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Team A or Team B????
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:52 pm
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:52 pm
Team A returns 73.61 percent of its lettermen from last season. Team B returns 68.57 percent.
Team A returns players who accounted for 78.89 percent of the team's offensive yards last season. Team B returns players who accounted for 57.75 percent of its yards.
Team A returns players who accounted for 62.12 percent of its tackles last season. Team B returns players who accounted for 59.07 percent of its tackles.
Team A returns offensive linemen who've made 113 college starts. Team B returns offensive linemen who've made 37 college starts.
In conclusion, in every single one of those categories, Team A returns more production and/or experience than Team B, and the difference in offensive line starts is overwhelming.
Based on those numbers - and throw in the fact that Team A returns its starting quarterback and Team B doesn't - which team has the edge going into the 2014 season? Which team should be expected to have a better season? Which team should be ranked higher in preseason polls?
It's a no-brainer, right? It's Team A.
For the record, Team A is Auburn. Team B is Alabama. Yet so many preseason magazines - including Phil Steele's - are picking the Tide ahead of the Tigers.
Go figure.
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Team A returns players who accounted for 78.89 percent of the team's offensive yards last season. Team B returns players who accounted for 57.75 percent of its yards.
Team A returns players who accounted for 62.12 percent of its tackles last season. Team B returns players who accounted for 59.07 percent of its tackles.
Team A returns offensive linemen who've made 113 college starts. Team B returns offensive linemen who've made 37 college starts.
In conclusion, in every single one of those categories, Team A returns more production and/or experience than Team B, and the difference in offensive line starts is overwhelming.
Based on those numbers - and throw in the fact that Team A returns its starting quarterback and Team B doesn't - which team has the edge going into the 2014 season? Which team should be expected to have a better season? Which team should be ranked higher in preseason polls?
It's a no-brainer, right? It's Team A.
For the record, Team A is Auburn. Team B is Alabama. Yet so many preseason magazines - including Phil Steele's - are picking the Tide ahead of the Tigers.
Go figure.
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Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:53 pm to allin2010
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:54 pm to allin2010
Bama
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:54 pm to allin2010
Who GAF what Phil Steele has to say?
That's why they play the game.
That's why they play the game.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:55 pm to allin2010
Considering the whole body of work last year as well, Auburn had many more close calls than Alabama and played Alabama at Jordan Hare. I can see the experts picking Alabama ahead of Auburn. Perhaps Auburn will use that as motivation.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:55 pm to allin2010
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For the record, Team A is Auburn. Team B is Alabama
Was this really needed
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:56 pm to cas4t
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Who GAF what Phil Steele has to say?
Exactly. He had Texas ranked 4th and USC ranked 6th last year at the beginning of the season. Didn't matter what he had them ranked once the games started.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:57 pm to allin2010
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:57 pm to NYCAuburn
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Was this really needed
Seriously
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:58 pm to allin2010
Little brother syndrome exhibit A
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:08 pm to allin2010
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Yet so many preseason magazines - including Phil Steele's - are picking the Tide ahead of the Tigers.
It doesn't have anything to do with Auburn, it's just that sportswriters have a relentless hard on for Bama that won't go limp until Saban is gone.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:08 pm to allin2010
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For the record, Team A is Auburn. Team B is Alabama.
This was quite the bombshell.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:10 pm to allin2010
This is the most little bro thread ever.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:13 pm to allin2010
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For the record, Team A is Auburn. Team B is Alabama.
Holy frick. Is your name M. Night Shamahamalaanaha?
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:14 pm to allin2010
Team B has a guy named Saban
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:16 pm to redgreen
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it's just that sportswriters have a relentless hard on for Bama that won't go limp until Saban is gone.
I wonder why that is
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:16 pm to cas4t
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Who GAF what Phil Steele has to say?
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:22 pm to allin2010
"We are returning a lot of experience, but its mostly bad experience."
-Lou Holtz.
-Lou Holtz.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:23 pm to Patton
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This is the most little bro thread ever.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:23 pm to RTR America
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This post was edited on 6/26/14 at 3:08 pm
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