Things that will always puzzle me:
1) Ray Perkins playing for a tie against LSU in 1985 (when it was a MUST win game to win the SEC)
2) Stallings not going for two in 1994.
What were Alabama's best teams that didn't win a national championship? Your top 5?
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1) Ray Perkins playing for a tie against LSU in 1985 (when it was a MUST win game to win the SEC)
2) Stallings not going for two in 1994.
I'd put 2013 in there. If not for the dumb kick 6 and crappy officiating, they win three in a row
1966 may be the most egregious. I've seen SOS arguments. I realize Notre Dame and Michigan State were both very good. But a 2 time defending champion going 11-0 and crushing Nebraska in the Sugar Bowl should have been a 3-peat.
1977 was almost equally egregious, but we did lose to Nebraska in the regular season, so there is a small window of justification.
1945 was a great team but it's hard to beat undefeated Army at the culmination of them also saving the world.
2016 will forever haunt me. That was an all-time great defense that just ran out of gas because of the implosion on the other side of the ball. Should have been the 1st 15-0 team.
2018 will forever haunt me as well. Again.. should have been the first 15-0 team. An all-time great offense that was undone by an utter meltdown on the other side of the ball and its own postseason hangover.
Those are my top 5.
1977 was almost equally egregious, but we did lose to Nebraska in the regular season, so there is a small window of justification.
1945 was a great team but it's hard to beat undefeated Army at the culmination of them also saving the world.
2016 will forever haunt me. That was an all-time great defense that just ran out of gas because of the implosion on the other side of the ball. Should have been the 1st 15-0 team.
2018 will forever haunt me as well. Again.. should have been the first 15-0 team. An all-time great offense that was undone by an utter meltdown on the other side of the ball and its own postseason hangover.
Those are my top 5.
I think handcuffing Jay Barker and homer smith was a bigger crime. There were WIDDDEEE OPEN receivers all day. Stallings's ego got the better of him that day just like it almost did in the UGA game earlier in the year.
neither of those two reasons trump our stupid game plan that day. Had we had Kiffin a year earlier then we wouldve beaten Auburn by 4 touchdowns that day
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