The 2008 All State Sugar Bowl will feature a WAC team in the Hawaii Warriors and a SEC team in the Georgia Bulldogs. The Bulldogs went into the final week ranked #4 behind Ohio State but was surpassed by LSU who was behind them in the polls but won the SEC conference championships. Georgia fans might be upset at this movement as the team was ahead of LSU in the polls and has been extremely hot. The fact that Georgia didn’t play in it’s conference championship probably is what kept them out of the national championship game. The Warriors on the other hand are undefeated in the season and claimed a BCS bowl by ranking #12 or less in the polls.
For the Hawaii Warriors, there is still something to prove even by going 12-0 for the season. Many people are still questioning if the team deserves a spot in a BCS Bowl. This is because the team has the weakest schedule of all BCS teams and many teams in the top 25. Their only quality win is over Boise State who is not as good as they were last year when the team beat Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. Hawaii has many questionable games where it let opponents score at will and the team was sub-par at best. What the team does have is Colt Brennan and a good corp of receivers who have scored plenty of points. The reason being is that June Jones’ team throws the ball like crazy and has played plenty of weak defense teams. None of the teams they played probably have a defensive rank under 100 except for maybe Boise State.
Georgia on the other hand is one of the hotter team in college football who had a chance to be in the national championship but were denied with the loss to Tennessee and not being able to play in the SEC championship game. The team’s two losses came in a close game against South Carolina and 14 point loss against Tennessee. However, after the Tennessee loss, Georgia has just been red hot by winning the next 6 games with three ranked opponents including #9 Florida. Mark Richt has his players playing with passion after the Florida game field run and Matthew Stafford and Thomas Brown have been playing great.
This game really is two teams with something to prove as the Hawaii Warriors try to prove that they deserve a spot in the BCS bowl and can hang with the big name teams and the Georgia Bulldogs who should feel a little cheated from losing the chance to play in the national championship game and what to prove that they are one of the best teams in college football right now. This could result in Georgia coming out attacking strong and if Colt Brennan does not have time to throw, this game could be a blow out.