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The baby didn't get eaten. The chick with the pigtails who was with Gov has her. They made a point to show her putting down her gun and slipping away from the fight and that was the last we saw of her. I think it's bullshit that they would even feint at playing that card.

Seriously, what an awful plan. He had no sensible contingencies for if Rick called his bluff. But fuck that dude, he's dead, and not a moment too soon. Though it does make the preceding episodes somehow even MORE pointless.

Shit, I just saw that tonight is the 10th episode of the season. It feels like this thing is just getting started, but we're basically at the end.

That's been a foregone conclusion for a while. Pease was a step up from Weiss, but they never improved at in any facet of the game under him. And to think, I was a little bummed when he ended up at Florida instead of Alabama. Accidentally struck gold with Nussmeier. Between Pease flaming out at UF and Harsin being just okay at Tejas, I think the moral of this story is "stop hiring Chris Peterson's assistants."

I think I saw where Brad Edwards said that if Auburn beats Mizzou, they'll jump to #1 in the computers and would then just need a few defectors to vote them over OSU to get into the title game.

Foster is a senior, too. He may never kick again and THAT is the game he's gonna go out on.

Not condoning it at all, but why threaten the kid? Foster was the one who missed three fgs earlier to put them in the spot. . . It was Foster they were going after, not the kid.

. Jay Jacobs is such a clown. In his defense, though, he probably only said that because Pat Dye's hand was up his ass.

Wow. Clemson has 6 turnovers tonight. South Carolina has ZERO. You don't see a +6 in the turnover ratio column too often.

Oklahoma St. played a tougher schedule (Big XII was rated as the strongest conference that year) and were 11-1. 1. You're high. The SEC West alone had 3 top 5 teams in it that year. Check the conference strength. Big XII was tops that year. SEC East was really putrid that year, wasn't it? Georgia and South Carolina were okay but that was the year Georgia lost their first two games... first being against Boise St. Yeah, South Carolina was "okay." They finished #9. Georgia was Top 10 team heading into the SEC championship game before finishing crappily. Florida was mediocre. Vandy went to a bowl. East was fine.

Malzahn at Auburn or Pinkel at Missouri, whichever one wins the SEC title. Both had losing records last year. That's all I got right now.

I think Sumlin made a smart move in going ahead and signing an extension with A&M. With the way they're faltering down the stretch, I don't think he's going to be quite the commodity he thought he was a month or two ago.

Yeah, I don't remember it that way at all. I believe our respective fan biases interpreted things very differently.

Which is fine, until you have people who just 5 years earlier were absolutely apoplectic over the idea that A.) there could be a rematch and B.) that a non-conference champion could get in, to the point where they were calling for a rule change to prevent that, turning around and saying Bama should go in. It's the hypocrisy. (And the bitterness.) I am somewhat sympathetic to you on this point, but where was this groundswell of support for Alabama that you speak of? I mean outside of Alabama fans. As I recall it, and I remember it well, most people were not in favor of it and treated it as a horrific inevitability. There weren't many people championing Alabama for that spot. It was just the math that got them in.

Oklahoma St. played a tougher schedule (Big XII was rated as the strongest conference that year) and were 11-1. 1. You're high. The SEC West alone had 3 top 5 teams in it that year. 2. Regardless of who they beat, and they did beat some good teams (just like Alabama did), they had by FAAAAAR a worse loss. And before you play that weak "But it was on the road!" bullshit, let me go ahead and cut you off: When you lose to a team that would have been 5-7 and sitting their asses at home for the holidays if you would have handled your business, you don't get graded on a fucking curve just because you played at their turdhill of a stadium. You lost to a bad team. The end. Championship-caliber teams handle their business against bad teams. Ergo, you are not championship caliber. Enjoy the Fiesta Bowl. But seriously, dudes, it was 2 years ago.

That's not surprising. Stanford gets no support despite being a really good team year in and year out.

Guys, get over it. The BCS is designed to pair the 2 best teams at the end of the year, period. The end. LSU and Bama were clearly the 2 best teams that year. The system worked.

Yeah, people are always going to hate a dominant team. I don't take it personally. I promise nobody gave a shit when Mike Shula was coach. In that 60 Minutes piece on him, Saban said something to the effect of "high achievers don't like being around mediocre people," and I think the reverse holds true: Mediocre people hate seeing high achievers be successful.

What's hilarious is that they won the ONE game that I wasn't at and wasn't on TV. It's like when Bret beat Flair for the belt on a house show in SASKATOON.

Hey, did I mention that Southern Miss won their first game since Christmas Eve 2011 today? That was positive for me. I'm gonna chase that feeling.

Man. I wish the playoff started this year. If that was the case, Bama would essentially be in the clubhouse sitting in the catbird seat right now, almost assured of getting a spot in the final 4.

Yeah, I think the scenario for Bama is... -Mizzou loses to A&M, giving them 2 losses and taking them out of the title game in favor of South Carolina. -It's not necessary, but South Carolina losing to Clemson tonight would help. -South Carolina beats Auburn, giving AU 2 losses and SC is too far back to jump into the top 2 -That clears the way, then they just need 1 of FSU or OSU to lose. Preferrably OSU, because even with a historic, humiliating loss to Duke, FSU's strength at #1 coupled with anti-Bama sentiment might allow them to hold on at #2 over Bama. OSU is perceived as weak, and even with a loss to a better opponent, it would be difficult for them to maintain support. I think that would do it.

They will be #4. I guess you never know how the computers will break, but no human is going to put Bama over OSU or Auburn. And even at #4, the human component will look for every option to avoid Bama getting back to #2 if OSU or Auburn loses. The national mood is such that nobody wants to see Bama slip back into the title game without playing in the SEC championship like in '11, even if they are clearly one of the 2 best teams at the end of the year.

I'm not exactly sure what I should be rooting for now. Should I be pulling for Mizzou and South Carolina to win tonight, thus ensuring the best possible scenario for a non-Bama SEC team to make it to the championship? Or should I be pulling for TOTAL FUCKING CHAOS on the slim chance Bama could weasel their way back into the title game, thereby driving the whole country insane? Difficult choices.

I doubt it. Something was just off in his form tonight. A couple of his PATs looked bad, too. If putting in Griffin was something Saban was willing to do, then he should have done it on that 4th down when they chose to go for it instead of kicking. I think it woudl've been beween 30-35 yards, so it would've been a much easier kick for the kid to come in on. It's hilarious, in a deeply saddening way: Saban is the absolute best at EVERYTHING...except managing kickers.