re: Is Derek Henry the least hyped pre-draft Heisman winner in history?

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I get the argument, and I may be one of the few Ole Miss fans who will acknowledge the self-inflicted mistakes Alabama made, but if you had to describe "turnovers" in terms of a formula, I truly do believe "luck" is less than 30% of the equation. Both of those fumbled returns were from good field position, and forced panic/contact. and the interceptions were forced by our defensive line living in Bama's back field.

The Adeboyjo catch was a gift from god, but it likely would have been an incomplete pass if it hadn't been caught, and at that point in the game there was no reason to think Bama could have stopped our offense anyways.

Look, you need luck to beat a Nick Saban coached Championship Alabama team in Bryant Denny, but you also need players making plays. Alabama would have won the 2014 National Championship if not for pure luck by Auburn.

I will acknowledge that luck was involved, but Bama fans trying to blame purely self-inflicted mistakes and "luck" on that loss isn't fair, and it doesn't reward credit to the Ole Miss players, who without the #1 player in CFB on the field, found a way.

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Literally 0% of my post had anything to do with saying Ole Miss winning was lucky or a fluke. It 100% had to do with the fact that when you fall behind by 3 scores early, whether because your QB falls down and fubmles for TDs 3 times or the other team just scores fast, you generally end up adjusting your gameplan.

We had to do that (or did, I'm not convinced we had to, but we did).

Honestly, I think that was Kiffin's worst coaching job of the season. Henry was ripping off runs left and right the 4th quarter, and when we got the ball back down 6 we should have let him run more. Kiffin got cute and Coker threw a pick to seal the game.