re: Biggest Win of the Miles Era

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If we beat Bama and go on to lose in the National Championship, will you think, "No big deal, that game against Bama was great?"

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No. But the fact is, for those of us constantly arguing how strong the SEC is, we consider in conference games to be tougher than OOC games, particularly road ones. If we beat Bama and win out...we'd play in the SECCG. That SECCG will be against Florida and would then be the biggest potential win of the Miles era.

Whoever we played in the NC would likely be considered a lesser team than the Bama or Florida teams we beat.

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If we beat Bama and then lose another game and don't make a BCS bowl, will the Bama game be as big of a win?

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Yeah, it would. It would suck that we lost to a lesser team, but it would still mean that we beat a team considered better, considerably better at this point, than us.

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In all of these games, LSU was the better team. If we beat Bama, we will be beating the undefeated favorite on the road who has not lost an SEC game in almost two years. That, to me, is a bigger win than beating a less talented Ohio State team in virtually our own backyard.

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Exactly.

Huh, 07 NCG?

If the BCSCG was just a regular season OOC game, it wouldn't be considered that great.

My vote goes for the VT 2007 game.

When was the last time that a genuinely decent team got thrashed so badly? Closest example I can think of is USC/OU 04.

Nope. Ala was 8-0 and LSU won that one. Just another ball game......

No. The win over Ohio State was, is and will be until he wins another NC game.

BCS NC game was the biggest

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Yeah, it would. It would suck that we lost to a lesser team, but it would still mean that we beat a team considered better, considerably better at this point, than us.

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But if we beat Bama at Bama, we will then likely be considered the better team--and rightfully so. With the scenario you and Alex have set up, we can only beat a better team if we are having a bad season. If we're having a good season and beat a good team, we will likely be considered better than theam. Cause you know, we beat them. So the only way Miles can win a big game by your standards would be if we are not a good team, which would already make Miles a failure. He can't win.


The problem is your taking this game at the time it's played, but looking at all the rest with the benefit of hindsight. LSU has played in huge games at the time, but a subsequent loss might have made them seem less big when looking back. As big as this game is Saturday, if we win it, but then lose to Ole Miss and Arkansas, was it really that big? Your answer would be no, but mine is yes. You can only go by how big they were at the time they were played. This one is huge, but so will be Ole Miss, and then Arkansas. And so were about 10 others we've played since Miles has been here.