Alabama vs Notre Dame

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Getting close.

Can Alabama become the first program to win 3 BCS National Chamionships, to become a "dynasty"? Will they choke, with that much pressure? Clearly, ND has far exceeded everyone's pre/early season expectations, so no pressure on their backs. Should be a great game.

Early spread had Alabama by 8.5, but latest spread I saw was 'Bama by 10pts.

Not to shock the ND faithful, or jinx, but I believe ND can win, or at the very least, cover the current spread.

[dmc]

Getting close.

Not to shock the ND faithful, or jinx, but I believe ND can win, or at the very least, cover the current spread.

Shocked to say the least.....we'll be rooting for ND of course. My son managed to get a ticket and is, just slightly ecstatic !

Be back on Tuesday.......

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Shocked to say the least.....we'll be rooting for ND of course. My son managed to get a ticket and is, just slightly ecstatic !

Be back on Tuesday.......

Rooting for ND is the lesser of two evils. Somebody needs to deny the SEC another national championship. Would prefer it came from a big ten team, but in place of that, I'll quietly root for the Domers!!

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It's getting to be time.... Two more days.

[DJGreg1200]

Something tells me that Notre Dame is going to win this game.

I hope I'm wrong though......

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Something tells me that Notre Dame is going to win this game.

I hope I'm wrong though......

DJ -

I was on the otherside of the fence all year long saying that ND was going to lose against X, Y and Z....but some how, they manage to pull it out. They keep surprising folks.

Last time I looked, the spread was Alabama, byt 10pts. But I'm not so sure? I've learned my lesson about betting against them (at least this year).

[FRANK X]

Arond the Bowl and down the Hole.
Roll Tide Roll.

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Arond the Bowl and down the Hole.
Roll Tide Roll.

Coincidetally, there's a guy here at Maryland that's been saying the same thing for the past week. Since he didn't go there, and has no affiliation (ie, no kids go there), I asked him why?

He said it just "sounds cool".

[FRANK X]

My daughter goes to Ole Miss....it's an SEC thing. She said during game week when they play Bama that is all you hear.

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Alabama 28 - ND 0

At the half.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIWds...e_gdata_player

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Alabama 35 - ND 0, with 7 min remaining in the 3rd.

No mas

Time for the Tide to call off the dogs.

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ND - Congrats on a great season, but you now know how OSU fans must have felt going up against a SEC team.

Alabama is just heads and shoulder better than anyone else.

Time we had a college football playoff....tired of watching another stinker of a national championship.

[FRANK X]

Congrats to Bama, clearly the better team.
Go Irish!

[dmc]

At least ND made it to the championship, and it wasn't a total blow-out, now that would have been embarrassing, now to look ahead to next season. , and change my focus to basketball for a while.

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At least ND made it to the championship, and it wasn't a total blow-out, now that would have been embarrassing, now to look ahead to next season. , and change my focus to basketball for a while.

Please.

Ummm, what game were you watching? Are you confusing "blow-out" with "shut-out"? No shut-out, but it was most definitely a blow-out.

But please, don't take my word for it...read just about any news report on the game you want:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...abama/1814443/

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...es-new-dynasty

http://www.wbir.com/news/article/248...peat-BCS-title

http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/2...peat-BCS-title



Here's my favorite from the Chicago Tribune:

"Notre Dame lays an egg in blowout loss to Alabama"

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...ame-manti-te-o


This from ESPN. Based on comments from co-workers who looked foward to the game (as did I), but never made it past the 2nd/3rd period, this summarizes it best:

"You could almost hear television sets around the country flipping to other channels, a hugely anticipated matchup between two of the nation's most storied programs reduced to nothing more than the second straight BCS blowout for the Crimson Tide."


If it's any consolation, Michigan lost by almost the same score.

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As far as 'Bama is concerned...."They are who we thought they were"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_N1OjGhIFc

[DJGreg1200]

Last night was my first time watching Notre Dame play all year by halftime I was asking myself, how in the hell did they get to the championship game? College football needs a playoff in the worst way

[demopublican]

Alabama 35 - ND 0, with 7 min remaining in the 3rd.

No mas

Time for the Tide to call off the dogs.

I think the bowls this year were ample proof that the system has failed.

[slapshot]

Last night was my first time watching Notre Dame play all year by halftime I was asking myself, how in the hell did they get to the championship game? College football needs a playoff in the worst way

To be fair, they went undefeated, but if you look closer at some of their wins, you find many weren't "quality wins". They won, yes, but not convincingly:

- Purdue, by 3
- Michigan by 7
- Stanford in OT
- BYU by 3
- Pitt in 3OT's

...and ALL of those narrow wins were at home, in SB, Indiana. If they had lost just one of those games, they wouldn't have been playing last night. But it is, what it is.

That said, when we seed the top 4 next year (for the mini-BCS-playoffs), maybe there also should be some consideration made to the quality of wins, and not just the number of wins?


I am a critic of ND, but I'll be honest...they surprised me all season. Even the Championship game was a bit of a shocker to me. I thought ND would show up for this game. At least make it competitive. They didn't. The gametime pt spread was 'bama +9.5pts. Not even close. If you listened to Urban Meyer (at the half), some of the biggest ("glaring") problems he pointed out were just "sloppy" play from ND, from the many missed tackles, to missed assignments in the secondary.

As a poster on ESPN said: "Notre Dame may be on NBC, but they certainly aren't ready for prime time." I thought that was a great line.

[Dub]

To be fair, they went undefeated, but if you look closer at some of their wins, you find many weren't "quality wins". They won, yes, but not convincingly:

- Purdue, by 3
- Michigan by 7
- Stanford in OT
- BYU by 3
- Pitt in 3OT's

...and ALL of those narrow wins were at home, in SB, Indiana. If they had lost just one of those games, they wouldn't have been playing last night. But it is, what it is.

That said, when we seed the top 4 next year (for the mini-BCS-playoffs), maybe there also should be some consideration made to the quality of wins, and not just the number of wins?


I am a critic of ND, but I'll be honest...they surprised me all season. Even the Championship game was a bit of a shocker to me. I thought ND would show up for this game. At least make it competitive. They didn't. The gametime pt spread was 'bama +9.5pts. Not even close. If you listened to Urban Meyer (at the half), some of the biggest ("glaring") problems he pointed out were just "sloppy" play from ND, from the many missed tackles, to missed assignments in the secondary.

As a poster on ESPN said: "Notre Dame may be on NBC, but they certainly aren't ready for prime time." I thought that was a great line.

They also beat Michigan State when they were #10 in the country, Michigan, Oklahoma at Oklahoma, and Stanford. Lets please not pretend as if they didnt play all cupcakes and barely won.

ND looked bad. Manti missed 2 tackles all season and had more missed tackles on first two drives then the previous 12 games. Seemed as if the layoff may have taken some of NDs physicalness away, though Bama was impressive.

I think these blowouts happen due to 6 weeks of not playing real football, that has to stop. Bring on the playoffs.