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re: Which SEC Championship Game was the greatest?
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:08 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:08 am to RollTide1987
2018 takes the cake for the storybook, redemption aspect. I've no doubt there will be a movie made about that game one day.
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Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:19 am to Diego Ricardo
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5 - 1994 (Florida over Alabama)
I'm still butthurt over this one. An absolute Heartbreaker that kept Stallings and an undefeated Bama from playing for a 2nd NC in 3 yrs.
Bama's D and disciplined style of play had a great chance vs a Nebraska team that really hadn't gotten the machine rolling.
Stallings was a hell of a football coach and truly good person. He is often way undervalued for what he accomplished at Bama.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:27 am to Che Boludo
Stallings was a stubborn coach who took the saying "defense wins championships" to a whole other level. Those defenses Alabama had in the early-90s were among the best and most disciplined Alabama has ever produced. But those offenses, man, those offenses were sometimes like watching paint dry. Three yards and a cloud of dust all day. And it's not like run-first teams couldn't be explosive. Nebraska in the mid-90s proved that when they were averaging 500 yards and between 40-50 points per game.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 8:54 am to RollTide1987
1992. I was lucky enough to be there as a 15 year old with my family.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:00 am to OrangeEmpire
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1992 by a wide margin.
2012 was an equally as good game and had higher stakes for both teams. It was also a defacto national title game as either winner was going to smash Notre Dame and everyone knew it
Posted on 7/11/21 at 9:43 am to Marktastic86
Has A&M ever won one n any sport ? 
Posted on 7/11/21 at 10:12 am to Che Boludo
You’re spot on…contextually that game cost Stallings an even greater legacy at Alabama. Maybe with a 2nd title in hand he could’ve had the political clout to alleviate some of his problems with the administration that caused him to exit coaching early.
You could probably play this what-if game with any single game in football history but it is compelling to consider that one game may’ve been the launching point towards Alabama’s long wandering in the wilderness until Saban.
You could probably play this what-if game with any single game in football history but it is compelling to consider that one game may’ve been the launching point towards Alabama’s long wandering in the wilderness until Saban.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 10:39 am to Pisco
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2012. Best third quarter of any game I’ve seen. Georgia was five yards short of a National Championship. Pretty much summed up Mark Richt’s career. So close, but yet so far.
As much as the ending sucked, that is one of the 5 best college football games I have ever watched.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 10:43 am to RollTide1987
08, 12, and 92.
18 was great but didn’t quite reach the levels of those above.
I was fortunate enough to attend the 08, 12, and 18 games
18 was great but didn’t quite reach the levels of those above.
I was fortunate enough to attend the 08, 12, and 18 games
Posted on 7/11/21 at 10:45 am to RollTide1987
92 had so much riding on it and was so important for all of college football.
2012 was probably the most entertaining game. Back and forth and Georgia coming up just short. It was clear that whoever won that game would feast on ND. It was the defecto championship game.
2012 was probably the most entertaining game. Back and forth and Georgia coming up just short. It was clear that whoever won that game would feast on ND. It was the defecto championship game.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 11:32 am to Che Boludo
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Bama's D and disciplined style of play had a great chance vs a Nebraska team that really hadn't gotten the machine rolling.
First of all, if Alabama had beaten Florida they wouldn't have played Nebraska for the national title for two reasons:
1. Bowl ties existed back then, which forced Nebraska to the Orange Bowl, Penn State to the Rose Bowl, and Alabama (had they won the SECCG) to the Sugar Bowl.
2. Penn State had a damn good team in 1994 (with stars like Kerry Collins, Ki-Jana Carter and Kyle Brady) and was ahead of Alabama in the polls at the conclusion of the regular season. In a BCS scenario, PSU probably gets the nod if Bama beats Florida. In a playoff scenario, Bama has to go through both PSU and Nebraska, which would have been a tall order.
