NCAA Football 2023 Season Megathread
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Who isn't absolutely PUMPED for a 9PM kick?
IAlabama not a great football team. The entire SEC does not have a marquee OOC win. They barely beat Arkansas by 3, who lost at home to BYU. Their last game is against Auburn, who got curb stomped by New Mexico State. They struggled with SOUTH FLORIDA. They beat four or five loss ATM by 6, a team Miami beat by 15. Their biggest claim to fame so far is beating LSU by 14, a team that FSU ran off the field.
Acting like Alabama has morphed into some unstoppable behemoth is just overdoing it by a lot
At least this totally puts to rest any notions any ideas of Alabama being vastly superior to Texas
Auburn, Arkansas and South Florida are bad, bad football teams and Bama is struggling with them
same as Texas struggling with Houston, and maybe TCU.
These teams are both good but not great that have run super hot to only have one loss
I know I lost a lot of credibility with all my rampant SEC hating, but like, I really just don't think these teams are anything special this year. The quarterback play is incredibly mid and the defenses are much more porous than normal. Run games are pretty nice, but that's really the only elite phase of the game.
Everybody is acting like Bama's resume and power is somehow so far ahead of Texas that it's not even close, but I don't see it
I was checking the other day and almost 100% of bama's coaching staff has been there less than two years
and of course they lose a huge amount of their players to the draft every year
with no staff or player continuity, what even is BAMA? Like, it's just Saban, really. Which is insane that they've been good this long, but it's not impossible they're actually just not very good
RIP Bama
See you next year
I mean if some disphit like me could tell you it was gonna be a Milroe run I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the right play
You rather Milroe throw the ball? We knew it was a run based on it's what Bama did best all game. Maybe a zone look out of the run would have helped hold that interior DL some if you want to get technical. But knowing and stopping is two different things. One michigan DL dominated that play. He had been blown up a bunch this game. He came up when he needed to come up.
Think Michigan needs to be rooting very very very hard for Texas tonight.
Let's go Huskies
Congrats to all the Michigan slappies
You rather Milroe throw the ball? We knew it was a run based on it's what Bama did best all game. Maybe a zone look out of the run would have helped hold that interior DL some if you want to get technical. But knowing and stopping is two different things. One michigan DL dominated that play. He had been blown up a bunch this game. He came up when he needed to come up.
Giving the pretense of a zone read knowing full well it would end up being a run is probably the move. Direct run was always going to be a complete disaster, Michigan obviously planned for exactly that
That said I will not argue with you on matters of lines and play calls and defer to your assessment
You rather Milroe throw the ball? We knew it was a run based on it's what Bama did best all game. Maybe a zone look out of the run would have helped hold that interior DL some if you want to get technical. But knowing and stopping is two different things. One michigan DL dominated that play. He had been blown up a bunch this game. He came up when he needed to come up.
Yeah. It's total casualfan to act like Michigan didn't make an excellent play and act like all run plays would have been stopped without people on Michigan just blowing blocks up and beating the blocking
Congrats on the title Michigan fans
Well if Bama had to lose, at least they hit the over.
Congrats, Michigan.
The blocking scheme was blown up. The blocking scheme defines the run play, and if you wanted to define a run play as direct, I guess zone would be what you would mean, and that wasn't zone blocking
There's no chance sexual assault sark and all their diabetic fans win, see you in a bit ILP
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Giving the pretense of a zone read knowing full well it would end up being a run is probably the move. Direct run was always going to be a complete disaster, Michigan obviously planned for exactly that
That said I will not argue with you on matters of lines and play calls and defer to your assessment
I watched it a few times. Maybe some kind of jet motion may have widened the edge played but nothing there stops that 4i/3 technique. Maybe an off tackle run? You could have pulled up through. None of that really is what we saw all night though.
I know is going to sound weird but it wasn't the "best" call but it was the "right" call. You needed your OL to get off the ball there and just control inside gap. Instead that Michigan DL stepped up at the very moment it needed to. If that Guard gets under that slanting player, Milroe walks in untouched. 1 player blew that up.
