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Twitter reacts to Nick Saban contracting COVID-19

The Twitter world reacts to Alabama football head coach contracting COVID-19 just days before game against Georgia football.

On Wednesday afternoon, Alabama football head coach Nick Saban, as well as Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne tested positive for COVID-19, reported by ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi.

No statements have been released on the status of Saturday night’s game between No. 3 Georgia and No. 2 Alabama.  Kickoff is still scheduled for 8:00 P.M. ET and is expected to go on as long as more positive tests don’t come back these next couple of days.

Her is how the college football Twitter world reacted to the breaking news:

 

UGA Football Live with J.C. Shelton – S1, Ep. 4 – Keith Marshall and Alabama preview

I got a chance to talk with former Georgia running back Keith Marshall about Georgia’s matchup with Alabama. Listen here!

Your friends at “UGA Football Live” and UGA Wire present your one-stop shop for all things Georgia football!

We are releasing episodes and interviews each week during the 2020 college football season, with a little bit of everything sprinkled in between.

In this week’s episode, I got a chance to talk with former Georgia running back Keith Marshall about who was the fastest Dawg on the 2012 Georgia football squad. And I ask Marshall what he’s seen from Georgia’s running backs this season – he says one young back earned some future carries, due to his performance versus Tennessee.

Plus, I talk:

CFB roundup

  • The biggest games of the college football Saturday.

Tennessee review 

  • What happened, who played well and what can be improved before the Bulldogs take on Bama.

Alabama preview

  • What does Alabama look like this year and how does Georgia stop them?

Bonus

  • Buffoonery in the Swamp.

Listen here through Spotify:

Or here, in Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uga-football-live-with-j-c-shelton/id1533295384#episodeGuid=Buzzsprout-5903014

 

Make sure to rate, subscribe and review and check out our other episodes, featuring guys like Aaron Murray (Episode 2) and Tavarres King (Episode 3)

Alabama HC Nick Saban tests positive for COVID-19

BREAKING: Alabama head coach Nick Saban tests positive for COVID-19, what that means for Georgia football.

Breaking news has come out of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Alabama football head coach Nick Saban, as well as Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne have tested positive for COVID-19, per ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi.

This is a major shakeup for the college football world as Georgia was scheduled to play the Crimson Tide this Saturday in a heavyweight showdown.

Reports say that both Saban and Byrne left the facility immediately and are now quarantining in their homes.  Saban announced that offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian will act as head coach while Saban works from home.

“I found out earlier this afternoon that I had tested positive for COVID-19. I immediately left work and isolated at home. At this time, I do not have any symptoms relative to COVID,” Saban released in his statement today. “I informed our team of my positive test at 2 p.m. today on a Zoom call and let them know offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian will oversee preparations at the complex while I work from home.”

There have been positive player tests at Ole Miss, who Alabama beat last week, and the SEC has already bumped two games this week due to COVID-19 outbreaks.  The Missouri vs Vanderbilt game and the Florida vs LSU game will both be played the week of December 12 due to positive tests at Florida and Vanderbilt.  Nineteen players tested positive for Florida.

No statements have been released on the status of Saturday night’s game between Georgia and Alabama.

Georgia vs Alabama: Expert picks and predictions

The UGA Wire presents our weekly expert score, stat and game predictions ahead of Georgia football at Alabama.

The No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs (3-0, 3-0) travel to Tuscaloosa this weekend to face off against Nick Saban and the No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide (3-0, 3-0).

This matchup features two of the top quarterbacks in all of college football so far.  Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett, A.K.A. ‘The Mailman’, currently has the No. 3 QBR at 93.1 while Alabama quarterback Mac Jones has the No.2 QBR at 95.3.

Alabama currently leads the series 40-25-4 and is sitting on a five game win streak that dates back to 2008.

This is without a doubt both teams biggest game on their 10-game conference only schedule for 2020.

With that said, the UGA Wire staff has put together a number of score, stat and game predictions ahead of Saturday’s matchup.

Here are the picks:

The money makers:

No. 3 Georgia (+6) @ No. 2 Alabama (-6)

(Odds courtesy of BetMGM)

UGA WIRE Game Picks:

Joe Vitale: Georgia

James Morgan: Alabama

Henry Sillen: Georgia

J.C. Shelton: Georgia

 

Spread Pick (Georgia +6 / Alabama -6):

JV: Georgia +6

JM: Alabama +6

HS: Georgia +6

JS: Alabama +6

 

Over/Under (57):

JV: Over

JM: Over

HS: Under

JS: Over

 

Score prediction:

JV: Georgia 31, Alabama 34

JM: Georgia 24, Alabama 35

HS: Georgia 27, Alabama 24

JS: Georgia 30, Alabama 28

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Ref admits to blown call during Georgia vs Alabama national championship: ‘He wasn’t offside’

The ref from Georgia football vs Alabama in the national title game has admitted to the missed Tyler Simmons call.

The officiating during Georgia’s national title game vs Alabama has haunted UGA fans for two years now.

There were a number of missed calls by the Big Ten officiating crew that night in Atlanta, but none bigger than when Georgia wide receiver Tyler Simmons was called offside prior to blocking Alabama’s punt deep in Bama territory.

Georgia was leading 13-0 in the third quarter and it was the Dawgs’ game to lose. That blocked punt might have been enough to put that game away, but instead, even though video replay clearly shows Simmons was onside, the Bulldogs were flagged. That play has replayed over and over and over in the heads of Georgia fans on a loop ever since that night.

It was one we will never forget.

Someone else who is yet to forget it, and probably never will, is retiring Big Ten referee Dan Capron, who admits his crew did in fact get that call wrong.

In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Capron said:

We had a miss. Alabama was on the ropes. They were deep in their own territory and they’re punting. The punt gets blocked. There’s a flag on the ground because the line judge had Georgia offside. Oh, boy. He (the player, Tyler Simmons) actually had a running start and timed it (properly). He wasn’t offside.

But that wasn’t my call. The blocking backs, a split-second before the snap, moved. That was a false start. That should have been my call. It still wouldn’t have been a blocked punt but instead a five-yard penalty against the offense. You never want to make a mistake of any kind in such a high-profile atmosphere.

This blown call, though painful to rewatch, has become almost justice movement among Georgia fans, who have turned it into t-shirts and memes.

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I appreciate Capron owning up the mistake, but in now way is that enough to win over the DawgNation. The problem is, there were a ton of missed calls in that game, but yes, that offside penalty was the most memorable.

In the end, though, that’s just part of the game.

Here’s a compilation of some of the missed calls.