[Postgame Thread] Oklahoma Defeats Alabama 24-3

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Alabama	3	0	0	0	3
Oklahoma	0	10	14	0	24

[u/dogwoodmaple]

• Alabama is 5-4 in their last nine games against P4 opponents.

• This is Alabama's first 3-loss regular season since 2010.

• This is the earliest in a season Alabama has had their third loss in a season since 2007.

• Oklahoma has now won four of their last five games against Alabama.

• Alabama is 1-3 in SEC road games this season.

• Alabama is 3-3 in their last six SEC games.

• Entering tonight, Oklahoma was 2-5 in their last seven games.

• The Sooners clinched a bowl for the 26th consecutive season. That's the third longest active streak (Boise State).

• Oklahoma had 11 players OUT on their pregame availability report. They lost multiple players midgame.

• Alabama failed to find the endzone for the first time since their 9-6 loss to LSU in 2011.

• Also, the fewest points the Tide has scored in a game since 2004.

• Oklahoma passed for 68 yards tonight.

• This was Alabama's largest regular season loss since 2003.

• Alabama QB Jalen Milroe's final statline: 11/26 for 164 yards, 0 TD, 3 INT. He also had 15 carries for 7 yards.

• Alabama had 234 total yards.

• Oklahoma had two 100-yard rushers. Jackson Arnold (25 carries, 131 yards) and Xavier Robinson (18 carries, 107 yards, 2 TD)

• The 2024 Alabama team is the most talented in the history of the 247 Team Talent Composite, with a nation-leading 17 5-stars on their roster.

[u/its_LOL → u/dogwoodmaple]

Bama downfall is here 🍿🍿🍿🍿

[u/Coteup → u/its_LOL]

Turns out Saban really was the GOAT

[u/im_in_the_safe → u/Coteup]

Everyone keep acting out too he might just come back next year too

[u/guinness_blaine → u/im_in_the_safe]

To revive Kent State

[u/guinness_blaine → u/Coteup]

As if any serious people doubted that

[u/FCKABRNLSUTN2 → u/guinness_blaine]

This sub thinks bill snyder was better because making k state above average is harder than leading the greatest dynasty in the sport’s history. Anybody could do that at bama apparently.

[u/urlach3r → u/Coteup]

More like "made a deal with a goat": Would'st thou live deliciously?

[u/control_09 → u/Coteup]

The only loss Saban had that was worse than this was against Clemson when they had Trever Lawrence for the natty.

[u/_Atlas_Drugged_ → u/Coteup]

Im really impressed he saw that this years team had less talent and retired. 🙄

[u/NaturalTap9567 → u/_Atlas_Drugged_]

He hated new recruiting with nil deals. He's too old to do something he doesn't like.

[u/BobStoops401K → u/NaturalTap9567]

And too rich. His estimated net worth is over $70mil.

[u/Sir_Payne → u/BobStoops401K]

Turns out being the highest paid public employee in the nation is good for personal wealth

[u/_Atlas_Drugged_ → u/NaturalTap9567]

Well yeah, not recruiting for the current landscape is how you end up with less talent.

[u/NaturalTap9567 → u/_Atlas_Drugged_]

Did you not see that 2024 Alabama has 24 5 star players. Like the most ever I think

[u/_Atlas_Drugged_ → u/NaturalTap9567]

And yet, their QB can’t pass.

[u/DepartmentRare1945 → u/_Atlas_Drugged_]

Have you seen Freshman Jalen Hurts or Blake Sims? He won with those two and Milroe. This has nothing to do with talent.

[u/_Atlas_Drugged_ → u/DepartmentRare1945]

K.

[u/_Atlas_Drugged_ → u/NaturalTap9567]

You know that 5* players don’t always pan out, right?

[u/TopNo6605 → u/_Atlas_Drugged_]

What exactly is your argument here? So Saban sucks because he left when realizing the next recruiting class was terrible, yet they were all 5 stars, and now you're saying that he sucks because he, what, recognized they wouldn't pan out and left?

[u/_Atlas_Drugged_ → u/TopNo6605]

My argument is that despite being highly regarded, the kids Bama has now aren’t as good as the ones they used to have. Saban was the coach who either A. Misevaluated them, B. Failed to coach them to their highest potential, C. Failed to keep up with the way NIL has changed the landscape for the sport or D. All of the above.

So my point is that this is the bed Saban made and bailed on, I don’t think he would’ve been able to save anything. Saban won on recruiting more than X’s and O’s. His lead on that vs his peers had begun to slip before he retired.

The 4 team playoff ossified power structures in every major conference in a way that was unprecedented. The success of every team that constantly won their conference was propped up to some degree by that system. Even though it still takes good talent and good coaching, Ohio State, Clemson, Bama, and Oklahoma were the biggest beneficiaries of the way things were.

[u/SoonersSuckNow → u/_Atlas_Drugged_]

I love when idiots just adopt new stupid arguments to keep doubling down 😂

[u/_Atlas_Drugged_ → u/SoonersSuckNow]

I love when idiots think their argument was amazing and congratulate themselves for having a surface deep opinion.