SEC Championship: Georgia vs LSU 12/3/22 College Football Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Georgia Bulldogs and LSU Tigers do battle Saturday in the college football SEC Championship game from Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

The LSU Tigers come into the SEC title game with a record of 9-3 on the year. Jayden Daniels has thrown for 2,566 yards, 15 touchdowns and 2 interceptions on 68.6% passing while also rushing for a team-high 824 yards and 11 scores. Josh Williams has 481 rushing yards with 6 touchdowns, Noah Cain has 340 rushing yards with 7 touchdowns and John Emery Jr. has 321 rushing yards with 5 TDs. Malik Nabers leads LSU’s receivers with 58 grabs for 726 yards. Three more LSU receivers have at least 300 receiving yards as well this season. On defense, Micah Baskerville has a team-high 73 total tackles including 33 solo tackles while LSU’s defense has combined for 25 sacks and 6 interceptions this season.

The Georgia Bulldogs will try to run the table once again, sitting at 12-0 coming into this game. Stetson Bennett has thrown for 3,151 yards, 16 touchdowns and 6 interceptions on 67.2% passing while Kenny Mcintosh and Daijun Edwards have combined for 1,258 rushing yards this season with a combined 15 touchdowns. Brock Bowers leads the Bulldogs with 645 receiving yards while Ladd McConkey has 606 receiving yards and two more Bulldogs have 400+ receiving yards as well this season. On defense, Malaki Starks has a team-high 60 total tackles while Georgia’s defense as a whole has 22 sacks and 8 interceptinns this season.

LSU is 5-2 ATS in their last 7 neutral site games and 20-7 ATS in their last 27 games following an ATS loss while the over is 5-1 in their last 6 games overall. Georgia is 5-2 ATS in their last 7 neutral site games and 7-2 ATS in their last 9 games in December while the under is 10-3-2 in their last 15 neutral site games.

Part of me wonders if maybe, just maybe the Tigers got caught looking ahead at the hands of Texas A&M last week. Either way, as much as I like the Georgia Bulldogs, this is just far too many points for me to pass on with LSU who has had a tendency to rise up in some of the bigger games this season. I think Georgia wins this game by a couple of scores, but this just feels like too many points. Give me LSU.