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The game that started the Saban/Bama dynasty
Posted on 12/25/23 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 12/25/23 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 12/25/23 at 2:10 pm to EGO3x
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The game that started the Saban/Bama dynasty
2008 Clemson
Posted on 12/25/23 at 2:16 pm to EGO3x
One of my favorite videos on the Internet, but your description is inaccurate
2008 Clemson kicked off the dynasty
2008 Clemson kicked off the dynasty
This post was edited on 12/25/23 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 12/25/23 at 2:35 pm to bamabenny
Dynasty is defined by championships.
That Florida team was a defending champion and deemed unbeatable. That was the SEC championship and the de facto National Championship.
The Clemson game showed we were back and really good again but they weren’t that great. That was Tommy Bowden era Clemson.
2008 was a terrific year but ultimately nothing was accomplished when it comes to winning titles. That’s what made 2009 so important.
That 2009 SEC title game over Florida was a defining win for Saban. An opening kickoff classic game vs Clemson was just another game. I can promise you Nick would agree with me.
That Florida team was a defending champion and deemed unbeatable. That was the SEC championship and the de facto National Championship.
The Clemson game showed we were back and really good again but they weren’t that great. That was Tommy Bowden era Clemson.
2008 was a terrific year but ultimately nothing was accomplished when it comes to winning titles. That’s what made 2009 so important.
That 2009 SEC title game over Florida was a defining win for Saban. An opening kickoff classic game vs Clemson was just another game. I can promise you Nick would agree with me.
This post was edited on 12/25/23 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 12/25/23 at 2:37 pm to UASports23
I would say the win over Colorado in the Independence Bowl, but dominating Clemson did kickstart a great season that ended poorly.
Posted on 12/25/23 at 2:58 pm to EGO3x
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Dynasty is defined by championships.
Disagree. Clemson was the first time I watched a Saban team and understood what Alabama was.
That’s when the dynasty began for me.
Posted on 12/25/23 at 3:39 pm to Golgi Apparatus
The problem is there is a general definition of the term "dynasty,"
You really can't debate the meaning of a word.
The meaning of the term "dynasty" as it pertains to sports is 3 titles within 4 years for a purest, but you COULD DEBATE a dynasty with 3 titles within five years.
This makes next season really important if Bama wins a natty this year. If Bama wins next season then the Bama dynasty era continues and can be traced back over a decade which is bonkers.
If Georgia wins they would have an argument that our dynasty has ended and theirs has begun.
If Georgia doesn't win next year then they are just Clemson before they fell off a cliff like most flash-in-the-pans.
I'm actually betting Georgia falls off similar to Clemson because they are already showing cracks, and next season will be the first time Kirby has ever played a schedule similar to the ones Bama has had to play to get to a title. They wont win another title within the "dynasty" window IMO.
Back to the Richt days for the dogs. Good football team that never wins the big game.
They shouldn't have gotten a mulligan after being destroyed by Bama in the SECCG- they tried to georgia there season up in that game, but mulligan.
They got insanely lucky that Ohio State had a complete meltdown, and then they played TCU of all people for the weakest title game of the modern era.
The free pass to the SECCG through the weak arse SEC lEast is OVER
You really can't debate the meaning of a word.
The meaning of the term "dynasty" as it pertains to sports is 3 titles within 4 years for a purest, but you COULD DEBATE a dynasty with 3 titles within five years.
This makes next season really important if Bama wins a natty this year. If Bama wins next season then the Bama dynasty era continues and can be traced back over a decade which is bonkers.
If Georgia wins they would have an argument that our dynasty has ended and theirs has begun.
If Georgia doesn't win next year then they are just Clemson before they fell off a cliff like most flash-in-the-pans.
I'm actually betting Georgia falls off similar to Clemson because they are already showing cracks, and next season will be the first time Kirby has ever played a schedule similar to the ones Bama has had to play to get to a title. They wont win another title within the "dynasty" window IMO.
Back to the Richt days for the dogs. Good football team that never wins the big game.
They shouldn't have gotten a mulligan after being destroyed by Bama in the SECCG- they tried to georgia there season up in that game, but mulligan.
