Wrong? Right

Wow. Did the Blob ever step in it this time.

OK, so it didn't.

OK, so it did.

OK, so ... it kinda did ... maybe mostly did ... and then ...

It didn't.

All of which is to say Alabama won the national title last night exactly the way the Blob said it would, and also nothing like the way the Blob said it would. The Blob predicted 'Bama would roll Georgia pretty much the way it rolled Clemson. Instead, it got rolled for most of the night, and the guy the Blob said would be the difference -- Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts -- was not the difference at all.

In fact, he was sitting on the bench when the guy who made the difference made the difference.

That would be true freshman quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who was never mentioned in any of the pregame analysis, but who won the game for the Crimson Tide. Came in at halftime after Hurts guided the Tide to zero points in the first half, and generated 26 points in the second half to steal it from the Bulldogs, 26-23 in overtime.

Not only that, but Tagovailoa won it in the most dramatic way conceivable, on a 41-yard strike to DeVonta Smith with 'Bama trailing 23-20 and down a 2nd-and-26 hole. Three more stops for Georgia, and the Bulldogs would be celebrating their first national title since Herschel Walker was trampling people in Athens.

Instead, with all the weight in the world on his shoulders, a kid who was in high school a year ago reared back and threw an absolute seed against the Georgia Cover Two defense, hitting Smith in stride with the kind of throw you're not supposed to make against a Cover Two. But the kid did it.

(And, please, no more talk about what a genius move it was for Nick Saban to insert Tagovailoa into the game, that it was a move few other coaches would have made. Sorry, but no. It was actually a move a lot of other coaches would have made, given the circumstances. After all, it's not like Saban didn't know what he had in his freshman backup. Knowing that, what coach, with the national title on the line, would have stuck with Hurts after he was so completely ineffective in the first half? It might have been a bigger gamble to leave him out there, in retrospect.)

In any case, all credit to Tagovailoa. And a tiny, tiny portion of credit to the Blob, which did get some things right -- the Crimson Tide defense did largely shut down the Georgia running game in the second half, as the Blob figured it might -- and did get the outcome right.

Everything else, though ...

Well. Prediction fail.