re: Bottom line. Who stops Bama from being right back in the playoffs next year?

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Bottom line. Who stops Bama from being right back in the playoffs next year?
Step right up so I can laugh.

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Like I said before the playoffs started about your 2016 team, all it would take is a team that could score half as many points on Bama as Ole Miss did and give up twice as many as LSU did. Turns out, Clemson did better than the former and not as good as the latter, but it was still enough.

If Alabama gets stopped by anyone next year, it'll be a team that can be really good on one side of the ball and not just totally inept on the other. In 2016, it would have been Ole Miss with any semblance of defense, LSU with any semblance of offense or any team half as good as both of those two in their strong suit. Fortunately for Alabama, the SEC was so piss-poor that there was no such team in the conference, so it took a playoff team to put together the right combination. A playoff team that lost to Pitt.