🏈 Let this group of stats sink in a bit: Losses since 2008 and patterns...

[TerryP]

...ran across this surfing around this afternoon.

Since the beginning of the 2008 season, we've lost 11 games. Those losses are listed below.
2008: Florida, Utah
2009: No one
2010: SC Lite, LSU, barn
2011: LSU
2012: TAM
2013: barn, Oklahoma
2014: Ole Miss, Ohio State

Only two teams during this span have beaten us more than once. LSU, who has beaten us twice. And the barn, who has beaten us twice.

Let this sink in. Over the past seven seasons, the two teams who have had the MOST success against us are a collective 4-11 against us head to head (LSU is 2-6; barn is 2-5). These are the teams that have actually done "well" against us.

Just another way of looking at just how freaking dominant we've been.​

 

[252BAMA]

Fiutak puts it this way in CFN's 2015 Preview:

"Considering what Alabama does on the biggest of big stages, the program is just this close to winning six national title in seven years.

It took the eventual national champion Ohio State Buckeyes to have everything humming at the highest and most focused of levels to get through the Sugar Bowl, and even then Alabama was right there in a 42-35 firefight. With only some due respect to Oregon, that battle in New Orleans was the real national title game.

It took one of the greatest finishes in college football history on Auburn’s Chris Davis miraculous kick-six to keep the Crimson Tide from – with only some due respect to 2013 Missouri - getting its shot at a Florida State team that needed a last-second touchdown to win the 2014 BCS championship.

It took an epic performance from Tim Tebow to pull out a fourth quarter thriller over the unbeaten Tide in the 2008 SEC championship.

So, it took everything two eventual national champions had in the bag, and a miracle from a team that came within a late stop of winning a national title, to keep Alabama from a whole other level of dominance.

To take this one step further for those wondering if Alabama is slipping over the last few seasons, it’s next to impossible just to beat this team any time, not just when everything is on the line.

It took a late pick from Ole Miss last year to win by six at home. It took a stand-on-head day from an amped up Oklahoma – and, we’re all adults here so let’s be honest, a down day from the Tide – to get by in the 2014 Sugar Bowl.

It took Johnny Manziel coming up with a Johnny Heisman performance in a five point win in 2012 and it took a defensive slugfest for a national title-good LSU team to win 9-6 in 2011.

It takes a lot to put this Alabama team down. It takes greatness to beat greatness."

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