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What are some games that Alabama was lucky or very fortunate to win?

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I don’t have the energy to comment on all of them. I’m not including the 2023 SEC champ game because the offense did what they had to do to run out the clock. That’s not luck, just a clutch performance.

Two more not mentioned in this thread:

1998 vs. Ole Miss - first ever win in OT

2008 vs. Kentucky - A 17-14 win. Gary Danielson accused Antoine Caldwell of holding on Glen Coffee’s long TD run. The defensive touchdown scored by Rolando McClain was one of our flukiest ever. Kentucky scored a TD with under a minute left to cut our lead to 3 and failed the onside kick attempt.
 
2014 Arkansas - I just remember us playing awful all game and Blake Sims crazy attempt to jump over the pile.

1994 Auburn - If I remember correctly we jumped up 21-7 or 21-0 on Auburn in the first quarter only to keep them in the game and it come down to a 4th down incomplete pass to secure the win.
 
BamaBoySince89 said:
2014 Arkansas - I just remember us playing awful all game and Blake Sims crazy attempt to jump over the pile.

1994 Auburn - If I remember correctly we jumped up 21-7 or 21-0 on Auburn in the first quarter only to keep them in the game and it come down to a 4th down incomplete pass to secure the win.
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Yeah, we were up, 21-0, on Auburn in 1994 at Legion Field.

Kinda lucky to win the 3-0 game over LSU in 1979, too.
 
I'm always "curioius" how these old threads pop back up.

But, if this year's IB isn't only the list the we don't need to have one.

Considering the context of having closed out the season with some pretty impressive wins with the offense finally starting to take form, we laid a proverbial egg in this game.

Considering how we played the next week against Georgia it appeared we basically ran vanilla plays on offense and expected Auburn to lie down.

The luck we had in winning this game is off the charts after the 2 prior plays before it. Not to take away from the throw or catch (nor to judge Freeze's decision to only rush 3 and give JM all the time in the world, which is what he needs), just the odds of needing to make a TD catch with 8 defenders covering the endzone is amazingly hard.

I mean, if we tried it again and they did the same things again you probably don't make that perfect throw and catch 95 times out of 100.
 
BamaMoon said:
I'm always "curioius" how these old threads pop back up.

But, if this year's IB isn't only the list the we don't need to have one.

Considering the context of having closed out the season with some pretty impressive wins with the offense finally starting to take form, we laid a proverbial egg in this game.

Considering how we played the next week against Georgia it appeared we basically ran vanilla plays on offense and expected Auburn to lie down.

The luck we had in winning this game is off the charts after the 2 prior plays before it. Not to take away from the throw or catch (nor to judge Freeze's decision to only rush 3 and give JM all the time in the world, which is what he needs), just the odds of needing to make a TD catch with 8 defenders covering the endzone is amazingly hard.

I mean, if we tried it again and they did the same things again you probably don't make that perfect throw and catch 95 times out of 100.
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I can’t comment on the other old threads, but I revived this one because I thought it would be fun to discuss the lucky wins of the past 3 seasons instead of participating in the anxiety about the future of the team.

I listed the 4th and 31 game in my last post in this discussion. Which game vs. Auburn was a luckier win: 2023 or 2021? ESPN gave us a 0.1% chance to win late in the 4th in both games. 😃 I thought we had lost in 2021 after our offense failed on 4th and short near the end of regulation. We were lucky to have Bigsby go out of bounds (which Jordan Battle was partially responsible for 👍), convert the 4th downs on the final drive in regulation, connect on the long TD pass to force OT, have Reichard kick a high pressure FG in OT to extend the game, and then win the 2 pt conversion contest!
 
CrimsonEyeshade said:
This is the 'retire the trophy' winner. I was in school at the time and didn't even bother going to the game because it was expected to be such a monumental rout, even though we were down to our third and fourth string quarterbacks. FSU had the country's longest losing streak, as I recall.

