georgia, 2021 georgia, 2022, georgia, there s a theme here and you have one of those teams, again, it s the last thing i ll say, jonathan lemire, but you have a team that well, i ll just stop talking about alabama. they got what they served. that s all i ll say. i hope tonight the blame is put where the blame belongs and that is with the people, jonathan lemire, as you said earlier, that left those classified documents in joe biden s library in delaware. there it is. it all kind of connects there. this wide ranging conspiracy, joe. there is some talk when the conference title game when tcu lost to kansas state, whether they would make the final four. they did, and they obviously had a great season otherwise. and now it s puzzling and that win over michigan stands out as being so stunning. that game was a great game, and they did win it at the end, and they didn t deserve to be on the same field last night.
last year. 15, including five off of their defense. oh, it s a young team. we don t know how they re going to be this year. 15-0. they re 29-1 over the last two seasons. an incredible program kirby smart has built there. game was never close obviously from the outset. this, by the way, is the biggest margin of victory in any bowl game ever. not just national championship games. since they started playing bowls in 1902, 65-7 is the biggest margin. joe, nick saban was sitting up there as an analyst for espn, you know he had to be thinking, we would have liked a shot at these guys. they did lose the two games. they lost them in the last play of the game. they didn t get into the s.e.c. championship game where they might have had a shot to beat georgia. ohio state probably should have beaten georgia in the final four. ohio state is up on the s.e.c. level. really, to your point, no one else is. alabama is probably the second best team in the country. you could put tennessee right up there a
we appreciate it. and, richard, the giants going into the playoffs, how deep are they going to go? we re feeling good about sunday. they wanted minnesota, not san francisco. they re going to beat them this sunday. willie, do you think the giants can beat the vikings? maybe the worst 12-4 team in football? i do. i think daniel jones is hot at the right time, if saquon can run the ball. the defense is playing well. we are believers, go big blue. still ahead, one of the nation s most prominent civil rights leaders, the former head of the naacp ben joins us with his new memoir. a pair of broad way stars, tony award winner pen ben platt and macayla diamond will be here with an exclusive announcement. morning joe will be right back. if morning joe will be right back if
65-7. 38-7 at the break, was never close. stetson bennett, the guy right there. threw for four touchdowns, ran for two. he s back-to-back national championship quarterback. that s the kind of stuff, joe, that gets statues built in athens, georgia. they put up the sort of thing that makes somebody have you run for the senate 30 years later. and you have a committee, a bowl committee that jonathan lemire that knows the history. and yet they put in a team that lost to kansas state into the championship series. again, 2006, what willie was talking about, florida, national champs, 2007 lsu, 2009 alabama, 2010 auburn. 2011 alabama, 2012 alabama, 2013 florida state. ohio state the exception, 2014, 2015 alabama, 2016 clemson, 2017, alabama. 2018 clemson, 2019 lsu, 2020
ohio state belongs there, but my gosh, the gap between the s.e.c. and the rest of the country, particularly now georgia and the rest of the country was stark isn t even the word, 65-7. that s the gap. well, you know, alabama, who knows, they probably would have lost to this georgia team. and again, this isn t even about me being from alabama, me cheering for alabama. we have won enough. i understand it. we re like, you know, people look at alabama the way i look at duke basketball, right, enough already. but if you re interested in having the best teams play in the final game, the committee really screwed up badly. they screwed up in realtime, they picked a team that lost to kansas state. no disrespect to kansas state, no disrespect to the kids from tcu, an incredible run. it s just two different levels of play.