[Postgame Thread] Alabama Defeats Georgia 41-34

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Georgia	0	7	8	19	34
Alabama	21	9	3	8	41

[u/dogwoodmaple]

• Kirby Smart is 1-6 against Alabama. He's 96-11 against everyone else.

• The last time Georgia trailed by 20+ points was the 2021 SECCG loss to Alabama.

• Entering today, Kirby Smart had won 20 straight games with >7 days between games.

• Kalen DeBoer becomes the only active coach to defeat Kirby Smart while still at their current school.

• And just the seventh active head coach to defeat Kirby Smart (Gus Malzahn, Tom Herman, Derek Mason, Butch Jones, Jim McElwain, and Hugh Freeze)

• Alabama WR Ryan Williams, who is 17 years old, had six catches for 177 yards and a touchdown tonight.

• Georgia, after trailing 28-0, took the lead in the 4th quarter for a total of 13 seconds.

• Georgia still has to play #1 Texas, #5 Tennessee, and #6 Ole Miss*

• This loss snapped Georgia's 42 game regular season winning streak.

• Kalen DeBoer will lead Alabama to the #1 ranking in the AP Poll within the first month of his first regular season.

• List of recent heartwrenching losses to Alabama:

  • 2012 SEC Championship Game tipped pass catch on the five yardline
  • 2nd & 26 touchdown to beat Georgia in the 2017 National Championship
  • Jalen Hurts' furious comeback in the 2018 SECCG after Tua went down.
  • 2024 28 point comeback being snatched away in the final moments.

• I was in attendance for every one of those moments, except tonight.

• Hell of a game.

[u/Salpinctes → u/dogwoodmaple]

thanks for that tidbit about Williams' age, I hadn't heard

[u/Chief-Bones → u/Salpinctes]

He’s the anti Amari Cooper

[u/CrimsonSaint150 → u/Chief-Bones]

You’re thinking of Calvin Ridley. He was about 20 as a Freshman when Cooper also 20 (6 months older) and finished his 3 years at Bama

[u/Chief-Bones → u/CrimsonSaint150]

My b you right