Alabama vs. Georgia In-Depth Recap: A Tale of Two Halves

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00:00I guess, Bill, the best side, if you took it, would have been taking Alabama in the

00:07first half, because it certainly looked like they were the better team there, but Georgia

00:11was by far the better team in the second half of that game.

00:15The only thing I think we could wish for, Bill, is a rematch of some kind between these

00:19two teams, because that was fun to watch.

00:22An amazing September stage.

00:24I likened it to a September Super Bowl, the best Sunday night football matchup you could

00:28possibly imagine on the NFL side.

00:31That's how it felt.

00:32You know, a tale of two halves, Jalen Milrow won the Heisman in the first half, and then

00:36Alabama nearly collapsed in the second half.

00:39I thought my biggest takeaway was the most important player on the field was Ryan Williams,

00:44a 17-year-old freshman who averages 29 yards per catch, made the signature play in that

00:49game.

00:50And as far as impact for Alabama, you can almost pencil them in the playoff now.

00:56Now, they do have rivalry games with Tennessee, LSU, they got to go to Oklahoma on a road

01:02game, but I like them in the playoff now.

01:04For Georgia, you could say, well, they're in two, but they still have to play Texas,

01:09Tennessee, Ole Miss, two of those games on the road, and they better find a running game,

01:15because that's the weakness that I saw with Georgia right now.

01:17If they can't get that running game going, they're going to run into problems in those

01:21games.

01:22I still think they're good for the playoff, but I thought Alabama came out of that.

01:26The better team and the better path to what comes next.

01:29Yeah.

01:30And Melrose moved ahead of Cam Ward for the highest spin, and as Bill mentioned, without

01:34running the ball, Georgia just forced their defense to be on the field way too much in

01:38the first half.

01:39And that was the reason why.

01:40But before we get to this next game, and I do want to hit on Mississippi and what has

01:45happened to Kentucky, Bill, at this stage of college football, maybe I don't understand

01:50how it works, and maybe I'm not even sure if you know how it works either, but is there

01:55a hypothetical scenario that we've never seen before, which is someone, some school

02:02going to Ryan Williams and NIL-ing him and offering him an insane amount of money, him

02:07leaving Alabama?

02:08Have we reached that point?

02:09Because we haven't seen anything I don't think that significant.

02:13Maybe Caleb Williams, I guess he did leave too.

02:15But could that happen?

02:16Could some team come in and offer Ryan Williams more money than an NFL wide receiver to leave?

02:23Could happen.

02:24I would use that as a verb.

02:26So maybe I think you're on to something there, because it's going to happen every offseason,

02:30where you have the two most exciting players in college football right now, not the best,

02:34but the two most exciting are Ryan Williams and Jeremiah Smith at Ohio State, an outstanding

02:39freshman receiver.

02:40I don't know if you saw he had the two back-to-back one-handed catches.

02:44He's absolutely phenomenal on that Ohio State team.

02:47He leads them in total touchdowns.

02:49So I wonder if it becomes a year-to-year thing, where these guys have to fight that off, because

02:54they have to play in college football for three years.

02:57And I'm looking at those two, and I'm thinking, man, they would probably go on day one or

03:01day two of the NFL draft, given the importance of the receiver position.

03:05So that is something to watch moving forward.

03:08In the present tense, watch those two as much as you can.

03:11It's about as exciting as you can be.

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