I thought Bama played Scared to lose the entire game

Because they knew Michigan was better than 6-7 Auburn? .

I think Bama knew they had to play it tight and hope for Michigan mistakes and it almost worked...Bama almost won by Bama's great punting game flipping the field, which is ironic (punt Bama punt) and Michigan special teams miscues.

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I thought Michigan looked physically superior the entire game.

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Because they were and it wasn’t half as close as that score.

Michigan was superior to Bama on the LOS.

It almost seemed to me that the players on Bama's OL are too big.

Michigan was the much better team. Bama was easily the worst of the 4 of the CFP teams

The fact that Bama even had a lead still blows me away. I can't remember the last time I saw a Saban team get pushed around so much. Maybe that title game blowout vs Clemson?

Michigan is damn lucky that OT doesn't have a big ST influence. Almost makes me think OTs would be better if it worked punts into it somehow. Maybe each team gets a punt from their own 1 to start and the starting position for the receiving team is however far they advance that punt. I'd dig that I think.

Y’all are insane.

Missing a FG isn’t ideal for Michigan but Milroe’s ridiculous fumble cancels out the muffed punt from Michigan.

Outside of that, how on earth was the game lopsided? Not as close as it looked? Michigan had to score a TD with 1:30 left to get it to OT. What the frick does it mean the game wasn’t as close as it appeared?

Alabama played their absolute worst game possible on offense. A nice chunk of that was not being able to handle Michigan’s stunts and dealing with how sound Michigan is on defense. So credit to Michigan.

But Alabama probably wins the game if the center has a normal snapping game or if Reese sticks with the run more.

By no means do I think Alabama was clearly the better team. But the game was won by Alabama doing unimaginably stupid shite constantly for the entire game.

Milroe had poor body language in the late part of the game. When Michigan scored to tie it he had a defeated look on his face. By then I guess he knew he wasn't playing against a soft defense like LSU had this year.

He probably knew he wasn’t playing LSU’s horrific defense when he had constant pressure up the middle destroying him all day.

I can’t believe Alabama couldn’t make adjustments to slow down Michigan’s stunting front at all. I also can’t believe McLaughlin is still wrecking games with bad snaps.

Michigan thought they had to get cute, and out think Saban. All they had to was what they've been doing all year long. Thankfully that didn't lose them the game. It almost did.

Somebody who could throw the ball and not rely on running.