re: SIAP: "Tide's latest national title deserves an asterisk"

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You knew it was coming guys. The media darling lost so they have to get their licks in. /endquote



Struggling with this one... Alabama was favored by most everyone and widely praised as the better team entering the game.

Most commentators entering the game talked about all the things Texas would have to do right to have a chance

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It's 'bama's ongoing battle with reality. I thought that Musberger was going for a late night threeway with Ingram and his jailbird dad. We heard about McElroy's winning streak over and over and over. 'bama's blaintant fouls were dismissed with, "Usually that would be interference."

Yet 'bammers think everyone is against them.

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Struggling with this one... Alabama was favored by most everyone and widely praised as the better team entering the game.

Most commentators entering the game talked about all the things Texas would have to do right to have a chance

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Yep, they did, in fact that is all they talked about. Yes, we were favored to win, but did you notice all the talk for weeks on how Texas was the "underdog" and Vince Young and his beating of an incredible USC squad, about the Heisman curse, about how the #2 team wins? Then before the game, several of the analysts picked Texas to win, and when McCoy went down, everyone was like "ohh crap", even the woman who was doing the sideline reporting for Texas. I watched and listened to the whole telecast just deflate, and I don't remember hearing it deflate nearly this bad while FL or LSU was whooping OSU. Heck, Herbie was basically a Texas cheerleader for the 4th quarter.

We were favored, yes, but we were expected to lose. They expected to make it a USC game where Texas comes back and beats the un-beatable juggernaut. Fortunately, that did not happen.