re: If Alabama goes 15-0....

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Yea go ahead and run the triple option on this Bama D it will work out real well.

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Oklahoma was 9th in the country in rush defense in 95, they lost 37-0. WSU was 24th in rush D, they lost by 2 touchdowns. UF was 25th in rush D, they gave up 62. Keep in mind these rush D stats are deflated by having to play nebraska.

Let's also remember that in 2011, one of bama's best teams of all time, they played lowly Georgia Southern (before they moved up to 1A) and gave up 302 yards and 21 points.


I think the TO is lame in this day and age and is only run by inferior programs that have to use it, but it simply didn't get any better than when nebraska had it rolling in the mid-90s. To say bama would rape them only based on the offense they run is just ignorant.

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are you serious 2011 LSU, 2011 BAMA, and 2016 Bama would buttrape that team. Yea go ahead and run the triple option on this Bama D it will work out real well.

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What a dumb comment. Most agree that Saban had his best D ever in 2011 and that D was one of the best of all time. Only ONE team scored more than 14 points on them. That team was Georgia Southern and their triple option attack. They scored 21 (they had 14 at half). They ran for over 300 yards on one of the best defenses ever and averaged 7.7 ypc. That is almost unimaginable. Even if Bama was overlooking them and came out flat, you would never expect that Bama D to give up that many yards. And Georiga Southern threw for 1 completion in that game.

1995 Nebraska was built like Bama, but had speed like Oregon a few years back. They were incredible and any team that could put 62 points up on an undefeated Steve Spurrier team in the NC proved all they would ever need to prove because that UF team was awesome. No team would destroy that team. They could have been beaten like any team, but no one came close.