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How the hell did Bama not win it all in 2018?
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:04 am
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:04 am
Not a troll. Just bored and looking at past seasons scores and rosters.
Bama's roster:
QB: Jalen Hurts
Tua
RB: Damien Harris
Josh Jacobs
Najee Harris
Jerome Ford
Brian Robinson Jr.
WR: Jerry Jeudy
Davonta Smith
Henry Ruggs
Jaylen Waddle
I wont even list the defense. They smashed everybody they played aside from UGA in the sec championship where they came back from down 2 TDs in the 2nd half. Then inexplicably got demolished by Clemson in the natty. I remember i didnt even watch the natty because i had no desire to see bama win another one which everyone thought was a lock, only to be texted by a buddy to check the score in the 2nd half.
What happened in that natty? Just a freak show performance from clemson or something deeper? And is this the best team to not win it all?
Bama's roster:
QB: Jalen Hurts
Tua
RB: Damien Harris
Josh Jacobs
Najee Harris
Jerome Ford
Brian Robinson Jr.
WR: Jerry Jeudy
Davonta Smith
Henry Ruggs
Jaylen Waddle
I wont even list the defense. They smashed everybody they played aside from UGA in the sec championship where they came back from down 2 TDs in the 2nd half. Then inexplicably got demolished by Clemson in the natty. I remember i didnt even watch the natty because i had no desire to see bama win another one which everyone thought was a lock, only to be texted by a buddy to check the score in the 2nd half.
What happened in that natty? Just a freak show performance from clemson or something deeper? And is this the best team to not win it all?
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Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:11 am to cfish140
Venables sign stealing? 
Honestly, I wish they would have led off the first half with Jalen Hurts and switched to Tua in the second half to negate prep for Tua and halftime adjustments to a starting Hurts. It was one of the most frustrating losses of the Saban era IMO in spite of a solid Clemson team.
Honestly, I wish they would have led off the first half with Jalen Hurts and switched to Tua in the second half to negate prep for Tua and halftime adjustments to a starting Hurts. It was one of the most frustrating losses of the Saban era IMO in spite of a solid Clemson team.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 10:50 am
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:12 am to cfish140
quote:rat poison
What happened in that natty?
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:13 am to cfish140
Now look at Clemson's roster 
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:13 am to cfish140
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Then inexplicably got demolished by Clemson in the natty.
Bama hoarded talent wasn't enough to overcome Trevor Lawrence. It was going to take coaching, and the failed Miami Dolphins coach didn't have it.
You people will never get it. Saban won because he had the decked stacked down there at his little Alabama gig. But when sheer horses couldn't get it done, his coaching was never enough.
Trevor Lawrence was too much, and it was going to take more than a bounty of 5-stars to deny him. It was going to take some coaching, and the kick six crew didn't have it.
NIL made Saban walk for a reason, and DeBoer was a fool to go anywhere near that once rigged empire.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 7:16 am
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:16 am to cfish140
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What happened in that natty?
Tua threw a Pick Six on the opening drive.
If you look back at Saban's tenure from 2008 to 2023 almost every loss had either a turnover on the opening drive or a missed FG.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:21 am to MtVernon
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You people will never get it.
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Grandpa MtVernon
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:22 am to cfish140
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hen inexplicably got demolished by Clemson in the natty.
it was weird. From 2008 all the way up to that title game, bama performed in a certain way most games (aside from 2010). Not just utterly dominant but they also got seemingly ALL the tiny little breaks that you see in a game. A ball bounce here, a foot barely in bounds there. A team may be driving for momentum then would turn the ball over and then it's lights out. Like clockwork you could always count on things going their way just when you think it wouldn't.
That clemson game was the EXACT OPPOSITE in pretty much every facet. I remember being dumbfounded at what I was seeing. Horrendous fake FG decision, seriously wtf was that? Inexplicable turnovers, terrible playcalling...I mean it was so un-bama like it was like some other team put their jerseys on instead.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:32 am to WG_Dawg
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That clemson game was the EXACT OPPOSITE in pretty much every facet. I remember being dumbfounded at what I was seeing. Horrendous fake FG decision, seriously wtf was that? Inexplicable turnovers, terrible playcalling...I mean it was so un-bama like it was like some other team put their jerseys on instead.
Exactly. Everyone was so used to bama just always finding a way in big games. Even when they were on the ropes they always pulled it out somehow, but this was just a whole nother animal that was so strange for the Saban era that its hard to chalk it up as "shite happens"
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:32 am to cfish140
That’s some talent
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:36 am to MtVernon
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DeBoer was a fool to go anywhere near that once rigged empire.
I could think of a few million reasons, guaranteed, by the way, Deboer would head to T-Town.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:38 am to cfish140
They played a really bad game. The first half was a trainwreck.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:41 am to cfish140
Clemson was a damn good team. Sometimes a team just rises up and plays a great game. Clemson did that
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:42 am to Hback
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Grandpa MtVernon
You are smart not to debate Grandpa Vernon - best to just dismiss and move on.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:45 am to scottydoesntknow
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Sometimes a team just rises up and plays a great game. Clemson did that
Sometimes a rigged stockpile of talent just wasn't enough.
I could float a boat on this denial river.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:46 am to Che Boludo
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Venables sign stealing?
Lame excuse. Next you'll say it was the refs.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:53 am to SouthernInsanity
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Lame excuse. Next you'll say it was the refs.
That's fricking rich coming from a LSU fan.
Muh refs!!!!!1!!!
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:58 am to MtVernon
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Bama hoarded talent wasn't enough to overcome Trevor Lawrence
It wasn’t just that, Clemson WRs and TEs, especially Justin Ross made several spectacular catches in clutch situations.
And Alabama simply could not score a TD in the red zone.
Sometimes it’s just not your night.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 8:02 am to Ten Bears
Locksley's red zone play calling ... WTH?
Posted on 8/7/25 at 8:07 am to cfish140
That Clemson team was stacked and played lights out when they needed to. 3 top 17 picks on the DL and the WRs caught every single 50/50 ball that T-Law threw up.
Besides Quinnen Williams, that Bama DL was pretty lame and they got their shite pushed in by the Clemson OL all night
Besides Quinnen Williams, that Bama DL was pretty lame and they got their shite pushed in by the Clemson OL all night
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