Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and Adam Breneman look ahead to Saturday’s monster SEC showdown in Tuscaloosa. Listen to the full conversation on the “College Football Power Hour” podcast and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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I will say this as I was watching the match, trying to figure out what the X factor is in this game.

I kept coming back to the fact that Jalen Mil Roe could run the football.

Georgia’s rushing defense ranks 42nd in the nation.

Their team, Jalen Mil, was by far the worst statistical category. Two rushing touchdowns against Wisconsin threw the ball only 17 times against Wisconsin.

If Jim Murre can find a way to use his legs to open up this Alabama offense and make a run at Georgia, then that’s the path I see for Alabama to win the game.

If he can’t do that, I see Alabama struggling to move the football on Georgia and I think Georgia wins the game, but Jalen M. is the X-factor.

I’m going to watch from the very beginning.

So let me ask you this: what do they do?

Because the fact is that teams have been trying to spy on Mro.

Now I understand that there is a lot more team speed in Georgia’s defense.

So spying on Mro makes a lot of sense, but everyone who has tried to spy on Mro so far has simply been defeated by his speed.

Like he’s a lot faster than us, give the quarterback who looks like Jalen Mro credit for not looking like he’s a burner when he starts running, but no one can seem to spy him.

So what does Georgia do?

You can’t just spy on Jalen Mil because then they throw the ball into the perimeter.

That’s what they’re going to do, so that’s what Joe Murrow does who runs with his legs, but he has to use them first, use the legs and be able to get to the edge so that Georgia respects it and has to spy on him.

I don’t see them spying on him from the very beginning, but if he starts running and then makes them respect that, they have to spy on him now.

It opens up everything else in the offense.

That’s why it’s the X factor for me.

I don’t see Georgia scoring enough points to keep up with Alabama, with all that being said, I don’t forget three quarters against us.

F for Alabama.

I don’t forget the sloppy play.

You get the advantage of playing at home.

Absolute.

But they also played against us at home.

F So that’s something I’ll keep in mind.

But the other crazy thing is, listen, listen to all three of us doubting Kirby Smart.

Kirby Smart is nine and one, a kind of nine in one.

Kirby Smart is the bulletin board material.

King Alabama seems to be the popular choice.

You don’t think Kirby Smart is going to collect all that and play that around the locker room and say they don’t believe in you.

Maybe that’s not enough, but maybe that’s the kick in the ass that Georgia needed.

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