Today is Mark Twain's Birtday. He once said..

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.

So, as a tribute to him let's see how SEC championship game compare statistically

	LSU	Opponents	Georgia	Opponents	National ranking
Record	12--0		10--2		1/14
Scoring: Points/Game	38.2	10.6	34	17.8	13/25
Scoring: Games - Points	12 - 458	12 - 127	12 - 408	12 - 213	2/10 (scoring defense)
First Downs: Total	251	172	262	173	47/38
First Downs: Rushing - Passing - By Penalty	131 - 95 - 25	64 - 90 - 18	112 - 135 - 15	67 - 94 - 12	2/5 (total defense)
Rushing: Yards / Attempt	4.9	2.64	4.26	3.02	18/36
Rushing: Attempts - Yards - TD	529 - 2590 - 32	391 - 1033 - 6	509 - 2167 - 15	376 - 1137 - 11	4/6 (D)
Passing: Rating	155.57	95.87	157.9	98.84
Passing: Yards	2052	1948	2917	2116	100/47
Passing: Attempts - Completions - Interceptions - TD	249 - 157 - 4 - 20	352 - 186 - 16 - 6	351 - 217 - 10 - 34	366 - 185 - 17 - 10	6/11
Total Offense: Yards / Play	5.97	4.01	5.91	4.38	62/35
Total Offense: Plays - Yards	778 - 4642	743 - 2981	860 - 5084	742 - 3253
Punt Returns: Yards / Return	12.38	0.46	7.95	14.29
Kickoff Returns: Yards / Return	22.19	19.96	22.97	23.79
Punting: Yards / Punt	41.9	40	41.98	40.36
Interceptions: Returns - Yards - TD	16 - 253 - 2	4/13/00	17 - 239 - 1	10 - 103 - 2	10/6
Fumbles: Number - Lost	16 - 4	25 - 11	23 - 9	32 - 12
Penalties: Number - Yards	73 - 613	85 - 674	72 - 562	78 - 533	65/51
Time of Possession / Game	32:44.2	27:15.8	33:34.4	26:25.0
3rd Down Conversions: Conversion %	48.99%	35.06%	44.69%	29.76%	11/34
4th Down Conversions: Conversion %	80%	43.75%	58.82%	50%	4/27
4th Down Conversions: Attempts - Conversions	5--4	16 - 7	17 - 10	20 - 10
Red Zone: Success %	93.10%	90.48%	84%	87.50%	5/49
Field Goals: Success %	88.90%	68.80%	61.30%	81.80%
PAT Kicking: Success %	96.60%	100%	100%	88.90%
2-Point Conversions: Success %	0%	100%	100%	-
Sacks					15/15
Tackles for loss					10/7
(turnover margin	19		10		1/10 (19/10) )
Fumble recovered					37/27
Fumble forced					20/8

Seems, Defensively UGA has some juice tooo.oh ya, you may say the opponents,
but opponents win loss is almost same ...

	Opponent win vs SEC	Opponent total win
UGA	21	76
LSU	25	85

What about common opponents...(defense)

• 1st downs:             UGA 58        LSU 64
• Total Yards             UGA 217.4   LSU 217.6
• Passing yards        UGA 197.2   LSU 137.6 
• Rushing Yards        UGA 20.4    LSU 102.2…
• Touchdowns           UGA 4        LSU 3

Offense , Score wise LSU has 31.5 margin of victory while UGA has just 14.5

So, key to UGA win:
RUSH..RUSH. (is crowell healthy, and coming back?) and have some vertical passing plays on option play....
Don't let LSU rush. How many running backs in LSU...11?...
Dont Turn over the ball.........
Don't miss the field goals........
Stay cool.....you have nothing to lose.....

Disclaimer: I am just lloking at this game because of my personal interest.
and A week before "The game of  century:par II", looking for "Upset of the Century" (May be Iowa state Already got that.......)