One of the perks of living in beautiful Pasadena is the Rose Bowl. This historic stadium (and 3 mile running/biking loop) draws millions annually for UCLA games, concerts, recreation, rose parade floats, and "the granddaddy of them all" The Rose Bowl game. This year Pasadena doubled up and got the National Championship game as well. This means there will be one more week where thousands of fans foreign to this city will come parading downtown, filling the bars and either celebrating a win (drinking), or drowning the taste of a bitter loss (drinking more).
This is precisely why I want to be downtown tomorrow night around, say 9pm. Tons of Texas/Bama folk will be drunken and spilling their funny words with funny accents all over this town. I'm sure cowboy hats and boots will be seen all the way down the Colorado Blvd strip. This night literally has unlimited potential, equaled maybe only by that weird dance party you went to (everyone has been to one) which had unlimited alcohol.
Onto the game: There's 3 reasons why I think Alabama wins.
#1: Texas is pretty good offensive team (40.7 PPG). Florida is a comparable and maybe better offensive team. Alabama beat Florida and held them to 13 points. Tebow cried.
#2: Texas is a bad defensive team. On average they give up only 15.2 ppg, but had a difficult time against texas tech, yielding 39 points in a game that went down to the final minutes. Alabama gives up only 11 PPG, and puts up 31.7.
#3: Texas stumbled to the finish line. the aforementioned Texas Tech game was almost a disaster. They only beat Nebraska 13-12 (line was -14). They turned the ball over 5 times in the last 2 games. Alabama only 3. They take better care of the ball on offense. Oh yeah, and they have the Heisman-Winning running back on their side ('Bama rushes for 215.8 yds/game, Texas for 152.7).
I think Alabama will play better D and put up a couple rushing touchdowns, where the longhorns throw 2 td's/2 picks. Final score 24-17.
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Longhorns boi!
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