Well, it’s been a couple of days since the CFP field was selected. Maybe I should check in on the crowd at Roll Bama Roll to see if they’ve come to grips with reality…
Despite two of the top four teams losing their conference championship games, the CFP Committee bent to the will of the Twitter rage mob. In the first seven years of the playoff, the committee would thumb their nose at the critics. Now, we have a bunch of weak-willed wimps who are more concerned about handing out participation trophies over what is supposed to be “the four best teams”.
Uh, never mind.
Get The Picture 
I’d say they’ve come to gripes with reality.
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If one of the four best teams loses two games and falls in the forest, does anyone hear the sound?
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Speaking of forests and Alabama, are their feelings hurt badly enough that we need to worry about any significant trees on campus?
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Is killing the tree that owns itself murder?
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Dan Magill, as a child, encouraged the planting of the new tree there. He seemed to have been everywhere.
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Last I checked wins and losses are a pretty good indicator of how good you are.
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To them it’s recruiting rankings. All those recruiting championships means Bama is one of the 4 best teams every year regardless of what happens on the field. “Only lost 2 games by 4 points” is this year’s Metchie and Williams. Next time it will be something else. God bless their little entiteld Bammer hearts.
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If that counts, 1992 UGA was national champs!
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How many games did they win by ❤ points? We should take those off the books then right?
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Are we supposed to have sympathy for the most talented team in America with a Heisman winning QB… that lost two games and didn’t play in the conference championship?
Would they beat TCU? Probably. Did TCU lose a single game in overtime… while Alabama rested up and watched on TV? Yeah.
I respect advanced metrics and I do believe in the best teams playing, but there’s got to be a line somewhere. What if they lost to Auburn? They’d still be favored versus TCU. What if the also lost to, say, Arkansas? Probably still be favored.
Bama’s asking for a pass because they’re talented. Recruiting National Championships get you players to go win real National Championships, but they’re otherwise meaningless, and they should be.
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This is a good post
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You know who else is talented? And might be favored against TCU? Texas A&M.
Win your games, Bammers. The just-show-up crap doesn’t start til 2024, mark your calendars.
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Bama is asking for a pass because they’re entitled not talented.
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Well said. In the past I have gotten worked about whether or not the playoff includes “the four best teams.” TCU beat Texas with Ewers playing by a TD. Bama beat Texas by 1 without Ewers playing most of the game. And Bama would still be favored against TCU. But as you pointed out, at some point there has to be a line.
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Like Mason said to Dixon —– “Ya gotta draw the line some place”
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I don’t think they’d beat TCU.
I think Bama is soft and a program in decline.
They’re scrambling around over there, resorting to begging for favor, distorting their records to point to near wins and ignoring near losses. Saban embarrassing himself by begging to get favor over a team that has clearly had the better season and is at least Bama’s equal.
Bama fans are outright saying that we (UGA fans) should thank Saban for training up Kirby. I think it’s the other way around. Since Kirby left, Bama’s been slowly but surely weakening.
Gumps are that entitled, though. They want to claim Kirby’s success as if it is a Bama accomplishment.
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I had a probably 60 yr old man at a christmas party last friday tell me without mincing words that they’re coming for Kirby when Saban retires. (eye roll)
It wasn’t a hostile conversation or anything….it was more him complimenting Kirby and saying “we WANT HIM SOOO BAD.” I did tell him as big of a brand that Bama is, (a) he’s not going to leave Georgia. Period and (b) we probably have more money if push really came to shove. He didn’t believe me on the money part but I stand by it !
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Let’s see…I could stay at a program where I’m a demigod, or I could leave for a program whose fans will start sharpening the knives the first time I fail to cover the spread against Arkansas. Decisions, decisions!
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Mary Beth Smart doesn’t want to leave Athens … enough said.
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Saban has a history of stumping when it is necessary but in contrast to 2011 and 2017 he really didn’t have a good argument on his latest argument.
It is hard to call for the decline but if they take 20 something transfers and aren’t back in the mix next year then I will say that the end is nigh for the dynasty.
It’s going to be interesting to watch that team next year with a new QB (maybe the kid from UNC) play with all new WRs, OL and coordinator’s.
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I’ll be surprised if Saban doesn’t get this new era figured out soon but yeah. It’s that or the football apocalypse in Tuscaloosa.
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Yes, how dare they take 12-1 TCU or 11-1 Ohio State, teams that couldn’t even win their conferences, when they could’ve taken 10-2 Alabama, a team that also couldn’t win its conference.
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I’m amazed they’re making this argument without Metchie and Williams.
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When your best win is also the second-best win of the #3 team and the #1 team beat the shit out of both teams that beat you… what are we even doing here, guys? Just be happy the committee spared you the embarrassment of getting your ass handed to your in New Orleans by Tulane.
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I was really hoping for the Green Wave for the Elephants.
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That’s perfect, godawgs.
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“…a team that couldn’t win its own DIVISION.”
Fixed it.
