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Alabama's 2012 season had a little bit of everything — a 49-point pasting of Auburn, Johnny Manziel's heroics in Tuscaloosa, the first murmurs of Saban eclipsing Bear Bryant and Brent Musburger's public infatuation with Katherine Webb, the girlfriend and eventual wife of Crimson Tide quarterback A.J. McCarron. This Saban-coached Alabama team was particularly disliked because it pounded opponents into submission much like it did in the national championship game vs. LSU the previous year — a boring brand of pro-style football in the spread era that as unstoppable. There was already widespread "SEC Bias" by the time Alabama met Notre Dame in the BCS title game and it continued after the Crimson Tide humiliated the Irish, 42-14, in Miami. Alabama was one of five SEC teams inside the Top 9 nationally in the final poll. Saban, who has won five national championships at Alabama, was just getting started with his third title at the program in four years.

This write-up seems to include the 2012 Bama team simply due to the "SEC bias" that spilled over from the previous year's mulligan game. The 2012 team was much more deserving of a national championship bid than the 2011 team, objectively speaking.

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Posted by RD Dawg

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Posted on 6/13/18 at 9:57 am to 1BamaRTR

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Mayfield probably

Probably?

This post was edited on 6/13/18 at 9:59 am

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Posted on 6/13/18 at 5:19 pm to RLDSC FAN

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8) OKLAHOMA (2017)

Mayfield was kind of a dick but I didn’t think he was disliked that much. Seems out of place on this list

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Posted by ThePTExperience1969

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Posted on 6/13/18 at 5:27 pm to sweetwaterbilly

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8) OKLAHOMA (2017)

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Mayfield was kind of a dick but I didn’t think he was disliked that much. Seems out of place on this list

Those OU teams from the 80s I believe were 10,000x more hated than the 2017 Baker team due to Barry Switzer, Boz, their dominance and presentation and all the controversy they generated, legal or otherwise. Those teams made this Baker OU team look like a bunch of choirboys

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Posted by dukke v

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Posted on 6/13/18 at 5:27 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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If USC plays that game 10 times, they win 7.

But they didn't...

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Young had the perfect game

Yes he did...

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knee down but was still awarded a TD

Usc got away with calls as well...

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...and USC self-destructed in the 1st half as they were literally runing away with the game.

No they weren't....

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Despite all their mistakes and turnovers they still had a 4th and 2 to win the game.

And had the wrong personel for that play......

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The Stats favored USC...with USC actually having more yards on offense than Texas but more turnovers.

Sounds like a bunch of excuses........

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Posted by ThePTExperience1969

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Posted on 6/13/18 at 5:29 pm to TxTiger82

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Oklahoma

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wanted you to think they were squeaky clean

Oklahoma did a HORRIBLE JOB of this in the 80s primarily due to Switzer and Boz and how those teams conducted themselves on the national stage they were anything but hell they probably should've incurred the Death Penalty along with SMU but the big programs always get the benefit of the doubt in the NCAA's estimation

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Posted by dukke v

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Posted on 6/13/18 at 5:40 pm to ThePTExperience1969

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Those OU teams from the 80s I believe were 10,000x more hated than the 2017 Baker team due to Barry Switzer, Boz, their dominance and presentation and all the controversy they generated, legal or otherwise. Those teams made this Baker OU team look like a bunch of choirboys

You weren't even alive back then.......