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If the gameplan didn't include "under no circumstances will Payton Thorne read LBs with an option to throw the ball short over the middle with a one-score lead under 5:00 to play," it wasn't that great.

There's been football outside the Saban era.

SEC AP titles post-WWII

Alabama - 12
Oklahoma - 7
Texas, Florida, Georgia, LSU - 3
Auburn, Tennessee - 2

Shhhhhhh. They're back, don't question it. Pay no attention to the high draft pick DTs, the 4.21 guy, and the guy who was better than the 4.21 guy. Texas is back.

Riley is out to lunch but I think most neutrals ding Saban’s Bama for almost always playing those sterile neutral site openers instead of true road environments. Doesn’t take anything away from how great his teams were, they proved it, but it cut out what makes OOC matchups great for the fans.

In the same period when Bama was doing those for 10 years straight, OU won in Tallahassee, South Bend, Knoxville, and Columbus. Every one was a classic with the crowd absolutely juiced.

To Saban’s credit he did do home-and-home with Penn State very early in his tenure and Texas at the end.

Non-CFP bowl games mean even less than they used to. Not even scrimmages between next year's teams as some guys are still auditioning for the portal or will be supplanted by portal pickups. Just throw those out.

But the middle tier of the SEC has always underperformed outside the conference relative to its huge NFL talent advantage over every other league. Mississippi schools, Auburn, Arky, etc. should be pasting zero-draft-pick OOC opponents 90% of the time and it just hasn't been that way. Mike Gundy or Gary Patterson could conquer the world with rosters that SEC schools routinely take to 7-5 and a bowl loss.

These guys drive only as stupid as I've seen people drive every single time I've had the misfortune of passing through Atlanta. Absolute Mad Max stuff out there. What football-based punishment is Kirby going to hand out to make them think twice, if their teammate dying didn't do the job?

The internal emails asking staffers not to drink before driving specifically when driving recruits and their families, with the implication it's often done at other times, is a pretty bad look, I'll give you that. We know y'all do this, just don't endanger the 5*s...

I will admit I can't make a case for you liking Texas, A&M, or Mizzou, but y'all will have to send the whole Confederate army to make OU go back to home slates of UCF-WVU-TCU.

Lol...I can't attest to what they do out there in Le Flore County and such, but I've been told, and seen for myself, that Oklahoma's home crowd is way too tame for the SEC. Arky fans can't seriously be saying OU fans are a threat to public safety after they've gone to Baton Rouge and College Station all these years.

Bookmark it or whatever you do on this site. When Tennessee and Bama come here, the consensus from their visitors is gonna be "very welcoming but not quite as intimidating as we thought."

Same, if OU’s bats can’t get after a freshman who threw them 130 pitches for 7 hits, 7 BB, 4 K yesterday, then let’s just bow out now to a likable UF squad and not give Mikey the satisfaction