re: Is Nick Saban the luckiest coach ever?

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Yea, forget their much better wins

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what were those? Bama's best win in the regular season that year was against Arkansas by 3 touchdowns, who finished ranked #5. They beat a top 25 Penn State team on the road that was 9-3 on selection day.

OSU had 3 top 25 wins to Alabama's 2 on selection day. Their best being a win at home over #13 Baylor against Alabama's win over Arkansas. So yea, when it's that close, and Alabama had the best win of the two, a loss to a putrid Iowa State team is going to carry some weight. Y'all have some revisionists history over that season. Oklahoma State won their conference, but they didn't play in a conference championship game either. The big 12 pushed their regular season finale back a week to give it that impression, but it's not like alabama got to sit at home while OSU had to go play in a conference championship game. That didn't happen