🏈 42 Years between NCG losses

[252BAMA]

Prior to this past season, Bama last lost a NCG game in 1974. #2 ranked at 11-0, lost to ND in the Orange Bowl and would have, at 12-0 with a win over ND, unquestionably finished ahead of 11-0 Oklahoma which was on Bowl Probation. Won SEVEN straight after that in the '78, '79, '92, '09, '11, '12, and '15 seasons.

 

[TUSKtimes]

1973 and 74 cost us 2 NC. We definitely owed Notre Dame a good beatdown in the 2012 NC game.

 

[sean]

the one in '73 was lost by 1 stinkin' point;. the one in '74 was by 2 points; and the one in '16 was by 4 points.

seven points total, through 3 games.

 

[#80]

It was goes to show you that you need to be very good and have some luck to win a NC.

 

[bamachine]

1973 and 74 cost us 2 NC. We definitely owed Notre Dame a good beatdown in the 2012 NC game.

Not to mention '66

 

[sean]

Not to mention '66

the denial of BAMA getting the title in '66 was out of hatred, in my opinion. and i will always believe that.

 

[252BAMA]

the denial of BAMA getting the title in '66 was out of hatred, in my opinion. and i will always believe that.

Preseason#1. Dropped to #3 before they ever played a game. Never had a shot.

Alabama 1966 AP Football Rankings - College Poll Archive - Historical College Football and Basketball Polls and Rankings

 

[252BAMA]

I have often wondered if Tulane had remained in the SEC in '66, and on Bama's schedule, would Bama had remained at #1. Bama was scheduled to open with Tulane and there is no question that the 13th hour replacement of them with non-1A La Tech was the reason (excuse) Bama was dropped from the top spot. This has been traditional with the AP Poll. UGA was dropped from #1 after opening with non1-A Georgia Southern in 2008.

Georgia 2008 AP Football Rankings - College Poll Archive - Historical College Football and Basketball Polls and Rankings

 

[TUSKtimes]

I have often wondered if Tulane had remained in the SEC in '66, and on Bama's schedule, would Bama had remained at #1. Bama was scheduled to open with Tulane and there is no question that the 13th hour replacement of them with non-1A La Tech was the reason Bama was dropped from the top spot. This has been traditional with the AP Poll. UGA was dropped from #1 after opening with non1-A Georgia Southern in 2008.

Georgia 2008 AP Football Rankings - College Poll Archive - Historical College Football and Basketball Polls and Rankings

I wouldn't think so. ND going for a tie. Not just ND, but even Michigan State finishing ahead of Bama. Neither team went to a bowl game and still finished ahead of the 2 time defending and undefeated champ, who just demolished Nebraska in a major bowl. There really isn't much to regret when picking NCs were just that subjective.

 

[sean]

if you've never read The Missing Ring, i highly suggest it.

it's an excellent look into the 1966 team and what they went through in that season and immediately after when they were denied the championship.

when i first bought the book, i read it in one sitting. it was that good.

 

[252BAMA]

I wouldn't think so. ND going for a tie. Not just ND, but even Michigan State finishing ahead of Bama. Neither team went to a bowl game and still finished ahead of the 2 time defending and undefeated champ, who just demolished Nebraska in a major bowl. There really isn't much to regret when picking NCs were just that subjective.

You are not on the same page with me. What ND and Michigan State did or didn't do would not have mattered had Bama not been dropped from the #1 spot before the season even began. The excuse given at the time was because Bama was playing non-1A La Tech. My question is whether or not they would have been dropped if they had played Tulane. To my knowledge there is/was no precedent for that to happen. There is/was plenty of precedent for the non-1A thingy and has happened again as recently as 2008.

 

[TUSKtimes]

You are not on the same page with me. What ND and Michigan State did or didn't do would not have mattered had Bama not been dropped from the #1 spot before the season even began. The excuse given at the time was because Bama was playing non-1A La Tech. My question is whether or not they would have been dropped if they had played Tulane. To my knowledge there is/was no precedent for that to happen. There is/was plenty of precedent for the non-1A thingy and has happened again as recently as 2008.

Anyone not a conspiracist during the beauty pageant days of college football just wasn't trying. The voting world may have been indignant at LaTech and held it against the Tide all season, but when Ara Parseghian deliberately sits on the ball on their last possession and just wants to run the clock out for the tie, the press was extremely indignant as well. It was the first billed, "game of the century" and plenty of the press referred to Parseghian as a "coward" for not trying to win the game, a "coward." I would more likely believe majority northeast voter bias, with a side order of what we now comically refer to as "Bama fatigue."

It was a crappy system to start with. The bowls weren't even used to decide the NC, regardless of the heavyweights that played each other. The only thing worse than the voting results, was the fact, for so long, no one wanted to change the corrupt system.

 

[TerryP]

Speaking of '66, and just in case you guys missed this article on SI:

Bear Bryant, the Gipper and controversy: The crazed world of college football in 1966

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Was at 66 game vs laTech....Bama was sloppy...LaTech featured QBs Robertson (duck Dynasty's guy) and backed up by a guy named Terry Bradshaw...lol. Who would have thunk it...
Also at 73 Sugar Bowl....vs ND....what a play ND made at end of game....from their shadows of End Zone...with little time left........threw a pass for a first down when Bama had everybody at LOS... It still haunts me..as does Watsons play this year.... Roll tide. First post...

 

[252BAMA]

How good was Phil Robertson at football?

"In the 1960s, Robertson, now 66, was the starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech for two seasons ahead of Terry Bradshaw. His teammates and a coach recall him as a talented, outdoors-obsessed character who walked away from his final year of eligibility to spend more time hunting and fishing, but had the talent to play in the NFL:

Brunet: The last game of my senior year was Phil’s junior year. He and I and Bradshaw were standing on the field before our last game, and we used to call Terry “Bomber.” He (Robertson) looks at Terry, says ,“Bomber, I’m not coming back next year.” He said, “You’re not? What are you gonna do?” He said, “I’m going for the ducks, you can go for the bucks.”

Phil Robertson: I loved the game and throwing touchdown passes was fun, but at that time, in other words 44 years ago all the way to now, what gave me more of an adrenaline rush, my man, was big bunches of mallard ducks raining down through the trees. It just did it for me and that is pretty much why the ducks took precedence over football. It’s just that simple.

Phil Robertson: When Brunet went with the Washington Redskins (a few seasons), he came down here. He said, “Robertson why don’t you come up here and just walk on?” I said, “Well what are they paying?” He said $60,000 a year if you make the team. That’s what the money was like. … Well, 60 grand didn’t seem like that much to give up duck hunting. He said, “Look, Sonny Jurgensen, you’re not gonna beat him out. But we got this hot dog you won’t have any problem with, you can beat him out hands down. I said what’s his name? He said Joe Theismann. … I said, “Brunet, let me ask you something: When all them ducks start heading south and I’m stuck up there in Washington somewhere, do you think I’ll stay?" And he kinda looked at the ground and he says, “Naaah.” I said, “No, I don’t want to fool with it.”

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Heard Bradshaw talk one time about Robertson...said he was always late for practice and would always be covered in blood from his duck hunting when he finally showed up......