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[kc]

Ok, one of out six....I did think they would win one year and yes it was the the first year under him.

 

[Swamptick]

Well, I don't know how skilled of a boxer your son is, but I do know that the history of this rivalry has proven over and over again that it doesn't matter who is the higher ranked team or who is so much better on paper. This is a rivalry game through and through and so often the team that should win, gets beat.

You obviously have not done your history. The team that is the favorite to win going in, wins the game more than 2/3 times historically. So no, history does not back up your claim. You just repeated something that is foolishly spouted before the game each year, but actually has not basis in truth.

 

[BamaJay73]

You obviously have not done your history. The team that is the favorite to win going in, wins the game more than 2/3 times historically. So no, history does not back up your claim. You just repeated something that is foolishly spouted before the game each year, but actually has not basis in truth.

This is true. The favored team in the Iron Bowl usually wins. 2001 & 2002 being the exceptions recently.

 

[TerryP]

I was certain Bama was going to win in 2002. They should have with the talent they had. I think Fran had his mind elsewhere and did not prepare the team properly.

He was already talking to A&M at that point...

You obviously have not done your history. The team that is the favorite to win going in, wins the game more than 2/3 times historically. So no, history does not back up your claim. You just repeated something that is foolishly spouted before the game each year, but actually has not basis in truth.

It's more in the 80 percent range...

 

[psychojoe]

It's more in the 80 percent range...

I did a piece on this a few years back.

If you look at those games where a "bad" team beat a "good" team there are very vew games at all. Our 1984 bunch (4-7) beat a pretty good Auburn team that featured Bo Jackson and Brent Fulwood.

Our 2001 team that beat them down there was decent, but not good. Their 2002 team was quite good, but handicapped by key injuries.

In the last 50 years of the rivalry the 1984 game is the only one where the old cliche "you can throw out the record book when Alabama and Auburn play" has any credibility.

That's one shocking upset in 50 years.

 

[TerryP]

I did a piece on this a few years back.

If you look at those games where a "bad" team beat a "good" team there are very vew games at all. Our 1984 bunch (4-7) beat a pretty good Auburn team that featured Bo Jackson and Brent Fulwood.

Our 2001 team that beat them down there was decent, but not good. Their 2002 team was quite good, but handicapped by key injuries.

In the last 50 years of the rivalry the 1984 game is the only one where the old cliche "you can throw out the record book when Alabama and Auburn play" has any credibility.

That's one shocking upset in 50 years.

The last few years don't support that...the favored team wins most of the time...it's right at 80% percentage...or greater.

 

[psychojoe]

The last few years don't support that...the favored team wins most of the time...it's right at 80% percentage...or greater.

We aren't talking about quite the same thing. Sometimes, when two roughly equal teams are playing, upsets do happen. The "punt Bama punt" and "Van Tiffin" games were both upsets by the betting lines, but outside our world of rabid Alabama and Auburn partisans the results weren't earth shaking.

The 1984 game, on the other hand, was a "how in the heck did that happen" game, one of the very few in the series.