What is wrong with Alabama?

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therealitytheory said:
Or look at it this way:

Bama 41 - Fresno St 10 Sept 2017 @ Tuscaloosa

Bama 49 - Tenn 10 Oct 2016 @ Knoxville

I'd say Fresno St stacks up with UT a lot better than ISU does, fwiw.
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Have to laugh at comparing a 2016 team to a 2017 team in college football.
 
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Halph66 said:
We haven't played Florida yet. We were not favored last year, but we won. Don't confuse the fact that Vegas is trying to make money, not with how bad a team is. They are trying to get you to bet your hard earned money.

I'll save judgement on how bad we are compared to Florida until after the game. We've won the first to games against the first two opponents on our schedule, plain and simple.
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...volunteers-betting-odds-college-football-pick

Point spread: The Volunteers opened as 7.5-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark.

Vegas rarely gets it wrong, that's why they're still in business
 
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JAMESFROMCT said:
Fresno state is a FBS school that plays the power 5 tough

Indiana state is a terrible FCS school that will be lucky to win 4 games at the 1-aa level. We should have won 80-0
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Oh you mean the power house Fresno St that went 1-11 last year and 3-9 the year before?
 
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Hurts isn't playing well against a good secondary, and the Alabama D isn't good in the secondary. As a result you can gash them right up the middle of the field, which is what Fresno did.
 
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Halph66 said:
Then looking at the stats and score Tennessee destroyed Indiana State.

I don't believe for one minute that either Tennessee or Alabama played their "A" game.
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Ok but comparing Tennessee and Alabama right now is even worse than your Indiana State, Fresno State comparison
 
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Ten_Titans said:
Probably. Ass whoopings in college football are not linear. Proven every year.

Team A beat team B by 20, who beat team team C by 40.

So team A would beat team C by 60.

It doesn't work that way.
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You are proving my point.

Do think for a minute that Tennessee was fired up to play Indiana State as they will be Saturday for Florida.

We didn't play the starters the entire game. A lot of back ups played.
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
Ok but comparing Tennessee and Alabama right now is even worse than your Indiana State, Fresno State comparison
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I'm not comparing Alabama to Tennessee. I don't see Tennessee beating Alabama until our talent level is comparable. We are making ground, but we aint there yet.

My point is VolNation uses two different sets of criteria. We both had the same game, but Tennessee is terrible, and Alabama can do no wrong. Alabama is number one in all the land.
 
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Don't understand exactly OP. Bama beat a DIV 1 team by 31 points in Fresno State. They also manhandled a top five FSU team.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Don't understand exactly OP. Bama beat a DIV 1 team by 31 points in Fresno State. They also manhandled a top five FSU team.
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This.

We saw the same issues on defense against ISU, that we saw against GT. The only difference was in the quality of talent in of our opponents.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Don't understand exactly OP. Bama beat a DIV 1 team by 31 points in Fresno State. They also manhandled a top five FSU team.
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Using a ranking system that chooses the rankings prior to any team playing a single game.

I will reserve my opinion of our ability to beat Florida, until after the game.
 
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Halph66 said:
They got it wrong with these two from 2016.

Oct. 8
Tennessee (-5) at Texas A&M

Oct. 15
Alabama at Tennessee (-1)
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WTF are you talking about

A&M was Favored by 6.5, they covered

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-am-aggies-betting-odds-college-football-pick

Point spread: The Aggies opened as 6.5-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark.

Alabama opened as a 9 point favorite and had no trouble covering

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...nnessee-volunteers-betting-odds-football-pick

Point spread: The Crimson Tide opened as nine-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark
 
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IluvdoubleD's said:
Hurts isn't playing well against a good secondary, and the Alabama D isn't good in the secondary. As a result you can gash them right up the middle of the field, which is what Fresno did.
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Hurts accounted for 282 yard of 497 total. If that's a bad game, I hope QD or JG have those kinds of not so good games.
 
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Halph66 said:
Using a ranking system that chooses the rankings prior to any team playing a single game.

I will reserve my opinion of our ability to beat Florida, until after the game.
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Which begs the question of asking what's wrong with AL. As I type this there's precious little to question them about in recent memory. (as loathe as I am to have to say that it's no less true)
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
WTF are you talking about

A&M was Favored by 6.5, they covered

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-am-aggies-betting-odds-college-football-pick

Point spread: The Aggies opened as 6.5-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark.

Alabama opened as a 9 point favorite and had no trouble covering

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...nnessee-volunteers-betting-odds-football-pick

Point spread: The Crimson Tide opened as nine-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark
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The article that I read had the starting odds at what I posted. Unfortunately, I can't find the same link.

It's not where they end, but where they start. Odds makers set the odds to get bets. It moves due to the bets. It's not that complicated.
 
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Halph66 said:
You are proving my point.

Do think for a minute that Tennessee was fired up to play Indiana State as they will be Saturday for Florida.

We didn't play the starters the entire game. A lot of back ups played.
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I'm just talking about the score. As has been stated many times, no one has an issue with the final score. It's how we looked getting there.
 
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#1 ranked team in the country, just handed the #3 team in the country its hat, defense looks dominant, offense is more than enough to win the SEC and get to the playoffs yet again imo. I personally don't see too much wrong with those guys.
 
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