Bama Wins Thriller

Tarboro's Todd Gurley scored two touchdowns  and ran for 123 yards to lead Georgia but in the end Alabama wins the SEC Championship 32-28 Georgia.   Alabama will play Notre Dame for the national championship in college football in early January.   In the era of the wide open offenses the two teams playing for the title will be run first and defensive football teams.

I think Slim Pickens was the big winner in the ACC championship game as there seemed to be more  seats disguised as empty seats than filled ones. Florida State as the champion of the ACC will play Northern Illinois in the Orange Bowl.  State will be playing in the Music City Bowl at noon of December 31st.  ECU is heading to the R&L Bowl in New Orleans on December 22nd.  Duke will play in the Belk Bowl on December 27th at 6.30pm

North Carolina State  announced Dave Doeren formerly of Northern Illinois as their 34th new football coach Sunday .Doeren for the last two years has lead NI to a 23-4 record.  He came to NI from Wisconsin where he was the defensive coordinator.  One of the main stresses that Debbie Yow made about who she wanted was a young  enthusiastic coach who could recruit.  Doeren is 41 years old today  and had been a recruiting coordinator some in his past while he was defensive coordinator at Wisconsin.

Tarboro's lost Saturday in the championship game makes them 72-6 in this five year run to five straight state championship games.  East Lincoln also was the first team all year to hold Tarboro to 34 points or less.  Those two fumbles inside the ten were worth at least 12 points and if they had of made one of two two point conversions that would have been 34 points for Tarboro so you really have to give it to the Mustang defense.  They made the plays to win the game.

Duke is looking mighty good for this early in the basketball season and Carolina is not.  Both won Saturday.  You know one of the biggest problems a  program like Carolina has is that this team will be judged by comparison to other Carolina teams.  If I had to pick right now this Carolina team will be lucky if they win 20-22 games which isn't bad at all but not for Carolina where 30 wins is expected every year.