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If you can't decide who to root for in the National Title

I'm rooting for both of them to lose. At the end of the game I'm getting myself hyped for the 2013 CANES
 
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gacericardo said:
I hate bama way more than I hate Notre Dame. They have been completely irrelevant for 90% of my college football watching life . I do not want bama to win 3 out of 4 That would not be good. ND is no threat to Miami whatsoever in recruiting. That's all I care about. 3 of 4 and it will be even harder to keep guys like Bush home. Would
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Those are all good points. I hope Notre Dame shuts out Alabama and Saban makes a fool of himself on the sideline, even though I expect the result will go the other way.

As a kid I rooted for Notre Dame in the 1973 Sugar Bowl national championship game between these two teams and it worked out. Less than a year later I was extremely happy with my choice. Alabama visited the Orange Bowl for a Friday night game. Their fans were snobs, far beyond anything I'd experienced from Notre Dame fans. The Alabama fans were decked out in red, often checked red like Bear Bryant's preference. Classy dressed but red necked arrogant beyond description. I didn't even think red necked and arrogant was possible until meeting those fans.

Keep in mind Alabama was always claiming national titles even if one 7-11 manager voted them atop his final poll. That's one reason I came to dislike Alabama. In fact, they still claim 1973 despite losing to Notre Dame in the bowl. The UPI poll stopped voting after the regular season and they had Alabama on top.

Besides, I'm absolutely disgusted at the SEC teams continually bailed out and excused a home loss. This will be the fifth time in the past 10 seasons that an SEC was allowed to lose at home and still be escorted into the title game -- LSU 2003, LSU 2007, Florida 2008, Alabama 2011 and Alabama 2012. Only one non-SEC team in the history of the BCS -- Ohio State 2007 -- has similarly advanced to the title game with a home defeat. There is no chance I'm rooting for a team with a home loss. Those teams stack their schedule with home non conference patsies. There are only two or three -- tops -- strenuous home tests per season yet they find a way to blow one of them. That equates to a national title? On what planet? I don't care how good they are, a home loss should equate to severe punishment. It was outrageous that LSU was preferred above USC in 2003 and Florida above USC in 2008. USC lost on the road both of those years yet the SEC team received the nod into the BCS title game.

As a Canes fan I didn't dare expect national championship consideration if we lost at home. Of course, it rarely happened. The lost opportunity in 1985 never bothered me because we lost badly at home to Florida, even though eventual champ Oklahoma was trounced at home by the Canes.

Alabama also was granted a split of the title in 1978 despite a lopsided home loss. USC went in there and toyed with them. Yet when USC lost at Arizona State somehow the voters in one poll anointed Alabama. And Alabama fans had the gall to assert that USC's share was bogus. I guess they've been conditioned toward special treatment forever.

I'll root for Alabama only if the only alternative is Florida, like a few years ago.
 
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