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CFN: Alabama vs Oklahoma: College Football Playoff Preview and Pick

They got rolled by Georgia in the SEC Championship, were meh against Auburn, and should've lost to South Carolina. Take the scrimmage against Eastern Illinois out of the equation, and they haven't played well in two months.

Again, I'm not quite sure what games these folks were actually watching.

Georgia, okay, but most of the UGA issue was the offense turning it over with short fields. A very good 1991 Alabama defense got blown out by Florida in 1991. That game was a 35-0 blowout on the scoreboard, but it didn't really feel like it until the end. We had six fumbles (losing 3) and threw 2 INTs (a total of 5 turnovers). EVEN STEVE SPURRIER - that bastion of Christian kindness and humility - said, "It certainly was a lot closer than 35-0" and stated his respect for the Tide defense. There ARE games like that where the score belies what the game truly was - in both directions.

Alabama never trailed in the Auburn game, and 130 of their yards (and as a result both of their TDs) came as a result of the same guy making two plays.

And where does this "should have lost to South Carolina" come from?
Alabama was 8 points behind ON THE ROAD in the SEC and took 7:44 of the last 10 minutes off the clock with a pressure-packed successful drive and two-point PAT. They then forced a fumble and scored the game-winning TD.

Would this guy say the Aggies "should have lost to South Carolina"? Or is this proof of their courage and valor? I'm curious.
 
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I think Tidewater's initial post about the outcome is spot on. It will be a close game and we will stage a comeback, but come up short. The clock will run out on us and the season. I hope I am wrong.
 
I assume we'll have some wrinkles. Big game. Extra time to prepare. Both times we've faced Oklahoma they've been coming off a bye while we haven't.

Hopefully we have a sound game plan. Wouldn't be overly surprised if we start off and then cool off
 
Last season the home team went 4-0 in opening round games but I think the home team was favored in all those games. Bama is the first road team favored in the 12 team playoff era and since a road team has to break through sometime and win I think we have a decent chance. We played at Norman last season so it's not like a totally new atmosphere.
 
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Don’t know if anyone caught this dig in the article:

Oh sure, [Oklahoma] closed the season on a four-game winning streak in a true gauntlet of a second half of the season run - and not the "gauntlet" that SEC types tried to sell with the Bama schedule…
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Let’s examine that for a second.

Oklahoma last 7 games:
Texas (CFP #13)
South Carolina
Mississippi (CFP #6)
Tennessee
Alabama (CFP #9)
Missouri
LSU

Alabama 7-game “gauntlet”:
Georgia (CFP #3)
Vanderbilt (CFP #14)
Missouri
Tennessee
South Carolina
LSU
Oklahoma (CFP #8)

Same four unranked (though still tough) teams. Comparable ranked teams, with maybe slight edge in difficulty going to bama (3, 8, 14 vs oklahoma’s 6, 9, 13), and bama actually navigated it’s gauntlet more successfully than did Oklahoma, who took two losses in it’s gauntlet vs Bama’s one.

I usually like fiutak’s take on things, and I’ve never known him to have bama fatigue, but his dismissing of bama’s gauntlet is off the mark
 
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PacadermaTideUs said:
Don’t know if anyone caught this dig in the article:



Let’s examine that for a second.

Oklahoma last 7 games:
Texas (CFP #13)
South Carolina
Mississippi (CFP #6)
Tennessee
Alabama (CFP #9)
Missouri
LSU

Alabama 7-game “gauntlet”:
Georgia (CFP #3)
Vanderbilt (CFP #14)
Missouri
Tennessee
South Carolina
LSU
Oklahoma (CFP #8)

Same four unranked (though still tough) teams. Comparable ranked teams, with maybe slight edge in difficulty going to bama (3, 8, 14 vs oklahoma’s 6, 9, 13), and bama actually navigated it’s gauntlet more successfully than did Oklahoma, who took two losses it’s gauntlet vs Bama’s one.

