re: Colin Cowherd's reasons that Alabama will beat LSU

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you can't EVER underestimate The Hat when it comes to big games

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Amen. Plus, we have the Honey Badger.

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1) It's in Alabama.

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This is the one that I am most worried about. I don't relish playing any football games in the state of Alabama.

Where Colin was Wrong!!

It's in Bama but we have the honey badger

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1) It's in Alabama.

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Point taken

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2) They have the better coach.

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Different styles, but it's hard to argue with the Hat's record at LSU. I completely disagree that Saban is the better coach. Miles has proven otherwise. He's got a different style, but I'd say they are both great coaches for their respective schools.

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3) They are the smarter, less penalized team, and play with relentless speed.

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LSU also plays with relentless speed, and I don't know how many penalties LSU recieved last weekend, but it wasn't much. This is also bullshite.




Other factors not considered by Cowterd...


- Heart and Desire. Who wants it more, and most teams usually play up to their competition.

- The Hat has two weeks to prepare for the Tide and we all know how LSU performs when it has more than a week to prepare for a big game. They almost always come to play lights out football.

- LSU is as loaded talent wise as is Bama and can rotate fresh legs in throughout the game and not miss a beat.

- LSU's Special teams is something to marvel.

- LSU's Offense looks arguably as good or perhaps better than does Bama's, certainly when you consider the competition they've face to that which Bama has faced.

- LSU has played higher ranked and more talented opponents than has Bama, so you're not judging the two teams on equal footing. Only by playing each other will you be able to truly tell who's the better team.

- It's a heated rivalry game and perhaps between the top two teams in the nation when we play. Nobody is going to give anything but EVERYTHING they have for the full four quarters of football, and it will take just that for either team to win this game, ALL four quarters of football.





But here's the real issue. Both teams have got to get through the rest of their games undefeated before they play for this game to mean what we want it to mean, both LSU and Bama. So until then, it's just idle talk.

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therocketscientist
Colin Cowherd's reasons that Alabama will beat LSU
until you realize we are one bad ref call (PP7 INT) away from 5 wins in the last 5 trips to Bama. These asshipes do not know this series at all.

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Biggest myth on this board. There was NO WAY that year our putrid offense was going 70 yards on Bama's all world defense in a few minutes.

Coming from a Florida fan and unbiased look at both teams. Most of my friends go to Bama and my family is in BR. LSU has the better secondary. Bama has better LB's and LSU has the better D-line. The offense is a push really and I really think it will come down to the Refs and the review booth. IMO LSU is just a tad better on a neutral field, but it's at Bama. I just hope we don't lose too bad to Bama this weekend

Colin Cowherd is such an inflammatory blow hard he makes Paul Finebaum look like Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and the Dali freaking Lama all wrapped up in one. He so vastly contradicts himself multiple times daily its laughable. The guy is a second class hack. He's a poor man's Jim Rome. Why ESPN ever replaced the highly intelligent Tony Cornheiser (sp?) with this clown I'll never know.

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Biggest myth on this board. There was NO WAY that year our putrid offense was going 70 yards on Bama's all world defense in a few minutes.

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That putrid offense had drives of 91 and 59 yds that game. So 'myth' may not be the word you meant to use.