Two of college footballs best will step inside the ring this Saturday for a heavyweight matchup broadcast throughout the whole country.
Alabama and Georgia are currently the top teams representing each division in the Southeastern Conference, and instead of meeting in Atlanta in December for the conference championship game, fans have been given their Christmas present early during Week 4 of the season.
Both teams make up a perfect yin and yang as the Crimson Tide boasts possibly the best offense in college football and the Bulldogs will be unleashing maybe the best defense in the country.
The winner of that fight is unknown and hard to predict, but Alabama quarterback Mac Jones has a ton of respect for the opposing unit and has his own idea of how one can beat out the other.
“I think those guys obviously do a great job,” Jones said during The Paul Finebaum show on Tuesday. “Kirby (Smart has everybody playing their gap and everyone’s doing their job on that defense. Nobody’s trying to make crazy plays. They just do their job, and that’s why they’re so sound and that’s why they’re the top defense in the country.
“We have to find ways to attack their defense. At the end of the day, they have great players, we have great players, so it comes down to execution, and the team that’s the most prepared and ready to play will be the team that comes out on top.”
So far this season Alabama’s offense has bested everybody who has stepped in its path. Steve Sarkisian’s group is averaging 45 points per game and 479 yards of total offense every Saturday.
Jones has been a key contributor to the steady production on that side of the football, but he will also be the first one to tell you about the loaded skill positions and offense line Alabama has at its disposal.
“That’s definitely a big reason why I chose to come here is just to play with guys like that who make you look better than you are,” Jones said when asked about the skill players. “They go and make plays. And credit to the offensive line for doing their job, too, because it’s an 11-person operation and they make it obviously a lot easier when you can just throw the ball out there and they can get 10 or 15 yards like that.
“I think all of our skill players have done a great job — even when they don’t have the ball. That’s what’s really impressed me this year is you see Smitty, Waddle, Miller Metchie blocking on like RPOs or things like that after the play. That just fires me up to see them getting in there and getting physical with guys who might be a lot bigger than they are. They go in there and they’re fearless and they kind of play like out offensive line plays.
“We’re all kind of in the same category of just going out there and doing our jobs to the best of our ability.”
Alabama will need to put it’s best foot forward offensively against Georgia this weekend if it wants to remain undefeated.
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Patrick Dowd is a Reporter for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter, via Pat_Dowd77
