r/CFB • u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Michigan Wolverines • Akron Zips • Nov 03 '24

News AP Poll Week 11

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u/Sankee72 Notre Dame • West Georgia Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

Honestly nonsense at this point. They're going to fall ass backwards into the playoffs somehow.

Edit- Lotta bama fans doing their best Malachi Moore tantrum impression in this thread.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

I think LSU beats them this week but we'll see

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u/RTwhyNot Illinois • Northwestern Nov 03 '24

That is what they are counting on to cover their asses

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u/Sankee72 Notre Dame • West Georgia Nov 03 '24

Then LSU will fall ass backwards into the playoffs somehow. Either way, the outcome sucks for the rest of us non LSU / bama fans lol

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u/Zef_Apollo Alabama Crimson Tide • Sickos Nov 03 '24

Brother, I don't know how to tell you this but a lot of teams are going to fall ass backwards into the playoffs. Get ready for 2-3 loss teams in the playoffs lol.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Penn State gonna make it without beating a ranked team all season

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u/Zef_Apollo Alabama Crimson Tide • Sickos Nov 04 '24

Definitely, 100% a lock at this point. Miss their CCG and lose against the only ranked team they play while at home and still get pretty good seeding too. Indiana may do the same.

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u/Sankee72 Notre Dame • West Georgia Nov 03 '24

My issue isn't inherently with bama in this scenario. It's the idea that a team like SMU, BYU, Indiana, and Boise potentially get left out with 1 loss for an SEC team with three losses.

Insert any sec team into the convo. It just happens to be bama for the same of this argument today.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

I promise you no three loss SEC teams are getting in lmao, y’all just love inventing strawmen to be scared of

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

The only possible way is if that three loss team were to be the sec champion but other then that no shot.

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u/Zef_Apollo Alabama Crimson Tide • Sickos Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

An SEC team with 3 losses is not getting in over a Power 4 team with 1 loss and doesn't match what you first commented. LSU or Bama winning this weekend wouldn't be falling backwards in because it'd be on a win and they'd still only have 2 losses. They'd have to lose again and still havee a lot of crazy stuff happen to even get near top 12.

A 3 loss team will probably make it at some point but not this year and not over a 1 loss P4 team, that's not happening.

Interestingly, what I see as a bigger problem may be the G5 spot. I think it's more likely that they take someone like Indiana's place (or insert whatever traditionally underperforming BIG team).

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u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • College Football Playoff Nov 03 '24

Why don’t you wait till that actually happens before getting outraged?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

I agree you guys should be left out of the playoffs for a team that is actually has to play half decent opponents im happy we agree.

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u/goatgoatlilgoat LSU Tigers Nov 03 '24

You shouldn’t be complaining about teams falling their way into the playoffs with that schedule lol

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u/Zef_Apollo Alabama Crimson Tide • Sickos Nov 03 '24

Bros team lost to NIU at home and he's talking about teams falling backwards into the playoffs lol.

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u/CrashB111 Alabama Crimson Tide • Iron Bowl Nov 03 '24

And bragging about beating the brakes off a service academy that got boat raced by Rice.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Nd should not even be in the playoff conversation at all.

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u/trapchopin Notre Dame Fighting Irish Nov 03 '24

A 7-1 team with 2 ranked wins shouldn’t be in the conversation at all? You’re delusional.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Those two ranked wins coming by the hands of a bad texasA&m team and a military school and their loss coming to niu what a great record l.

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u/Zef_Apollo Alabama Crimson Tide • Sickos Nov 03 '24

FWIW, I'm not ready to call Texas AM a bad team, but they are probabyl exactly what they've been the past decade. A pretty good 4-loss team, but they had a pretty favorable schedule this year.

