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Game Thread 2015 Sugar Bowl: (1) Alabama vs. (4) Ohio State, Jan 1st @ 8:30p ET, ESPN (civilized thread)

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beau said:
AR, who has never won the SEC in football. Yawn, not impressed.
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I bet you weren't yawning with Arkansas came within a point of tying you this season.

And explain to me how what we did against other SEC teams in other years, with few if any players from those teams remaining on our current roster, has to do with the game on Jan 1?
 
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BamaInHoustonRTR said:
Quickly went through and grabbed some stats from some of the bigger games and RBs on each team's schedule (8 a piece). First number is the average ypc for the game against Alabama/Ohio State. The second number is their average ypc for the season. Best way to view this is to quickly look down the left column and get a rough average of what the team's defense gives up on avg. Then compare each number side by side to see how often that RB gets close to his seasonal avg. A * denotes if he is above his seasonal avg. This doesn't necessarily mean anything for this game, but if you found the post interesting then "like" the post below. Thx.
WVU
Shell – 3.9 – 4.7
Smith - 3.0- 5.7
Ole Miss
Walton 3.5 – 5.9
Arky
Williams – 4.2 – 5.8
Collins – 2.2 -5.5
Tenn
Hurd – 3.7 – 4.5
LSU
Fournette – 3.8 – 5.1
Magee – 2.4 – 5.2
Mizzou –
Hansborough – 1.6 – 5.1
Murphy – 2.9 – 4.6
Miss St
Robinson – 3.1 – 6.4
AU –
Payne – 3.1 – 5.4
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Va tech
Willimams – 1.7 -3.8
Mich St
Langford – 7.6 – 5.5 *
Penn St
Lynch – 2.9 – 4.6
Belton – 0.9 – 4.2
Minnesota
Cobb – 5.4 – 5. 3 *
Indiana
Coleman- 8.4 – 7.5 *
Maryland
Ross- 4.8 – 4.9
Wisconsin
Gordon – 2.9 – 7.6
Michigan
Johnson – 4.9 – 6.0
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Excellent post, thanks.
 
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beau said:
The SEC payed hush money, Alabama gets to be the home team and gets to pick the refs too.
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Actually I think they're PAC refs... which has caused me to change my prediction from "turnover battle deciding game" to "whoever gets the dumbest calls from these morons"
Whatever you do, don't rely on stopping the clock for a last-second FG...
 
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kujirakira said:
Actually I think they're PAC refs... which has caused me to change my prediction from "turnover battle deciding game" to "whoever gets the dumbest calls from these morons"
Whatever you do, don't rely on stopping the clock for a last-second FG...
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This

They aren't biased. They are amazingly incompetent.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
I like this format - I'll play!

Coaching: Push
Running game: Push
Passing game: ALA -- (TBD, I guess?)
OL: Push
DL: Push
Secondary: Push
LB: ALA
Kicking game: Push
Run defense: ALA
Pass defense: Push
QB: Alabama -- (TBD, I guess?)
Receivers: Push (with a big nod to Cooper as being way better than anyone OSU has seen)
Strength of schedule: Alabama
Prediction: Alabama 37 Ohio State 17

I'm obviously a little more bearish on the Bucks than some of my fellows posters. Sign me up for next year when the team is one year more experienced.

That 59-0 whipping was beautiful, but that doesn't erase those defensive struggles against IU, Minnehaha, and *ichigan. Can the d-line continue to play responsibly or will they revert to some of the over-pursuit we have seen? Can the LB's fill the correct lanes like they did against Bucky or do we see more "two guys, one gap" that is so hard to watch. Will the safeties be able to make the touchdown-saving tackle the one or two times they have to or will they take terrible angles again?

I also didn't come away from the Wisconsin game feeling as good about the offense as others -- too much reliance on big plays for my taste. I don't see Smith winning those jump balls against better corners -- I can't think of many other 50/50 balls that he has one, so I'm counting it as a fluke. And I'm still a skeptic i regards to Jones -- as good as he looked, he took a number of negative yardage plays and I don't think this team can play from behind the sticks against Bama. I believe the key to the game is Jones being able to hit enough of the 10-15 yard throws to keep Bama honest and let the Bucks run. I don't believe he can do it.

I hope to be proven horribly wrong.

(Ha, you ass-butts! The rep system is GONE, so you homers can't even ding me for this. Suck it!)
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I did not Like this post.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
I like this format - I'll play!

Coaching: Push
Running game: Push
Passing game: ALA -- (TBD, I guess?)
OL: Push
DL: Push
Secondary: Push
LB: ALA
Kicking game: Push
Run defense: ALA
Pass defense: Push
QB: Alabama -- (TBD, I guess?)
Receivers: Push (with a big nod to Cooper as being way better than anyone OSU has seen)
Strength of schedule: Alabama
Prediction: Alabama 37 Ohio State 17

I'm obviously a little more bearish on the Bucks than some of my fellows posters. Sign me up for next year when the team is one year more experienced.

That 59-0 whipping was beautiful, but that doesn't erase those defensive struggles against IU, Minnehaha, and *ichigan. Can the d-line continue to play responsibly or will they revert to some of the over-pursuit we have seen? Can the LB's fill the correct lanes like they did against Bucky or do we see more "two guys, one gap" that is so hard to watch. Will the safeties be able to make the touchdown-saving tackle the one or two times they have to or will they take terrible angles again?

I also didn't come away from the Wisconsin game feeling as good about the offense as others -- too much reliance on big plays for my taste. I don't see Smith winning those jump balls against better corners -- I can't think of many other 50/50 balls that he has one, so I'm counting it as a fluke. And I'm still a skeptic i regards to Jones -- as good as he looked, he took a number of negative yardage plays and I don't think this team can play from behind the sticks against Bama. I believe the key to the game is Jones being able to hit enough of the 10-15 yard throws to keep Bama honest and let the Bucks run. I don't believe he can do it.

I hope to be proven horribly wrong.

(Ha, you ass-butts! The rep system is GONE, so you homers can't even ding me for this. Suck it!)
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But I can ban you, edit the post without no one knowing and making you look more of a dipshit than you do now, or just delete it. How's that, "ass-butt"?
 
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beau said:
Using your logic the Ohio State vs IL game next fall should be a toss up.
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Your "logic" makes absolutely no fucking sense, Elmer. Guess I have to spell it out for you. You dissed Arkansas, and I reminded you that they almost beat you this year. Our 55-14 destruction of Illinois this year has zero comparison with your beating Arkansas by one fucking point.
 
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