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Ahhh, yes. Alabama missed the playoff because of wokeness. Gotcha.
Maybe if Nick Saban woke his ass up in the last minute of the Tennessee game and ran the damn football to burn UT’s timeouts and run out the clock before missing his field goal then Alexandria Occasio Cortez wouldn’t have been able to force the CFP committee to leave out the deserving champions from Tuscaloosa or whatever it is these morons think happened.
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They controlled their destiny and blew it.
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As do ALL teams to start then year.
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And, as always, DESTINY cannot be controlled.
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Agree, bugs me too.
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I would love to hear a talking head say a team “is firmly in control of the illusion of controlling their own destiny!”
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They would have to stop using the gobbledygook known as “physicality” first….
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Also, you’d think that Alabama fans would be well aware that a team that loses its conference title game is still very likely to win a national championship game. Hmm.
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Maybe they should talk to Karen Nicole about Honky McFailson going to NYC for the Heisman.
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‘Honky McFailson’ thats funny right there.
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We already know EriK shan’t be watching. He and his assorted weirdos @ RBR should just move along. (But at least they are expanding their vocabularies along the way. UGa-LSU was ‘schlock’)
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What do all those Gumps remind me of?
That’s right.
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Man, do the RBR guys even like college football? Every single thing they’ve posted this season has just dripped with snobbery, crankiness, and the sourest of sour grapes. If they’re not happy about their team, nobody else is allowed to be happy, either.
I don’t care how many titles Kirby does or doesn’t win—please put me on an iceberg and push me out into the sea if I ever start acting like this.
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Only one other online fanbase I’ve ever seen be this level of “if we’re not #1 then the sport is flawed,” and it’s Duke basketball, which is not who you want comparisons to.
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I’m sure I’m biased as someone who’s a Duke BB fan who went to school in the triangle and lives in Charlotte but while that fan base may have the arrogance of Alabama, I’ve never gotten the sense duke BB fans (or unc fans in the few years they’ve had a bad team) think the world is out to get them when they flame out early in the ACC or NCAA tournament. Then again duke and unc attracts a different caliber of intelligence than Alabama.
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What the hell is going to happen to these people if it ever slides down to early 2000s level Alabama ?
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You’re not gonna have to wait long to find out.
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If Bama had been picked, the tOSU mob would be taking their place in the National crisis wailing wall.
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Yep. My neighbor is an Ohio State fan and they are every bit as bad as Alabama.
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I really feel kind of sad for the Bama fans.
Ha who the fuck do I think believes that!!
The one time the system doesn’t get twisted in their favor since 2008 and it’s the system that’s screwed up!
Congrats to the national media types that said there was hope when there wasn’t Any!
Go K State!!
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Bama has been wildly successful well before Saban, but especially since he arrived. Their fanbase, however, is destined to be miserable unless they win the Natty. Even then, it’s not enough because of their hard-wired sense of entitlement. I hope our present and future success doesn’t ruin us as well.
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I love the fact that Erik bitches about how bad Bama is for the last two thirds of the season but then all of a sudden he says that they are one of the four best teams in the country.
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You certainly can’t lose a conference championship game if you don’t play in it.
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“SEC Championship Game
Georgia 50 LSU 30- Do I really need to recap this schlock?”
IIRC, they didn’t recap UGA/UT in the rundown that week either.
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When Bama says they belong in the playoff just wave deuces as you wave bye. I’m not a GT student so I may screw up the link
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These guys… they just can’t help themselves.
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So how is the rebuild going in Tuscaloosa? Asking for a friend.
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Check out the portal numbers on that other post this morning.
Looks like Nick, Bobby and a couple others are going to shuffle the player deck and re-deal the cards.
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Georgia will show a bunch of guys the door, too. Most will just wait til their season is over to announce anything.
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Word is, some will enter the portal before the playoffs but, stick around until after… getting a head start on their next place. Best of luck!
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They’d have an argument if everyone had 2 losses and didn’t even PLAY for their conference title. That obviously didn’t happen so FTMF.
I’m sure that had nothing to do with it, though. Twitter and ESPN hate Bama which is why they’ve let their players and Saban come on their fucking show to plead and beg. Jfc
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I’m more amazed that they know what Twitter is over there.
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All we heard from ESPN and many CFB fans in the preseason and early season was how Bama would return to their rightful throne and how the Dawgs would regress to the mean. Then Tennessee beat Bama and we heard it about them. Now they’re both playing in the Fuck Off Bowls and they’re all of a sudden victims. I already knew Auburn and Bama had the passive- aggressive thing down but I guess we can add Tennessee. They all suck and I’m loving it.
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Wasn’t this year supposed to be Alabama’s “Revenge Tour”? I guess they were 50% successful.
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Exactly. All pre-season literally every pundit was heralding this Bama squad as Saban’s most talented team ever, that was going to wipe the floor with everyone, including us. Then week 2 they barely beat a hobbled Texas squad. One of the most enjoyable parts of this season was proving every blowhard who predicted we’d regress wrong.
