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re: Whats the game that you think changes everything
Posted on 7/5/25 at 1:31 pm to VFL67
Posted on 7/5/25 at 1:31 pm to VFL67
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1989 Tennessee vs Bama: Tennessee ended the year 11-1. If they win this game then Tennessee captures a national title and the image around Johnny Majors changes forever. Tennessee secures another undisputed natty.
Beat Bama and you would still have to upset Miami in the Sugar.
This post was edited on 7/5/25 at 1:32 pm
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Posted on 7/5/25 at 2:29 pm to MIzzouMark
I was at the Auburn vs Missouri game and that game was never in doubt Auburn especially Tre Mason literally owned you. It wasn’t close. Auburn was better than FSU also imo.
True but if you watch the game we were leading in the 4th and suddenly Auburn just exploded. Stopped us on 4th down backed up on our own goal line. It was way closer than the final score.
True but if you watch the game we were leading in the 4th and suddenly Auburn just exploded. Stopped us on 4th down backed up on our own goal line. It was way closer than the final score.
Posted on 7/5/25 at 2:31 pm to all4AU
For the Malzahn era, he was never the same after AU lost to A&M in 2014. Even with the spurts of success like in 2017, he still ended that year with 2 bad losses. Gus lost his mojo and never got it
I agree but those two fumbles on the 5 yard line by CAP and NM weren’t Gus’s fault.
I agree but those two fumbles on the 5 yard line by CAP and NM weren’t Gus’s fault.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 8:51 am to AUFANATL
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Auburn would have played Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl for the natty and we would have beaten them. They were good, but that wishbone wouldn't have worked against us and they weren't prepared for SEC athletes in the Superdome. Pat Dye wins a natty and we build momentum.
The 1988 Notre Dame National Championship team beat #2 Miami, #4 Michigan, #5 West Virginia and #7 USC (all rankings at season end) en route to the title. If the 12-0 Irish could overcome the speed of Miami, then the fastest team in CFB, then they could certainly have coped with 10-2 Auburn.
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Posted on 7/11/25 at 8:59 am to VFL67
Alabama beating Texas in the MNC game.
Mack Brown was absolutely convinced he was going to win and ride off into the sunset a legend at Texas. But with the loss he stayed and started to press, chasing a good exit strategy.
Disastrous…
Mack Brown was absolutely convinced he was going to win and ride off into the sunset a legend at Texas. But with the loss he stayed and started to press, chasing a good exit strategy.
Disastrous…
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:18 am to BigNastyTiger417
How? Jarett Lee? You tried that in Tuscaloosa. No one was going to get the better of that BAMA defense.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:28 am to MIzzouMark
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Stopped us on 4th down backed up on our own goal line.
Did Kiffin call this????
You do some dumb shite like that and you deserve the outcome you got.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 12:12 pm to MizzouTrue
For Alabama it is probably the 1980 Mississippi State game. Alabama lost 6-3. That game snapped Alabama’s 28 game winning streak. It kept Alabama from even having a shot at winning a national championship.
Another option would be the 1989 Iron Bowl. Undefeated #2 Alabama lost at Auburn.. Had Alabama won that game they would have won the SEC and very possibly would have won their bowl game against Miami, that year’s champions. Alabama got not only beaten by Auburn, they got beat up by them which showed when they played Miami less than a month later.
Another option would be the 1989 Iron Bowl. Undefeated #2 Alabama lost at Auburn.. Had Alabama won that game they would have won the SEC and very possibly would have won their bowl game against Miami, that year’s champions. Alabama got not only beaten by Auburn, they got beat up by them which showed when they played Miami less than a month later.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 12:55 pm to VFL67
1998 SEC championship game. Leading going into the 4th quarter and the defense slipped.
2010 Auburn. Corey Broomfield dropped an open Int in the Auburn backfield off of a Newton bubble screen. State would have been the 5th regular season 10 win team in an absolutely dominant SEC west that year. Should have put State in the outback that year to whip Penn State.
2014 Alabama. Don’t lay an egg. Show up. Win that game and State is in the 4 team playoff.
2001 South Carolina. For whatever reason… that was the game that the train wreck of the 2000’s decade officially started. Whatever voodoo that game placed in the program… a win may have staved off the curse.
2010 Auburn. Corey Broomfield dropped an open Int in the Auburn backfield off of a Newton bubble screen. State would have been the 5th regular season 10 win team in an absolutely dominant SEC west that year. Should have put State in the outback that year to whip Penn State.
2014 Alabama. Don’t lay an egg. Show up. Win that game and State is in the 4 team playoff.
2001 South Carolina. For whatever reason… that was the game that the train wreck of the 2000’s decade officially started. Whatever voodoo that game placed in the program… a win may have staved off the curse.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 1:14 pm to bamameister
quote:Yeah... objectively as I can be as an LSU fan, this statement is correct.
How? Jarett Lee? You tried that in Tuscaloosa. No one was going to get the better of that BAMA defense.
2011 LSU-Bama;
LSU did NOT have the offensive line to pass-protect Lee vs the Tide. They were putting heavy pressure on him in Tuscaloosa, and he was throwing the ball up for grabs (which is what he did under pressure, so you can't call that a 1 game aberration). There really could have been a couple INT, probably Pick 6's from what I remember.
Zach Mettenberger, who was also on that team, would not have done any better. He wasn't ready. Hell, he stood like a statue and got hit a lot, in 2012 after becoming the starter, he sure wouldn't have been able to react to Bama's rush the previous season.
As much as all LSU fans hate it, Jordan Jefferson was the only chance. He had the mobility to offset that pass rush, and could run some to further take the heat off. In the Tuscaloosa game, he was able to keep drives alive more than 3-4 plays that way, which allowed our O Line to lean on Bama's D a little more over the course of the game. With our defense holding Bama scoreless, LSU could keep pounding the run- and FINALLY wear them down when it got to overtime.
The rematch in the Superdome was very, very similar. 2 major differences were:
Bama now had time to prepare for Jefferson properly, and they shut him down too. And the LSU defense, which came up so big in Tuscaloosa, played their hearts out again- but Bama was able to make FGs inside the Dome, where they couldn't in game 1. Remember, for all the perceived domination, it was only 15-0; a 2 score game, not a five score game. If LSU could only have made a couple plays (could have been offense, defense or special teams), that game goes down to the wire again.
LSU just didn't have the weapons to do that.
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