re: Teams That Scored 30+ on Bama Since '08 (Long)

Ole Miss beat TT on a neutral field.
They scored just 27 points.
Even SE put up 45 on Miss.

Oh but they are 9th in O do that's OK.

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We held them to under 30 because they missed two extra points and coasted late.

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Two points in reply to this:
1) If I up the threshold by 2 pts it doesn't change the premise in the OP.
2) Bama does not get to assume perfection for the sake of argument. They own their mistakes. Had we a functional offense then their TOP is reduced.

Manziel made Sumlin and Kingsberry a lot of money.

Compare schedule and the teams TTs plays. Few play D.

There is no magic bullet that beats Bama. Not one guy, one player or one coach.

We need to upgrade our staff and our talent both.

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There is no magic bullet that beats Bama. Not one guy, one player or one coach.

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But there are some approaches and schemes that are superior to others.

Had E taken OM's talent in '15 and '16 and shoehorned it into our approach, the results would've looked similar to what you saw last Sat night.

OTOH, a different approach scored 43 pts two seasons in a row. We haven't scored 43 through our last 5 games combined.

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ok, let's assume our offense stayed on the field enough to take away Bama's final two possessions.

That reduces Bama's total offense to 471 yards and reduces the final score to 22-0.

Feel better about the game now?

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I didn't introduce the "what if's." I was responding to one who did.

You can research all the the times teams score 22+ pts vs Bama since '08 and report back. That would make us all feel better.

Great, fact-based post. One thing I would add is that there seems to be a "scheme vs. players" schism when it's really both. The players part is not easy but it is simple. You have to recruit like crazy and pay big attention to the OL, and I think most agree that is an area where we can improve going forward.

But the fact remains that our Tigers are still struggling even more than other teams against the Bama D, and it's fair to ask for better than, well, NOTHING with current talent. Alabama is so good that you simply must outscheme them at times to have success, and so far, the Ensminger offenses have failed to do that.

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So the reason the O that ran for 280 versus Ga., but only 12 versus Bama was the scheme.

Now the scheme didn't change from one month to the next, but the opponent did.

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For most of a decade now, the LSU offense has been hopeless against Bama. Even with Mett, OBJ, Landry, Hill in 2013, LSU only managed 17. This years performance was not an outlier and even with great talent, the scheme fails.

But the OL has been a patchwork all year.