You
either win with fundamentals or you get beat with fundamentals. Georgia was reminded of this bitter lesson in
the 2012 SEC Championship Game that saw them battle toe to toe with defending
national champion Alabama. They
valiantly drove down the field in the last minute, only to see the clock run
out because of a tipped pass in an awful and surreal ending for the stunned Bulldogs,
who expected to be able to see Aaron Murray throw two plays into the end zone
with the ball at the 8-yard line and 15 seconds left (Chris Brown at Smart
Football analyzes the clock logistics of the play here). The tipped pass by Alabama LB, C.J. Mosley,
was seen as horrible luck, but really the play was preventable with proper
fundamentals from the RB position.