but he is headed somewhere regardless.
 

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