re: College Football Sun - Paul Finebaum "All Alabama wanted to talk about was LSU"

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Paul "All Alabama wanted to talk about was LSU, that was probably their problem when they played Tenn."

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Yea, like the players were thinking about LSU instead of Tenn.

C'mon

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I'm loading up taking the points for 500 and betting it straight for 500.......

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So I shouldn't take betting advise from you...

Or a beat down like 2011?

Only Bama beats Bama. :

Just like Spring football in T town

Well, also Old Miss

You can count on LSU having at least three penalties at critical times to change the face of the game. I am sick of seeing this my entire life, so remember last years 15 yard penalty, Petersons interception etc. It will happen again, I gurantee it.,

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last years 15 yard penalty

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First, Bama did not need that penalty because we were not scoring. Second, it was a classic retaliatory penalty. That usually gets called. Nothing to see here.

Also, The Peterson interception was extremely close. After seeing the replay, I thought Peterson was probably in, but I didn't think it was clear enough to overturn. The famous picture was probably doctored, because it didn't look that obvious on the replay. Again, if we get that interception we still lose. No way JJ leads us down for the game winner. He had the opportunity on the previous series, and Bama's defense smothered us.

In the Tennessee game yesterday there were several calls in critical moments that went against Bama. One was the illegal block on Cam that was bogus. Another was the holding call. Why weren't the refs looking the other way at this critical moment?

Last, I don't know if this is true, but a Bama poster on SEC Rant claims that there has not been a single holding call against Bama's SEC opponents this year.

Are you kidding me? You can argue the rest of that mess but the Peterson interception is obvious even in the low quality GIF that's posted regularly here. His cleats left marks in the turf almost a yard inbounds. Rationalize all the penalties you want but nobody will ever tell me that wasn't an interception. Even Bama fans know it.

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Un-possible. I've been told that the Bama v Tenn game is sooooooooo important that Permanent Cross Division matchups simply MUST remain. It would be an epic miscarriage of justice and likely to throw the earth out of orbit and cause death to the universe if that VITAL matchup were not preserved. No way that Bama was not laser focused on the contest. I cannot believe it!

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POST OF THE SEASON! (so far.)
Have an upvote.

UTk and UA games have been for the most part fairly called over the years. That rivalry has a lot of clout in the league. LSU is the usurper since this decade and has shaken traditional power structure. Officials don't have the same motivation to be fair minded in a LSU vs UA contest. Make all the conspiracy jokes y'all want but reality is reality. Some deal with it others may still think the world is flat:).