Coming up on today's program, I've got conference championship game previews, including the SEC and the huge one in the Pac-12.

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And we are here. It is conference championship game week. And I could not be more excited. We've got the playoff coming right down the pike.

Lots of scenarios. I think this is going to be the most difficult selection that the College football playoff committee has ever had to make in its history now in terms of the four team playoff.

And a lot of that has to do with the fact that we have got some really good and compelling conference championship games that are in a lot of ways when and in.

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Okay, so let's get into these conference championship games. I want to get into what I think is is probably the best game.

Well, I don't want to undercut the pack 12, but listen, this Georgia Bama game, we've all from the middle of the season been looking forward to this conference championship game, this SEC championship game, this Georgia team, which really hasn't been tested, even though they have looked dominant at times.

And to be honest, looked underwhelming at times, we've been waiting for them to be tested and to be put into a situation where they have to play their best.

And we might get that as Georgia takes on now Alabama. So both of these teams, teams, teams coming off of, I would just say like sluggish performances.

Everybody's going to scoff at like, well, the iron bull is the iron bull, no matter what. Okay, you know what, that's fine. And I certainly understand that rivalry games are different.

I would just say that New Mexico state beat Auburn by 21, the week prior in the same building. I know you're going to get a different game from Auburn Kirby smart, by the way,

acknowledged this the head coach at Georgia when he said, don't tell me about playing at Auburn. I know all about that. Remember, you know, it was at Auburn earlier this year that Georgia had one of those what we would categorize as underwhelming performances needed a couple plays late in that game in particular to Brock Bowers in order to beat the Tigers.

Alabama escapes against Auburn Georgia coming off an eight point win against Georgia Tech, although to be fair, when you go back and when you watch that film, it was never in doubt.

They were up by 18 going into the fourth quarter. They were largely resting a lot of their main contributors getting them ready for this week's game. Bowers was held out.

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