[Postgame Thread] Georgia Defeats Alabama 20-17

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Georgia	3	7	7	3	20
Alabama	0	14	3	0	17

[u/llm_fodder]

So, ref-ball aside, it's pretty clear that Bama and Georgia are the best teams right? That felt like two NFL teams going at it, and I don't think I've ever felt that way watching a Texas game this year.

[u/TotesMcGotes13 → u/llm_fodder]

Plus Ohio State. I think the second half of the Texas game was an anomaly and wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t week 2. Also think Miami might have an argument there but they haven’t played anyone

[u/ace82fadeout → u/TotesMcGotes13]

How are we living in a world where were just dismissing the literal results of the game. Texas still beat OSU, not sure how that gets written off as a fluke when they literally did the things they needed to do to win the game lol

[u/TotesMcGotes13 → u/ace82fadeout]

Bc my opinions and rankings can change as teams change through the year? OSU has looked much better. It’s easy as that.

[u/aggressivemisconduct → u/ace82fadeout]

Because we are discussing opinions about the best teams, you absolutely can choose how you'd like to consider a games result

[u/Beer-survivalist → u/aggressivemisconduct]

You can always tell the people on this sub who either:

a.) Are totally unfamiliar with statistics and probability, or...

b.) Have never paid any attention to baseball, where even the worst teams win about a quarter of their games. Even in the NFL sometimes the worse team beats the better team.

[u/BlurryGojira → u/ace82fadeout]

I wouldn’t call it a fluke exactly. It just feels like every year we need a wake up call loss to really lock in.

[u/transuranic807 → u/ace82fadeout]

They won and obv deserved to be ranked higher (till this weekend at least) so I get that but… Do u honestly think it would have been different on a neutral field? Do you think more often than not TX would beat OSU?

[u/kip256 → u/transuranic807]

Also heat acclimation is a thing and has a huge effect on stamina because your body makes physiological changes to adapt to the extreme heat. And it was 100+ on the field.

Texas was acclimated to the heat because they practice in Texas, Ohio State was not (takes 2 weeks).

Nothing Ohio State could have done to become acclimated because it didn't get that hot in Columbus. Which made the home field advantage bigger for Texas.

The 4th quarter collapse can be the result of Ohio State having nothing left in the tank because the heat. While Texas still had stamina to play because their in bodies had adapted to the heat.

[u/California_Stop_King → u/kip256]

The defense was out of gas by mid-3rd quarter. The offense was the catalyst for that blown lead, but it's objectively been the better unit all season. I have full faith that we'd win a rematch

[u/said-what → u/TotesMcGotes13]

osu is a one man team. Smith has an off night and they could lose to Purdue

[u/FiveHole23 → u/said-what]

You're dumb.