re: "Tough to beat a team twice"

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For frick's sake, you guys are silly sometimes. It has nothing to do with "ESPN progaganda" which, by the way, has become some sort of bogeyman in many of your minds

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No, you're the one being silly. It's downright moronic to think that ESPN is anything but propaganda.

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Actually, conventional wisdom has been that it's tough to beat a very good team twice in a row in a single season

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Actually, it's nothing but an old wives' tale, and you attach the term "conventional wisdom" to it to make it sound more credible than it really is. There's no wisdom in conventional wisdom. "Conventional wisdom" is a fancy way of saying bullshite myth that people like to quote as fact when it's not.

Besides, we don't have to beat Alabama twice now. We only have to beat them on January 9th. It's considered hard to beat a team twice BEFORE you've played them the first time. That's just a simple matter of probabilities. There's a chance of losing each time you play, so playing twice creates a better chance of losing one than playing once does. You only have a 25% chance of flipping a coin and getting heads both times. But if you've already flipped it once and gotten heads, you have the same 50% chance of flipping heads the second time as you would on any other flip.