The CFBPlayoff NationalChampionship between Georgia and TCU isn't quite so simple as a David-versus-Goliath contest, writes ed_kilgore
Georgia players celebrating at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on December 31.about the desperate hope of University of Georgia football fans everywhere that our beloved Bulldogs would break a 41-year drought and defeat the lordly Alabama Crimson Tide for the national championship. My own plea was for an end to all the frustration so as to make it possible once again to enjoy sub-championship — good and very good, if not supremely great —after the Great White Whale of a “natty” had been harpooned.
Now, a year later, despite many fans being willing to give Coach Kirby Smart and his boys a mulligan for their post-championship season, they are back in the title game, this time as favorites, with the role of underdog being played by the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University. I couldn’t be happier with this match-up, being a member of the small but storied religious denomination — the Christian Church — with which TCU is affiliated.
Indeed, much of the sporting world will favor TCU as a true Cinderella team with a cool adopted mascot , a dynamic offense, an imaginative defense, and an unlikely path to the championship just a year after a losing record led them to run off a legendary coach who already had a statue outside its stadium. It didn’t just have a comeback season: It’s had a comeback era.
But it’s not quite so simple as a David-versus-Goliath contest in Los Angeles’s Sofi Stadium. Yes, Georgia has a more talented roster. But it built its team the old-fashioned way, through recruiting and developing players over time. TCU has aggressively exploited the new Wild West mechanism of unlimited transfers, poaching
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