Second, no, I don't think Alabama would have beaten Nebraska in a bowl game in 1994. Nebraska was physical as shite and wore out Warren Sapp and Ray Lewis in the Orange Bowl, which (at the time) was the toughest place to win in college football history. They also handily beat a really good Colorado team with Kordell Stewart and Rashan Salaam, who won the Heisman.
The machine was definitely rolling in '94. They very easily could have won it in '93 against Charlie Ward and Warrick Dunn but had a punt return called back and missed a FG on the last play. They returned pretty much that whole team in 1994. Their only problem was Tommie Frazier was sidelined for much of the year.
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Stallings was a hell of a football coach and truly good person. He is often way undervalued for what he accomplished at Bama.
I don't think he's undervalued at all. Everyone likes and respects Gene Stallings and appreciates what he accomplished at Bama. Even rivals don't have much of anything negative to say about Stallings.
This post was edited on 7/11/21 at 11:35 am
Posted on 7/11/21 at 11:40 am to SECdragonmaster
quote:A 17 point Auburn win!
2013 Auburn vs Missouri.
Big offense.
High scoring.
Underdog (Mizzou) trying to topple a giant (Auburn) in college football
..that one'll just send chills down your spine!
Posted on 7/11/21 at 11:42 am to coachcrisp
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A 17 point Auburn win!
..that one'll just send chills down your spine!
That's why I said 2010
39 point Auburn win
Posted on 7/11/21 at 11:50 am to Globetrotter747
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I don't think he's undervalued at all. Everyone likes and respects Gene Stallings and appreciates what he accomplished at Bama. Even rivals don't have much of anything negative to say about Stallings.
The only folks that didn't like Gene Stallings were the NCAA and Roy Kramer.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 3:41 pm to Globetrotter747
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First of all, if Alabama had beaten Florida they wouldn't have played Nebraska for the national title for two reasons:
1. Bowl ties existed back then, which forced Nebraska to the Orange Bowl, Penn State to the Rose Bowl, and Alabama (had they won the SECCG) to the Sugar Bowl.
Under the Bowl Coalition at the time the SEC, Big 8, and SWC champs would be released to play in another bowl if it was necessary to force a "title game."
Bama and Nebraska as undefeated teams with PSU in the Rose due to Bowl ties would have been a de facto NC game
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Penn State had a damn good team in 1994
Not disagreeing, but #1 vs #3 (maybe #2 had they beat UF) would have secured a #1 vote had Bama played and won
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Second, no, I don't think Alabama would have beaten Nebraska in a bowl game in 1994.
We'll never know, but they had a great shot given their defense and discipline for a Nebraska ground attack
This post was edited on 7/11/21 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 7/11/21 at 3:47 pm to Diego Ricardo
92 and 2008
Posted on 7/11/21 at 4:50 pm to Che Boludo
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Under the Bowl Coalition at the time the SEC, Big 8, and SWC champs would be released to play in another bowl if it was necessary to force a "title game."
Bama and Nebraska as undefeated teams with PSU in the Rose due to Bowl ties would have been a de facto NC game
You are correct. Well done.
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Not disagreeing, but #1 vs #3 (maybe #2 had they beat UF) would have secured a #1 vote had Bama played and won
Probably.
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We'll never know, but they had a great shot given their defense and discipline for a Nebraska ground attack
The Tide would have been capable, but I think they would have been outmatched overall by both Nebraska and Penn State in 1994.
Posted on 7/11/21 at 11:47 pm to KCM0Tiger
I watched 2013 Mizzou vs Auburn highlights today out of boredom. Holy wet toilet paper of a run defense Mizzou trotted out that day. By the 2nd quarter I would’ve put 9 guys on the line if I was them.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 7:57 am to Frac the world
frickin Steckel.
He’s at Missouri State now. Where he belongs.
He’s at Missouri State now. Where he belongs.
Posted on 7/12/21 at 10:07 am to RollTide1987
As much as 2012 felt like a steel-toed boot straight to the nuts, it was an exciting SECCG as I can remember.
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