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Cincinnati was emasculated.  Sorry Bama didn't hang 50 on them, but Saban & Co. realized early on that they didn't have to.

If you played or coached football, you would understand this. 

This is some hard trying.

They got their ass beat. Like happens in the majority of semifinals, and a lot of finals.

They got in by the thinnest of margins and did basically the norm. Seems fine and dandy. 

This collective shrug to Cincinnati getting totally beaten down is revealing.  All these people wanting them to get their chance.....and then (I guess) all the same people having low expectations.


It's weird when everyone gives a bj to a 14-point dog who loses by 21.

Well....yes.  But not in the silly, absurd way you're suggesting.

Saban was reluctant to open up his offense for years.  We see something similar in this game and we suddenly forget that? 
Alabama marches down the field on 10 running plays.  Low risk.  Get the W. 

Did you watch any Alabama games this year?  Pass, pass, run as a change-up, and pass some more.  Why would they stray so far from that??
Hmm.
Let me think.

You were wrong.  It’s ok.  You can admit it.  It’s fine.  We all are from time to time.  Yes, Bama beat UC handily.  It just wasn’t the epic, unforgettable thrashing you said it would be.  It was a normal, run of the mill, this team is clearly superior to this team, ass whipping.

Yes, Bama ran it down their throats.   Part of that was just superiority up front.  Part of it was how Cincinnati chose to defend them.  Blackledge mentioned during the game at some point UC was going to have to walk a safety up to help stop the run.  That, and a pretty good pass rush, is one the reasons you didn’t see Young have his typical great game.  They were taking away the deep ball.  They got pressure several times.  Again, Blackledge mentioned multiple times how Cincy was making Young uncomfortable in the pocket.

This wasn’t a deal where Bama could have ran for 500 or thrown for 500 and they just flipped a coin and decided to run.  Bama wasn’t settling for field goals because they wanted to.  UC didn’t have any worse showing than Washington or Michigan St did in semifinal games to Bama.

Again, look at the end of your post.



You guys have set the bar for Cincinnati at not really competing and getting an ass-whipping.  THAT was my point the whole time.  Instead of being an embarrassing showing like MSU or Washington had, everyone here is treating it as ho-hum.


That's the whole point.

But please, focus on OAM being wrong.  As if I'm the point. 

Sometimes you guys are creepy.

It was ho hum.  A 17-6 game heading into the 4th doesn’t make me think, “Jesus, Cincinnati is getting humiliated!  This is why G5 schools should never get another chance.”

Remember what your boys did to UC in the Sugar several years ago?  That was an epic, embarrassing beat down.  This wasn’t that.  

It's just The Fro show, up in this thread. 

Blech. 

No, and Georgia won't either.

This collective shrug to Cincinnati getting totally beaten down is revealing.  All these people wanting them to get their chance.....and then (I guess) all the same people having low expectations.


It's weird when everyone gives a bj to a 14-point dog who loses by 21.

It is revealing. See, basically none of use expected a win. Most everyone didn’t expect it to be close. The question was, would this be a ho-hum playoff blowout or not.

To hear some folks tell it, this was gonna hurt their feelings so bad, it wasn’t worth stepping on the field. There would be blood and limbs everywhere. This wouldn’t just be a loss, but a loss of special proportions.

And it wasn’t. They looked like an ACC champ or a PAC-12 champ or even some Big Ten Champs. If we’re told all month this was gonna be a bath of blood, and it ends with “well, the points didn’t resemble the yardage disparity,” yep, a shrug and move on. If you wanna tell me how the next tow choices would’ve played closer, please do.