This blog post provides an overview of the Alabama-Georgia college football rivalry. It notes that Alabama defeated Georgia in overtime in the most recent College Football Playoff national championship game. The game was decided by Tua Tagovailoa's 41-yard touchdown pass in overtime. While the teams do not meet often in the regular season due to SEC scheduling, their matchups are highly anticipated and intense rivalry games. The last time Georgia defeated Alabama was over 10 years ago. The 2012 meeting also drove the rivalry when Georgia narrowly lost.

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A closer look at the Alabama-Georgia college football rivalry
This past college football season ended on a sweet note for fans of the Alabama University Crimson
Tide, which beat bitter rival Georgia by three points, 26-23, in OT to win the College Football
Playoff national championships. It was an exhilarating victory that saw the fourth-seeded team turn
the tide (pun intended) and upend the third-ranked.
Tua Tagovailoa’s stunning 41-yard touchdown pass to DeVonta Smith gave the Crimson Tide its fifth
national championship since 2009 under coach Nick Saban. It proved to be the end to Georgia’s
charmed run, which included a crazy win over Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl.
For sure, the rivalry between these two teams is fueled by the fact that they don’t meet as often as
they deserve due to the SEC’s 6-1-1 scheduling. This scheduling is largely the result of SEC’s
insistence in maintaining permanent cross-divisional rivals to preserve the history between Georgia-
Auburn and Alabama-Tennessee.
Nonetheless, all the three scheduled games and the conference title match in the Nick Saban era
were regarded by fans with much passion and mammoth support. This is especially made more
enticing because the Bulldogs haven’t defeated the Crimson Tide in over 1o years; the last time the
Bulldogs got the W was in an auspiciously similar 26-23 overtime win in 2007.
What really drives the existing rabid competition between these two teams was their 2012 meeting,
in which the Bulldogs’ final drive fell short as time expired (to much dismay of Georgia fans) and
with Alabama going on to defeat Notre Dame in the championship.
Finally, we should note that Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart is a disciple of Saban, and he would do
anything to beat his mentor. Sadly for Georgia, that would have to wait for another season.
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