Hating on the $EC - Mostly Alabama (and a little Georgia too)

[Wild Hoss]

shaddup

Seconded. And thirded.

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[AlabamAlum]

I'll put this here in a desperate attempt arrest this discussion before Alabam"Alum" begins directly quoting Darl (unfortunately, Darl is indirectly present in most of his ramblings).

A 247 Composite Ranking for existing rosters: http://247sports.com/Season/2017-Foo...alentComposite

It's more or less entirely unsurprising. Alabama and Ohio State. The Michigan rating doesn't include this past year's class because it goes off of rosters and, well, HARBAUGH!!!!, of course, hasn't released any roster information. GENIUS!!!!

In the B10 their are 13 former 5* players, and 7 of them play for Ohio State. Ohio State has 56 4* players. The next closest is M with 46. Penn State has 33 and no one else has more than 20.

Wisconsin has 5 4* players and 70 3* players.

lol at Darl. Good info, though, you illiterate buffoon.

[AlabamAlum]

Nick Saban has never/ever won the NC starting as the number #1 ranked team

It's rare. Only 10 teams or so the last 60 years have done it, but it happens. The fact that it didn't happen in Saban's first five NCs doesn't mean anything with regard to this year, though.

[THE_WIZARD_]

The 1982 Liberty Bowl was a postseason college footballbowl game held on December 29, 1982, in Memphis, Tennessee, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. The game featured the Illinois Fighting Illini, of the Big Ten Conference, and Alabama Crimson Tide, of the SEC. Alabama won the game, 21–15.
Alabama entered the game with a 7–4 record, losing their final three games. The team was led by coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, who was coaching his final game after twenty-five years with the program, announcing he would retire and hand over control of the team to Ray Perkins following the game.[1] Bryant's retirement made the Liberty Bowl one of the most covered games that season as many news stations and newspapers sent reporters to cover the game.[2][3]
Illinois was led by head coach Mike White and quarterback Tony Eason. The team was making their first bowl appearance since 1964, winning all three of their previous bowls.

[WM Wolverine]

Illini are long overdue for a good head coaching hire, maybe the next one after Lovie?

[THE_WIZARD_]

It was a blustery and frozen night as I entered the dank, austere surroundings of the Liberty Bowl on the late December night of 1982. Slow barges lumbered down the Mighty River. Blues bands played a somber dirge - as if they were heralding in a fresh lamb to the slaughter.

The Mighty Fighting Illini were big. They were strong. They were mean. The wounded and much-beleaguered Crimson Tide team formed a thin red line as they shielded themselves from the cold and valiantly headed onto the tundra that night.

The rifle-armed All-American, Tony Eason, set his angular jaw against the gale-like, frozen winds on that dark Memphis night. Like a gridiron Baryshnikov, Eason’s 6’4” frame danced nimbly through the pregame warm-ups as he focused his mind on the task at hand: Embarrassing – no humiliating – the great, but terminally ill Paul Bryant and his rag-tag band of undersized and injured players...

Head Coach of the Mighty Fighting Illini, Mike White, knew a pro career lay ahead of him. He chuckled slightly as he perused the gameplan and thought to himself, “This is Bryant’s last game. I’ll make him wish he’d quit sooner.”

The ailing Bryant grimaced as he slowly emerged from the tunnel. Heart disease was killing him and he knew his doctors had warned him about coaching this game, especially considering the extremely harsh weather. He struggled to keep from letting his family – the players – see him in such mind-searing pain as he covertly placed a nitroglycerin tablet under his tongue. He never wanted this game to be about him. He simply wanted the players to hold their heads high and compete honorably for the University, their families, and most importantly, themselves.

“Make your mamas proud," he growled as the last of the players and trainers ran from the tunnel.

Somehow, Alabama had managed to keep it close through most of the game; however, Eason was driving his team for what should have been the winning score. But Alabama's defense came through one last time for Bryant. Afterward, the young Illinois coach said that he had never seen a team hit as hard as Alabama that day. Bama was outgunned and out-manned, but they played with incredible heart and won the game for Bear on desire and grit alone.

That fateful Liberty Bowl was played on December 29, 1982. Less than one month later Bryant would die of heart disease. Coincidentally, less than one month after that, his beloved wife of 59 years, Mary Harmon Bryant, would die, too.

From the time Bryant first prowled the sidelines at the University of Alabama in 1958, until the day he died in 1983, no other team in the Nation won as many games, had as high of a winning percentage, or as many championships. And no one was really even close.

[Dr. Strangelove]

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[AlabamAlum]

Hahaha

[CGVT]

Ha!

[entropy]

Lmao!!


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[whodean]

Lucky horse.

[AlabamAlum]

Offense looked bad. Jalen with no consistency. FSU flooded with a 6-man line and we adjusted poorly.

Defense will be fine. Special teams was okay.

Ugly as shit, but a win is a win.


Next up: Fresno State.

[Jeff Buchanan]

It was nice to see contender match-ups in opening games - not sure the coaches liked it - but nonetheless, CFB fan heaven.

osu, bama and M, all playing quality opponents, made mistakes and overcame them to win and move on.

[iam416]

Heh. I like lumping IU and Florida in with Florida State. Heh heh.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Fair

STFU