Monday’s title game makes three straight between schools from the football-mad deep south. What does one region’s dominance mean for the sport at large?Is Monday night’s College Football Playoff title game between the Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama Crimson Tide for the national championship, as billed, or for regional bragging rights? For the last three seasons, the two have been one and the same.Last year’s CFP championship game between Alabama and Clemson was a rematch of the 2015 final. Those two schools are 326 miles apart. This year’s combatants are only 273 miles apart and hail from the same football-crazed corner of the country and the same powerhouse league: the vaunted Southeastern Conference. Serendipitously, Monday game will be played at Atlanta’s brand new Mercedes-Benz Stadium before an audience including the president of the United States. No area of the country cares more about college football or has enjoyed more success in it than the deep south. But does the region dominate because they care more … or do they care more because they are so dominant? Continue reading…
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jan/08/georgia-v-alabama-is-the-south-easts-dominance-bad-for-college-football
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