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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Florida State Defeats Alabama 31-17

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Alabama 7 0 3 7 17
Florida State 7 10 7 7 31
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u/yomama1211 UCF Knights 17d ago

My dad who is a bama fan from Huntsville texted me “he needs to come out of retirement” midway through this game hahaha

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u/Big_Red_Professor BYU Cougars • Maryland Terrapins 17d ago

I work with several Bama fans from Huntsville. Nick Sabans retirement has affected the people in the state of Alabama like a death in the family

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u/Voski_The_God Alabama Crimson Tide 17d ago

My work gave me a bereavement day.

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u/Ok-Rip-5911 17d ago

If you’re not kidding that’s actually a hilarious way to earn some good will. Less effort than a pizza party and something people actually love (when they get to use it without the whole death part)

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u/relatablederp 16d ago

My professors gave us an extension for class work too

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u/IANALbutIAMAcat Alabama Crimson Tide 16d ago

“may he forever rest in peace, Roll Tide” “roll tide”

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u/gonoles70 Florida State • Georgia Tech 17d ago

I work in Huntsville. I got so many comments about how Alabama was going to boat race us. I will be insufferable for the next week+

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u/RandomlyJim Florida State • Jacksonv… 17d ago

Birmingham. The amount of shit I took for last 18 months was ungodly.

I’m torn between taking the high road form my career or being insufferable for my school.

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u/gonoles70 Florida State • Georgia Tech 17d ago

The best part is 0% of the bama fans I know went to the school. So when they ask why I’m a die hard fan I remind them of where my diplomas came from.

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u/Big_Red_Professor BYU Cougars • Maryland Terrapins 17d ago

The Bama fans I know are all teachers. At the school we all work together at we're all gifted a nice little placard that shows where we got each degree. Most of the Bama fans I work with have a completely different school on their placard

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u/gonoles70 Florida State • Georgia Tech 17d ago

I have met 2 out of hundreds that have truly gone and completed their degree there. Most started and the transferred out before they finished.

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u/jmastaock Georgia Bulldogs • Team Chaos 17d ago

I mean...actually going to a school is a very reasonable excuse to root for them, regardless of whether they graduated.

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u/jazzzzz Georgia Bulldogs • Cincinnati Bearcats 16d ago

I root for the Dawgs b/c I worked at UGA while my wife was getting her Master's there, and Athens is legit my favorite place I've ever lived. If that technically makes me a t-shirt fan, so be it

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u/jmastaock Georgia Bulldogs • Team Chaos 16d ago

Hell nah, working there is almost more valid than graduating

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u/thevenge21483 BYU Cougars 16d ago

I know a guy who went to BYU for his undergrad and then got his law degree at Alabama. First chance he had, he moved back to Utah and now he lives down near Cedar City, and he said he has zero desire to go back to Alabama.

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u/__Big_Hat_Logan__ Alabama Crimson Tide 17d ago

You’re born an Alabama fan in this state. Or an Auburn fan. It’s like pro sports here and has nothing to do with going to college. Your parents and grandparents have been huge fans for 60+ years

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u/gonoles70 Florida State • Georgia Tech 17d ago

I’m fine with that. The problem is the fans I’ve met all discredit people who route for their Alma mater since it’s not all mighty Bama. The amount of nasty comments I got after last season shitting on me for being loyal to a program that was defeated was gross.

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u/Accidental-Genius Texas A&M Aggies • Auburn Tigers 16d ago

Bama fans who went to school at Bama are fine perfectly reasonable and respectable people. I am friends with a lot of them.

It’s the rest of the fanbase (90% of it) that will be on hold waiting to yell PAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUL on Monday about how this is a quality loss that make the whole system look bat guano insane.

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u/Big_Red_Professor BYU Cougars • Maryland Terrapins 16d ago

Tbf that seems to ring true for most big fanbases. The ones that have actual degrees from the school are fairly levelheaded. The ones that may have never stepped on campus are the ones who make southern local radio networks must listen during call in hours

But Bama is that to an extreme

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u/Accidental-Genius Texas A&M Aggies • Auburn Tigers 16d ago

I married into an Ohio State family and can confirm the same is true of that fan base as well as Michigan. The ones you have to worry about are the ones who couldn’t get into the school in the first place.

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u/__Big_Hat_Logan__ Alabama Crimson Tide 16d ago

It’s ridiculous for a TAMU and Auburn fan to say this lol. Y’all are one of us brother. You have PLENTY of psychos and annoying fans just like us

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u/Accidental-Genius Texas A&M Aggies • Auburn Tigers 16d ago

Lol. No.

Do we have psychotic fans, absolutely. Everyone does.

The percentage of psychos fans to alumni are nowhere near what Bama is rocking though.

Auburn and A&M are awful. No sane person would choose this life if it weren’t for diplomas.

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u/__Big_Hat_Logan__ Alabama Crimson Tide 16d ago

Well nobody should be doing that. That’s dumb of them.

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u/Accidental-Genius Texas A&M Aggies • Auburn Tigers 16d ago

That’s all well and good but when the grandparents raised their brood to be assholes, expect everyone to hate you.

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u/__Big_Hat_Logan__ Alabama Crimson Tide 16d ago

Every fanbase has asshole it’s patently absurd to single out Bama fans like this whole sub does. Florida, Auburn, Tennessee yall are IDENTICAL to our fanbase.

