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Has your resting pulse rate returned to normal yet? Have you stopped crowing or cussing depending on your favorite school colors? Are you ready to turn the page from another Iron Bowl for the ages to what could be the ultimate SEC Championship Game?

Alabama better be because Georgia isn’t rebuilding like Auburn. The Bulldogs didn’t lose last week to an overmatched non-conference underdog. The last time they lost at all, Bryce Young, Bill O’Brien and Pete Golding helped make it happen.

The good news for Alabama: Georgia, riding high on its SEC-record 29-game winning streak since losing the 2021 SEC Championship Game to the Crimson Tide, is unbeaten but not unbeatable.

Alabama has just the man to lead the way in Jalen Milroe.