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Alabama Wins SEC Title, Will Play Notre Dame in BCS Championship Game

Dec. 1, 2012 9:26pm
Alabama Wins SEC Title, Will Play Notre Dame in BCS Championship Game

Alabama running back Eddie Lacy (42) reacts after scoring a touchdown against Georgia during the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jamie Martin)

 

(AP) — Alabama is heading back to the national championship game – by a mere 5 yards.

AJ McCarron threw a 45-yard touchdown pass to Amari Cooper with 3:15 remaining, and the No. 2 Crimson Tide barely held off No. 3 Georgia 32-28 in a Southeastern Conference title game for the ages Saturday.

After an apparent game-clinching interception by Alabama was overturned on a video review, Georgia’s Aaron Murray completed a 15-yard pass to Arthur Lynch, a 23-yarder to Tavarres King and a 26-yarder to Lynch, who was hauled down at the Alabama 8 as the clock continued to run.

The Bulldogs were out of timeouts.

Instead of spiking the ball and gathering themselves, the Bulldog snapped the ball with 9 seconds to go. Murray attempted a pass into the corner but it was deflected at the line, winding up in the arms of Chris Conley out in the right flats.

Surprised to get the ball, he slipped down at the 5.

Georgia couldn’t get off another play. Alabama celebrated as confetti fell from the Georgia Dome roof. The Bulldogs collapsed on the field, stunned they had come so close to knocking off the team that has won two of the last three national titles.

The Tide will get a chance to make it three out of four when they face top-ranked Notre Dame for the BCS crown on Jan. 7 in Miami.

“I’m ready to have heart attack here,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said.

For the Bulldogs (11-2), the consolation prize will likely be a spot in the Capital One Bowl, though they certainly looked like a team fully deserving of a BCS bid. Georgia coach Mark Richt said his team had the play it wanted at the end, but Alabama ruined it by getting a hand on the ball.

“I told the guys I was disappointed, but I’m not disappointed in them,” Richt said. “They’re warriors. We had a chance at the end. We just didn’t get it done.”

In a back-and-forth second half that looked nothing like a game in the defensive-minded SEC, the Crimson Tide trailed 21-10 after Alec Ogletree returned a blocked field goal for a touchdown in the third quarter.

Alabama rallied behind a punishing run game, finishing with 350 yards on the ground, an SEC championship game record. Eddie Lacy rumbled for 181 yards on 20 carries, including two TDs. Freshman T.J. Yeldon added 153 yards on 25 carries, also scoring a TD.

But the Tide won it through the air.

With Georgia stacking the line, McCarron fooled the Bulldogs with play action and delivered a perfectly thrown pass to Cooper, who beat Damian Swann in single coverage down the left side.

Georgia played like a champion, too.

The Bulldogs punted the ball back to Alabama with 2:25 left, relying on their defense to finally stop the Tide. Georgia used up its final two timeouts, forced a punt and got the ball back at its 15 with 1:16 remaining.

Alabama broke into a celebration when a pass down the middle for Conley was deflected and Dee Milliner appeared to make a diving interception. But the replay showed the ball hit the ground, so Murray and the Georgia offense trotted back on the field for their last gasp.

And what a gasp it was.

Just not quite enough.

Todd Gurley led Georgia with 122 yards rushing, including a couple of TDs. Murray was 18 of 33 for 265 yards with one touchdown and one interception.

McCarron was 12 of 21 for 162 yards with an interception, just his third of the season.

After a defensive slugfest in the first half, the final two quarters were nothing but run-and-gun.

Or, more accurately, Alabama running and Georgia gunning.

Trailing 10-7, Georgia took the kickoff to start the second half and marched down the field for a go-ahead touchdown. Gurley ran it seven times for 44 yards, the last of his carries a leg-churning, 3-yard drive up the middle to make it 14-10.

Alabama looked like it was about to answer, holding the ball for more than 5 1-2 minutes, before the drive stalled and the Tide sent out Cade Foster for a 50-yard field-goal attempt. Trying to get distance on the kick, he booted a low ball that Cornelius Washington swatted down with his left hand. Ogletree scooped up the bouncing ball and returned it 55 yards for a touchdown.

Suddenly, the Bulldogs led 21-10.

But the Tide wasn’t about to go away that easy.