I usually like fiutak’s take on things, and I’ve never known him to have bama fatigue, but his dismissing of bama’s gauntlet is off the mark
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He was cherry picking Oklahoma's schedule. Sure, in the last half of the season Oklahoma had tougher opponents while we played Eastern Illinois and Auburn but looking at the season as a whole we had a tougher schedule.
 
I don't even expect to score 20 points, our offense is absolutely broken. Ty is hurt physically and mentally. We're soft.

Oklahoma's defense is elite, they'll force a turnover. Hopefully not another pick 6.
 
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Honest question here for those who have played any team sport before, but first let me preface it by saying I am not all that athletic even though I really want to be. LOL I played softball in high school…the only 2 years my little school have a team, and while I was not awful, I was far from the best player on the team.

So my question is this: at what point does a competitor like Ty say to his coaches “I’m struggling and not getting the job done, so put Mack in to see if he can do any better?” I’m sure that would be a TOUGH thing to do, but the object of the game is to win. My 14-year old grandson is a dang good baseball player…pitcher and 1st baseman. More than once when he has been struggling on the mound, he has taken himself out. I know that probably doesn’t happen a lot, but it is a question I’ve had pondered more than once this season, especially once it became apparent Ty was dealing with an injury of some sort.

(Be kind…I’m just a little old female who likes to think she has a pretty decent grasp of the game. Hahahaha)
 
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Ty is great when there's pass protection. But the blitzing makes it difficult. Go back to the early season game plan, with short quick passes with Ty holding the ball 2 seconds. The OL just can't provide pass protection for long pass plays.
 
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Cruloc said:
I don't even expect to score 20 points, our offense is absolutely broken. Ty is hurt physically and mentally. We're soft.

Oklahoma's defense is elite, they'll force a turnover. Hopefully not another pick 6.
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I think the only way we win is basically everything going near perfect for us and OU not playing well.

Basically an Uno Reversal of the last game.

We need them to give us the ball multiple times and our Defense and Special teams scoring points for us.

Our Offense is beyond broken.

Ty will not be any better than what we’ve seen the last 6 weeks or so and the best we can hope for is a clean sheet with no turnovers.

It doesn’t matter how bad the offense is playing we will not change personnel unless there are injuries.

We also have an OU problem mentally.

I think we can win…. It’s not impossible, but I completely understand why everyone is picking OU.
 
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Tideflyer said:
Oklahoma is becoming to Alabama what Alabama is ( or was ? ) to UGA. Hope that can be corrected.
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It’s definitely a thing.

All Time we are 2-5-1 vs OU

Since most of us have been alive to remember the more modern matchups in the 00s we are 1-5 vs OU

In this span:

We are 0-2 in Tuscaloosa

We are 0-2 in Norman

We are 1-1 at Neutral sites (Bowl Games)

Tua outplaying Murray in 2018 is the lone win.
 
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tmv85 said:
Honest question here for those who have played any team sport before, but first let me preface it by saying I am not all that athletic even though I really want to be. LOL I played softball in high school…the only 2 years my little school have a team, and while I was not awful, I was far from the best player on the team.

So my question is this: at what point does a competitor like Ty say to his coaches “I’m struggling and not getting the job done, so put Mack in to see if he can do any better?” I’m sure that would be a TOUGH thing to do, but the object of the game is to win. My 14-year old grandson is a dang good baseball player…pitcher and 1st baseman. More than once when he has been struggling on the mound, he has taken himself out. I know that probably doesn’t happen a lot, but it is a question I’ve had pondered more than once this season, especially once it became apparent Ty was dealing with an injury of some sort.

(Be kind…I’m just a little old female who likes to think she has a pretty decent grasp of the game. Hahahaha)
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That will never happen. No competitor wants to get pulled. He wants to compete. In a position like QB where self-confidence means a lot, asking to be pulled would be something so non-competitive that the asker would never have been the starter anyway.
No, every real competitor wants to be in the game, playing through adversity.
Vince Lombardi: "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

Note that Lombardi did not say a man's finest hour is when he voluntarily surrendered the battle to other man and celebrated on the sidelines with a clipboard in his hands. As George S. Patton said, "I would not give a hoot in [the Infernal Regions] for a man who lost, and laughed."
 
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