Jan 7 | BCS National Championship | Alabama

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I found myself switching who I was rooting for as the game went on. At first I wanted Bama, because I thought we matched up well with them (strong running game, iffy passing game plays right into our defensive strengths). Then, in the fourth quarter, as I watched Bama repeatedly gash Georgia's vaunted (but severely overrated) defense, I found myself drooling at the prospect of Cierre and Theo running through them Georgia and nervous that Bama would do similar things to us. Then I thought about how Murray would be the best QB we face this year, and I switched back to rooting for Bama. Then, as Georgia was driving, I found myself inexplicably rooting for a Georgia touchdown.

So, suffice to say, I haven't quite decided how I feel about Bama yet.

Hahaha my game was similar. I started off cheering for UGA, then to Bama, back to UGA because of the run, and in the end I was just happy with the outcome. We match up well against Bama and while we aren't guaranteed a win, I think each team will be facing their toughest opposition of the year.
 
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#Notre Dame football resumes practice on Friday. Will spread them out thereafter: Dec 8, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31; Jan 3, 4, 5
 

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Haha, keep it coming, Bammer:

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What does #Alabama QB AJ McCarron know about #NotreDame? "Nothing. Other than my brother was fan of them growing up."

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#Alabama coach Nick Saban on #NotreDame: "I'm not going to get ready to play them until we start practicing. So I've got a couple weeks."

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CJ Mosley on a #NotreDame-#Alabama BCS title game: "I'm sure it gets the old-heads excited, people that are in their 50s and 60s."
 

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Probably a stupid question, but one I've been wondering about for a while. So Miami's Sun Life stadium holds ~75k people. Notre Dame and Bama were given allotments of 17k to sort out to students/band/the lottery. That leaves about 40k tickets left--for whom? Where are those tickets sold? Who gets them? Seriously, I have no idea. And, snowballing off that question, how do they get it so that the stadium is split between Notre Dame and Bama fans like they do at bowls every year. How is it that there will likely be Blue/Gold on one side of the stands and Crimson on the other? How do they split those extra 40k so that that happens?
 

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ESPN has started playing the Alabama Roll Tide commercial again SMH.
 

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A couple points regarding things that have been discussed in this thread:

Russell and Jackson have designated sides of the field (boundary and wide). Neither were matched up against either Lee or Woods, and neither will be matched up against Cooper. They will cover whoever comes to their side of the field.

ALLGATOR, I'm not sure if you're aware but Notre Dame runs a 3-4 defense. There is a 6-man rotation of Tuitt (Day), Nix (Springmann) and Lewis-Moore (Schwenke). Schwenke plays the least. Ishaq Williams will also be used on passing downs to provide a seventh body up front, but he is really a linebacker.

Be careful about going overboard on Alabama's offensive line for destroying a mediocre (and out of shape) run defense. Barrett Jones was getting ABUSED in the first quarter+, but those fatty defensive tackles for Georgia were gassed by half time. Bama ran for a grand total of 122 yards against A&M. LSU held them to 166.
 
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One big advantage for both offenses that I haven't seen anywhere is that they have been practicing against 3-4 defenses all year so there will be less surprises on gameday. God I am so excited!
 
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How many dlinemen does ND use in the regular rotation?

AllGator, that is a secret. We could tell you, but we would have to kill you. Want us to tell you? Just kidding.


It isn't as easy as that. ND plays an odd and even front. Sometimes they bring Williams in and he drops his hand to the dirt. Some times they move an end (Kappy, Sheldon, Stephon) inside and put one or two lb's on the outside. Sometimes they use Schwenke or Springman. In all I have counted nine men in rotation. Like hockey lines . . .

And about you guys that are arguing about which corner is faster. I want to make sure in your haste to defend your champion, you realize you are dising the other guy. He is Irish too.

PS. The Johnson td by SC against ND wasn't because BJ got burned off the ball by RJ. It was a breakdown in coverage; actually good coaching by Laney. I will look to Bobby D to clean that up before the NC game.
 
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Saban will take him out of the ball game it will have to be somebody else

I love you.

I agree Johnny.

AllGator, you say so many preposterous things, that you just assume will be acccepted as fact that you could be an SEC fan.

The whole point is when a coach takes Eifert out of the game it doesn't work. Eifert has caught in double coverage against the likes of Oklahoma and SC this year. He would have caught more in double coverage, except Golson couldn't see him at that phase of his (Golson's) development. AND when a coaching scheme includes double coverage it really opens up things quite nicely elsewhere.

Between Eifert, play action, stretching the width of the field, and Golsons mobility and ability to run a mean option, I think ND can present an A&M worthy challenge.

Only like one person brought up what is going to win this game for ND. Conditioning. All four fronts between Ala and Geo were great. But their conditioning sucked! I mean I thought they were going to have to get the crash cart out their a couple times. I want to see ND make them run to cover stunts on that Alabama line.
 

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A couple points regarding things that have been discussed in this thread:

Russell and Jackson have designated sides of the field (boundary and wide). Neither were matched up against either Lee or Woods, and neither will be matched up against Cooper. They will cover whoever comes to their side of the field.

ALLGATOR, I'm not sure if you're aware but Notre Dame runs a 3-4 defense. There is a 6-man rotation of Tuitt (Day), Nix (Springmann) and Lewis-Moore (Schwenke). Schwenke plays the least. Ishaq Williams will also be used on passing downs to provide a seventh body up front, but he is really a linebacker.