A little too pumped up, Georgia’s T.J. Stripling committed a silly personal foul on the kickoff return and Alabama quickly drove for a score to get back in the game. Yeldon broke off a 31-yard run, Swann was called interference on a throw down the middle, and Yeldon powered in from the 10. He ran it again for the 2-point conversion, pulling Alabama to 21-18.

Georgia went three-and-out, and Lacy came back in to continue the ground assault. He barreled over right guard for 32 yards. Then a 15-yarder. Then a 14-yarder. He caught a quick breather, Yeldon running twice to get it down to the 1.

Lacy returned for the first play of the fourth period, scoring to put Alabama ahead 25-21.

The Tide appeared to have all the momentum.

It lasted about 2 minutes.

Murray found King down the middle for a 45-yard completion and Gurley finished off the lightning-quick possession with a 10-yard touchdown run up the middle.

After the clock had finally run out on Georgia, Richt made one last pitch for a BCS bid.

“Do I think we’re worthy of a BCS bowl?” he said. “Yes I do.”

The Bulldogs even got props from Saban.

“It would be a crying shame if Georgia doesn’t get to go to a BCS bowl game,” the Alabama coach said. “They played a tremendous game out there. That was a great football game, by both teams. It came right down to the last play.”

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Comments (69)

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  • CookieMonster
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 5:49pm

    We will see who wins the Title ND better get ready to play 60 whole minutes of football SEC Slobberknocker style.

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  • Fed up in Bama
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 4:19pm

    Teams go up, Teams go down. Just how it is. Lose Seniors, Lose to NFL. (which btw, 7 Alabama players from last year went to the NFL. 4 went on 1st pick.) But still, through it all, and thanks to a great Coach, we still are rumbling out there. ROLL TIDE!
    That being said, the Dawgs gave them a run for their money. Awesome ball team. It really, honestly, could of went either way. The very BEST ball game anyone could witness. Both played hard, both fought for the win. It was truely, ‘edge of your seat, blood pressure rising, heart attack having, nail biting’ game. Forget LSU and Alabama last year….this was truely the game of the century.
    Now…will the Fighting Irish top that?
    Guess we’ll see.
    Can’t wait. Roll Tide!!!

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  • MainMan
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 2:58pm

    Alabama 31 ND 0.

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  • The_Jerk
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 1:28pm

    Where’s Gonzo? Hey, you out there?

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    The_Jerk  
  • rdk
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:33am

    Two championship teams played like champions. That was the best collegiate football game ever played.

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    rdk  
    • The_Jerk
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 1:33pm

      Two best teams in the country. That was the championship game. Hope Bama doesn’t let down against the team that should have lost to Pitt, but for a bad call and a missed 33 yard F.G..

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      The_Jerk  
  • JeffMT
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:59am

    The SEC championship game last night was the national championship game and everyone who knows college football knows that. Alabama, Georgia and Florida are the three best teams out there but only two of them could play in that game.

    Notre Dame is not even a legitimate top 10 team this year. They are living off their reputation from 20+ years ago and the media hype. They are going to get ‘rolled’ in the BCS national championship game.

    Alabama 34
    Notre Dame 13

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:31am

      Enjoy it while you can.
      It’s only a matter of time before someone files the right lawsuit and the Supreme Court declares Division 1 NCAA football (and basketball) to be illegal professional minor leagues….

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      Eastinfection  
    • MY BEAR58
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:14am

      Not to sure about that JEFFMT. I’m a Gamecock and Florida got lucky they faced SC on a bad day. ND is pretty good. I watched a lot of their games this season and I’m not a ND fan. But they did impress me. I think Bama may have their work cut out for them, because ND will not roll over and give them and easy win. That game last night was a great game.

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    • Geiner
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 1:09pm

      You’re an idiot.ND is undefeated and had a harder schedule than bama. Bama’s cheatin a$$ does not belong there. They played a weak schedule, got beaten at home by a middle-of-the-run team (again), and should have dropped farther than 4th. Should have been around 10 or 12.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 2:13pm

      Vegas has Bama favored by 7.5-10 points. The odds-makers got the first BSC championship game wrong but they’ve been correct every time since.
      This is the biggest spread in the history of the BCS championship game…
      translation… Notre Dame is toast.

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    • JeffMT
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 2:30pm

      Geiner:

      ND is nothing more than an over-hyped media creation and that’s all they have been for the past 20+ years. I still laugh out load at the 2001 Fiesta Bowl, ND vs. Oregon State when the Beavers, that noted football powerhouse, absolutely destroyed ND 41-9. ND had no business in being in that game and were obviously not the #10 team in the country as they were made out to be. That’s just one example; there are many others.

