Why would it be a joke? Bama has been # 1 the entire season. Even if they lose the SECCG, do you not think they are one of the best four teams in the country?
Are they? Or aren't they?
Question to you....does their reputation give them benefit of the doubt?
Of course it does.
It's been going on since humans were voting on polls etc etc.
The problem that makes things questionable is this....
the SEC is given the red carpet.
The SEC teams get their rankings by beating other SEC teams.
Big out of conference games with the SEC are the rarity.
Lets look at two of Bama's games that people drool over. You know...the trendy people.
LSU, Mississippi State.
LSU is a one trick pony. One dimensional. They lost to an average Florida team. The Bama lovers say well it was in the swamp. Alright...but Kentucky whipped Florida's ass. In the swamp.
LSU is HIGHLY overrated.
Mississippi State..
Watch the game? The MSU coaching staff should have been fired at half time. They had a fumble recovery when the score was 0-0...officials ruled it down. They could have challenged it. They didn't. Are you joking...they didn't.
They score twice right before half. One was a phantom block in the back call. The second was a delay of game.
Regardless just like the LSU win...people are drooling over this shutout.
Shutting out teams in 2018 is impressive but LSU, and MSU are NOT offensive power houses.
So how good is Alabama? They aren't immortal.
Would Oklahoma put 45 points on them? Maybe.
The talking heads want to poke holes in our schedule...Christ our schedule looks Goliath compared to Bama's.
And so the trendy rhetoric of kissing Bama's ass continues.