The Sports Desk is posting here again today.
A previous post explained the concept of the lineal championship belt, an imaginary reward that's passed from team to team in college football going back to the very first football game ever played. It's literally a long story (over 150 years) but to get to the point, the Georgia Bulldogs won it away from Texas back on October 19 (Electra, Fifth Day of the Hammer, 74th of Autumn in the Universal Solar Calendar).
Our reign didn't last long. Yesterday, the Ole Miss Rebels won the belt away from Georgia in an unlovely, 28-10 ass-whipping.
The road to winning the belt back is not yet apparent. It's not mathematically impossible but highly, highly unlikely the two teams will face each other in the SEC championship (it's far more likely neither team will be in the championship game). It's possible the two teams will face each other again in the College Football Playoffs, but there's still at least three more regular-season games before the qualifying teams and the seeding is known.
It's entirely possible that some other team will win the belts away from Ole Miss before Georgia gets a chance to win them back from the Rebels. We may have to wait until after the playoffs and until the 2025 regular season schedules are announced before we can plot a path to get the belts back again.
But be assured that as soon as that path is known, I'll be reporting it here.
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