Prediction time!

 TCU and Georgia play tonight for the College Football Playoff title, and I'm compelled to say  they're doing it at the wrong place and the wrong time. The game's in L.A. at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time, which is rush hour on the west coast. And it's on the wrong day besides.

College football's a Saturday game and its season should end on a Saturday. Especially if it's going to end in L.A.

"But Mr. Blob," you're saying now. "What about the Saturday NFL games?"

Play 'em on Sunday, the way God intended. Where's it say in the Gospel According To Goodell that there must be a handful of NFL games on Saturday on the last weekend of the regular season?

Anyway ...

On to the prediction!

In which the Blob predicts Georgia will win. Unless it doesn't.

This the spell these TCUs weave, see, especially after taking down Michigan in the semis in a game the Horned Frogs were supposed to lose 55-7 or something. People have been saying they aren’t that good all year long, and all the Frogs and their rub-some-dirt-on-it quarterback Max Duggan have done is shrug and keep on winning.

Now they're playing for a national championship, and the ghosts of Sammy Baugh and Davey O'Brien and the fictional TCU icons created by the late Dan Jenkins (himself a TCU grad) are rising up. Billy Clyde Puckett is saying Georgia ain't nothin' but toothless guys named Cooter marrying their cousins. Shake Tiller is saying football is meaningless, but nonetheless, GO FROGS.

All of this strongly tempts the Blob to say to hell with it and pick TCU. 

Now, I know the Frogs aren't going to win, especially with their leading rusher dinged up so badly he might not play. I know magic or destiny or what-not has an expiration date, if they exist at all. And I know, even if Georgia was one botched kick away from not even being here, that the unbeaten Bulldogs never have two off games in a row.

The only close call they had in the regular season was against Missouri, when they had to come from behind to win 26-22.

The next week they floor-waxed Auburn 42-10.

Now, TCU isn't Auburn. TCU is way better than Auburn, and never mind all the SEC-besotted folks who think every school in the conference is a mighty giant bestriding the Earth. 

They aren’t. Fact is, there were plenty of sucky teams in the SEC this year. Auburn (5-7) was one of them. Hell, they barely beat Texas A&M, for heaven's sake.

Nonetheless, logic must prevail. Georgia will win.

But not eleventy-hundred to zilch. Call it 38-30, as the Bulldogs get way up and Duggan leads a stirring TCU comeback that falls short.

Sorry, Billy Clyde 'n' them.