      ND played a powder puff schedule compared to Alabama’s schedule this year and you know that. The common opponent, Michigan, got schooled by ‘Bama and ND barely squeaked by them, at home no less. Case closed!

      Saban has a month + to prepare for ND and he will expose ND for the pretender that it is. ND should be in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl or the Meineke Car Care Bowl or some other equally prestigious bowl.

      The Fighting Irish are going to get schooled and I can’t wait!

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    • MajorShultz
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:45am

      Gainer
      The Aggies are not a middle run team, Johnny Football anyone. ND on the otherhand is in for a long game verses Alabama.

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    • kvince3
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 1:02pm

      @ JeffMT So Stanford, USC, Oklahoma are powder schools now?

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  • tajloc
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:57am

    It is amazing that we can have two (even three) passionate communities that truely would fight in a parking lot but are ready to put it on the line at the whistle of a possible biased ref while listening to biased newscasters. Atheists and Christians can talk.
    Why can’t we talk about politics? Is it over in America?
    Rom 8:28

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  • YallComeBack
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:29am

    When you refer to “Saint Paul” in the Deep South…..

    You have to clarify if you are talking about the guy that wrote about 1/2 of the New Testament in the Bible or Bear Bryant.

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    YallComeBack  
  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:16am

    .
    So Bama’s Obama Voters beat UGA’s Obama voters……..

    And Bama’s Obama voters will beat ND’s Obama voters……The SEC RULES…….

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    • AtlasStones
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:34am

      Did you know that Nick Saban was born in a log cabin that he built with his own hands?
      There was a street named after Saban in Tuscaloosa, but they had to change the name……. No one crosses Nick Saban and lives.
      Nick Saban never dials the wrong phone number…… You just answer the wrong phone.
      Death once had a near Saban experience.

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      AtlasStones  
  • YallComeBack
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:58am

    Rootbeer, pork rinds …. and Roll Tide.

    It doesn’t get any better.

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    YallComeBack  
  • CHROME_PLATED_HEART
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:32am

    I did your mother and she refunded my money, Lance. I was that damn good. One less present for you this year, buddy. Sorry about that.

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    CHROME_PLATED_HEART  
  • JAHodel
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 7:59am

    Should be a fun/close game, Bama is coming in way overconfident. Notre Dame will have the most physical front 7 the Tide has played this year and we all know Bama struggles with running QB’s. ND 17 Bama 14. And if the game occurred in the classroom, ND 178 Bama 3.

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    • jwpowers41
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:28am

      In the classroom now that’s funny!!!!

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    • RIGS
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:31am

      HAHAHAHAHAHAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      RIGS  
    • pilgrim249
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:16am

      Jaho–You sound like an embittered soul who grew up being molested by your Notre Dame educated priest; and considering your sophomoric post, that experience obviously stunted your intellect.

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    • JAHodel
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:25am

      ******* off rednecks, my favorite pastime. I suppose ND shouldn’t even show up. I mean I’m sure Manti Te’o couldn’t crack Bama’s three deep. BTW, here are your graduation rates…ND at 97% and Bama at 75%. http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/8551210/ncaa-graduation-rates-improving-football-basketball

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    • YallComeBack
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 6:20pm

      “BTW, here are your graduation rates…ND at 97% and Bama at 75%.”

      What does that PROVE? That ND passes people with low scores and lets them graduate anyway?

      Oh I forgot- ND has such superior students, almost NONE of them fail.
      Yeah, right.

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    • AtlasStones
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 5:01am

      Another classy Notre Dame fan…….. If you are what ND has to offer then I am bitterly disappointed and the University should provide you a full refund and apologize to the nation and the catholic world for their low standards. Good day sir.

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  • LoveBringsTruth
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 4:36am

    if you want to read real news head over to breitbart

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  • RaydocX
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 4:19am

    Puh leez’ sec is hyped by the sports media of today as much as Norte dame. Bama lost 1, nearly lost 2. there is no number one team until some play off system appears… Say final reg season games thanksgiving,nthen bowl games until new years a la march madness.

    It amuses us not drinking the kook aid that Bama as a 1 loss team drops 2 positions, while others fall 5.

