skrayper

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I can't remember any Bama team with as many TFLs as this one.

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I'm guessing you just started watching this year then?

TFL Allowed per game:
2025 - 4.67
2024 - 5.92
2023 - 6.29
2022 - 4.85
2021 - 6.93
2020 - 4.08 (last time we allowed TFL per game than this year)

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How confident are Bama fans on winning vs Oklahoma ?

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As confident as I have been against any other ranked team - cautious optimism.

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Are you guys confident your qb wins this one ?

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Are you? We haven't relied on running the ball all season, so "stopping the run" is pretty much just assumed.

Mateer is 11th in passing in conference play, and Alabama's defense is #1 in scoring D against SEC opponents (Oklahoma is 3rd). It's possible we only score 20 and still win by 14. You guys gave up over 300 passing yards in the two games against offenses that are similar to ours.

Not to mention you guys have been terrible on the turnover front (-5) while we've been really damned good (+10).

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Auburn had way more success going deep in the NCAA Tournament.

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I’m not sure who you personally define “way more”, but most folks would not claim that 1 additional run (Sweet 16 + Elite 8) over several decades to by “way” more. More, sure, but that’s it.

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Not since the days of Penn and Princeton dominating football has there been someone dominate football in that fashion. There isn’t another Saban out there. There could be another Urban or Kirby but even those guys are incredibly rare and usually smart enough not to work for shitshow programs, which this one currently is.

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Some fans will be happier once they realize that Saban 2.0 simply does not exist.

“Opponent adjusted,” admittedly, only works to an extent. If I throw for 500 yards and 6 touchdowns a game but every team is trash, there’s no way to fully offset my absurd numbers.

Sayin is ahead in passer rating by a huge margin but no one is really talking him up as a Heisman candidate… because OSU’s schedule has been absolute dogshit so far.

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However, Alabama would be 5 for 5 in Top 25 rankings if you expanded to those, too using last year's end of season rankings (#15 softball, #8 Gym)

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Hell, that'd give us 3 Top 10 teams.

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Last year Houston played us less than 3 miles from their home court. I think they got the better deal in this series.

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Oh, 100% the better deal.

It depends, but at least 3.

I see 4-5 playoff worthy teams, if the season ended today:

Texas A&M
Alabama
Georgia
Ole Miss

Texas, Oklahoma, and Vanderbilt all have resumes worthy of debate for a 5th spot; if only one spot remained, Texas would get the nod thanks to head-to-head wins over both OU and Vandy. If two spots were up, OU's win over Michigan is good enough to get them in.

I think a better question would be this: Who deserves to be in it more than at LEAST those 4?

I don't know many phrases that go co-opted as frequently as "toxic masculinity" did, watering down the actual original meaning.

Well, except for possibly "Nazi" and "fascist".

Good... while the first one was entertaining, it never felt like Star Trek.. and the next two were just mediocre.

Changing Kahn was just fricking weird. Even if the timeline changed, he predates the event where the timeline branched by centuries.

Even Strange New Worlds, which tried to explain away why Kahn's ascension was at different points didn't turn him into a white guy with a British accent.