College football bowl thread: Days of Signs and Roses

From the first day of practice, it was understood that if Alabama was going to win a natty the defense would have to be elite. And they couldn’t get the stop when it mattered in the fourth quarter and folded two plays into overtime. That’s more determinative than the fourth down call.

 

As in most good football games, there were enough blunders on both sides to create goats if one wants to look for them. Heroes too, if you prefer to look that way.

 

lol
“Jim danced around it”

 

And yet you watch.

 

Like we have a choice waiting for the Sugar Bowl.

 

That's what I'm left with at this point, too. Why not.

 

Get ready for Portnoy. He bet a million on Blue.

As for the outcome it’s really quite shocking.

 

A modest favorite won in overtime. That is the antithesis of shocking.

 

I respect Washington’s kicker leaning into the federal holiday by rolling up to work in full length sweatpants.

 

In an era where Alabama always wins the big game and Michigan always loses it, this is shocking.

 

How about his Anthony Keidis?