Alabama 21, LSU 0 -- Touchdowns are for Winners, and the Crimson Tide are National Champions
by cocknfire on Jan 10, 2012 12:06 AM EST
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PrintThere were plenty of skeptics about the possibility of a rematch in the BCS National Championship Game, even before the field goal-drenched slugfest in Tuscaloosa in November. And there were plenty of us who questioned whether Alabama could be a true national champion if they won the second game after losing the first one.
All of those questions were obliterated Monday night in New Orleans, dismantled by Alabama along with LSU's hopes of its first undefeated season in more than a half-century. In the end, it wasn't even close.
Alabama locked up the first shutout in BCS history. The Tide limited LSU to 92 yards, the second fewest yards ever allowed in a BCS championship game. (The fewest were the 82 Ohio State gained against Florida, in case you were wondering.) The LSU offense came into the game with a terrible game plan and executed it poorly, but Alabama's defense took it from there in one of the most impressive defensive performances in years.
Oh, and did we mention that Alabama actually scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter? A.J. McCarron was a calm and polished quarterback in the pocket, completing 23 of his 34 pass attempts for 234 yards, the most yards he threw for all season against SEC teams not named Vanderbilt and Tennessee. Trent Richardson had 96 yards on 20 rushes and was the one who scored that touchdown, cementing his place in Alabama history in what will almost certainly be his last game at Alabama.
So point to the scoreboard from November all you want. Challenge the idea of a rematch in the BCS National Championship Game all you want. But in the Alabama-LSU showdown that mattered most, Alabama was the team that played its best game of the year. And that's why they should wake up on Tuesday as the national champions, no matter what measurement or poll you use.
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Congrats to the Tigers for a good year
Roll Tide and congrats to the SEC for having 3 in the top 5!
"There are 40 rules all Schrute boys must learn by age 5. Rule #17- There are 3 things you never turn your back on--- Bears, men you have wronged, and a dominant male turkey during mating season."
How long has it been since ole miss won a game?
"There are 40 rules all Schrute boys must learn by age 5. Rule #17- There are 3 things you never turn your back on--- Bears, men you have wronged, and a dominant male turkey during mating season."
Been since Fresno.. I think,
I have no problem with Alabama ALUMNI, or REAL Alabama fans who actually know, who coaches the baseball program, who the AD is, or something about the school, not the dumb trailer trash rednecks like Harvey Updyke, who " have too much bama in them" and act like one of those 100 bama sticker on their truck passes for an PHD with the rest of us. I don’t have a problem with the real fans it’s the alabandwagon fans I hate.
I can respect that,
But no real Alabama fans I know like updyke. What he did was completely classless and dumb. But we aren’t all trailer trash rednecks. When you have a large fanbase there will be bad apples. I hate all bandwagon fans like the billion fans that jumped on Oregons bandwagon when they started winning games.
"There are 40 rules all Schrute boys must learn by age 5. Rule #17- There are 3 things you never turn your back on--- Bears, men you have wronged, and a dominant male turkey during mating season."
BTW I don't have PHD because I joined the Army after high school.
Does that make me any less of a fan of Alabama in your eyes?
"There are 40 rules all Schrute boys must learn by age 5. Rule #17- There are 3 things you never turn your back on--- Bears, men you have wronged, and a dominant male turkey during mating season."
I think you're painting with a pretty broad brush there
I come from a family of Alabama fans who never actually went to the school, but who are almost as intense and passionate about Alabama as I am about South Carolina. And they are hardly bandwagon fans in the traditional sense — they are just as proud of being Alabama fans when the team is losing as they are when it’s winning.
You have to keep in mind that a lot of Southern states still don’t have any pro teams to speak of, and none of them did until about 50 years ago. That’s in my parents’ lifetime. I don’t have any problem with someone who wants to cheer for a college football team from their area or their state for the same reason that some of us choose to cheer for the closest pro team.
Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.
Nobody likes a bandwagon fan, but I've never got why they upset people.
All winning teams, programs, or athletes have bandwagon fans. It’s natural. A bandwagon fan is someone who doesn’t really care though. They drop a team and pick someone else like they are choosing what restaurant to eat at.
Some people hate redneck fans, but I doubt any team in the SEC doesn’t have any. I’ve met plenty that cheer for other schools so I’ve never understood that criticism either. For some reason though, fans of losing programs seem very preoccupied with whether or not other schools’ fans graduated from that particular school as though it’s some requirement to buy a ticket or something.
Oh well….
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