Episode 2806: Alabama getting plenty of hype ahead of showdown with UGA

All right, coming up in just a few minutes, if you want one, I think, legitimate reason to maybe be concerned about Saturday's game for Georgia against Alabama...

I'll give you what my biggest concern is.

If you want to have something to worry about, if it makes you feel better to have a little angst to justify the butterflies in your stomach, I'll give you my biggest worry for Georgia against Alabama.

That's coming up in a couple of minutes.

Prior to that, let me begin this way.

We all remember the phrase that Nick Saban once made famous many, many years ago.

too many compliments too many pats in the back for your team he called it and you can finish the sentence for me you already know this he called it rat poison and it's one of those things that still lives on to this day although maybe a little less common than it would have even a few years ago where the theory that Nick Saban put into our lives and frankly I'm not even quite so sure how much I actually buy into this there's an element of this that feels like superstition I don't like superstition uh but what Saban introduced to us was hey going into a big game you're You don't want to be the team getting the most love.

You don't want to be the team that has players that have been hearing how good they are for as long as they've been hearing.

You don't want that.

In fact, Kirby Smart even talked about that in the post-game locker room speech that the SEC Network shared with us after Oklahoma.

Don't believe the media.

Don't believe all this stuff.

They're going to tell you how good you are.

Don't listen to any of that.

So Saban gave it a name.

He called it rat poison.

But a lot of coaches, Kirby Smart included, seem to believe in this as an idea of you just don't want too much praise going into a big game.

Well, if there's any element of truth to that whatsoever, I'm here to report here on this Monday morning as we begin one of the biggest game weeks of the year that Alabama is getting a lot of love right now.

You maybe have seen some of this already.

For instance, point spread completely flipped.

You know, go back to the summer.

Georgia was three or four point favorite on the road at Alabama to open this week.

Georgia was about a point and a half favorite at Alabama.

If you care about the movement and the action on this, we've already seen so much of a wave, people cutting in line to bet on Alabama for this game that now we flip flop things.

And as it stands right now, as I'm speaking to you on this Monday morning, Alabama is now the point spread favorite against Georgia.