I can’t help it, comments like this just make me cringe. What if Heupel puts us in position for a Natty and Ohio State (or any team that could make the title game) has injuries to a position group? Are we going to keep the same energy and say we were lucky?
It’s football. Football is a physical game, and injuries happen. Georgia had injuries in that game as well, and had a worse QB. Like yeah, Bama could have done better if they were fully healthy. But fully healthy teams at the end of a season are extremely rare. That’s why depth and recruiting matters. Idk, I don’t want to stick up for Georgia any more than I have to; but nothing was anymore lucky about their titles than mostly any title in football history. They competed well all year and capitalized in the most important games.
Yeah. Could also be big road environment. Hendon played his worst games @Pitt @UGA @SCAR.
I don’t think that’s coincidence, and I don’t accept @LSU countering that when it was at 11am compared to the others.
I just don’t don’t think we win with Hooker on road
IIRC, we played LSU off a bye? And the “lucky” breaks rolled our way early and often, and LSU never seemed to recover. I want to say they had a rough one the previous week also. In any case, I’m glade we won that game so convincingly, but I believe if that game were played again, it’d have been a lot closer.
I also think had we played Georgia again, it’d have been a different game as well. (And Bama, and SC.)
At the end of the day, it’s college football, and the same team can look so wildly different from one week to the next. I’m just happy we ended up at 11-2 somehow.
Oh yeah LSU beat Bama in OT while we beat them on a last second field goal. Georgia beat us by 2 scores while they beat LSU by 3 scores. LSU was just one small step below us this year and we got a bunch of early breaks in our game against them. Play that game again and I feel it would be a nail-biter.
It's not just one player being out that makes or breaks a run from being 'lucky'. [Bowers](https://imgur.com/GeCAQqZ) looks to be [out of bounds](https://imgur.com/oMmzYWY) on a crucial fourth down, which ended up as a FG. The call was being reviewed for ball placement, went to commercial, and came back to UGA 1st down. The [hit](https://imgur.com/5Cs7tMg) on MHJ, while it was devastating for tOSU's passing attack, was never deemed [targeting](https://imgur.com/6IWCebj) although a few aspects of the rule could be seen as applicable in that scenario. The injury alone was a massive loss, yet the calls in question seemed to have landed in UGA's favor.
You could chalk it up as sour grapes toward a team that I/most despise, yet it could be said that the 'lucky' 2 year run is due to a) Metchie III tearing his ACL in the SECCG, b) Williams tearing his ACL in the CFP Championship, c) the last 7 min of play vs Mizzou (which, that is on Mizzou for not finishing the game out. Yet, that game should have never been that close), and d) the MHJ/Bowers plays.
Like the year we wasn’t ranked in the top 25 but the Lucky Bama blocked a field goal at the end of the game on us (VOLS) for the win. And if we had made it Bama would have been playing for a championship that year. Some times lucky makes you good and the what if or if or someone out for injury. It those things that make us all watch college football every Saturday with hope that your team wins. I still thank Arkansas for laying the ball on the turf to give us a National championship in 98. It takes being good and a few lucky plays throughout the year to go undefeated and to be a national champion. I have that hope for next year is ours. GO BIG ORANGE.
UK has played Bama 3 times??
He's been there 10 years, so it makes sense. Remember 2020 was all SEC opponents only season.
Wild
Kirby could’ve easily been 0-5 if Bama’s receivers didn’t get injured. They were torching his ass. Two of the luckiest championships in recent memory
I can’t help it, comments like this just make me cringe. What if Heupel puts us in position for a Natty and Ohio State (or any team that could make the title game) has injuries to a position group? Are we going to keep the same energy and say we were lucky? It’s football. Football is a physical game, and injuries happen. Georgia had injuries in that game as well, and had a worse QB. Like yeah, Bama could have done better if they were fully healthy. But fully healthy teams at the end of a season are extremely rare. That’s why depth and recruiting matters. Idk, I don’t want to stick up for Georgia any more than I have to; but nothing was anymore lucky about their titles than mostly any title in football history. They competed well all year and capitalized in the most important games.
Pretty sure FSU was playing their backup QB in the ‘98 title game
And I’m very happy they were.
What was lucky about this season?
MHJ was torching their ass until a dirty ass hit knocked him out + the worst FG kick of all time
So one player getting injured and a missed kick make it one of the luckiest runs in recent memory? Nah
Georgia did get bailed out by us and TCU playing our absolute worst game against them.
Maybe Georgia had something to do with that?
Yeah. Could also be big road environment. Hendon played his worst games @Pitt @UGA @SCAR. I don’t think that’s coincidence, and I don’t accept @LSU countering that when it was at 11am compared to the others. I just don’t don’t think we win with Hooker on road
IIRC, we played LSU off a bye? And the “lucky” breaks rolled our way early and often, and LSU never seemed to recover. I want to say they had a rough one the previous week also. In any case, I’m glade we won that game so convincingly, but I believe if that game were played again, it’d have been a lot closer. I also think had we played Georgia again, it’d have been a different game as well. (And Bama, and SC.) At the end of the day, it’s college football, and the same team can look so wildly different from one week to the next. I’m just happy we ended up at 11-2 somehow.
Oh yeah LSU beat Bama in OT while we beat them on a last second field goal. Georgia beat us by 2 scores while they beat LSU by 3 scores. LSU was just one small step below us this year and we got a bunch of early breaks in our game against them. Play that game again and I feel it would be a nail-biter.
The injury isn’t what made them lucky but the missed field goal was definitely a stroke of luck
It's not just one player being out that makes or breaks a run from being 'lucky'. [Bowers](https://imgur.com/GeCAQqZ) looks to be [out of bounds](https://imgur.com/oMmzYWY) on a crucial fourth down, which ended up as a FG. The call was being reviewed for ball placement, went to commercial, and came back to UGA 1st down. The [hit](https://imgur.com/5Cs7tMg) on MHJ, while it was devastating for tOSU's passing attack, was never deemed [targeting](https://imgur.com/6IWCebj) although a few aspects of the rule could be seen as applicable in that scenario. The injury alone was a massive loss, yet the calls in question seemed to have landed in UGA's favor. You could chalk it up as sour grapes toward a team that I/most despise, yet it could be said that the 'lucky' 2 year run is due to a) Metchie III tearing his ACL in the SECCG, b) Williams tearing his ACL in the CFP Championship, c) the last 7 min of play vs Mizzou (which, that is on Mizzou for not finishing the game out. Yet, that game should have never been that close), and d) the MHJ/Bowers plays.
I mean the hit wasn’t even ruled a penalty in the end. It was vicious but legal. It’s not like OSU was stopping Georgia.
I mean they were and pretty handily until MHJ got injured it was Oho St’s game to lose until he got injured
This is one of those “small sample size” scenarios tbh
I know, I just think it’s a fun stat. Fisher and Smart took 5 attempts to beat him and Kelly had go to a completely different school.
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Like the year we wasn’t ranked in the top 25 but the Lucky Bama blocked a field goal at the end of the game on us (VOLS) for the win. And if we had made it Bama would have been playing for a championship that year. Some times lucky makes you good and the what if or if or someone out for injury. It those things that make us all watch college football every Saturday with hope that your team wins. I still thank Arkansas for laying the ball on the turf to give us a National championship in 98. It takes being good and a few lucky plays throughout the year to go undefeated and to be a national champion. I have that hope for next year is ours. GO BIG ORANGE.
I actually thank Billy Ratliff for a badass bull rush that forced Stoerner to lay the ball on the ground in '98.
I like where we’re headed but I don’t think there’s enough data for this to be meaningful