What is the last Alabama game you can remember, were you were certain we would lose?

There have been almost no games that I have been positive we were going to lose.

Even in the years where our team was terrible and had terrible records (1997, 2000, 2003, etc.) We rarely got blown out and were actually very competitive in most of the losses.

I knew we would likely lose a lot of games in the bad years but there were almost none that I was positive.

Yep and that's exactly the phenomenon I'm talking about.

In my lifetime Alabama football has gotten blown out far far less than just about every other program, it's remarkable really.

Even in years where the team isn't any good and it's clear we are grossly outmatched on paper we still usually has a way of playing the game pretty close.

Last year's Iron Bowl.

I don't know about being "certain" we would lose, but only one time in my life have I actually wanted us to lose:

2006 Iron Bowl

I knew losing that game would result in Shula being fired and I had confidence that a coaching change was our only path to being better.

the last time I was pretty sure we would lose was last year's Iron Bowl. I would have said we have only about a 1 out of three shot of winning that game.

the last time I was certain we would lose was 2007 LSU game. it ended up being close but we had no real hope to beat a team that good.

During the dubose 3-8 season. I’d turn the tv or radio on and just do other stuff, no hope we’d win at all. Shula’s last year was almost as depressing, but I kept thinking that This week they’ll put it together. But during the dubose death season there was zero hope.

I talk myself into the fact that we are going to lose, every single game

Never.

Last time I probably thought we had a >50% chance of losing was the 2008 SECCG.

Our last game vs Ohio State. I never feel good facing good teams with no passing real passing threat.