A history reminder, Alabama faced another defending national champion team that was on a 29-game winning streak back in 1992. We all know what happened.
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I remember that Miami team was crowing that they was going to show them "country boys" how to play CFB. LOL.
It's time to end another streak and break the doggies hearts.
And as underdoggies, it's on for 'Bama!
I love Bama as the underdog, disrespected by the (CFP) pollsters, and playing with a a huge chip on their shoulders. I don't think anyone could have predicted how this season has gone. Georgia will for sure be a tough out, but I like our chances!
We faced 31-game UNBEATEN streak Nebraska in the 1972 Orange Bowl (they had a tie).
It didn't go so well......
It didn't go so well......
I remember that game. If memory serves Musso was hurt and didn’t play.
Not sure how old everyone is, but if you were of age to experience it, the satisfaction from beating Miami that year for the 1992 championship was as high as I've ever been as a Bama fan. Their arrogance was really off the charts. They had the Heisman winning qb, and he didn't fare well in that game. I watched the Sugar Bowl in a huge party of friends, and we were positively elated that night! It is a great Bama memory!
He had 15 rushes for 80 yards.
However, Musso WAS hurt and Bryant noted a lot of players were, not that that was an excuse even by him.
Definitely.
Four solid weeks of "Alabama has no chance against Miami" and then boom.
92 was my first Alabama national championship as an adult and the greatest comeuppance I have ever witnessed. All the trash talk leading up to the game. Miami players disrespecting Alabama players in the streets of New Orleans. Nobody giving Bama a chance except that one guy Corky.
Then the game itself.
From Teague's strip, to the absolute balls to put all eleven defenders on the line of scrimmage confusing and scaring their Heisman QB into 0 TDs and 3 INTs , to Derrick Lassic's Fred Sanford heartattack on the end zone, to the team carrying Coach Stallings in celebration, the occasion is forever writ in crimson flame.
For just a while, everything was right again.
Musso had been hurt since the LSU game; the main problem was that Neb DL Rich Glover outweighed our center Jimmy Grammer by at least 70 lbs and literally threw him back into our backfield all night long.
Now I'm gonna make another point that isn't going to make me very popular.
The 1993 Sugar Bowl is EXACTLY why I side with unbeaten teams (at least in P5 conferences) over "one-loss teams we think are the best" - because it proves that even the smartest and most astute students of football...are imperfect in projecting what will actually happen.
Alabama heard five weeks of, "Yeah, you're undefeated, but you haven't played anybody." It's easy after the fact to go look and see that the SEC of 1992 was quite solid. Florida beat 9-2 NC State in the Gator Bowl. Tennessee routed #16 Boston College in the HOF Bowl. Georgia outgunned a Buckeye QB named Kirk Herbstreit - don't know what ever happened to that guy - in the Citrus Bowl. If it weren't for a collapse by Mississippi State, the 12-team SEC would have gone 6-0 in the bowl games (State led, 14-0, in the first quarter and later had 2 punts blocked by Mack Brown's Tar Heels).
We heard:
- Alabama plays in the run-oriented SEC; look what happened when they played a passing team (UF)
- Alabama played La Tech out of conference, Miami played three teams in the Top 10 and won
- Alabama is one-dimensional, they better hope Barker don't have to win the game
- Alabama plays zone because they can't stick with teams man-to-man
- Alabama almost lost to 5-6 Auburn for Pete's sake, tied at halftime
- the "two best teams are obviously Miami and Florida State"
And what happened AFTER the game?
"Well, yes, Alabama beat Miami BECAUSE MIAMI WAS A ONE-DIMENSIONAL RUNNING TEAM, they couldn't have beaten Florida State!"
The SEC reputation in 1992 was not what it is today. Oh, SEC partisans would tell you that it was - but the SEC built a reputation throughout the 1970s and 1980s as "a conference that talks about how good they are but then lays an egg every year in the bowl games." Although it was somewhat overstated, the reality was that the SEC was losing bowl games to teams they probably should smash.
Go watch the Georgia vs Notre Dame national championship Sugar Bowl from 1981. Yeah, Georgia won - because Notre Dame played like garbage. IIRC, Herschel Walker had more yards rushing than UGA actually had in total offense and Buck Belue didn't complete a pass to his own team until maybe 2 minutes left in the game, and it was the only one.
The 1993 Sugar Bowl is a warning writ large to anyone who thinks they can tell us who "the two best teams are." The years like 2011 when it's obvious are rare.
The 1993 Sugar Bowl is EXACTLY why I side with unbeaten teams (at least in P5 conferences) over "one-loss teams we think are the best" - because it proves that even the smartest and most astute students of football...are imperfect in projecting what will actually happen.
Alabama heard five weeks of, "Yeah, you're undefeated, but you haven't played anybody." It's easy after the fact to go look and see that the SEC of 1992 was quite solid. Florida beat 9-2 NC State in the Gator Bowl. Tennessee routed #16 Boston College in the HOF Bowl. Georgia outgunned a Buckeye QB named Kirk Herbstreit - don't know what ever happened to that guy - in the Citrus Bowl. If it weren't for a collapse by Mississippi State, the 12-team SEC would have gone 6-0 in the bowl games (State led, 14-0, in the first quarter and later had 2 punts blocked by Mack Brown's Tar Heels).
We heard:
- Alabama plays in the run-oriented SEC; look what happened when they played a passing team (UF)
- Alabama played La Tech out of conference, Miami played three teams in the Top 10 and won
- Alabama is one-dimensional, they better hope Barker don't have to win the game
- Alabama plays zone because they can't stick with teams man-to-man
- Alabama almost lost to 5-6 Auburn for Pete's sake, tied at halftime
- the "two best teams are obviously Miami and Florida State"
And what happened AFTER the game?
"Well, yes, Alabama beat Miami BECAUSE MIAMI WAS A ONE-DIMENSIONAL RUNNING TEAM, they couldn't have beaten Florida State!"
The SEC reputation in 1992 was not what it is today. Oh, SEC partisans would tell you that it was - but the SEC built a reputation throughout the 1970s and 1980s as "a conference that talks about how good they are but then lays an egg every year in the bowl games." Although it was somewhat overstated, the reality was that the SEC was losing bowl games to teams they probably should smash.
Go watch the Georgia vs Notre Dame national championship Sugar Bowl from 1981. Yeah, Georgia won - because Notre Dame played like garbage. IIRC, Herschel Walker had more yards rushing than UGA actually had in total offense and Buck Belue didn't complete a pass to his own team until maybe 2 minutes left in the game, and it was the only one.
The 1993 Sugar Bowl is a warning writ large to anyone who thinks they can tell us who "the two best teams are." The years like 2011 when it's obvious are rare.
I remember it well. Even other Bama fans around me were saying things like, "Well, at least I hope we don't get embarrassed too much."
Their Heisman winner spent most of the game staring up at the stars.
You are right. I specifically remember national radio hosts saying that FSU "obviously" deserved to be in the game over Bama.
I also remember checking into a New Orleans hotel prior to the game and finding 'Canes friendly vendors there, selling fans 1992 Miami national championship shirts. I wonder how many of this shirts ended up in Somalia or some other far off place...
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