re: Bama has scheduled the biggest o/c names in America since 2007. Nobody else comes close

Are you and SAINTS the same person? Except you just ramble and the saints personality post 3-5 word blurbs?

This take is so stupid it gave me a headache. Every season matters. The last two have been pretty much the same as any other post-2011.

But yeah, seasons where we fall off are due to losing to Bama. Also, interestingly enough, seasons where we finish strong are due to Bama. Bama makes good teams bad but also Bama makes bad teams good.

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I realize Florida has been a meat grinder the last 10 years...

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Florida is 20-6 vs Tennessee since 1992.

9-1 in the last ten years.

FSU

Hey bumfrick

The Louisville game was agreed to before anyone even knew how good Lamar Jackson was. The games are done years in advance.

Washington agreed to the Chicken Fil A game in the spring of 2016 after several losing seasons.

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Those were tv contracted games. Not where Bama scheduled them from ten years out

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Thats what people fail to realize.

2018 Washington
2017 Clemson (Our AD was an idiot)
2016 Clemson
2015 Louisville
2014 Kansas State (ON THE ROAD)
2013 Washington State
2012 Clemson
2011 Clemson
2010 Clemson
2009 West Virginia
2008 West Virginia

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Lol @ putting Louisville on the schedule for immediately after Lamar Jackson is gone.

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We put L'vlle on the schedule will Lamar was still there and had eligibility.

Bama has done a better job than anyone else in the SEC at scheduling OOC games and its not a debate.

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2018 Washington 2017 Clemson (Our AD was an idiot) 2016 Clemson 2015 Louisville 2014 Kansas State (ON THE ROAD) 2013 Washington State 2012 Clemson 2011 Clemson 2010 Clemson 2009 West Virginia 2008 West Virginia

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2007 - Florida State
2008 - Clemson
2009 - VaTech
2010 - Penn State
2011 - Penn State
2012 - Michigan
2013 - West Virginia
2014 - Virginia Tech
2015 - Wisconsin
2016 - Southern Cal
2017 - Florida State
2018 - Louisville
2019 - Duke (sucks)
2020 - Miami
2021 - Southern Cal
2022 - Texas
2023 - Texas
2024 - Notre Dame
2025 - Notre Dame

Better than any of the rest of these slapdick teams

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how the frick can Saban look into a crystal ball 3 years into the future knowing that theams won’t be that great?

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Alabama inked its neutral site showdown with USC in July of 2014. At the time, Steve Sarkisian was preparing to enter his first season as USC's head coach. USC's small recruiting classes, limited by NCAA sanctions, led the Trojans to rank ninth in the nation in recruiting in 2012 (17 players) and 13th in 2013 (13 players). USC was not the USC of old.

The Wisconsin game was announced in March of 2013 -- three months after Bret Bielema left for Arkansas and Gary Andersen took over. Saban wasn't scared of Andersen, and he wound up not being scared of Paul Chryst, who after Andersen's departure opened his career as the Badgers' head coach with that Alabama loss.

This West Virginia contract was signed in May of 2012 after Dana Holgorsen's first year. The Mountaineers went 10-3, but Saban wasn't afraid of Holgorsen. I don't think Saban would have signed to play the Rich Rodriguez West Virginia teams that had it rolling a few years earlier. He probably thought West Virginia would be good enough to be ranked but misjudged.

The Virgina Tech contract was signed in the summer of 2011, when Frank Beamer was coming off an 11-3 year and heading into another 11-3 year. But guess what? Beamer was also 64 when the contract was signed, and coaches who are 64 (other than maybe 64-year-old Saban) aren't often on an upswing. Saban wasn't worried. Tech went 8-5 in 2013, Saban, again, probably a little peeved he didn't manage a cheap ranked win here.

The Michigan contract was signed in the summer of 2010, when Rich Rodriguez was coming off a 5-7 season and heading into what would be his final year. This is the epitome of fake good.