They got insanely lucky that Ohio State had a complete meltdown, and then they played TCU of all people for the weakest title game of the modern era.
The free pass to the SECCG through the weak arse SEC lEast is OVER
This post was edited on 12/25/23 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 12/25/23 at 5:10 pm to UASports23
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2008 Clemson
Yep. That was when Saban started taking over. 09 was him rounding first base.
Posted on 12/25/23 at 5:12 pm to LoneMDG
I always thought the 2008 UGA/Bama Blackout game in Athens. The infamous "you wear black to a phuckin' funeral".
I felt the Clemson game got everyone talking, the UGA game let everyone know the talk was serious and not a fluke. The UF SECCG solidified the talk and confirmed the start of the dynasty.
I felt the Clemson game got everyone talking, the UGA game let everyone know the talk was serious and not a fluke. The UF SECCG solidified the talk and confirmed the start of the dynasty.
Posted on 12/25/23 at 6:05 pm to Bolivar Shagnasty
Beating LSU in Baton Rouge in 2008 was amazing. That game had so much vitriol leading up to kickoff especially from the LSU fans. Remember that they burned a doll of Saban in effigy the night before. Just totally crazy.
Posted on 12/25/23 at 7:33 pm to LoneMDG
That was the game that showed me Bama was back. It was the first time in a few years that we came from behind and won. I remember my dad telling me at the end that Nick Saban would win championships at Alabama.
Posted on 12/25/23 at 10:12 pm to EGO3x
You're right.
That game was played when winning the conference was still a really big deal, especially against that Florida team.
Alabama sent Urban Meyer to the Emergency room and brought a Heisman winner to blubbering tears, all in the same night.
That was indeed the beginning of the dynasty.
That game was played when winning the conference was still a really big deal, especially against that Florida team.
Alabama sent Urban Meyer to the Emergency room and brought a Heisman winner to blubbering tears, all in the same night.
That was indeed the beginning of the dynasty.
Posted on 12/26/23 at 7:59 am to EGO3x
I remember thinking that Bama loses to Arkansas 2007 had Saban not been the coach. I don't think previous Bama teams would have had it in them to finish that game.
Posted on 12/26/23 at 9:14 am to EGO3x
2008 Clemson.
Came in as a fringe top 25 team, but the product on the field looked night and day from 2007. Alabama looked like a different physical entity. Everybody looked BIG and FAST. I remember Terrance Cody making a big play early on and they were physically overwhelming Clemson. Tommy Bowden's Clemson looked like they didn't belong on the same field. They looked like LSU's 2003 team somewhat; big.
Whatever was on the field wasn't no 24th ranked team in the country lol.
Came in as a fringe top 25 team, but the product on the field looked night and day from 2007. Alabama looked like a different physical entity. Everybody looked BIG and FAST. I remember Terrance Cody making a big play early on and they were physically overwhelming Clemson. Tommy Bowden's Clemson looked like they didn't belong on the same field. They looked like LSU's 2003 team somewhat; big.
Whatever was on the field wasn't no 24th ranked team in the country lol.
This post was edited on 12/26/23 at 9:22 am
Posted on 12/26/23 at 9:34 am to PhoSho86
I don't know if anyone remembers it, but at the end of the Texas game after we iced the game with the final int, McElroy gave the horns down sign. He always seemed business like and I wonder if that was a little personal for him, being from Southlake Carroll and Mack Brown not offering him a scholly. I didn't see it until this thread was posted and I was watching highlights from this game and the NC game.
This post was edited on 12/26/23 at 10:13 am
Posted on 12/26/23 at 10:51 am to LoneMDG
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I'll throw in that 2007 Arkansas game, as it was the first time in a long time, that Alabama showed enough metal to go out and win a game on the last play, as well as doing so as an underdog (that was McFadden/Felix Arkansas team).
I was at that game...it was a pretty great night...felt like something we could never do in the Shula era: snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Posted on 12/26/23 at 6:54 pm to CCTider
The chills we got when they were lined up in the tunnel.
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