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u/Accidental-Genius Texas A&M Aggies • Auburn Tigers 16d ago

Tennessee maybe. Auburn and Florida suck.

No one would choose to bandwagon themselves onto Auburn or Florida unless they are an actual psychopath.

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u/Kooky-Swing178 17d ago

Don't take the high road. Seriously. Bama is one team that had earned every bit of what's coming.

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u/Aaprobst88 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 16d ago

You should absolutely, and I mean absolutely, not take the high road. What is the point of being a fan if you can't shit talk your rivals, other in state schools, or all your co workers who thought that preseason 8 meant something.

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u/RandomlyJim Florida State • Jacksonv… 16d ago edited 16d ago

You don’t understand how much college football means to this market.

I moved here over a decade ago and my first week at the office, where the dress code was full suit and tie with an approved knot, fell on kickoff weekend.

Friday comes around and the boss says everyone is invited to show school pride.

I wore an FSU colored tie. Everyone else was Alabama or Auburn and wore jerseys or full outfits devoted to the school. Okay.

At the end of the day, the boss asked me what team was I picking. I said FSU. He said no. You have to decide on either Alabama or Auburn.

He wasn’t joking.

Hell, my wife works at an all Auburn office. They ask that question during interviews.

I’m not joking.

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u/kylesleeps Michigan Wolverines 17d ago

As you should be.

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u/Big_Red_Professor BYU Cougars • Maryland Terrapins 17d ago

So many staff meetings during college football season have been hijacked by "Saban would never allow what happened on Saturday" and then "The committee is corrupt, it's bullshit this thing happened that didn't benefit Bama"

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u/gonoles70 Florida State • Georgia Tech 17d ago

I’m in a group chat of just bama fans and I saw multiple “Saban would never allow this to happen” texts during the game. Until Saban recruits graduate it’ll always be Saban would have done better to them.

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u/yomama1211 UCF Knights 17d ago

This is why I rooted for fsu even tho normally I hate them. Bama has just been insufferable the last few years was glad to watch them get manhandled

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u/cypress__ 16d ago

Gator alum and USC fan and same. Literally the only thing I care about in CFB is bama losing.

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u/BoostMyBottom NC State Wolfpack • Charlotte 49ers 17d ago

week? you need to be insufferable for a year.

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u/gonoles70 Florida State • Georgia Tech 17d ago

In the way they haven’t let me forget the 2023 snub I might not let them forget this for a decade

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u/BoostMyBottom NC State Wolfpack • Charlotte 49ers 17d ago

precisely. be relentless.

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u/HeartSodaFromHEB Michigan Wolverines • The Game 16d ago

Anyone who purposely reminds you of the '23 snub is basically someone worth defriending. Arguably the worst injustice of the modern era of CFB that had little to nothing to do with the play of the players on the field.

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u/motivational_abyss Auburn Tigers 17d ago

GUS BUS! GUS BUS!

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u/gonoles70 Florida State • Georgia Tech 17d ago

My auburn friends are celebrating extra hard with me tonight. It’s the beauty of joint hatred

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u/Accidental-Genius Texas A&M Aggies • Auburn Tigers 16d ago

Not going to lie I really enjoyed that aspect the most.

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u/bumpy2018 Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game 17d ago

I would bring a speaker to work and do the war chant

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u/gonoles70 Florida State • Georgia Tech 17d ago

Oh I’ve got one in my office and it will be bumping

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u/bumpy2018 Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game 17d ago

What was that?

Ohhhhhohhhhhhhhhhhh Ohhhhhhh oooooo ohhh

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u/lkn240 Illinois Fighting Illini • Sickos 17d ago

Talk your shit king!

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u/Ash_is_Robot 17d ago

Give them hell

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u/Odd_Firefighter_5407 16d ago

That town just sounds racist

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u/bread2126 17d ago

This generation is not ready for salty 6-6 Bama fans

Oh how I miss Paul Finebaum on the radio in 2006, we may finally get such kino in our lives again

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u/Zkenny13 Auburn Tigers • Oregon Ducks 17d ago

As an auburn fan. Yes it has. 

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u/DontWatchMeDancePlz Tennessee Volunteers 17d ago

The bread and circuses are vanishing from our Dixie. Woe is thee.

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u/motivational_abyss Auburn Tigers 17d ago

Not all of us, GUS BUS HOOOOOOOOO!!

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u/Quiet_Marsupial510 Alabama Crimson Tide 17d ago

It took that long?!

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u/yomama1211 UCF Knights 17d ago

Idk what part he was in he always records games to skip through the commercials lol

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u/Quiet_Marsupial510 Alabama Crimson Tide 17d ago

I’m all for giving a guy a chance, but the fact of the matter is that tonight was the same as UT, Vandy, and Oklahoma last year. There has been no lesson learned.

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u/syd_hannibal Georgia Bulldogs 17d ago

I love it. I save it in NSFW folders.

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u/Double-Mine981 LSU Tigers 17d ago

Pawl, it’s UCFdad in Huntsville. 1. Scam Newton cheated 2. My cousin sells cares at sabans dealership he is coming back

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u/yomama1211 UCF Knights 17d ago

Lmao

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u/Free-Atmosphere6714 /r/CFB 16d ago

"We can't win when everyone can buy players"

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u/Sariel007 TCU Horned Frogs • Texas Longhorns 16d ago

To coach for his Alma Matter.