re: Alabama has almost won the national title 9 of the last 10 years

That is the one game I wish we could have seen as fans.

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Alabama has almost won the national title 9 of the last 10 years

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Give it a few years and Bammers will claim they nearly won the tenth one, too.

Bama claims 1973, 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2017.

Sit down.

It's what happens when you have 5 stars at every position. And then you have 5 star back ups. It's amazing when you bench your 5 star QB and put in your other 5 star QB. Your 5 star LB gets injured and his backup is a 5 star. The are reaping the rewards of the top recruiting class every year.

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getting those mulligans time and time again is not luck. The fake KO vs Clemson 2 years ago and pulling Tua out of his arse this year is not luck. It's being ready due to hard preparation. I

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It’s not 100% luck. Only the lottery or being struck twice by lightning in one day (bad luck) or being statistically as bad as the winning percentage of the Cleveland Browns (unimaginably horrible luck) is otherworldly in its tenets. Let’s say for the sake of argument, you are forty yards away from the green, you grab your wedge and hit the ball. It bounces a few times and rolls into the cup. The odds of hitting that shot are very very small. Especially for a novice golfer. The odds are still very small for an avid and decent golfer. But Saban is the avid and decent golfer in this scenario. He wants to make the shot, and he aims and swings the club. He still has a ton of outside forces that have to go his way for that shot to go in. Same thing on that touchdown pass by Tua in OT. There’s no way that Saban could have known that UGA defenders would have been out of place. And it was an obvious passing situation on 2nd and 25. Those passes are completed maybe 10 percent of the time. They are completed for touchdowns even less than that.

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LSU has a higher floor than Bama, so LSU stands on its own as a top of the mountain Goliath.

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is melting more or less sad than being delusional

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1973, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017

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respect

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It’s not 100% luck. Only the lottery or being struck twice by lightning in one day (bad luck) or being statistically as bad as the winning percentage of the Cleveland Browns (unimaginably horrible luck) is otherworldly in its tenets. Let’s say for the sake of argument, you are forty yards away from the green, you grab your wedge and hit the ball. It bounces a few times and rolls into the cup. The odds of hitting that shot are very very small. Especially for a novice golfer. The odds are still very small for an avid and decent golfer. But Saban is the avid and decent golfer in this scenario. He wants to make the shot, and he aims and swings the club. He still has a ton of outside forces that have to go his way for that shot to go in. Same thing on that touchdown pass by Tua in OT. There’s no way that Saban could have known that UGA defenders would have been out of place. And it was an obvious passing situation on 2nd and 25. Those passes are completed maybe 10 percent of the time. They are completed for touchdowns even less than that.

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I doubt the odds were that low but I'll grant you the argument. The problem with that argument is you are not looking at the whole picture. What odds do you give us for making a 35 yard FG to win it in regulation? That had to be near 80% or better. Or what about UGA's kicker hitting another 50+ yarder to give them a decent chance (30% maybe)? And great players make plays. If Tua's guy wasn't open maybe he hits someone else for 10-15 yards and it starts all over. I don't call it luck. I call it being prepared and knowing when to pull the trigger. Then having the balls to do it.