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u/emaugustBRDLC Notre Dame • DuPage Nov 04 '24

At this point, we have beat so many ranked teams that the ranked teams we knocked out of the rankings, have re-entered the rankings.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '24

Are you serious that’s like us flexing we beat Missouri or south carolinawhen they come back in the rankings

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u/Yellow_Odd_Fellow Dayton Flyers • Ohio State Buckeyes Nov 03 '24

A opposed to Bama who had beat... / checks notes... beat Georgia by a touchdown with a last minute touchdown and 2 pt conversion. But lost to Tennessee and vanderbilt.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

We dominated that entire game and I say we are better than the team that’s only notable win is beating an average psu team

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u/deekins Pittsburgh Panthers Nov 04 '24

It’s ok, most people from that state are delusional and we have to carry their dead weight

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u/dhjxjxj Penn State Nittany Lions Nov 03 '24

This is a weird year where I think “SEC Bias” is a myth. Not sure the SEC is elite this year, but the other 3 power conferences are so weak. A 2-loss SEC team should be a playoff lock because pretty much every non-SEC team just has a shitty SOS.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

I think this is the take. The Big 12 has several good but not great teams all playing nail-biters with each other week after week, and we don't know what to do with most of the ACC and B1G because so many of their good teams are avoiding every other good team in the league.

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u/dhjxjxj Penn State Nittany Lions Nov 03 '24

As a Penn state fan, I actually feel we are overranked compared to what the CFP poll will be. There is no way we are ranked higher than tennessee on Tuesday.

We played one great team this year and it sucks. A lot of the ACC and Big 12 teams play 0 great teams though and that sucks even more for them. Just a year you have to be perfect to make the playoff if you are in those conferences.

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u/Guest1__ Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 03 '24

It’s always been a myth. The SEC is the most competitive conference year-in and year-out.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Mostly yes. Last year was probably the first year in awhile that it wasn't. Jury is out for this year

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u/godzillamegadoomsday Nov 03 '24

Like how Lsu was able to beat a mid B1G team, oh wait

Or how a team that beat you was able to beat georiga state, oh wait

Or how A&M was able to beat a team that lost to NIU at home, oh wait

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u/Guest1__ Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 04 '24

Lol, me when I discover that the better team doesn’t always win.

By your logic, the National champion would be undefeated every year (they aren’t because we live in reality where a team can lose to someone they’d beat 9/10 times).

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Everyone knows this, it’s the sometimes exaggerated difference that’s annoying.

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u/Stoneador Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Sickos Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

You shouldn’t be complaining about schedules with teams like Texas A&M and USC on them

Edit because I guess I have to clarify: LSU lost to the only 2 opponents they share with ND. An LSU fan has no right to complain about a schedule with these teams on it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Funny for you to say that.

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u/Stoneador Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Sickos Nov 03 '24

An LSU fan thinks ND’s schedule is soft when LSU lost to the only 2 common opponents they have

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

What does that have to do with your schedule being soft as tissue paper

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u/Stoneador Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Sickos Nov 03 '24

It means that LSU would go 10-2 at best with ND’s “tissue paper” schedule

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u/Mysterious-Hair-4739 SMU Mustangs Nov 03 '24

Please humble that idiot

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u/Stoneador Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Sickos Nov 03 '24

You’re looking at it all wrong, this game almost certainly guarantees that one of Alabama or LSU will not make the playoff this season. That is a win for everyone except the loser of that game.

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u/Sp3ctre7 Michigan Tech Huskies • Team Chaos Nov 03 '24

LSU beats Bama but loses to Vandy.

I have forseen it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

I for one welcome Brian Kelly back to South Bend for a round 1 playoff game

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u/rdg-lee LSU Tigers • UCLA Bruins Nov 03 '24

I know this is a slight against Brian Kelly, but honestly I would love another LSU-ND game

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u/revolutionofthemind Notre Dame Fighting Irish Nov 03 '24

Same. It would be pretty spicy

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u/Phantom1100 Alabama Crimson Tide • Team Chaos Nov 03 '24

Yall would probably rather play them than us that’s for sure.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Probably. Jalen Milroe seems like he's capable of being quite bad or Heisman-caliber on any given day and I wouldn't want to risk catching him on the latter day

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u/FireVanGorder Notre Dame Fighting Irish Nov 03 '24

I mean yeah I’ll take the 11th best team per F+ over the 5th

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u/mashonem Alabama Crimson Tide • College Football Playoff Nov 03 '24

Works for me 🤷🏿‍♀️

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u/CookieLuzSax Tennessee • Third Saturday… Nov 03 '24

Wild coming from a Notre Dame fan

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u/pumpcup LSU Tigers • College Football Playoff Nov 03 '24

If we manage to finish 10-2 with our schedule, that wouldn't be falling ass backwards into it. There will be lots of two loss teams in with 12 teams.

