re: Everybody talks about games that “broke” a program; what about games that “made” one?

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Broke - 2003 Oklahoma
Made - 2012 Alabama

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Ehh . . .no. As ugly as that game was, we bounced back pretty quickly. OU would beat us more consistently in the latter part of the Fran years and that was when true program despair had set in.

If there is one game that I view as jump-starting the program, it was the 1975 win in which the #2 Ags thumped #5 Texas.

We had been in a decades long funk since Bear Bryant left. Emory Bellard somehow turned that around and the historical record is night and day since that point.