From the days of Red Blaik, Frank Leahy and Bear Bryant to Bud Wilkinson, Jimmy Johnson, Bobby Bowden and Pete Carroll, many great dynasties have reigned in college football.

Nick Saban, in position to win his third national championship in four years, is the architect of college football’s most high-powered modern-day football dynasty, churning out as many first-round draft picks in one year as some successful college programs are able to produce in a decade.

The result of his dominance can be seen across the Southeastern Conference, where his former understudy Will Muschamp has whipped an average roster of talent at Florida into a national contender, as well as at Georgia, where his former assistant Todd Grantham now coordinates the Bulldogs’ defense.

When Alabama meets Georgia for the SEC championship on Dec. 1, it will be a battle of odd-front defenses, popularized by Saban, that determines the SEC’s champion.

Quality linebackers, at the heart of every good 3-4 defense, are weighted more heavily in the Bulldogs’ favor in this contest. Georgia junior OLB Jarvis Jones is one of college football’s best at winning one-on-one battles, and freshman Jordan Jenkins has been a quick study on the opposite side, able to collapse the pocket with power. With senior NT John Jenkins clogging the inside for junior ILB Alec Ogletree to roam with rare speed, Alabama junior power back Eddie Lacy and dynamic freshman T.J. Yeldon could be challenged and force junior QB AJ McCarron to beat the Bulldogs with his arm, a task he struggled to accomlish against LSU and could not pull off vs. Texas A&M.