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This one feels like we were always waiting to finally pay for a bad spring camp and a crazy offseason. We almost got there but almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

I hope this wasn’t Saban’s last great shot at winning a NC. Next year will be even harder to win it than ever. We are fully capable of doing it but winning championships is hard enough winning just 2 games. Now potentially 3 games makes it even more difficult. We have alot of questions heading into Spring training and we have a very difficult schedule. I trust Saban but these past two seasons we probably should have won 1 of them with the talent we had.
Might have to win 4 games.
 
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Well, at least I can hold my head high at the beach this year and give my UGA friends a little grief. Next year will be interesting but I’m looking forward to it for sure. RTR
 
They won it on field. I don't guess they were stealing signals the last two games. To me, it's the same as those games the NCAA took away from us. We won them and no one is going to tell me any different. I'm sure UM fans feel the same this morning.
 
I have a couple friends with connections to Michigan so I’m fine with them winning. The fact we lost in overtime to the team that won it all makes us look better.
 
Going into the playoff I thought Mich was the third best team behind Texas and Alabama. Because of Sarkisian, I thought Alabama had a great chance of beating them in the final. Well, neither won their game 🙂.

IMO, Bama should have run the ball, especially wide, much more, especially with Haynes, even though Jase did a very good job. Mich never stopped it. Playing 2 deep safeties because of JM, really opened that up but Rees would not stay with it. Ironic, since one of Rees’ playcalling trait’s reportedly, that some didn’t like, but I love, is that if something worked, he would run it to death and boredom. I would be interested to know what his reasoning was.

So many what if’s, as is usually the case in a close game: Just one last stop, a little better QB play, no snap issues, a play here or there. OTOH, Mich would likely have had more misgivings than Alabama if they had lost. But in the end, IMO, Mich out coached and outplayed Alabama and when crunch time came, they took the game away from Alabama.

Forgetting the alleged cheating for the moment, I have long loathed JH and his crude and ungracious personal behavior, so it is especially unpleasant for me to say, but kudos to Mich, they were better than I thought and deserved it (as far as we know).
 
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They won it on field. I don't guess they were stealing signals the last two games. To me, it's the same as those games the NCAA took away from us. We won them and no one is going to tell me any different. I'm sure UM fans feel the same this morning.
Totally different scenarios, Alabama gained no competitive advantage selling textbooks.

in case anyone has forgotten
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Pretty simple choices:

He actually started coaching when he took the paycut

They weren’t scouting teams before Stallions was hired

There was a significant advantage gained from this method of “scouting”

Draw your own conclusion.

Simple truth: without Stallion, Michigan still hasn’t made the playoffs.
 
I picked UM to win it all before the first game was played this year. They essentially brought back everyone from a great team last year. They played well as a team and really pulled together through a ton of distractions. They won this in spite of the head coach, not because of him.

Hail to the Cheaters!
 
Apparently not. Alabama dropped to 5th in the final AP poll.
Pointless.

The real national championship game was played in Pasadena on New Year's Day. History repeated itself because everyone knows the real 2023 season championship game was played New Year's Eve in Atlanta. And both times they featured the Big 10 vs the SEC. The SEC won one and the Big 10 won one.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :D
 
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Maybe fitting that in a completely flawed year for rankings/decisions, a completely flawed program/head coach won it all...CFB is a mess and needs fixing...but keeps shooting itself in the foot
 

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