"Bama was a coy of a copy and they ran up against

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I resent anyone who disrespects Clemson by claiming..

Feb 2, 2019, 10:33 AM

that we benefited from an easy schedule which facilitated our getting ready for Bama all year. That's what the man was saying when he said 'Clemson studied all year and Bama tried to cram for the final exam.'

That is short sighted, backhanded and ignores that every good coach pushes his team to get better and better by setting the goal of 'perfect,' as the standard. Is he saying Saban didn't study all year for the exam or is this another of those 'Bama played such a tough schedule that they are mentally exhausted and beat up?

I'm not one to attempt to analyse football with stats but since the NCAA community lives and dies by the stat and the Playoff Committee leans on stats to justify rankings and seedings of each team, lets look at one of the most obvious and obviously ignored stat, margin of victory.

Over the past year in regular season Bama's game scores were.

51-14 a 37 point win
57-7 50
62-7 55
56-14 42
65-31 34
39-10 29
58-21 37
29-0 29
24-0 24
50-17 33
52-21 31

That's a total of 401 points over the regular season. The analogy that Bama hadn't studied all season and had to cram for exams is confounded by the margins of victory. A country boy like me would say that anyone claiming Bama hadn't studied all year is a bullchitter. I'd also say that anyone claiming Bama's schedule was brutal was blowing smoke up folks' shorts. But, but this isn't about analogies it's about stats.

Clemson's margin of victory this regular season compared to Bama's margin of victory during the season indicates that Bama played the weaker schedule. That's highlighted by the fact that we laid a 44-16 askwhuppin on Alabama to end their 'GOAT,' season.

That's what happens when ESPiN over rates a conference and elevates one team to GOAT status. You also have the ESPiN Doctors and half the country trying to figure out how, when and where they all went wrong.

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Re: "Bama was a coy of a copy and they ran up against

Re: "Bama was a coy of a copy and they ran up against

When the final score is 44-16 you don't need an eye test.

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