... national championship is hard enough. You have to have the talent, the chemistry, the coaching, and the schedule to pull it off.

Some teams have all four of those aspects, while others can claim two or three.

What kills a diehard fan of any contending team is when it has all of those aspects but one--especially when that one is a killer schedule.

The Georgia Bulldogs faced this very situation in 2008. Picked by many to play for a national championship, Georgia was scheduled to take on a harder-than-normal SEC gauntlet that included No. 10 Alabama, No. 11 LSU, and No. 8 Florida. It lost two of those games. By the time its annual grudge match with No. 22 Georgia Tech rolled around, Georgia was already out of th...

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