Alabama embarrassed the SEC this year

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Cartervol said:
I wouldn't be surprised if after the Natty he hangs it up. The way he's been talking lately kind of hints at it. I think he sees that it's changing in a way where he's not going to dominate like he once did. As competitive as he is i doubt he sticks around much longer.
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He might have to be around for a long long time waiting to win again. There's a lot more competition in the SEC now.
 
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Sea Ray said:
Really surprised me that they didn’t play better. I figured with a month to prepare Saban would have his team ready to peak. Instead he gave us early season Alabama where his team made mistakes and couldn’t throw the ball down field
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I think they hit some sort of genetic ceiling. Yes, they had a good record, and their defense looked good against Georgia on 3rd downs. That was impressive. But, they played BAD a lot this year. Center couldn't snap the ball. Lot's of penalties. OL held a lot, some of it called. Look at how they played at Auburn and the south Florida game. Even first half against us they weren't good.

I was listening to a Bama youtube "locked on" thing just to get the temperature of their suffering. Jimmy kept saying "As bad as we are, we were ONE PLAY" away from making it to the championship game. Well on that particular play, their center muffed the snap, it was almost on the turf, their right tackle got blown up and pushed into the QB and tripped him.

And, taking that logic a step further, If they hadn't converted on 4th and 30 on that last play at Auburn, they were "ONE PLAY" away from not even making it to the playoffs. Saban did much with little on this group of guys, and the luck ran out down the stretch. The last 5 minutes of the UM game - UM in complete control and Bama hanging on for dear life. ONE PLAY though, ONE PLAY..
 
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Saban embarrassed the league. What TERRIBLE play calling.
 
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volbound1700 said:
Losing to Michigan and Texas and almost losing to USF.

No quality wins outside of the SEC and not good performances.
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Honestly, I want bama to lose every game they play. Rooting for our conference to be good has never helped us. It’s just helped those teams (in those high profile games ) get more exposure and top recruits. Point blank… it was good for us. They lost those games. It prevents them from being able to say they’re on another level from the rest of college football. Separately, it was good for us because they lost two teams that haven’t been on top over the last decade. Michigan has won some high profile games but hadn’t won a playoff game. And Texas has been great since Vince young. It shows the game is changing. And as I’ve been on here saying I believe it’s a combination of the TP, immediate eligibility for transferring players, and NIL.
 
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chattavol420 said:
Honestly, I want bama to lose every game they play. Rooting for our conference to be good has never helped us. It’s just helped those teams (in those high profile games ) get more exposure and top recruits. Point blank… it was good for us. They lost those games. It prevents them from being able to say they’re on another level from the rest of college football. Separately, it was good for us because they lost two teams that haven’t been on top over the last decade. Michigan has won some high profile games but hadn’t won a playoff game. And Texas has been great since Vince young. It shows the game is changing. And as I’ve been on here saying I believe it’s a combination of the TP, immediate eligibility for transferring players, and NIL.
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It doesn't help if they go 9-0 in Conference play though. We really need them to lose to teams like Arkansas, Ole Miss, LSU, etc.
 
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Vol737 said:
Heup better be back in K-town by now, at his office, breaking down film of that Bama vs Michigan game. Texas game vs Bama too, for that matter. We need to smack their @$$ around in Neyland again next year.
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Tennessee doesn’t run a regular huddle offense, though, so….
 
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Cartervol said:
I wouldn't be surprised if after the Natty he hangs it up. The way he's been talking lately kind of hints at it. I think he sees that it's changing in a way where he's not going to dominate like he once did. As competitive as he is i doubt he sticks around much longer.
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Rumor has it that he doesn't want to turn into Bill Belichick. Retirement is definitely a possibility.
 
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volfanhill said:
Its not Alabama's job to make the SEC look good
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that's right. with that logic, since UT lost to Al O'Bama, did UT embarrass the SEC? Nope! How can someone or something embarrass you in the first place? You only embarrass yourself IMHO
 
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Pappy said:
that's right. with that logic, since UT lost to Al O'Bama, did UT embarrass the SEC? Nope! How can someone or something embarrass you in the first place? You only embarrass yourself IMHO
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We beat our B1G team, something Alabama failed to do.

Ole Miss, Missouri, LSU, everyone beat up on the B1G. Alabama just stunk it up in post season. The way they played, Tennessee, Ole Miss, and Missouri probably could have beaten them.
 
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volbound1700 said:
We beat our B1G team, something Alabama failed to do.

Ole Miss, Missouri, LSU, everyone beat up on the B1G. Alabama just stunk it up in post season. The way they played, Tennessee, Ole Miss, and Missouri probably could have beaten them.
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But again, Alabama beat two of the teams you mentioned, and beat Georgia, who beat Missouri.

By your theory, we embarrassed ourselves by losing to an Alabama team who couldn’t beat Michigan. We thoroughly embarrassed ourselves by losing to a team who lost to Georgia, who embarrassed themselves by losing to Alabama
 
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volfanbill said:
But again, Alabama beat two of the teams you mentioned, and beat Georgia, who beat Missouri.

By your theory, we embarrassed ourselves by losing to an Alabama team who couldn’t beat Michigan. We thoroughly embarrassed ourselves by losing to a team who lost to Georgia, who embarrassed themselves by losing to Alabama
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It doesn't matter, Alabama could not beat the B1G and the others did. Alabama is trash. They get refs to help them beat the other SEC teams. When you don't have refs, you see the result. Even TCU could beat Michigan lol.

Alabama is one of only two SEC teams to lose to Ohio State in a bowl game. So Alabama can't beat B1G. The other was Arkansas but Arkansas competes with Miss State to be the Vandy of the SEC West.
 
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volbound1700 said:
It doesn't matter, Alabama could not beat the B1G and the others did. Alabama is trash. They get refs to help them beat the other SEC teams. When you don't have refs, you see the result. Even TCU could beat Michigan lol.

Alabama is one of only two SEC teams to lose to Ohio State in a bowl game. So Alabama can't beat B1G. The other was Arkansas but Arkansas competes with Miss State to be the Vandy of the SEC West.
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It does matter. Your inability to comprehend that makes you look foolish.
 
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volbound1700 said:
You have a chance to rub it in Bama's noses and you don't want to use it? I talked smack in 2014 when we beat Iowa (who beat Ohio State) and they lost to Ohio State.
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I mean they beat us. At the end of the day, the buck stops there. That’s it.

Football isn’t transitive, so you can’t say we’d beat Michigan or even lose to them. But Bama beat us, and everyone else they played in our conference.
 
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volfanbill said:
I mean they beat us. At the end of the day, the buck stops there. That’s it.

Football isn’t transitive, so you can’t say we’d beat Michigan or even lose to them. But Bama beat us, and everyone else they played in our conference.
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Sure you can, post season matters. Look at NCAA Basketball. No one gives a darn if you were #2 in regular season rankings, it matters how far you go in the post season.

Also, for Football to really be fair, teams should play at least two games (home and away). Home field advantage is a thing.
 
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volbound1700 said:
Sure you can, post season matters. Look at NCAA Basketball. No one gives a darn if you were #2 in regular season rankings, it matters how far you go in the post season.

Also, for Football to really be fair, teams should play at least two games (home and away). Home field advantage is a thing.
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You absolutely can’t. It was proven that you can’t just last weekend.
 
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And they do care if you were number 2. You get seeded as such. And it makes your path to the finals theoretically easier
 
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