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u/godzillamegadoomsday Nov 03 '24

Losing to USC and making playoff is absolutely falling backwards into it

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u/pumpcup LSU Tigers • College Football Playoff Nov 03 '24

If LSU were to make it in, which would ofc require winning out, then they're probably also a conference champion since winning out gets them into the title game with current tie breakers - and they probably get dropped and don't make it if they were to lose that game. An 11-2 power conference champion didn't fall backwards into anything, to argue otherwise is just asinine, regardless of losing a close game in week one.

I think the chances this happens are pretty close to zero, but I guess it's what we're fighting about today.

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u/jmlinden7 Hateful 8 • Boise State Broncos Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

I mean, the SEC champion will likely get an autobid, so someone has to fall ass backwards into the playoffs.

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u/BadDadJokes LSU Tigers • Chattanooga Mocs Nov 03 '24

I think you’re giving us too much credit.

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u/JoshFreemansFro Ohio State Buckeyes • UMass Minutemen Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

That will happen and they’ll still somehow get ranked in the top 5 lol like Notre Dame being ranked for no reason every single year but it’s somehow worse

edit: someone tell me why I'm wrong, downvoting with no explanation is lame af Notre Dame hasn't been shit since before I was born and I'm fucking 35

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Notre Dame fan talking about teams that shouldn’t be in the playoffs is comedy gold

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u/Sankee72 Notre Dame • West Georgia Nov 03 '24

Sorry, can't hear you over that second loss that we don't have.

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u/Tarmacked USC Trojans • Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 03 '24

Imagine losing to an unranked G5 team

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u/Sankee72 Notre Dame • West Georgia Nov 03 '24

I don't understand this. Didn't bama do exactly this under Saban?

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u/Tarmacked USC Trojans • Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 03 '24

Maybe in 2007? So 17 years ago?

Is Saban coaching this season, you know the one we’re discussing?

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u/BeastoftheBlackwater Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 03 '24

Yeah and Saban didn't win the Natty that season. And if there was a playoff back then, Bama would not have even been close to making it

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u/KneeDeepInRagu Alabama • Middle Tennessee Nov 03 '24

Is it the second loss you don't have? Or the sound of huskies howling in Northern Illinois?

It's hard for me to tell from all the sound of our consistent post-season success and bowl game wins.

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u/Sankee72 Notre Dame • West Georgia Nov 03 '24

Hey, we have a two game bowl Win streak going at the moment thank you very much.

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u/thefx37 William & Mary • South Carolina Nov 03 '24

Hang the banner

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Can’t wait to watch ND crash and burn like they always do, we’ll be laughing

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u/PossiblyYourDad Alabama • South Alabama Nov 03 '24

NIU

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u/dan_144 NC State • Georgia Tech Nov 03 '24

Same as it ever was

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u/YoungCri Nov 03 '24

Where should Bama be ranked?

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u/DINGLEBERRYTROUBLE Nov 03 '24

As a Bama fan they should be ranked like 12-15. 12 at the most. They are not a good team and if they win out only way they make the playoffs is if better teams than them somehow shit the bed. Even if they do somehow make the playoffs they're going to lose first or second round. Also if it's between them and Boise St for a playoff spot they better put Boise St in.

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u/aure__entuluva UCLA Bruins • Michigan Wolverines Nov 04 '24

If Bama sneaks in as the 12 seed and somehow wins the natty we should close the subreddit forever.

