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What a coincidence that the team with by far the best offense was the team that not only gave Alabama problems, but beat them straight up in Tuscaloosa.

Before anyone says "But 5 turnovers", please take a step back and realize that 5 turnovers were not the only problem. The Rebels put up 43 points and averaged an astounding 6.7 yards per play against Alabama's defense. Turnovers had nothing to do with that 6.7 yards per play. I imagine its extremely rare for any team to win a game when they give up 6.7 yards every play. Alabama found that out the hard way.

Ole Miss had 139 yards on 2 plays, 1 of which was pure luck and the other of which was a clearly uncalled penalty. So let's just remove the pure lucky play, that reduces their YPP to 5.73 (367 yards on 64 plays). That is still pretty good, the best anyone had against us this year, but it tells a much more legitimate story if you are trying to draw parallels between their offense and Clemson's. And if you remove the play with a lineman 6 yards down field then they end up with about 270 yards on 63 plays, averaging 4.56 ypp.

The point of that isn't to take anything away from Ole Miss, they made plays and won. The point is to kill the argument that Ole Miss ran up and down the field on us. That just isn't true. They had a pretty solid offensive effort, but 70 of those yards were literally pure unadulterated luck that cannot be counted on by another team to occur again.

Finally, plenty of teams win giving up 6.66 ypp and more.

- Arkansas gave up 8.94 ypp to Ole Miss, won the game.
- Mississippi State gave up 6.65 ypp to Arkansas, won the game.
- Texas A&M gave up 6.64 ypp to South Carolina, won the game
- Michigan State gave up 6.48 ypp to Indiana, won the game
- Michigan State gave up 7.13 ypp to Air Force, won the game

That was just in about 90 seconds of looking.

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Posted by BHMKyle

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Posted on 1/7/16 at 9:22 am to SummerOfGeorge

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Ole Miss had 139 yards on 2 plays, 1 of which was pure luck

Luck? That's called football. I constantly see Bama fans point to this one "lucky" play by Ole Miss, but never see them point out the incredibly lucky bounce Bama received to recover and return the onside kick to the Ole Miss 30 yardline. This couldn't be replicated if it were tried another 500 times.

It goes both ways, and that is why the games are played. What is astounding to me is that Bama fans are the most incapable of any fan base at accepting the fact that they were outplayed every time they are in fact outplayed.

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the other of which was a clearly uncalled penalty

Again, Bama fans point out "uncalled penalties" more than any other fan base. If I had a dime for every uncalled Bama hold I'd be a much richer man than I already am.

I also seem to remember a rather obvious facemask grab in the 2014 game against Ole Miss that resulted in an Ole Miss fumble and a touchdown for Alabama. I would say that was far more egregious than any "no call" that happened in the 2015 game.

So what to we have? We have the game of football, played twice between Ole Miss and Alabama since 2014 in which both teams got some breaks from the officials. We also have two losses for the Crimson Tide.

Those losses had nothing to do with "luck" or "no calls". Ole Miss was the better team on both occasions. I'm not sure why its so hard for Bama fans to admit this obvious truth.

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