Bama Game Thread: Official Post Game Thread Bama v. Michigan...

[Tidewater]

if I were made benevolent dictator of college football:
1. There are no rankings for the first 8 weeks of the season.
2. Strength of schedule throughout the year is determined by that first ranking — as in, after the 8th week of the season.

You'll get my vote for benevolent dictator, whenever that election happens.

 

[rolltide_21]

Really excited for next year especially what I see from Mac Jones. Hope maybe one or two of the WRs returns or maybe Najee. One of these three would be a huge get. The defense will be better. Golding coached his best half of football in the second half today. Time to get to work for 2020.

Good year this year. 11-2 is nothing to be ashamed.

 

[rgw]

You'll get my vote for benevolent dictator, whenever that election happens.

4Q may have to be a power hungry tyrant to grab control before they can be our benevolent dictator. 😂

 

[TideEngineer08]

3 < 7

I told y’all we would have to out score them

 

[Tidewater]

And the media are already speculating about that last TD

Running up the score?

"Here's a $20. Bury two."

 

[BamaInMo1]

As for Najee's last TD: I have no qualms with it. Especially after all the mess Hairbawl has stired up and all his talk about the SEC in the past. Plus, good for Najee and good for coach to reward him for his hard work and for playing in this game.

Good win for the team against a ranked team. Cary this momentum forward.
Can hardly wait to see who comes back and who goes pro.
I think we're in good shape at qb no matter what happens.

 

[rgw]

Shea Patterson is what you expect your back up to be and Mac Jones is what you expect your good starting quarterback to be.

In August, Patterson was suppose to be one of the better college QBs this year and Jones was a completely unknown backup. Instead, the backup is the one standing tall in the pocket and making more good throws than bad. I’m not even sure Michigan’s WRs are that bad honestly...their QB just can’t get them the damn ball. I’m sure Jerry Juedy would struggle to have 500 yards receiving if Brandon Avalos was throwing him passes all season.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Michigan fans are always noisy...

On their boards, there are still some saying our players are paid and illiterate. I won't describe their grammar in doing so...

 

[Krymsonman]

I normally respect Coach Saban for taking a knee even when I want him not to...this time I respect him for going for and getting the score. I hate Michigan and I very much dislike Whineball.

I'm late to the party as I watched the game across the lake at a friend's house. I kept wanting one more touchdown, and no sooner had I turned to my friend and so, oh well, now we'll take a knee, the ball went to Nagee for the touchdown. That was a nice reward for Nagee for all his hard work. Thanks for NOT sitting on it CNS.

 

[rgw]

On their boards, there are still some saying our players are paid and illiterate. I won't describe their grammar in doing so...

Most pompous fans in college sports. Just insufferable superiority complex.

Buckeyes are a loud fanbase but at least they spare us all the Ivy League attitude about their State U degree.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Most pompous fans in college sports. Just insufferable superiority complex.

Buckeyes are a loud fanbase but at least they spare us all the Ivy League attitude about their State U degree.

When you regularly soil yourself in big games, you fall back on whatever you can

 

[BAMAVILLE]

When you regularly soil yourself in big games, you fall back on whatever you can

Well ... it won't get any better for them anytime soon so they will be falling back for a while

 

[rgw]

They’ve been doing it for as long as I’ve been aware of the larger Michigan fan communities on the internet. I don’t think their air of superiority and insistance that they’re Losing the Right Way against crooks is going anywhere.

 

[78Alum]

FINAL: Oregon wins 28-27.

Big 10 gets yet another loss.

 

[rgw]

Happy for Cristobal and Warmack

 

[Krymsonman]

I do think there needs to be a general consensus. Do you base strength of schedue on:

1. Rankings of the opposing teams when the game took place, or
2. Rankings of the opposing teams at the end of the season.

There are strengths and weaknesses to either argument. But we need to decide.

In keeping with my pet peeve of throwing rocks at the current situation without offering a solution, if I were made benevolent dictator of college football:

1. There are no rankings for the first 8 weeks of the season.
2. Strength of schedule throughout the year is determined by that first ranking — as in, after the 8th week of the season.
3. Yes, I know that ignores injuries after the 8th week. And it ignores drastic deterioration or improvement after the 8th week (unusual, in my experience, absent key injuries).
4. But it eliminates teams like Georgia jacking up the SOS with a Notre Dame team that turned out not to be so good, or a team using UTw’s high preseason ranking to bolster a SOS, never mind that UTw went 8-5 In the regular season in a weak B12 Conference.
5. For reasons outlined in #4, I’m willing to make the sacrifices acknowledged in #3..

Ideally, SOS would be determined after the season is over. But that by definition precludes its use during the season, I.e., for post-season purposes.

So imperfect thought it may be, so sez me.

If you think differently, I’d love to hear a better alternative....just offer one. I get enough rock-throwing without better solutions at home.

Personally, I think people just wanted to slam BAMA for any reason they could, including strength of schedule. Clemson's schedule made ours look strong, but they seemed to get a pass all year. Yes, we did lost the two biggest games we had, (shouldn't have lost the second one), but Clemson never even had a "big" game until they got to the playoffs. Does the strength of schedule matter right now, or is it "just win baby!.

 

[B1GTide]

Does the strength of schedule matter right now, or is it "just win baby!.

With a playoff, a P5 school should not care about their schedule. Win all of your games and you are in, even if you play in the ACC or PAC.

 

[uafan4life]

Personally, I think people just wanted to slam BAMA for any reason they could, including strength of schedule. Clemson's schedule made ours look strong, but they seemed to get a pass all year. Yes, we did lost the two biggest games we had, (shouldn't have lost the second one), but Clemson never even had a "big" game until they got to the playoffs. Does the strength of schedule matter right now, or is it "just win baby!.

Whether it matters and how much depends entirely upon whether and how much the person speaking about a particular team's strength of schedule wants it to matter for that team...

 

[Padreruf]

On their boards, there are still some saying our players are paid and illiterate. I won't describe their grammar in doing so...

Why would you even go there? Are you under some penalty we don't know about?

 

[Krymsonman]

We put two linemen in front of Najee. Whether it was to get him a touchdown or to stick it up Harbaugh’s nose, it was not a routine formation. Saban intended to score.

I still need to go back and look at that final drive again. Nagee had two runs on that drive that I just don't know how he did it. He carried half the Michigan team on one of them, and the other one I have no idea how he got loose. Nagee was in beast mode once again.