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Must have been the officiating.

Typical Bulldog.

Dude, we are talking about the draft. Don’t hate just because they could all beat Auburn…

Alabama — The 17-year Nick Saban era ended with 3 QBs drafted in the first 4 rounds I like you, Conner - not to criticize, but this is misleading. Four were actually drafted in the first four rounds - Tua, Jones, Young, and Hurts. I am assuming we did not include Hurts because he was playing at OK when he was drafted. However, he occupied two of Saban’s 17 years. In sum total, the four above accounted for roughly seven years of football. AJ McCarron accounted for two more and was drafted in the fifth round. That is nine of seventeen with a drafted QB. Find another coach not named Riley who did that. So he won with Jake Coker and Blake Sims. Is that a negative? Not being a homer. Just saying.

So Penix is still going to be playing QB at 34?

The Falcons would like the number to call, please. If others are offering forty picks, they are willing to go forty-five.

This would be a great way to make sure the SEC/B10 poached them as soon as someone found a way to get out of the grant of rights.

I do not really have anything to say. I just wanted to comment before LSUMC or Ron Mexico.

Hi Tom. Yes, that was our best player’s high point total for the year. We still lost. This is my point. I would love to be wrong if it happens again.

Poor soul. He’s just too high strung.

Thank you. Go Cats.

Thank you (and everyone else) for your comments and class. I have to disagree with your final sentence, though. Alabama would need 1.2-1.5 three pointers for every time Purdue passed the ball into the paint and Edey scored and/or was fouled. In other words, around 40.

Pulling for a W on Rocky Top.

Roll Tide. Nate Oats getting there with THIS team is beyond amazing.

Thank you. Very classy.

Thank you to an LSU fan and an Auburn fan for the wishes. Geaux Tigers and War Eagle.

Could we be less snarky and critical? Connor writes good stuff and avoids many of the issues other writers seem to find with regularity. Someone should show up randomly at your job and criticize you.

Was there an article about Alabama/C of Charleston? Did I miss it?

Let me get this straight. The number was four. The media argued that it needed to be more. Forget the fact that the majority of the first round games were blowouts. We need more. Only the big teams have a seat at the table. We are killing the smaller schools. We need more. People argued that more would cheapen the regular season, but that did not matter. People argued that more would never end. It would always be more. Now, the media is saying that the new model with more is not fair because it benefits the stronger schools?

68 is not enough for basketball. The dam has broken. Everyone wanted more and, by golly, it is about to happen for better or worse.

Lots of teams jumped out to score quick touchdowns against Saban before he adjusted and beat them. Some of those became blowouts. No one can definitively say what would have happened if McCoy had not been hurt. If we are going to listen to this argument, we need to revisit the one time Saban lost to Smart. He was down two 1,000 yard receivers. How about the end of the season when Tua dislocated his hip? There are plenty more.

Those two are also bad ones. Agree. I think what does it for me with Mandarich, though, is that Troy Aikman went in the pick before him. The top five picks were all hall of Famers, with the exception of Mandarich. It is like you could have closed your eyes and thrown a dart, but you still missed.

I am with you on the 2017 draft. However, I tend to believe that Tony Mandarich in 1989 was a worse pick. He went immediately ahead of Barry Sanders, Deion Sanders, and Derrick Thomas. I still have to believe it is the worst draft choice in history.

Would you have made the same argument about the SEC title game before it was played?

At one point, Georgia was playing all freshmen, mostly. Nothing changed. Having the missing players back would have changed little to nothing. I have never seen a columnist wish for a different result in a completed game instead of writing about the true results. Even so, if Auburn had won, as you wished, there would still have been no room for Florida State. Georgia would have occupied that spot. Lest anyone forget, Alabama also beat this Georgia team - unless the writer would like to hypothetically wish that one away, as well.

Auburn on the plains in the Iron Bowl is an entirely different proposition than Auburn any other time. Part of the reason Auburn lost to New Mexico State is that the Iron Bowl was the next week. Auburn has talent. Distracted teams can lose to MUCH less talented teams. Examples abound.

Ha. You are correct. Had J Daniels on my mind. Meant Travis.

While we are at it, New Mexico State in no way played on the same field at Auburn as Alabama did. Anyone who believes this needs to go to an Iron Bowl on the plains.

Florida State was hosed. It is undeniable. However, Alabama would have beaten them with Daniels at quarterback. Alabama will also beat Michigan. When this happens, Alabama will have beaten both of the two teams which have spent the entire season atop the polls. This will lend credence to my first statement. Alabama would have beaten Florida State.

Exactly what did I say that was not true? FSU got hosed in the playoff poll. It is true. It is partially of its own making, though. They chose the ACC and are now upset that it did not work as they had hoped.