🏈 Sugar Bowl Thread: OU vs Bama 8:30 EST ... Roll Tide Roll!!!

[TerryP]

14 hours, 15 minutes...and counting...

 

[TerryP]

To get this started, I'll drop a few notes here and there throughout the morning...

One, sort of non-football related, to start.

The Tide will have 28 guys on the field tonight who already have their degrees. That's the most of any team in a bowl game this year.

 

[TerryP]

There's been talk about allowing the offense to "open it up" tonight.

Part of the reasoning behind that is to allow AJ to reach the 3000 yard mark on the season. With 324 yards passing, he'd become the first Bama QB to throw for 3000 in a season...if I'm not mistaken.

Much like 2010, tonight's game will be the healthiest the team has been since roughly week four of this season. Take a guy like Belue...likely the healthiest he's been since the summer.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Roll tide!!! Let's do this!

 

[TerryP]

I have my doubts we'll see Drake tonight.

As mentioned, there's been a bit of a problem with his desire to remain in the dog house which, coincidentally, evidently has an affect on whether he has attended class.

 

[BamaCore]

Roll Tide Roll!!!

 

[planomateo]

Roll Tide.

Hoping CJ can get 15 tackles to own the record for career tackles.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Anyone doing anything special tonight? It's supposed to be bitterly cold and snowy up here all evening so I may just stay in with some craft brews and some mac n' cheese :biggrin_blue:

 

[RollTideinGA]

Just my HD TV the family, and some good brews. ROLL TIDE!

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I'm working 12 hours, going home and watch the game. I hope AJ gets the record in four throws so they can run it the rest of the way and make the game shorter.

 

[jlabit]

I am out the door, on my way to New Orleans, in about 15 minutes. About a 3-hour drive from Pensacola. Having dinner in the French Quarter then on to the Superdome for the game. I am excited!!. Hope I'm a happy camper on the drive home tonight. I attended the Capital One Bowl in Orlando when we demolished Mich State. Hope to see a repeat of that tonight. I am wearing my colors. Got my camera and will get some pictures. Have a good one today folks. RTR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TerryP]

Interesting stat for the game tonight:

Bama had 61 wins from 2008-2012 tying the program with Boise State as having the most wins in a five year span.

With a W tonight, Bama ties its own record notching its 61st win since 2009.

 

[Bamabacker]

Very disappointed in Drake if this is the case... It sounds like a Yeldon/Henry combo tonight. I pray that our guys are ready. The last Sugar Bowl was disastrous

 

[bamaledge]

I'm so excited and I just can't hide, I'm about to lose control and I think I like it. Let's get this party started.
ROLL TIDE!

 

[TerryP]

Very disappointed in Drake if this is the case... It sounds like a Yeldon/Henry combo tonight. I pray that our guys are ready. The last Sugar Bowl was disastrous

It is what it is...

We've dealt with a few attitude problems throughout the year. It's one of those things you seldom hear talked about but Saban did touch on it briefly yesterday.

Part of it is bred by that 5* type mentality, part due to kids seeing NFL dollars when they've yet proven they deserve those.

 

[PhillyGirl]

I am out the door, on my way to New Orleans, in about 15 minutes. About a 3-hour drive from Pensacola. Having dinner in the French Quarter then on to the Superdome for the game. I am excited!!. Hope I'm a happy camper on the drive home tonight. I attended the Capital One Bowl in Orlando when we demolished Mich State. Hope to see a repeat of that tonight. I am wearing my colors. Got my camera and will get some pictures. Have a good one today folks. RTR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have an awesome time!! :a::a::a::twothumbs:

 

[TerryP]

 

[EuroTide]

Roll Tide ! enjoy the game, ill find a way to watch it another day. :a:

 

[CrimsonVette]

Take care of business BAMA!

ROLL TIDE

 

[planomateo]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Alabama's locker room entrance ready for the Tide's arrival. What do you think? <a href="http://t.co/icGxUg2CQl">pic.twitter.com/icGxUg2CQl</a></p>&mdash; Allstate Sugar Bowl (@SugarBowlNola) <a href="https://twitter.com/SugarBowlNola/statuses/418528561717202944">January 1, 2014</a></blockquote>
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