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re: Alabama fans what was the easiest matchup in your BCS/Playoff Nat Titles?
Posted on 6/25/18 at 9:34 pm to Korin
Posted on 6/25/18 at 9:34 pm to Korin
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Whose alter are you?
Nobody's, I've always lurked here with no account because this is one of the more active baseball forums out there and it provides good entertainment. Just decided to make an account a few days ago.
Wish D1baseball or Baseball America would add a functional forum to their sites, one can only hope.
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Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:32 pm to Bert Merlins
ND and a Colt less Horns team were gifts you didn’t deserve
Posted on 6/25/18 at 10:56 pm to Dawgsontop34
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They were undefeated...
If Kiffin had found his balls and not been a huge weeping vagina of a head coach, USC should have beaten them. 22-13 and they go 0/4 from the 1 yard line. Their defense played great all day. Should have been able to punch it in and kick a winning FG.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:13 pm to lion
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We didnt pass much because McElroy had broken ribs and couldnt really throw and the backup was redshirting. Gilbert actually played pretty well for most of the second half while we were just trying to run the clock out, because all we could really do was run. That was certainly not a comfortable win.
Over a season any team can have a game where they play over their heads (look at some of the games Alabama has lost). The true measure of a program is can that team do it consistently. Luck plays a lot in football games, as does injuries.
Look st the Texas game, I disagree that Alabama could have named the score, but Alabama clearly was the better team. As the poster above said, Alabama was playing with some injured players as well. I also think Alabama had a few players with broken arms and legs.
Gilbert had a great night, played way above his head, and Alabama did go conservative in the second half (most likely due to the score and to protect injured players. It was during that time that Texas made some plays that made the game close, but two FG in the first half, and two TD in the second half (of 44 and 28 yards) made Alabama go back to its game plan and score 13 points to put it away....
Alabama may not have been able to name the score, but the game was really not that close....
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:32 pm to TouchdownTony
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LSU was a game we knew we should have won the first time around. We weren't gonna miss a zillion field goals again and have a TE give up on a TD pass. We should have won like 22-6 the first time.
Bama was terrible at field goals that year and Saban basically kept kicking prayers though. LSU blocked a 50-yarder, and Bama missed a 44-yarder, a 49-yarder and a 52-yarder in overtime after LSU's D pushed Bama backwards in OT. Bama reached the red zone just one time at the 17, but LSU reached the red zone three times and kicked field goals inside the 10 on 3rd down twice. Bama could have won if a few things went their way, but LSU made the plays when it counted and even outrushed Bama by 50+ yards (held them to under 100 yards rushing for the game). It was a tough game.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:33 pm to TideFaninFl
18-41 is not playing above your head unless we are going from declaring Gilbert as being putrid to dog shite awful.
Texas turned the ball over 5 times including the WTF shovel pass right before the half that had to have even had every Alabama fan wondering what the hell we were doing. Texas did just about everything possible to give themselves no shot to win that game on top of Colt getting hurt.
Texas had the ball down 3 with minutes to go and Gilbert was blindsided I believe, fumbled on our own goal line and at that point it was over.
I think we can all agree that it was far from "name your score".
Texas turned the ball over 5 times including the WTF shovel pass right before the half that had to have even had every Alabama fan wondering what the hell we were doing. Texas did just about everything possible to give themselves no shot to win that game on top of Colt getting hurt.
Texas had the ball down 3 with minutes to go and Gilbert was blindsided I believe, fumbled on our own goal line and at that point it was over.
I think we can all agree that it was far from "name your score".
Posted on 6/25/18 at 11:47 pm to Big EZ Tiger
Why you people keep making me post in this thread?
Pretty much the only major statistical category (other than score) that LSU led in.
First downs - Bama
Passing yards - Bama
3rd Down conversions - Bama
Total Yards - Bama
Yards per play - Bama
Yards per pass - Bama
Completion percentage - Bama
Penalties - Bama
Punting Avg. - Bama
Punts inside 20 - Bama
Net Kickoff yards - Bama
Avg. Kickoff return - Bama
Time of Possession - Bama
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and even outrushed Bama by 50+ yards
Pretty much the only major statistical category (other than score) that LSU led in.
First downs - Bama
Passing yards - Bama
3rd Down conversions - Bama
Total Yards - Bama
Yards per play - Bama
Yards per pass - Bama
Completion percentage - Bama
Penalties - Bama
Punting Avg. - Bama
Punts inside 20 - Bama
Net Kickoff yards - Bama
Avg. Kickoff return - Bama
Time of Possession - Bama
Posted on 6/26/18 at 12:37 am to Tuscaloosa
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Pretty much the only major statistical category (other than score) that LSU led in.
