[Goose]

I think 2-loss 'Bama is out.  There's just no good reason on the merits to give 'Bama a third bite at the apple.  The A&M loss alone is worse than ND's L to Cincy.

In a perfect world, you would certainly be right. In a halfway-reasonable world, you would be correct 99% of the time. In our current world, who knows?

The problem is this:  I could see the fix being in, SEC-wise, to grease a 'Bama win (because UGA is "in" either way).  $$ talks.

True, but it is not just that. It is worse. In a world where reality is shaped by a media that has a definite agenda (for whatever reason), people will actually believe Alabama belongs even if they lose by 7 or so because they are obviously so deserving and the SEC is orders of magnitude above all other competition. It is a reality distortion field. The committee really does love Big Brother.

So I'm not too worried about a 2L 'Bama.

Given the above, perhaps you should be.

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Prediction is Stanford 15 the domers 14.

Stanford offense has 5 first and goal at the 5 yard line, and ends up kicking a field goal each time.

Stanford defense plays like the ThunderChickens in the Rose Bowl against Michigan.  The domers score two late td's thanks to bogus calls by the refs on the Stanford defense.  The Stanford defense stops the domers on downs late in the game, the offense ONLY needs to get two first downs in order to run out the clock.  The offense totally ignores Shaw's play calls and proceeds to run power and run more power and ends up running out the clock.

Stanford's win has repercussions:
  Shaw takes the Raiders Head Coaching Job
  The Vatican declares bankruptcy after betting big at the sports book  
  Kelly fires all of his assistances and replaces them with the Father-Son & Holy Ghost
  Muir becomes the commissioner of the Bitcoin Conference
  Condi Rice becomes Stanford AD, and hires not Jim Harbaugh but John Harbaugh to be Stanford's next head football Coach
  Condi Rice said the decision to hire John and not Jim is that John beat Jim in the Super Bowl, she only wants winners.
  The ThunderDome Clan becomes politically correct, and starts to take their meds on schedule.

Nice thought. It all could happen except for one thing. I don't think our current OL knows HOW to run power, even in theory.

[Goose]

I think 2-loss 'Bama is out.  There's just no good reason on the merits to give 'Bama a third bite at the apple.  The A&M loss alone is worse than ND's L to Cincy.

In a perfect world, you would certainly be right. In a halfway-reasonable world, you would be correct 99% of the time. In our current world, who knows?

The problem is this:  I could see the fix being in, SEC-wise, to grease a 'Bama win (because UGA is "in" either way).  $$ talks.

True, but it is not just that. It is worse. In a world where reality is shaped by a media that has a definite agenda (for whatever reason), people will actually believe Alabama belongs even if they lose by 7 or so because they are obviously so deserving and the SEC is orders of magnitude above all other competition. It is a reality distortion field. The committee really does love Big Brother.

So I'm not too worried about a 2L 'Bama.

Given the above, perhaps you should be.

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Prediction is Stanford 15 the domers 14.

Stanford offense has 5 first and goal at the 5 yard line, and ends up kicking a field goal each time.

Stanford defense plays like the ThunderChickens in the Rose Bowl against Michigan.  The domers score two late td's thanks to bogus calls by the refs on the Stanford defense.  The Stanford defense stops the domers on downs late in the game, the offense ONLY needs to get two first downs in order to run out the clock.  The offense totally ignores Shaw's play calls and proceeds to run power and run more power and ends up running out the clock.

Stanford's win has repercussions:
  Shaw takes the Raiders Head Coaching Job
  The Vatican declares bankruptcy after betting big at the sports book  
  Kelly fires all of his assistances and replaces them with the Father-Son & Holy Ghost
  Muir becomes the commissioner of the Bitcoin Conference
  Condi Rice becomes Stanford AD, and hires not Jim Harbaugh but John Harbaugh to be Stanford's next head football Coach
  Condi Rice said the decision to hire John and not Jim is that John beat Jim in the Super Bowl, she only wants winners.
  The ThunderDome Clan becomes politically correct, and starts to take their meds on schedule.

Nice thought. It all could happen except for one thing. I don't think our current OL knows HOW to run power, even in theory.