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Pick the Score: National Championship Game - Bama vs. Clemson
Posted on 1/5/17 at 11:54 pm
Posted on 1/5/17 at 11:54 pm
Hard to figure out a score, but I am going with:
Alabama 27 Clemson 23
Alabama 27 Clemson 23
This post was edited on 1/5/17 at 11:55 pm
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Posted on 1/6/17 at 12:07 am to Roll Tide Ravens
frick it.
Alabama 34
Clemson 13
Alabama 34
Clemson 13
Posted on 1/6/17 at 12:26 am to alabamabuckeye
Alabama 42 Clemson 21
Let's play good ball and get one more.
Roll Tide.
Let's play good ball and get one more.
Roll Tide.
Posted on 1/6/17 at 12:29 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Alabama 27- Clemson 17
Posted on 1/6/17 at 12:55 am to Roll Tide Ravens
If the defense scores, I'm pretty sure we win.
Bama 35 Stinky fingers 24
Bama 35 Stinky fingers 24
Posted on 1/6/17 at 6:04 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Alabama 31-34
Clemson 20-27
Clemson 20-27
Posted on 1/6/17 at 6:25 am to Chadaristic
im thinking bama 28- tiggers 17...... 
Posted on 1/6/17 at 6:32 am to Roll Tide Ravens
27-20 Bama
Posted on 1/6/17 at 6:37 am to Roll Tide Ravens
20-17 Alabama of course.
Posted on 1/6/17 at 6:59 am to Roll Tide Ravens
42-10 Bama
Posted on 1/6/17 at 8:35 am to Roll Tide Ravens
I was at 23-21 last Saturday.
35-21 Bama now, due to Kiffin getting the boot.
35-21 Bama now, due to Kiffin getting the boot.
Posted on 1/6/17 at 8:52 am to remaster916
31-21 Tide
Posted on 1/6/17 at 9:04 am to Roll Tide Ravens
I have a feeling I will be the only person on the Tide board to predict them to lose...just a hunch
Before the Fiesta Bowl started, and after I watched the Peach, I thought whoever won the later game would give Bama all they could handle. However, now there is this complete wild card in Sark that no one can have any idea where he was before the Kiff move vs. how much impact he can have in a week if he wasn't really in charge before. Since it's such an unknown, I predict the Bama offense will look similar to how it has the rest of 2016, and be run dominant while taking a few shots a game, but focusing on winning field position and grinding the other teams offense down til they make mistakes.
My prediction is Clemson 31, Bama 20. I think Clemson has the DL to better stop Bama's rushing attack even late in the game (better depth than UW). However, I think Bama can exploit the LBers in coverage for Clemson.
I think the loss to Pitt "woke" Clemson up, and as is often the case, the team with 1 loss gets so much better throughout a year (like Bama last year and OSU in 2014), while a team who isn't losing may not as they don't feel the need to.
TLDR: I don't like Bama's offense moving the ball against Clemson's defense consistently, and I think Watson will make plays similar to how Kelly did for Ole Miss with better receievers
It's obviously not a knock on Bama as they are legit as Sh*t, just think Clemson is more complete as of today
Before the Fiesta Bowl started, and after I watched the Peach, I thought whoever won the later game would give Bama all they could handle. However, now there is this complete wild card in Sark that no one can have any idea where he was before the Kiff move vs. how much impact he can have in a week if he wasn't really in charge before. Since it's such an unknown, I predict the Bama offense will look similar to how it has the rest of 2016, and be run dominant while taking a few shots a game, but focusing on winning field position and grinding the other teams offense down til they make mistakes.
My prediction is Clemson 31, Bama 20. I think Clemson has the DL to better stop Bama's rushing attack even late in the game (better depth than UW). However, I think Bama can exploit the LBers in coverage for Clemson.
I think the loss to Pitt "woke" Clemson up, and as is often the case, the team with 1 loss gets so much better throughout a year (like Bama last year and OSU in 2014), while a team who isn't losing may not as they don't feel the need to.
TLDR: I don't like Bama's offense moving the ball against Clemson's defense consistently, and I think Watson will make plays similar to how Kelly did for Ole Miss with better receievers
It's obviously not a knock on Bama as they are legit as Sh*t, just think Clemson is more complete as of today
Posted on 1/6/17 at 9:08 am to Buckeye06
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while a team who isn't losing may not as they don't feel the need to.
If you believe what our defense is saying, they said they didn't feel like Clemson experienced the real Bama last year, and they've been playing with a chip on their shoulder and out to prove themselves against Clemson.
And our offense has definitely not played up to their potential. I think part of it was having a distracted Kiffin on the sidelines. There is a reason Kiffin is no longer employed at UA.
My score prediction is 31-27 Alabama, with one of Clemson's scores coming from either an NOT or excellent field position due to a fumble.
ETA: Also, the overconfidence factor likely is against Clemson. From the touchy feelies to the way they have talked about the game, I get the sense that they've been reading their own headlines. And sometimes, that causes you to not play up to potential. See our game against y'all in 2014 and see your game against Clemson this year. There were rumors that a lot of our guys were partying it up the night before the national championship in New Orleans. We just didn't think your third string QB could beat us.
Similarly, I think Clemson will look at the Washington game and think it will be an easy win because of our offense. I don't get the sense that Clemson has the senior leadership apart from Watson to stay focused this week.
This post was edited on 1/6/17 at 9:19 am
Posted on 1/6/17 at 10:39 am to chattabama
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And our offense has definitely not played up to their potential. I think part of it was having a distracted Kiffin on the sidelines. There is a reason Kiffin is no longer employed at UA.
And that is the wildcard that it's just impossible to know about. Questions are: How involved was Sark before? How checked out was Kiff? How much interaction did Sark have on the players before etc. Just impossible for anyone who isn't spying on practice and in meeting rooms to know.
I hope Clemson isn't overconfident since they LOST last year, but who the hell knows. They look loose, but that has worked well for teams in the past, as has the buttoned up Saban approach
Posted on 1/6/17 at 12:02 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Alabama 35 Clemson 31
Posted on 1/6/17 at 12:28 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
I'm going to stick with the same score I predicted in my bowl pick'em,
45-28 Bama
45-28 Bama
Posted on 1/6/17 at 12:31 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
27-17 Bama.
Please be right
Please be right
Posted on 1/6/17 at 12:41 pm to Gary Busey
Alabama 34
Clemson 24
Clemson 24
Posted on 1/6/17 at 12:47 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Washigton game plan was very vanilla, no jet sweeps, no screens, no quick outs to Ridley and Stewart and little downfield passing. It is puzzling since we had been doing these things succesfully all year. That being said, Saban will pull out all the stops to tie the Bear.... Bama 38 Clemson 24
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