Be careful about going overboard on Alabama's offensive line for destroying a mediocre (and out of shape) run defense. Barrett Jones was getting ABUSED in the first quarter+, but those fatty defensive tackles for Georgia were gassed by half time. Bama ran for a grand total of 122 yards against A&M. LSU held them to 166.
I know ND runs a 3-4 did it seem like I was going overboard?
 

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I agree Johnny.

AllGator, you say so many preposterous things, that you just assume will be acccepted as fact that you could be an SEC fan.

The whole point is when a coach takes Eifert out of the game it doesn't work. Eifert has caught in double coverage against the likes of Oklahoma and SC this year. He would have caught more in double coverage, except Golson couldn't see him at that phase of his (Golson's) development. AND when a coaching scheme includes double coverage it really opens up things quite nicely elsewhere.

Between Eifert, play action, stretching the width of the field, and Golsons mobility and ability to run a mean option, I think ND can present an A&M worthy challenge.

Only like one person brought up what is going to win this game for ND. Conditioning. All four fronts between Ala and Geo were great. But their conditioning sucked! I mean I thought they were going to have to get the crash cart out their a couple times. I want to see ND make them run to cover stunts on that Alabama line.
Please dont compare Oklahoma and Monte Kiffin to Alabama. Golson's legs are going to be very important in this game. You are right I am wrong Eifert will have 150 yards receiving in the game To the bold didn't I say the other people will have to make plays and I think they can?
 
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Please dont compare Oklahoma and Monte Kiffin to Alabama. Golson's legs are going to be very important in this game. You are right I am wrong Eifert will have 150 yards receiving in the game To the bold didn't I say the other people will have to make plays and I think they can?

Most of this would have been better if posted in English. Ok and SC have pretty darned good secondaries. So good that if double coverage would shut Eifert down, theirs would.

In attempting to communicate, I would not, and rarely if ever do make direct comparisons between personel or position groups between one team and another. In this case, it was a threshold comment. They were good enough, that observing the results would give you a clue about how that would work for anybody.

Besides, I would never make a comparison between any two teams one inside the SEC and one outside; it is my experience that when dealing with SEC homerism, that particluar combination of shortages, (objectivity and rationality) automatically creates an obsticle in communication impossible to overcome.

And that doesn't matter. I don't think even your vaunted Tide have two to spare all evening for Eifert, but I am expressly sure that Kelly would be happy with that effort.

As far as you predicting (in italics) that Eifert would have 150 yards, that is as stupid as the other. Did you just forget them the first time? I don't know; you don't know, beyond generalities. Didn't someone say, that is why they play the game?

Should be interesting to watch the Pride of the SEC play a team that isn't intimidated by them! Téigh Gaeilge!
 
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Please dont compare Oklahoma and Monte Kiffin to Alabama. Golson's legs are going to be very important in this game.

USC does rank in the Top 5 in sacks and total tackles for loss. They aren't chumps. Take away the Oregon game and then see where their D ranks. ND also faced the Stanford D, nothing will surprise ND at this point. 'Bama hasn't done anything to make you go OMG.
 

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USC does rank in the Top 5 in sacks and total tackles for loss. They aren't chumps. Take away the Oregon game and then see where their D ranks. ND also faced the Stanford D, nothing will surprise ND at this point. 'Bama hasn't done anything to make you go OMG.

I agree with this
 
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I agree with this

What they do well is what ND does well. ND needs to shut down the running game to have a chance. They have done that well all year, Pitt game aside. AJ reminds me of Alex Smith in the sense of he is more of a game manager then anything else.

'Bama D against the last 3 legitimate teams:

Against UGA: 394 yards.
Against A&M: 418 yards
Against LSU: 435 yards

Sandwhich Auburn and Western Carolina in between A&M and UGA.

They have holes; just gotta find them.
 

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Ball control, long mythical drives, combining LSU and aTm's game plans, and deep fried lard(for Bamers of coarse) are my keys to the game. Goodman also will have something to say in the end. Gut feeling, he will have a key catch in this game!
 

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I expect to see more Carlo than Foxy in this game. Run D is more important when defending Alabama.
 

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Unsung heroes that will decide this game:

-Kyle Brindza... points will be hard to come by, can't leave any on the field.
-Ben Turk... that Alabama punter was boss... can't have a bunch of -20 yard net punting exchanges, that will doom us.
-Mike Golic Jr.... got to block that huge guy. When they account ed for him, 'Bama's run D was very soft on the interior.
-Carlo Calabrese/Dan Fox/Danny Spond... the last couple teams we've played have all made it a gameplan to get a lineman to the 2nd level against Te'o every single running play. These guys will need to make plays. Lots of plays.
 

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37 days of hearing about Bama, the SEC, "big boy football," how the title game was played yesterday, Saban being declared "cryptic" when the better term is "pompous jacka-s," cartoons of elephants crushing leprechauns, AJ McCarron making out with his mom.......FML

Seriously, who the hell gives their mom an open mouth lip to lip kiss?

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37 days of hearing about Bama, the SEC, "big boy football," how the title game was played yesterday, Saban being declared "cryptic" when the better term is "pompous jacka-s," cartoons of elephants crushing leprechauns, AJ McCarron making out with his mom.......FML

Seriously, who the hell gives their mom an open mouth lip to lip kiss?

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Have you seen her rack? I'd open mouth kiss AJ's mom.
 
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And that doesn't matter. I don't think even your vaunted Tide have two to spare all evening for Eifert, but I am expressly sure that Kelly would be happy with that effort.

The Alabama defense cannot afford to double cover Tyler Eifert, but if they do, Brian Kelly would be very happy with their effort!
 
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