How Saban’s Absence Will Affect Georgia vs. Alabama

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On Saturday, #3 Georgia visits #2 Alabama in what could be the biggest game of the college football season. Despite not playing each other every year, the Bulldogs-Crimson Tide rivalry has a rich history in recent seasons, with numerous high profile matchups that have all ended in heartbreak for Georgia. But this year might be different. Especially because Alabama will be without head coach Nick Saban, who will miss the game after testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday. ESPN’s Bill Connelly explains how Saban’s absence will affect the Crimson Tide, and what the Bulldogs need to do to finally come out on top. Then, Max Kellerman joins Pablo to preview this Saturday’s big fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So we're still doing everything possible to get ready for the Georgia game.
0:03.3	I'll have normal meetings tomorrow. Everything will be on Zoom. I will continue to do this.
0:08.4	You know, Sark's kind of filling in in my absence for anything that needs coordinated in the office.
0:13.5	But we're going to do everything we can to help our team, you know, get ready to play.
0:19.6	That was Nick Sabin, who naturally already had a plan in place for how Alabama would carry
0:26.6	on without him after he tested positive for COVID-19.
0:31.6	But it could hardly be worse timing for the number two Crimson Tide who take on number three Georgia tomorrow
0:39.0	in what could be the best game of this college football season.
0:44.1	Today, how Sabin's absence might just shift the dynamic of a one-sided SEC rivalry
0:51.4	and whether Georgia can finally get the last laugh.
0:59.6	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, October 16th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:15.3	Bill Connolly, I asked our mutual friend Spencer Hall how I should be introducing you here today.
1:17.5	Oh, God.
1:18.6	And he said very flatly,
1:21.4	Bill is the godfather of college football analytics.
1:24.6	So I hope you accept that title.
1:27.3	I mean, it's, I'm not going to say it was
1:29.8	survival of the fittest. It was basically, I googled college football analytics in about like 2007,
1:35.2	and it came up with basically no results. So I started doing it. So I got to, I kind of won by default,
1:40.5	but I'll take it. Bill Connolly now writes about college football for ESPN.
1:45.7	So, Bill, I was all set to talk to you about the rich pageantry, the backstory to what was
1:52.2	going to be the most anticipated college football game of the year. And then 2020 just got in everything.
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