Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=16849146'>posted</a> on 11/20/2012:

Let's keep something in mind.

Alabama got beat by a Big 12 team with a Conference USA coach.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, A&M is in the SEC NOW, but 12 months ago they were a losing Big 12 team. Hanging "SEC" banners in their stadium doesn't make them an SEC team any more than Navy, Hawaii, or Maine.

Four years from now. Fine, I'll call them an SEC team, but all they've done is change letterhead.

So, Bama beat one decent SEC team (LSU), and losT to a used/to/be Big 12 team. And suddenly they are the greatest program of all-time? I don't think so.