It will be the prime viewing event in my house that weekend. I'm not trying to be hard on you, but I don't understand this mindset from Alabama fans. It's not like we are playing Charleston Southern.
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It will be the prime viewing event in my house that weekend. I'm not trying to be hard on you, but I don't understand this mindset from Alabama fans. It's not like we are playing Charleston Southern.
I get what you are saying. If there are no other more competitive games to watch then I’ll just find something else to do that day.
So what you are saying you will only watch 2 Alabama games this year, but will say we are not going to win a national championship 365 days.... (unsure if blue font is warranted here or not)
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None of the Talking Heads give the other SEC teams credit.
Problem is that other SEC teams have to play Alabama, Auburn, LSU, TAMU, and Georgia.
That could easily give a lot of SEC teams 5 losses right off
the bat. Then other SEC teams can slip up on them too.
Problem is that other SEC teams have to play Alabama, Auburn, LSU, TAMU, and Georgia.
That could easily give a lot of SEC teams 5 losses right off
the bat. Then other SEC teams can slip up on them too.
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I tend to be cynical about this yearly whine about scheduling because you know the ones that get the complaints Alabama, Ohio State, etc are typically scheduling well but sometimes things don't line up. First, they know the hate clicks will come. Second, I think the entities deeply intertwined in the news and game content delivery aspect don't mind trying to goad bigger draws into playing more big games that makes their television networks more money.
You don't get credit for the schedule someone else imposes upon you.
Conference strength is a zero sum game.
Every win by Team A is a loss by team B.
And the SEC of recent years has not been the monster of 2006-2012, no matter how many folks here continue to pretend it is.
The SEC was 14-9 against the other big conferences last year. Take our 2-0 against Louisville and OU out, and the conference as a whole was 12-9.
That's not very impressive if the conference is "really" a monster.
2017 - SEC was 10-12 against the other P5s.
2016 - SEC was 11-14 against the other P5.
2014 - SEC was 11-10.
Since 2013 (when the SEC was 14-8), the only awesome year has been 2015 (14-7).
It wasn't very good in 2012, either, but go back in the years before that.
From 2009-2011, the conference was 44-23 against the other P5.
The current conference (at present) isn't that, and we need to be honest about that.
Unless we just don't show up to play, the only teams on our schedule this year that even enter the game with a minimally reasonable chance of beating us are ATM, LSU, and POSSIBLY Auburn (and I don't give them any real chance either - save for the game is there and Gus has his back against the wall).
Just one more point, though - it's TRUE that even the "not including Alabama SEC" of 12-9 record was equal with the Big Ten for the best overall. But this is NOT a decade ago.
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