re: Lets be honest. Bama would have beaten Oklahoma during the regular season

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It was the same situation as the Utah game. It's hard for a team to get motivated for a silly bowl when your main goal was Championship or bust.

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your 2008 team was coming off a 7-6 season. That team was not championship or bust. They played out of their arse all year before running into a much better and experienced Florida team. That team hadn't sniffed a big bowl game in 10 years. If the players on that team couldn't find anything to play for against Utah in the Sugar Bowl after back-to-back Independence Bowls, then there's something wrong with them. Most of the players on that team were infants the last time Alabama had been a dominant program. They can't use the "we're Bama, we don't care about non-championship games" excuse.

Furthermore, you, as a fan, saying you didn't care is a load of horse shite too. At that time, you didn't know Saban was going to go on a run like he has. Scoffing at a BCS Bowl, something you hadn't seen since 1999, is just arrogant nonsense and a huge misrepresentation of the truth.