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re: Favorite national championship game won under Saban? **Now w/ video highlights.
Posted on 4/30/20 at 7:36 pm to Ted2010
Posted on 4/30/20 at 7:36 pm to Ted2010
The fact this is even a conversation is astounding.
5 titles in 11 years. Its staggering.
We have been absolutely spoiled rotten under Saban.
I love it.
5 titles in 11 years. Its staggering.
We have been absolutely spoiled rotten under Saban.
I love it.
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Posted on 5/1/20 at 11:37 am to Ted2010
My mind kept going to my favorite season as I looked at the NC contest as well.
With that prejudice in mind, I'll take the 2012 season. The beatdown of Notre Dame in humiliating style for my generation was the bomb. The arrogance of the Irish crowd coming in. Crowing loudly that they had their own SEC talent and the greatest defensive player that ever stepped on a football field in Manti Teo. I still wish coach Saban had kept the pedal to the metal and we put at least half a hundred in their record books.
That said, the 2012 season had it all. The great "Blitz and the Screen" in Baton Rouge broke the spirit and hearts of a Cajun crowd dying to get their NC revenge from the season before. It had its perfunctory heartbreak game with Johnny Football and then probably the best game of the season by any 2 teams with Bama coming back against an absolutely loaded Georgia team in Atlanta. I still think the best team the dawgs ever put together of any era.
2015, with Jake "just living the dream" throughout the season and vs Clemson is a very close second.
With that prejudice in mind, I'll take the 2012 season. The beatdown of Notre Dame in humiliating style for my generation was the bomb. The arrogance of the Irish crowd coming in. Crowing loudly that they had their own SEC talent and the greatest defensive player that ever stepped on a football field in Manti Teo. I still wish coach Saban had kept the pedal to the metal and we put at least half a hundred in their record books.
That said, the 2012 season had it all. The great "Blitz and the Screen" in Baton Rouge broke the spirit and hearts of a Cajun crowd dying to get their NC revenge from the season before. It had its perfunctory heartbreak game with Johnny Football and then probably the best game of the season by any 2 teams with Bama coming back against an absolutely loaded Georgia team in Atlanta. I still think the best team the dawgs ever put together of any era.
2015, with Jake "just living the dream" throughout the season and vs Clemson is a very close second.
Posted on 5/1/20 at 12:01 pm to bamameister
2012 is my favorite season as well as far as games I attended. That was my last semester of college and so much fun was had. Attended the LSU game, and the SECCG, as well as several others, including the shellacking of AU.
For the LSU weekend, my aunt hooked me up with some tickets, and I hit up this cute chick that I'd hooked up with at Hangout Fest earlier that year that attended LSU, and she let me and 3 of my crazy friends stay at her pad. We ran into TJ Yeldons family prior to the game and my buddy said something to the affect of "TJ bout to go off." Rest is history. One of the best days ever.
I was in the student section for the SECCG, and when UGA blocked the kick and returned it for a TD, and went up two scores, the whole section was dejected. I remember yelling to the section to get their heads up and that it was far from over, trying to pump everyone up. I was drunk and people were probably thinking "dude, come on, shut up" Hahaha good times. Also one of the best days ever.
Actually one of the most fun Saturdays of that year was the week after the loss to TAMU, on November 17th, when both Oregon and KSU got upset to put us right back into the top 2. Partied pretty hard that day/night.
For the LSU weekend, my aunt hooked me up with some tickets, and I hit up this cute chick that I'd hooked up with at Hangout Fest earlier that year that attended LSU, and she let me and 3 of my crazy friends stay at her pad. We ran into TJ Yeldons family prior to the game and my buddy said something to the affect of "TJ bout to go off." Rest is history. One of the best days ever.
I was in the student section for the SECCG, and when UGA blocked the kick and returned it for a TD, and went up two scores, the whole section was dejected. I remember yelling to the section to get their heads up and that it was far from over, trying to pump everyone up. I was drunk and people were probably thinking "dude, come on, shut up" Hahaha good times. Also one of the best days ever.
Actually one of the most fun Saturdays of that year was the week after the loss to TAMU, on November 17th, when both Oregon and KSU got upset to put us right back into the top 2. Partied pretty hard that day/night.
Posted on 5/1/20 at 8:48 pm to Ted2010
2015. Back and forth game, so many memorable plays: Onside kick, Drake’s kickoff return, three long passes to OJ, long run by Henry, long pass to Ardarius, sack by Evans, the pick by Jackson, and the scramble by Coker to setup the last TD. But my favorite was the onside kick; that was the first time I felt we could win the game...
