re: Alabama had a pretty good gap year

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Insanely impressive what Bama achieved this year honestly. Especially considering how they looked at certain points

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I'm never one to be like "poor ol' Bama" but this was an immensely flawed team that managed to win the best conference's championship game and play in the national championship. Just had some weird "gaps" in the roster due to how recruiting cycles and roster cycles line up. It happens. Still found a way to get that far by maximizing the veterans as much as possible...fell short partly because they leaned on those veterans to the detriment of getting their replacements ready this year.

Georgia earned it and as much as I'd love to have a 3rd game to settle the score I'm not so sure I want to risk whatever hex 2021 UGA has on knee ligaments on the guys returning in 2022.