🏈 SEC CHAMPIONS....

[mrchase]

 

[rick4bama]

How much does the trophy weight any how?

 

[sean]

i will be picking mine up tomorrow (hopefully).....

and as per usual, i will be getting 2 of each.

 

[doemasters]

And remember to use our link when ordering merchandise

 

[Bamabww]

Cecil Hurt
TideSports.com Columnist

ATLANTA | If a nation was looking to Atlanta for some College Playoff drama, it was wasting its time.

The Alabama Crimson Tide decisively seized its spot in the first playoff, likely as the No. 1 seed, by routing SEC East champion Missouri, 42-13, in the Georgia Dome and securing its record 24th SEC championship in the process.

As it had done a week before against Auburn, the Crimson Tide slammed the door in the fourth quarter, scoring 21 unanswered points and raising its record to 12-1. Gritty Missouri had cut the Crimson Tide lead to 21-13 with 4:37 to go in the third quarter - but in the fourth quarter, it was all Alabama.

"We had cut it to one score, and then they take it, go 65 yards and answer," Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel said. "Then they hold us, we punt them down to the 10-yard line and they go 90 yards and score.

"Those were two statement drives by them. That's what great teams do."

The Crimson Tide executed a flawless opening drive, marching 68 yards in less than four minutes to take a quick 7-0 lead on T.J. Yeldon's 2-yard touchdown run.

Missouri struggled offensively but held on defensively for the rest of the quarter, which included a missed Crimson Tide field goal.

Alabama then hit on its biggest offensive play of the half early in the second quarter with Blake Sims finding DeAndrew White for a 58-yard touchdown. The play was doubly costly for Mizzou as the Tigers' top defender, Shane Ray, was ejected for a targeting hit on Sims.

The Tigers got on the scoreboard with a 33-yard Andrew Baggett field goal, but UA answered with its third touchdown, again coming on a Yeldon 2-yard run that put UA ahead 21-3 at the half.

But Missouri, thanks to some scrambling-and-bombing magic by quarterback Maty Mauk and wide receiver Jimmie Hunt, scored 10 points in the third quarter and, according to Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban, "had taken the momentum."

But Alabama - using receivers White and Christion Jones as Missouri concentrated on Amari Cooper - answered with a touchdown drive that culminated on a Jones-to-Sims pass of six yards.

Backed up on its next possession, Alabama went 90 yards, applying the Derrick Henry hammer as he scored on a 26-yard run to end that drive, and capped the game with another 1-yard touchdown run to make it 42-13.

For all the offensive stars, though, it was Blake Sims' crowning moment. The game's Most Valuable Player, Sims completed 23 of 27 passes (an SEC Championship Game record for accuracy at 85.7 percent), netting 262 yards and two touchdowns.

Cooper also set an SEC Championship Game record with 12 receptions, although Missouri stopped him from making the big play with 83 total yards. White had 101 yards receiving and Henry added 141 yards rushing in what Sims characterized as "a total team effort."

"I don't know if I have ever been so anxious to win a game for a group of guys as I was tonight," Saban said.

Alabama will find out its playoff destination at 11:45 today but will almost certainly be in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans for its semifinal game.

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[rick4bama]

24 sound good