Three Thoughts - Georgia Tops Texas, Pt 2

A wild game in Atlanta's SEC Championship Game produced the same result in this new conference rivalry.

Three Thoughts is our signature way to summarize a noteworthy game we want to cover during the 2024 college football season at #Sturmstack. We grab one game most weekends – featuring Texas or Texas A&M – and bringing our notebook to see what jumps out at us in a brief recap that we do in memory of the man who did this first before his untimely demise, the late Grant Wahl…

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That was a football game.

Physical, bruising, and intense. That SEC Title game is one that will stay in the memory banks about how difficult it is to win these types of brawls and to have much left the following week to do it again. This is why this conference may have chased every pricey brand name they could find but in the process made the gauntlet so impossible that they are all in pieces by January. Because that game is going to leave some marks.

But, of course, the thing is that if you are going to throw your body in front of a train repeatedly, it is to leave with the prize. The trophy, yes, but also the pride of not letting the other team claim they are the champions of the SEC.

For Georgia, that clearly meant something to them to make sure a new team doesn’t just waltz into the conference and act like they are running it. For Texas, it was to do exactly that. Have everyone talk noise to you for several years about how hard it is here and then to walk in as a rookie and win the whole thing. They might talk about that for 100 years.

Well, now we know, that Texas will have to wait a bit to claim the SEC Crown and because of that, they may find their path to trying to claim the biggest crown of them all will be far more difficult, too. For on Saturday, they had every chance to beat Georgia in a rematch of the meeting in October. They played better, looked like the better side, and appeared to be one play away over and over again. But, in the end, it is their 2nd loss of 2024 and their second loss to the Georgia Bulldogs, 22-19, in overtime.

The game was both fantastic and exhausting. It was everything you should expect from a Class of the Titans in this setting. But, now Texas must figure out an alternate route to their dream in January.

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