Nobdy was closer to beating Auburn than us

[FlabLoser]

RebelBruiser wrote

Forgive me for laughing but I would laugh at our own fans for saying
**** like that. For either of us to have a shot at the title it would
take a once in a lifetime aligning of the stars, but keep the dream
alive.

And you guys say our fans are delusional.

Nice 1 game sample for comparison too. We beat an eventual national
champion and we weren't any closer to a national title ourselves.

ETA: You are wrong by the way too. Clemson took Auburn to OT at their
place. Bama had Auburn down 24 before they lost by 1. I would say those 2
were closer to beating Auburn than you were.

Auburn needed a once in a lifetime player and about 7 close games to go their way to even have a shot at the title.

Clemson in OT, Bama over Auburn by 24 at one point - so what.

We were driving on them at the end of the 4th quarter and we miss a winning TD pass and also drop an easy catch inside the 10 yard line. Its not about stats, OT, or some score in the middle of the game. We were 1-2 GIMMIE plays away from beating them.

 

[sleepy dawg]

Taking a team to overtime is closer.

 

[Lion O]

You know which play I'm talking about...the one where the AU guy came up from behind him on a play in which he looked like he would score, or Alabama would get a FG at worst. Ingram had lost 1 fumble in his career before that play. You can also add Richardson's drop in the flats on the 3 yard line that would've scored.

As for the Clemson game, their gimme play was the 3rd down before the missed FG in overtime. Wide open and the WR drops it. Clemson would've won if he catches it, as AU had already kicked a FG. Then comes the "illegal snap" that negated the first OT FG attempt (that was good).

Can you not just admit you made an incorrect statement?

 

[West Tn Dawg]

Thats precious! A L is A L!

 

[FlabLoser]

Taking a team to overtime is closer.

In OT, you need a score and a defensive stop to win.

Against AU, all we needed was a damn caught football at the end of the 4th to win.

 

[anon1751035439]

By definition, if you take a team to overtime you come closer to beating that team than every other team that loses to them in regulation. How you lose to them in regulation doesn't matter. Since you were not tied with them after regulation, like Clemson was, you did not come closer to beating them. It's pure numbers. Down by three after regulation is not as good as being tied.

At least I think that was what he meant.

 

[rebelrouseri]

and its not close.

 

[MedDawg]

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[dawgwhisperer]

<span style="font-weight: bold;">AU was a much better team later in the year. You play them when Bama did...</span>
and its not close.

This is a stupid statement. There are absolutely no facts to back this up, but there are facts to refute it. I know it's a hard thing for you to grasp rebel, but we actually had
good football team this year especially at home. In fact, any which way
you slice it we were only about 2 plays from ending the season 11-2
instead of 9-4.

Not sure if you remember or not, but we turned the ball over twice inside our own 30 which resulted in 10 of AU's 17 points. We also played the 2nd best team in the conference to double overtime the week before Bama played AU. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">only</span> game we looked bad in was the Bama game(which of course was our first game back after the death of Nick Bell), hell when we played LSU their average starting field position was our 48 yard line and they still had to kick <span style="font-weight: bold;">5</span> field goals. During a season where the SEC West was without question the toughest division in college football we still managed to finish ranked at #15. If we were in the east you would have seen the rematch between us and AU in Atlanta.

You go ahead and fool yourself all you want to make yourself feel better about your crap season, but there are 2 undisputable facts about this season. Miss State had a damn good team and at no point during the year under no circumstances would Ole Miss have been able to play AU to within 3 points.

Also since we're talking about "later in the season", lets not forget Bama squeaked by Arkansas early in the season and then lost to an LSU team later in the season that Arkansas beat the last game of the year. The same Arkansas team that we took to double overtime in Starkville only 1 week earlier. Spin how you want but these are the facts.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

. In fact, any which way you slice it we were only about 2 plays from ending the season 11-2 instead of 9-4.

If Florida had a decent Field Goal kicker, they would've at least taken us to overtime. Also, if the Georgia WR hadn't have fumbled so close to the Goal Line, Georgia might've beaten us. Heck, if OMU had pulled together a decent drive at the end of the game and their OL didn't have a holding call, THEY might've had a chance (well, okay, they wouldn't have. Let's not get silly. They finally got the team their fan base deserves, and they should be happy with 2-4 wins a year for the next decade).

 

[RebelBruiser]

I always hate that argument even when our fans make it. In most cases that type of thing balances out. In 08 our fans argued that we were a few plays from 11-1. Well we were also a few plays from 6-6. Usually.you win some you lose some.

Auburn this year is a case of a team getting all the good fortune. Usually that won't happen.

 

[FlabLoser]

By definition, if you take a team to overtime you come closer to beating that team than every other team that loses to them in regulation. How you lose to them in regulation doesn't matter. Since you were not tied with them after regulation, like Clemson was, you did not come closer to beating them. It's pure numbers. Down by three after regulation is not as good as being tied.

At least I think that was what he meant.

OT is automatically "closer to beating them" than anybody who loses in regulation?

Example:

Team A loses by overthrowing a wide open player in the endzone at the end of regulation.

Team B loses by going to OT (regulation ended at midfield with no drama - nobody "almost won" in regulation), doesn't score in OT, and gets scored against in OT to lose.

Team A was closer to winning than Team B. If you can't see that I can't help you.

 

[Goat Holder II]

Would Auburn have beaten us worse? Maybe. But just because we lost to Bama and Arkansas at the end of the year didn't mean we weren't playing better too. Geez you jealous pricks can't even let one pro-MSU post go.

 

[jackstefano]

and improved a great deal from my observation.

 

[onewoof]

And that is the only reason it was close. Could have turned around to bite them in the butt, but it didn't.<div>
</div><div>Florida was doing the same thing with Ole Miss when Ole Miss did bite them and beat Florida on their home turf.</div>

 

[KurtRambis4]

let me say that I think the whole "played them the closest but still lost" is 17ing stupid. However, I disagree with us losing worse if we played them later. I think our defense matched up against their offense very well. Also, that assumption is based on the fact that either we were playing our best football against them at the beginning of the year or that we didn't get better as the year went on...or both.