Desperate last minute drive and 37-yard field goal by Bucky Berry. Bizarre.
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FSU backed up , took an intentional safety late in the game that made the score 7-5 that allowed Berry’s last seconds field goal win the game, as I recall
 
We've had a LOT of great luck during Saban's tenure. Rocky Block, SEC championship 2012, Tua and 26, Gravedigger 4th and 31, it goes on and on. Thing is, we put ourselves in position to GET lucky. Gotta catch a card on the river, some hands.
 
dtgreg said:
We've had a LOT of great luck during Saban's tenure. Rocky Block, SEC championship 2012, Tua and 26, Gravedigger 4th and 31, it goes on and on. Thing is, we put ourselves in position to GET lucky. Gotta catch a card on the river, some hands.
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You put yourself in position for that luck to pay off with more than a single victory. But the luck is still luck. Football is a weird sport. Just look at the voodoo at Jordan Hare.
 
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B1GTide said:
You put yourself in position for that luck to pay off with more than a single victory. But the luck is still luck. Football is a weird sport. Just look at the voodoo at Jordan Hare.
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Ask LSU and others, not just Alabama, about the "Voodoo" at JH. You have to be 21 points better to win by 1. With gambling being legalized, well, it reminds me of the Black Sox/Kentucky Bball/Hornung days.
 
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dtgreg said:
We've had a LOT of great luck during Saban's tenure. Rocky Block, SEC championship 2012, Tua and 26, Gravedigger 4th and 31, it goes on and on. Thing is, we put ourselves in position to GET lucky. Gotta catch a card on the river, some hands.
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Again, not to be "that guy", but....

1) Rocky Block (2009 Vols)
We had 2nd and 2 at their 4-yard line and failed to pick up a yard and settled for 3.
We fumbled at our own 43, giving them a short field, and they got a TD.
They recovered an onsides kick.
And we were playing a team that had the previous week off while we were slugging it out with #22 South Carolina, a game that we only put away in the final minutes.

What I'm saying is that you had a tired Alabama team and a rested Vols team....a team that only got back into the game because of the rare Mark Ingram fumble in the first place. AS BAD AS WE PLAYED, we still led them by 9 points with 3:29 left.

Had we converted that 2nd and 2 at the four into four additional points, that game is probably one of the most ho-hum in the history of TSIO.

2) 2012 SEC Championship
We had TWO HUNDRED more yards of offense prior to their last drive, that's not luck.
And the blocked FG for a TD only happened because the refs hosed us on a DPI.

Seriously - they get that one call right, we probably put it away then based on the 2nd half.

3) 4th and 31
We were lucky - yeah, we sure were lucky when they center snapped the ball 18 yards behind the QB.
And when the QB got flagged for an illegal pass.

It required both of those to set up 4th and 31, but we were just playing with them.
And we had well over 100 more yards of offense than they did, too.

I'm not saying I dismiss it altogether, but I'm not sure those actually count as "lucky to win", either.
 
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I apologize that I haven't read the entire thread so I may have missed anyone already bringing this up..

2021 Iron Bowl

It didn't end on 1 miracle play or anything but it felt like we escaped by the skin of our teeth.

We were lifeless for almost the ENTIRE game trailing 10-0 until the 4th and trailing 10-3 until the final 1-2 mins.

Bryce finally led a 97 yard scoring drive thanks to a HUGE 28 yrd TD pass to Brooks.

Then we had to survive the new Mickey Mouse OT rules IN JH no less.

The game doesn't have the single big play like 2023 but it was every bit as miraculous in total to escape that one with a W.
 
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tusks_n_raider said:
I apologize that I haven't read the entire thread so I may have missed anyone already bringing this up..

2021 Iron Bowl

It didn't end on 1 miracle play or anything but it felt like we escaped by the skin of our teeth.

We were lifeless for almost the ENTIRE game trailing 10-0 until the 4th and trailing 10-3 until the final 1-2 mins.

Bryce finally led a 97 yard scoring drive thanks to a HUGE 28 yrd TD pass to Brooks.

Then we had to survive the new Mickey Mouse OT rules IN JH no less.

The game doesn't have the single big play like 2023 but it was every bit as miraculous in total to escape that one with a W.
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Yeah, we stole one that day.

We stole the 1984 Iron Bowl, too.
 
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