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Stetson going to NYC has really triggered the Vols. Not only did we here about rain and neutral sites after whipping their asses, but now they conveniently forget that while it was time to make hay before the rain came…….STETSON LIT THEIR ASS UP like a Christmas tree…..on the ground and through the air.
They are literally beside themselves angry that we’re enjoying the party they already ordered catering for.
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*hear
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If anyone can complain about the rain that day, it should be UGA. We’d have put up 42+ for sure and they still weren’t moving the ball.
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Hell yeah it has them triggered. A good season and they have an Alabama sense of entitlement.
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Tennessee has always thought they were better than they were. I’ve got a Marine buddy who is from Memphis and he talked so dam much shit before the Tennessee game in ‘17. When it came time to can Booch he started saying crazy shit about John Gruden and what not. He told me, “See this is Tennessee. We don’t have to settle for a Saban coordinator.” Then they hired Orange Neck.
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Hey guys, y’all got a super meaningful Sugar Bowl to get ready for.
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Go back and read the article. It shows’ Bennett dropping the bomb and states, “a 25 year old throws slants to 5 star 19 year old’s and he thinks he is the next coming”
Pure crap..
I hope I live long enough to see Saban leave and AL fall to the bottom of the SEC.
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I’d like the fall BEFORE the exit, tbh.
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Exactly. I want to see them on Firebomb saying Saban isn’t getting it done and is t meeting their expectations and has to go. Then I want to see him tell them to fuck off and walk out the door. Then I want to see them start getting beat by Auburn.
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Love the logic of Bama fans that a team that played in their conference championship game and in doing so picked up their only loss should be left out for them: a team that didn’t even make their Conference Championship game and had two losses.
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Bammer logic is sort of like jumbo shrimp
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Awful as that way too long post was, I did learn that Samford’s only loss of the season was to Georgia.
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Yeah, Samford’s really good. Probably not beating the BiZZZZon, but they had a terrific year.
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Samford could have lost to Furman (I was at the game). They got the benefit of one of the weirdest uses of replay I’ve seen when Furman had them on the ropes. Samford and Furman were definitely the class on the SoCon this year. Furman gave Clemson a better game than Fech did. I hope the Bulldogs take down NDSU this weekend.
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It’s amazing how the criteria of not winning your division or having 2 losses that have negatively affected UGA teams in regards to playing for a championship in the BCS era (2007 UGA vs 2011 Bama) or getting into the final 4 of the CFP (2018 UGA vs 2017 Bama) never applied to Alabama. This is the first time that they’ve ever been told “no”, so the wailing and gnashing of teeth is both understandable and delicious. Next we’re going to hear the same sad Mullen bowl loss excuse of “A lot of the guys who were out there playing tonight were on the scout team most of the year.”
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May we equal Bama’s dominance for years to come, but never their joyless whining when we have off-years.
Amen.
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We are 13-0 and SEC champions and we have people who aren’t happy cause LSU’s passing yards and stuff.
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… as my uncle often says: “PEOPLE! They’re THE WORST!”
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Reading it was like watching a 12 car pileup outside Anniston. Screeches and wails from the sourest and whiniest fane base in all of college football make you wonder what in hell do they do with their lives between January and August. With their players hitting the portal or otherwise opting out of the Sugar Bowl, they had better hope they bring at least the effort that our short handed 2020 outfit did against Cincinnati, or they’re liable to get run out of the stadium and into the river.
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Kick back and enjoy this’n, folks.
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Bama has two fewer wins than TCU, more losses than TCU, and Bama’s best ranked win was the same team (in the same stadium) as TCU’s 2nd best win. For added fun, TCU won that game by more points. Bama also lost to a worse ranked team than TCU did.
Ohio State has one more win than TCU and one fewer loss. Ohio State’s best win is against #11, Bama’s best win is against #20. Ohio State also beat #11 by more than Bama beat #20. Ohio State lost to the #2 team, Bama lost to #6 and #17.
The dirty little secret this year is that the SEC West just wasn’t that good. After Bama there isn’t a single other top 15 team, and only two top 25 teams. The East was better (9-6 head to head), same number of ranked teams but with a better average ranking.
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“Anyone who doesn’t win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game”
Nick F’ng Saban
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So is he saying that Bama would love to get a piece of Georgia? LMFAO. Consider yourself’s lucky you are being spared a serious ass whipping.
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Bama: We’re one of the four best teams in the country!
Country: No…you’re not.
Bama: curls in fetal position, sucks thumb and cries
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I think Bama fans are just in uncharted territory. Since 2008 every time they have lost to an SEC team they have either gotten a revenge win or a National Title within @16 months. Without the opportunity this year it will be the longest time the fanbase has gone having to look up at another SEC program.
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To bammer gumps:
That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Life’s a bitch.
These are the facts of life.
Play it as it lies.
Reality bites.
Eat it.
Pound Sand.
Deal with it.
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