re: Is Nick Saban the luckiest coach ever?

Are you trying to argue against an LSU championship just because you don’t like the coach that one it now.

Jesus dude

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Are you trying to argue against an LSU championship just because you don’t like the coach that one it now.

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He's just being honest.

Under the strictly Poll system 1936-1998.

LSU would have the same amount of Titles and Saban would have 1 less. (LSU is the undisputed champ in 2011 and USC is the undisputed champ in 2003.)

That's just for LSU...add in the other years and lack of undefeated seasons (which the Polls loved more than anything else before the eye-test) and Saban is more like Bobby Bowden and less like Knute Rockne.

No, I knew we were lucky af in 2003. UGA had gone 13-1 the year before and got nothing. Florida was also very lucky in 06 and 08. Obviously doesn't hold a candle to us in 07.

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Trudat. Was all tied up

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sure, but watching it, it just felt like a miracle that Auburn was in the game at all

Pete Golding pound sand.

Saban is the Mulligan King, there's no disputing that, Mr Updyke

LSU is on the cusp of their first playoff appearance and first national championship run in about a decade and here you are still butthurt about Saban.

It was 15 years ago, let it go.

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Pete Golding.

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Paul Heckingbottom of Dixie

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As someone else pointed out, he's almost won another 2-3 titles to go with the 6 he did.

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Because he got let into the game. Always. When just a a few years earlier, he'd be shut out.

How many schools would've loved to have been given a higher ranking or another shot?

FSU? They won their Sugar Bowls and Orange Bowls - 7 years after being denied the National Championship after losing early to Miami or somebody else. FSU finished something like 9 straight years in the Top 4. That's 9 years with a chance to win the Natty in a playoff.

USC won 6 out of 7 of their BCS games under Carroll. They finished in the Top 4, 7 straight years. That's 7 years of getting a shot at the Natty in the playoffs.

Once you give a team another shot after shot it's a new season. Saying well, he won justifies the gymnastics to get them in is folderol because other worthy teams also won their bowl games.

CFB used to be, the regular season was the playoff...now it's totally diluted.

There's no question, the system, ESPN and how we declare a champion has totally benefited teams that have super talent but stub their toe.

2008 USC would've been playing Florida for the title under the current dynamic.

Penn State would've won the National Title in 1994; Washington in 1984. The list goes on and on...teams with a loss were at the mercy of subjectivity, teams with no loss no matter who they played were rewarded.

The fact is Saban has had ONE undefeated season and that would've not bode well if he coached Bama in the 80's and 90's as usually only undefeated teams won the National Title.