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The four close games that likely would've set us up for a

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national title. I'll list in order with the best chance to win first.

1. Bama 2012: Obviously hindsight is we should've spiked it. But I can't blame Bobo and Richt. We had them on their heels and didn't want them to regroup. 95% of the time that play results in a TD or one more stab at a TD. For us a bad completion. Feel most assuredly we would've beaten Notre Dame.

2. S. Carolina 2007: When I look back at this game, no offense to our RB coach, but I sure wish we would've seen a little more of his backup. Knowshon put up a good bit of yards on a few carries against a team that shut everyone else down most of the night. We settled for a lot of fgs. Carolina got the one TD that mattered. We win this one and we face LSU in the SEC championship game. Hard to be sure of a win there, but very sure we would've beaten OSU in a Championship matchup.

3. LSU 2003: If we beat LSU in Baton Rouge early in the year, we play Ole Miss in the SEC championship and likely would have outpointed USC on the computers much like LSU did to play OU in the championship game. Game was 10-10, but we allowed a big kickoff return and a blown coverage results in a last second TD. 50/50 on beating OU that year. They had gotten their arse kicked by KState, but we had babies in diapers on our Oline. Wouldn've been a struggle.

4. UF 2002: Game still frustrates me to this day. Bubble screen? How could we find no answer. Shockley made a critical turnover and Greene could never get going after his first drive. Not a guarantee we would've ended up in the National championship game. But could have as it would've been very close. Miami would've been difficult.
 
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