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Weekend winners
High school football in Chattanooga, especially the Chattanooga Sports committee, which hosts the state football championships at Finley. Getting a Baylor-McCallie state title tilt is a monster. Over/under 20,000 at that game the weekend after Thanksgiving? It’s going to be huge. Plus, there are some other great story lines ahead — Boo and Bradley, Rankin’s Boyd-Buc bunch, SPitt trying to be SPitt again.
Georgia football, especially Carson Beck and Mike Bobo, the QB and the OC who limped through the growing pains of being new to the gig in September to now pulling the levers on a juggernaut. Any questions about who the best team in the country is? And even in a world in which there are currently five undefeated teams, Georgia has rightly earned the spot of only needing one win in its next two games to be in the playoff.
UTC football. Mocs make the playoffs for the first time since 2016. Man, what a long turnaround for a team that got waxed by North Alabama to open the season. Here’s more from Gene Henley.