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    • YallComeBack
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:57am

      Hahahahahahahahahaha.
      Yep. They are sooooo overhyped.
      Won the last six years in a ROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      7 of the last NINE years.
      TEN of the last 16 years – with FIVE different teams.

      1992 – Alabama
      1996 – Florida
      1998 – Tennessee
      2003 – LSU
      2006 – Florida
      2007 – LSU
      2008 – Florida
      2009 – Alabama
      2010 – Auburn
      2011 – Alabama

      Man, they are sooooo overrated and overhyped.

      hahahahahahahahah

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      YallComeBack  
  • BamaBryan
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 2:10am

    ROLL TIDE ROLL!!! Nick Saban for president!! With that said, I wathced the Georgia Dawgs all season and they improved every week. A sign of true champions. I would much rather see another SEC rematch than the beatdown that is coming Notre Dame’s way.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 5:39am

      BAMABRYAN, I hear you there. I finally started breathing again at about 6:55 pm last night. Georgia has a great team, and Bama did only squeak this one out. They will not a lot of practice before the Notre Dame game.

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    • jwpowers41
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:30am

      DREAM ON Alabama is not in ND class range

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    • jwpowers41
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:34am

      Nicker the quitter saban

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      jwpowers41  
    • The_Jerk
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 1:30pm

      Where’s Gonzo? Hey Gonz, ya out there?

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      The_Jerk  
  • Alan
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 1:44am

    Why is Notre Dame in the BCS championship game, they didn’t even win their conference?!”

    Sorry, just bubbled up for some reason. I swear I’ve heard that didn’t-win-their-conference’ excuse somewhere? Well, maybe it’ll come to me.

    “Go BAMA!”

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 5:41am

      Bama didn’t even play in last years’s SEC Championship game, but won the Championship anyway.
      ROLL TIDE!

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  • ckhenson
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 1:09am

    I’m absolutely thrilled, and exhausted, by today’s win. Never quit, never give up. Do the right thing all the time and good things will happen to you. ROLL TIDE!

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    • YallComeBack
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:32am

      I’m happier than a tick on a hound dog.

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      YallComeBack  
    • Geiner
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 1:17pm

      By do the right thing, you mean cheat. Take dirty shots when the refs aren’t looking. That kind of do the right thing?

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      Geiner  
    • chasebuch
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 7:50pm

      Cheap Shot? Aaron Murray was in play to make a tackle. No foul. When your 6 foot 6, how can you not use your head?

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 11:02pm

    Now… who is this “Alabama” and just what is a “SEC” ?

    Does this have to do with the Security Exchange Commission? Big banks? The Federal Reserve?

    Who was Ron Paul for and how did he vote? Or was he just “present” ?

    Sorry… couldn’t help myself. Congrats to the winners !!

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  • soybomb315_II
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 10:04pm

    did college football ever agree to that “plus one” playoff format? The one with a 4 team playoff…

    I know they were trying to get it approved but i didnt hear anything after that

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    soybomb315_II  
    • jman-6
      Posted on December 1, 2012 at 10:29pm

      Yes it gets implemented in 2014 after TV contract ends.

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    • soybomb315_II
      Posted on December 1, 2012 at 10:36pm

      sweet, a real college football season and the start of Rand Paul/Andrew Napalitano campaigns in the same year….If we can make it

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  • lylejk
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 9:51pm

    First of all, I have to say, Warrrr Eagleeeee!!!!!. That said, I’m happy Alabama beat the Dogs. My home state is the best at anything it wants to do. :)

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  • mercenary4freedom
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 9:51pm

    Good game, a few more seconds & Dawgs would’ve probably won it.

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  • circleDwagons
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 9:47pm

    Roll Tide Roll, what a game. I knew the red team would win :)

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  • dealer@678
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 9:40pm

    Notre Dame by 4

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  • Hawaii_Conservative
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 9:38pm

    I watched the BCS Championship game today … ROLL TIDE … Notre Dame can stay on a by because if the Fighting Irishs don’t come out with everything you have, you are going to lose your kilts and gives the priests (in the words of Chris Matthews from MSNBC) “a thrill up the leg”. We have our BCS champions.

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  • Hawaii_Conservative
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 9:33pm

    This game was the BCS Championship game. … ROLL TIDE … Notre Dame can stay on a by because if the Fighting Irishs don’t come out with everything you have, you are going to lose your kilts and gives your priests (in the words of Chris Matthews from MSNBC) “a thrill up the leg” … lol We have our BCS champions …

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