If
you do this as long as I’ve been doing it, things start to repeat themselves.
Important game against an SEC team, in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta … where
have we seen this before? And will Santa Claus please bring me a different
outcome this time? Please??

This CFA Bowl game against Tennessee is a bookend to the season opener
against Alabama. Back in late August, the bookshelf was empty, but in the last
four months, we have filled it with twelve volumes. Some stories were dramatic,
some were uplifting, some were tragedies, but overall, the story they told was
pretty good. I’ve read better, but I’ve read a lot worse. 1999 was more
entertaining reading, but 1992 was complete garbage, and I’ll never read it
again.

Sheesh, I hate cutesie-pie analogies in sportswriting, but I couldn’t help
myself. I promise not to do it again.

I feel as if I’ve written this column before. Back on August 31st, I penned a
Monday Thoughts, pre-Alabama game, titled Why
This Game is Important. I found myself thinking of the reasons this game
against Tennessee is important, so … here we are.

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