Let’s recap Week 14, shall we?

Game of the week: No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 3 Georgia

Final score: Tide 32, Bulldogs 28

Pregame rant: Some would say this is the national championship game.

The winner will likely be the favorite to beat Notre Dame in next month’s BCS title game.  Alabama and Georgia are in this position because Oregon and Kansas State lost.

The Bulldogs are not as good on defense as Alabama, but have better skilled players on offense than the Tide.

So special teams could be the difference. If it is, edge Alabama.

The Tide have a senior kicker in Jeremy Shelley, who is 10-for-10 on field goals this season.

Georgia has a freshman kicker in Marshall Morgan, who is 8-for-12.  He’s missed two of his last four attempts.

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A preseason All-American, Randy Colling has become one of the top defensive tackles in NCAA Division II playing for Gannon./Photo by Jack Hanrahan of the Erie Times-News.

On Wednesday evening, Erie Times-News staff writer Duane Rankin did a phone interview with with Gannon senior defensive tackle Randy Colling’s high school coach, Jim Duprey.

Playing for Duprey at Pioneer High School, Colling was a first-team all-state pick and was named the All-Western New York Section VI Class A South Defensive Player of the Year. Here’s what Duprey had to say about how Gannon recruited Colling, an Arcade, N.Y., native, and what he  has become for the Knights.

Who was recruiting him for football? “He had a lot of visitors as you can imagine. He had a lot of mail and everything. The big thing with Randy is he had a lot of people pursuing him for wrestling. There were coaches from all up and down the east coast both for wrestling and football. A lot of Pennsylvania schools were looking at him. He could chose either one of those and been very successful.”

For football outside of Stony Brook, any other D-1 schools that wanted him? “I know UB (University of Buffalo) came out and made several visits with him and everything. So that was probably the biggest one in the area that came out to see him.”

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