This years Rose Bowl 2026
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I didn't get a chance to watch the game but followed it. Sorry your team lost.
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Hats off to Indiana. They are on a whole 'nother level this year and they have a great coach ... who was once an assistant coach at Alabama under Nick Saban. Saban always could pick winners.
Is it even possible to be any more ashamed of Alabama's "performance" in the Rose Bowl than I am? And I use the term performance quite loosely.
Probably not. That particular shade of second-hand humiliation is pretty much a ceiling event.
Alabama didn’t just lose that Rose Bowl, they looked confused doing it. Flat, undisciplined, out-coached, and oddly unprepared for a team that did exactly what everyone knew they were going to do. When a program built on “we’re tougher and smarter than you” gets pushed around and out thought on that stage, it hits a different nerve.
What really stings is that it wasn’t some heroic shootout or last-second heartbreak. It was the slow realization, quarter by quarter, that this version of Alabama just wasn’t Alabama in the way fans have been conditioned to expect. That’s the kind of loss that lingers.
So no, I'm probably already at max capacity on the shame scale. The only consolation is that when a standard has been that high for that long, even a bad night feels like a public collapse. Most programs would call it a “down year.” Alabama fans call it an existential crisis.
Is it even possible to be any more ashamed of Alabama's "performance" in the Rose Bowl than I am? And I use the term performance quite loosely.
Probably not. That particular shade of second-hand humiliation is pretty much a ceiling event.
Alabama didn’t just lose that Rose Bowl, they looked confused doing it. Flat, undisciplined, out-coached, and oddly unprepared for a team that did exactly what everyone knew they were going to do. When a program built on “we’re tougher and smarter than you” gets pushed around and out thought on that stage, it hits a different nerve.
What really stings is that it wasn’t some heroic shootout or last-second heartbreak. It was the slow realization, quarter by quarter, that this version of Alabama just wasn’t Alabama in the way fans have been conditioned to expect. That’s the kind of loss that lingers.
So no, I'm probably already at max capacity on the shame scale. The only consolation is that when a standard has been that high for that long, even a bad night feels like a public collapse. Most programs would call it a “down year.” Alabama fans call it an existential crisis.
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Yee doggies, that was one great game! I am one proud Hoosier.
I thought that was downright nice of 'em to let the Tide get a field goal. Don't want to send them home with nothing, do we?
I thought that was downright nice of 'em to let the Tide get a field goal. Don't want to send them home with nothing, do we?