POLL: What OOC Team Should Alabama Schedule?

i wish frank thomas picked a higher score.

Better to consistently beat everyone in your own conference before looking to schedule all the heavyweights. Which, might I add, is exactly what we have done. We find that formula works well when you need to beat Texas at the end of a long season.

Because Boise St’s schedule was so strong. Anyway, if you’re that obsessed with picking national championships who didn’t get it and desperately trying to devalue ours, you’d probably be more at home here

0 Top 10 teams in the Pac 10
2 Top 10 teams in the SEC
3 Top 10 teams that Bama beat last year
1 Top 10 team that BSU beat last year

2 Top 25 teams in the Pac 10
4 Top 25 teams in the SEC
5 Top 25 teams that Bama beat last year
2 Top 25 teams that BSU beat last year

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/polls/ap/?eref=sinav

You were saying?

A) Ok, the top of the pyramid isn’t that strong – we certainly agree there. Let’s look at the rest of the pyramid now. Care to check out the rest of our respective conferences’ records for last year. I think you’ll find the depth is on our side. http://espn.go.com/ncf/clubhouse?teamId=333 http://espn.go.com/ncf/clubhouse?teamId=12 Just check out the conference records a little ways down and to the right. There’s just no comparison.

B) I did not say we don’t schedule cupcakes. I did say we do schedule tough OOC opponents each year that we could easily lose to. Thus, we are not afraid to play tough OOC games. We’re obviously not afraid to play cupcakes either.

C) Every coach commits a handful of secondaries in their tenure – some can’t be helped. If you call Kiffin’s record as a handful, then he has redefined the definition of the term. He has shown on multiple occasions that he either does not know the rules of the game he coaches, or he does not care.

D) My champ for 2004 is Auburn. (Not really, but if we’re going to be absurd here, my statement would have far more validity than yours)

Alabama: #2 SOS, 3-0 vs top 10 and 7-0 vs top 30
Boise St: #96 SOS, 1-0 vs top 10 and 2-0 vs top 30

Alabama also became the first team in major college football history to defeat the last three previous national champions in the same season (24-15 vs ’07 champion LSU, 32-13 vs ’08 & ’06 champion Florida, 37-21 vs ’05 champion Texas).

Alabama also became the first team in major college football history to defeat two straight opponents with at least a 12-0 record (defeated 12-0 Florida 32-13 in SEC title game & 13-0 Texas 37-21 in BCS title game).

Alabama defeated 10 bowl opponents in 2009. That’s the most ever recorded in major college football history.

So, why is Boise State your champ again?

That’s a pretty low blow to say that any fan base deserves the likes of Kiffin. Right, Paragon?

I’m sorry, I kid, but….. Should you be taking offense to kleph’s statement if you believe in Kiff?

enjoy all those moral victories, bucko.

I guess you will be perfectly satisfied with Kiffin

scoreboard

…but isn’t the scoreboard the only thing that counts? Wow! That was a moronic comment.

too puffed up on your own sense of self-entitlement to actually listen to anyone else who had a reasonable point to make.

sheesh. get a life.

If anything I would say contract it…go back to the PAC 8 but gnat is awhile can of worms…

Your premise that the SEC is historically the stronger conference is dead on arrival. Sure, there’s year to year fluctuations, and I would give 2009 to the SEC, but historically the Pac10 wins on the field.

Next argument?

for example, everyone feels significantly better about their lot in life whenever you are around.

i’d rather have ucla peeps over here than usc. at least ucla folks can read and shit.

are those that know the historical record is overwhelmingly against them. texas fans, you might note, didn’t have much of an issue with us dragging up the past prior to the MNC last year.

and saying that said dominance directly translates to every conference. the pac ten and the sec cannot be treated as exact equals in terms of strength of schedule and this is the point our little friend deliberately ignores in all of his arguments.

that said, insisting – as we do – that the sec is a stronger regular season slate than what the pac ten has to offer isn’t a knock on the team widely recognized as one of the premiere squads in the game. it’s isn’t usc’s fault it plays in the pac ten and nobody here is saying it is.

there is the little problem that usc has had a distressing habit of dropping games to inferior opponents within the conference over the past several seasons. that has to be taken into account if anyone wants to insist the trojans “dominate” the pac ten. in this regard, alabama clearly exceeds usc in recent seasons – one single loss to a conference opponent who was ranked No. 2 at the time nationally.

but to counter that with the insistence that we are playing the disrespect card is laughable. nobody, even the most ardent kiffin hater, is suggesting that usc is an inferior opponent in any way. (in fact, the poll itself undermines any suggestion alabama fans see usc as such).

now a lot of what i’m pointing out here exceeds the scope of your particular comment but, since you were responding in an earnest manner i felt it important to reply in a similar spirit. please feel free to comment in any thread on RBR as you feel necessary, you’re input is an asset to the discussion here.

you blast us for having inferior scheduling, and then boast about your ability to “dominante” an inferior conference lineup.

or, to put it another way, how many crystal footballs do you have to match those big pac ten trophies help you are so proud of?

…the last time we were members of a weak conference like the Pac-10….

and here is the boise state link to this thread.

Fish it ‘til it’s empty. The Runnin’ Utes would love to play Bama every year.