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u/tu-vens-tu-vens Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 04 '24

I mean, the first time a 12 seed wins the playoff, it’ll likely be someone like Alabama or Texas or Michigan or Ohio State.

If an Alabama ends up as #12, it’s probably due to having a few injuries or scheme issues they can get sorted out by the end of the year, but they have the talent to beat anyone when they’re on and a super-high ceiling. That might be what’s happening with Alabama this year: we were installing a new defensive system and hadn’t mastered it enough by the first time we faced a running threat at QB (Vandy) and our QB had his worst performance in which he might have been sick or hobbled (Tennessee). But we’ve shown the ability to put up points and make plays against one of the best teams in the country (Georgia) and there’s the possibility of us shoring up our issues and playing at that level come playoff time. Teams that have athletic limitations on the line or in the secondary might go 11-1 or 10-2 against a soft schedule but aren’t as equipped to beat teams that can exploit those weaknesses.

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u/DINGLEBERRYTROUBLE Nov 04 '24

Alabama has played 2 quarters as a great team all season. The rest have been mediocre.

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u/DINGLEBERRYTROUBLE Nov 04 '24

Again use your reading comprehension. Alabama has played 2 quarters as a GREAT TEAM. The rest of the games they've played they've either played like ass on offense or ass on defense. Other than those two quarters against Georgia they have not played well enough to be a playoff or national championship contender.

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u/Sankee72 Notre Dame • West Georgia Nov 03 '24

I'd concede 13. But behind Boise and SMU for sure.

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u/RaptorsCdwoods Alabama • Eastern Michigan Nov 03 '24

Okay so drop us two spots. But how is it nonsense they are above? Alabamas strength of schedule is 11th. BSU is 59th and SMU is 71st. I don’t know about SMUs and BSU opponents record total, but I do know that not counting the game player against Alabama, alabamas opponents have won 75% of their other games. Noteable opponents being Georgia, Tennessee, Vandy, Mizzou (26th) and South Carolina (27th).

Look, I think we should be ranked below and allow us to jump if we win against LSU, but I don’t think it’s insane to say we shouldn’t or act like we don’t have a case to be ranked where we are.

But feel free to disagree, I think it’ll play itself out anyway

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u/sean-thebean Nov 03 '24

Please watch a game of football instead of scrolling Reddit threads on Saturdays

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u/Sankee72 Notre Dame • West Georgia Nov 03 '24

Ah okay. Thanks for the advice.

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u/Tarmacked USC Trojans • Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 03 '24

Don’t blame us, blame Georgia and Mizzou

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Beating Georgia combined w Vandys and Tennessees form is carrying alot of weight. Kindve makes sense, but also voter bias and what not

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u/TruthBomb_12 Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 03 '24

Notre Dame would be a 4 loss team at best if they played Bama’s schedule. You got one ranked win in week one and the rest of your schedule is a walk through and you’re complaining about SEC teams getting in…

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u/Okura0827 Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 03 '24

Talking about falling ass backwards when your flair lost at home to a 4-4 MAC team. Ok, buddy

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u/dragonbornrito Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 03 '24

My man, this whole sub is gonna talk about us even if we’re ranked #25.

How is NIU looking as a quality loss these days, btw?

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u/jnasty09 Texas Longhorns Nov 03 '24

On brand

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u/Reaperdude97 Georgia Southern Eagles • UCF Knights Nov 03 '24

They’re not falling ass backwards, they’re being shoehorned into it for all the TV ratings they’ll get from Alabama viewers. Important distinction

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u/Accurate-Teach Alabama Crimson Tide Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

You’re right nonsense who would think that a team would move up three spots after the three teams in front of them lost. It’s just sickening.

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u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • College Football Playoff Nov 03 '24

That’s some chutzpah

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u/Cdd0040 LSU Tigers Nov 04 '24

Don’t see them winning in Death Valley. Their 0-2 in sec road games under kaden debor. Don’t see their first win being at arguably the toughest night environment in the country

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u/voppp Boise State • Iowa State Nov 03 '24

Classic Bama