Also, you forgot to list the field goal % stat - pretty important stat in that one.
Posted on 6/26/18 at 12:41 am to Bert Merlins
Norte Dame no question
Posted on 6/26/18 at 12:45 am to Bert Merlins
Easiest matchup by far was OU. BAMA just didn’t come to play that day. The kick six haunted them from the jump.
Posted on 6/26/18 at 3:53 am to Bigbens42
Notre Dame LSU Texas Ga Clemson
Posted on 6/26/18 at 5:53 am to Milehisooner
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BCS/Playoff Nat Titles?
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Easiest matchup by far was OU.
Reading comprehension isn't a valued skill in Oklahoma I see.
Posted on 6/26/18 at 6:06 am to Tuscaloosa
quote:Most likely it was because he had broken ribs.
Our QB threw less than 3 passes per quarter because he didn’t have to.
Posted on 6/26/18 at 6:59 am to Who is Your Daddy
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18-41 is not playing above your head
That stat proves the point. Alabama after the first half did not press the the issue, to protect the Bama players from further injury, thus allowing Texas and the QB to be able to make those throws. Alabama gave up two big plays for TD, and then started to force the issue again.
Posted on 6/26/18 at 7:00 am to Big EZ Tiger
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Pretty much the only major statistical category (other than score) that LSU led in.
Also, you forgot to list the field goal % stat - pretty important stat in that one.
What about crossing the 50 yard line, that one is pretty important too......
Posted on 6/26/18 at 8:15 am to TouchdownTony
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LSU was a game we knew we should have won the first time around. We weren't gonna miss a zillion field goals again and have a TE give up on a TD pass. We should have won like 22-6 the first time.
It was a gimmick play where you had your wide receiver throw an off balance, 30 something yard floater in the red zone.
Eric Reid made an outstanding play. Throwing your TE under the bus to promote a narrative of Alabama infallibility. 
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Maybe as confident in winning that game as say, the Texas game. Good team but they weren't at our level. Like the November game, we would have to really screw up to lose.
LSU's defense was absolutely on your level. The problem is that Alabama's defense was likewise incredible and we simply didn't have the gameplan to have an answer. Totally outcoached from weeks before the game and throughout the duration of the game. It was a shameful coaching job.
With that LSU defense there was no excuse to lose 21-0 in that game. Flip the coaches on those teams and you have a very different game. That was an incredible Alabama team and I'll grant that body for body they were a more complete team (QB and OL is what ultimately created the talent separation), but it wasn't anywhere near how you portray it.
Posted on 6/26/18 at 8:20 am to lion
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We probably could have beaten Notre Dame by 70 if we wanted to.
This x1000. I believe there were 3 SEC teams that could have beaten ND by 20+ that year. ND was the most overmatching natty in a very long time. That game was over in the tunnel before the teams took the field. Bama players had real girlfriends...ND players did not.
Posted on 6/26/18 at 8:25 am to Bert Merlins
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Alabama fans what was the easiest matchup in your BCS/Playoff Nat Titles?
Obviously Notre Dame. However, if you asked me "which game were you most confident going into" I would have said LSU. I knew there was no way in hell Bama would lose that one. It was a foregone conclusion.
This post was edited on 6/26/18 at 8:26 am
Posted on 6/26/18 at 8:30 am to ChewyDante
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With that LSU defense there was no excuse to lose 21-0 in that game.
The LSU defense was good for slowing it down and preventing TDs; however, the offensive game plan in that game did expose a few flaws.
Alabama had 2 missed FGs in that game, 5 made FGs, and a TD. That's 8 drives without a punt and potential points.
Interesting tidbits, though, include how LSU really didn't get a lot of pressure on AJ (2 sacks, less than Alabama managed against the more mobile Jefferson), and 4 passes defended (no INTs) out of 34 passes thrown.
LSU managed only one 3-and-out. The other two punts came on drives on 27 yards and 36 yards, meaning Alabama had two drives without points that equaled 2/3 of LSU's entire offense for the game.
I agree, though, that coaching was the key factor. LSU should have recognized how hard it had been to win the last game and adjusted, but was cocky with the "we beat them at home" mentality. Alabama, OTOH, was angry in a smart way.
It was a bit ironic that Alabama, whose FG kicking had lost them the first game, already had enough points to win the game with the first FG kicked.
Posted on 6/26/18 at 8:51 am to TideFaninFl
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What about crossing the 50 yard line, that one is pretty important too......
Wrong game, bro. We were talking about 9-6.
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