Posted on 5/2/20 at 11:10 pm to Bham4Tide
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the 92 game was so much fun to watch
Yes it was. I was a teenager. That was my favorite game for the longest time.
Posted on 5/2/20 at 11:11 pm to Robot Santa
Good post
Posted on 5/2/20 at 11:12 pm to VaBamaMan
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The fact this is even a conversation is astounding.
5 titles in 11 years. Its staggering.
We have been absolutely spoiled rotten under Saban.
I love it.
Absolutely
Posted on 5/3/20 at 1:22 am to Ted2010
Bottom line, we've seen some absolutely phenomenal moments over the years & more to come.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 2:22 am to Canyon16
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Bottom line, we've seen some absolutely phenomenal moments over the years & more to come.
We really have. We had a stretch where we won 3 out of 4 (2009, 2011, & 2012.) Won two CFP championships (2015 & 2017), played for the national title four times in a row in the CFP. Made the CFP 5 out of its 6 years of existence. Just unreal. It’s been a fun ride. Hopefully we can make to the playoffs again this year!
Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:22 am to Ted2010
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This post was edited on 11/8/20 at 4:24 am
Posted on 5/3/20 at 11:55 am to Kraut Dawg
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A week later I went to the Barnes & Noble off of Atlanta Hwy in Athens. Bought all four SI copies on the shelf. Didn't say anything, just put them in envelopes & mailed three of them (kept one). Two never acknowledged getting them & only one "frick you" text. The past three years, in mid-Feb, I still print & mail two of them something about that game.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 12:39 pm to Ted2010
Unless I’m mistaken you highlighted the 3011 LSU regular season game not the national title game.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 2:00 pm to labamafan
That 92 game stands alone to me as the greatest game I've ever witnessed as a Bama fan when we absolutely didn't have a prayer of winning. Even the fans had their doubts, I know I was wavering badly come kickoff time. I was just hoping not to get embarassed by the Heisman winner Toretta and the mighty trash talking 'Canes. I have never been so shocked to see an Alabama team keep punching the other team in the mouth, helping them back up, then punch 'em again! Alabama could have beaten the New England Patriots that night. Nobody was denying that team.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:04 pm to Kraut Dawg
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A week later I went to the Barnes & Noble off of Atlanta Hwy in Athens. Bought all four SI copies on the shelf. Didn't say anything, just put them in envelopes & mailed three of them (kept one). Two never acknowledged getting them & only one "frick you" text. The past three years, in mid-Feb, I still print & mail two of them something about that game.
My man!
Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:04 pm to labamafan
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Unless I’m mistaken you highlighted the 3011 LSU regular season game not the national title game.
I’ll go double check. I thought it was the title game.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:08 pm to labamafan
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labamafan
You were correct. Thank you for the heads up. I corrected it. But seeing those regular season highlights and knowing that a couple months later the same team you beat would crush your dreams had to be heartbreaking for our LSU friends.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 3:20 pm to phil4bama
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That 92 game stands alone to me as the greatest game I've ever witnessed as a Bama fan when we absolutely didn't have a prayer of winning.
Absolutely. I was not living in Bama at the time and it would be years later before I went to UA. My mom lived in Bama and I was there watching the game with her. She is a lifelong Bama fan and she was pumped about the game. She kept saying Bama was going to win big because of the defense. I doubted her because Miami seemed to have an offense and team that wouldn’t be stopped. Miami had been on a tear in those years. We watched the game and it was the best defensive performances I had ever seen. It was absolute destruction of that vaunted Miami offense.
The following season Stallings came to my high school to scout and recruit some of us players. Lou Holts (Notre Dame) had come too, as well as other coaches. Holtz was pretty much ignored by us defensive players. We all wanted to go to Bama and be the next “Bookends.” Some of us (not me, I went to a different university) did go on to Bama under Stallings to play. But, Dubose took the reigns not long after.
This post was edited on 5/3/20 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 5/3/20 at 8:46 pm to phil4bama
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Nobody was denying that team.
I wonder if another national championship game will be won with a QB producing 18 passing yards, 2 interceptions, and 0 TD's.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 11:41 am to Globetrotter747
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I wonder if another national championship game will be won with a QB producing 18 passing yards, 2 interceptions, and 0 TD's
Barker, as my granddad would say, could not hit the broad side of a barn that night.
Posted on 5/5/20 at 1:13 am to CrimsonTideMD
It’s a good thing we weren’t relying on Barker to win that game.
But, he is a really good dude
But, he is a really good dude
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