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Do Georgia and Ohio State fans really need a hype video to get them more excited about Saturday night’s Peach Bowl, where a spot in the College Football Playoff national championship game will be at stake?
Probably not.
But the Peach Bowl gave them 1 anyway, and for fans of any other college football team who watch the 1-minute, 29-second burst of energy and drama, they will surely be pumped about the matchup between the defending national champions and the perennial powerhouse from the Big 10.
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— Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (@CFAPeachBowl) December 28, 2022
The title of the Peach Bowl’s tweet said it best: “You only get one shot.”
Both programs know this all-too-well, for better and for worse, as both have captured the national title in this current format that started in 2014 and both have fallen short in this format. Georgia and Ohio State both know that there is only 1 shot, to win it all or to come close.
“Our guys know our best game is ahead of us, so we hope it’s this one,” said Georgia head coach Kirby Smart in the video.
Smart’s Bulldogs have 1 shot on Saturday night in Atlanta to get within 1 more victory of a repeat national championship.
Ohio State won the national championship in 2014, the 1st year of the current CFP format, and has 1 shot to return to the title game for the 2nd time in 3 years. The Buckeyes lost to Alabama in the 2020 season’s championship game.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.