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Mark May, Lou Holtz make score predictions for SEC Championship Game
By Rolando Rosa
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The SEC Championship Game will feature defending national champion Georgia vs. LSU. College football experts Mark May and Lou Holtz don’t think the Tigers will have a Cinderella tale on Saturday.
Georgia finished the regular season with an unblemished 12-0 mark behind its dominant defense. Georgia held opponents to 20 points or less 10 times this season.
Meanwhile, LSU is 9-3 after getting upset on the road by Texas A&M in the regular season finale. However, merely reaching the conference title game in the first season under Brian Kelly is an extremely positive first step in the rebuilding process.
#LSU vs #Georgia: @GeorgiaFootball is just so well rounded on both sides of the ball. I expect them to continue their solid play and win easily. I’ve got Georgia over LSU, 44-17 @TheCrowdsLine #SEC pic.twitter.com/nnvwsUHuiW
— Mark May (@mark_may) December 3, 2022
May expects Georgia to cruise to the victory and cover the spread by a score of 44-17.
“I’ve still got Georgia winning this game handily. They’re just going to run over LSU,” May said. “I think late in the game you’ll find a couple cheap touchdowns by Georgia at the end of the game.”
Holtz is predicting Georgia to win 27-17 and owned up to his prior doubts about quarterback Stetson Bennett.
“I think Georgia is such a complete football team. You can talk about the running backs and defense. You can talk about the coaching. You can talk about the success,” Holtz said. “But the fact that I think Stetson Bennett, is an individual I was never real high on before. I felt that he really wasn’t the best quarterback for Georgia but they thought he was and he proved that to be true.”
Georgia-LSU is slated for a 4 p.m. ET kickoff from Atlanta and will be televised on CBS.
