Alabama Ranked #15 for first time since....

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...December 5, 2010, and Tennessee is the team that did it! Go Vols.

The chart below provides evidence for Saban's departure. The blue line is Alabama's weekly ranking, starting with the 2008 preseason ranking (I excluded 2007 due to weeks where Alabama wasn't ranked). The orange line is a polynomial trend. You can see the potential impact of changes in the Transfer Portal and NIL from 2021 through 2023.

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Bearkat_Vol said:
...December 5, 2010, and Tennessee is the team that did it! Go Vols.

The chart below provides evidence for Saban's departure. The blue line is Alabama's weekly ranking, starting with the 2008 preseason ranking (I excluded 2007 due to weeks where Alabama wasn't ranked). The orange line is a polynomial trend. You can see the potential impact of changes in the Transfer Portal and NIL from 2021 through 2023.

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Can you do one for the Vols? IIRC before CJH's arrival we were unranked most weeks during 2010s (and probably dating back to CPF's last season) during Kiffin/Dooley/Butch/Pruitt years. The only bright spot was the 2016 season when the Dobbs-Jennings team had us ranked in top 25.

Since CJh's arrival, I think we've been in top 25 for more than 30 weeks straight after beating Pitt in the first week of 2022 season. Never dropped outside top 25 and the streak is still on.

Just let that sink in.
 
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To say that they are ill-prepared to face 2 or 3 loss seasons is the understatement of the millennium.

I wonder what happened to them during halftime of the UGA game. People are talking about how their roster isn't as deep as previous years, they're undisciplined, etc., and that's probably true. But that same thin, undisciplined team looked fine (other than the first half against USF) until the second half against UGA, and they haven't looked right since. I thought that Wisconsin was a potential trouble game for them and they destroyed them. Nobody said their roster was thin or that they were undisciplined until they started losing. They've basically played 14 straight quarters of bad football since then.
 
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SFBayVol said:
Can you do one for the Vols? IIRC before CJH's arrival we were unranked most weeks during 2010s (and probably dating back to CPF's last season) during Kiffin/Dooley/Butch/Pruitt years. The only bright spot was the 2016 season when the Dobbs-Jennings team had us ranked in top 25.

Since CJh's arrival, I think we've been in top 25 for more than 30 weeks straight after beating Pitt in the first week of 2022 season. Never dropped outside top 25 and the streak is still on.

Just let that sink in.
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Here you go:
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05_never_again said:
To say that they are ill-prepared to face 2 or 3 loss seasons is the understatement of the millennium.

I wonder what happened to them during halftime of the UGA game. People are talking about how their roster isn't as deep as previous years, they're undisciplined, etc., and that's probably true. But that same thin, undisciplined team looked fine (other than the first half against USF) until the second half against UGA, and they haven't looked right since. I thought that Wisconsin was a potential trouble game for them and they destroyed them. Nobody said their roster was thin or that they were undisciplined until they started losing. They've basically played 14 straight quarters of bad football since then.
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Exactly - over the last couple of years I tried telling some younger Bama fans I work with that this isn't going to last, it is an outlier and is not normal in the least. 2-3 loss seasons are very common, and some teams would be ecstatic with 2-3 loss seasons. It was always brushed off like that could never happen to Bama. They were so used to being spoiled that they didn't even know they were spoiled.

They aren't taking this well. Nobody has talked to me today at all. On one hand it is kind of sad because they just don't know, but on the other seeing the entitlement come crashing down is satisfying.
 
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Glad they are ranked 15, however that graph is impressive regardless of your loyalties. Just saying. Me sticking up for Bama? No, just setting up the punchline for a joke that surfaced a couple of season's after the Bear.

Q: How many Bama fans does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 1 The rest of the fans stand around and talk about how great the old lightbulb was.
 
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Drinkwitz wants to tell Deboer that they stand on business after beating Alabama in Tuscaloosa this Saturday.
 
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05_never_again said:
To say that they are ill-prepared to face 2 or 3 loss seasons is the understatement of the millennium.

I wonder what happened to them during halftime of the UGA game. People are talking about how their roster isn't as deep as previous years, they're undisciplined, etc., and that's probably true. But that same thin, undisciplined team looked fine (other than the first half against USF) until the second half against UGA, and they haven't looked right since. I thought that Wisconsin was a potential trouble game for them and they destroyed them. Nobody said their roster was thin or that they were undisciplined until they started losing. They've basically played 14 straight quarters of bad football since then.
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When an army doesent have a general this is what you get. Gomer Pile better decide whether he wants to stay on the island or sail back west.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Unfortunately this is fact. It disgusts me to say it but we really need Bama to win out. We also need UF to keep improving. Because OU and NCST are horrible.
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It makes no difference Bama isn’t good either. They aren’t OU/NCST bad but they’re far from good.
 
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loservol said:
Bad idea, vecause they would rank them ahead if the Vols drops the GA. Better now and in the future if Bama keeps crashing back to earth.
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If you truly believe that a 1 loss Tennessee will be ranked below a 2 loss Alabama this season, you’re delusional. Can we stop with the victim complex, “the media hates us” nonsense?

Edit: Didn’t realize you meant “if Vols drop the Georgia game.” I read it as “if the Vols drop Georgia” as in beat them. My bad. That’s still not a foregone conclusion though if we lose to UGA and it’s a close loss.

Edit 2: Ideal scenario would be Alabama blasts Mizzou, beats LSU, and somehow loses to Oklahoma lol. But that ain’t happening.
 
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05_never_again said:
To say that they are ill-prepared to face 2 or 3 loss seasons is the understatement of the millennium.

I wonder what happened to them during halftime of the UGA game. People are talking about how their roster isn't as deep as previous years, they're undisciplined, etc., and that's probably true. But that same thin, undisciplined team looked fine (other than the first half against USF) until the second half against UGA, and they haven't looked right since. I thought that Wisconsin was a potential trouble game for them and they destroyed them. Nobody said their roster was thin or that they were undisciplined until they started losing. They've basically played 14 straight quarters of bad football since then.
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I have thought the same thing! When they came out against Georgia so strong, I thought they may even be better than the Saban teams. Thought we were in for another decade of dominance. Then, I thought they let off the gas in the second half and that was all.

Reminds me of Rocky against Clubber Lane in their first fight!
 
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There was always going to be a drop off when Saban left, no matter how good his replacement is. Saban is the best coach in the history of college football, you cannot really replace that. The fun part is that Bama fans are too entitled to appreciate that fact.
 
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#1fulmerite said:
I have thought the same thing! When they came out against Georgia so strong, I thought they may even be better than the Saban teams. Thought we were in for another decade of dominance. Then, I thought they let off the gas in the second half and that was all.

Reminds me of Rocky against Clubber Lane in their first fight!
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I was more shocked about Georgia. I saw Georgia melting down in that first half. It wasn't that Alabama looked so great, it was that Georgia played very poorly IMO.
 
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