This 0-35 loss was Alabama's largest margin of defeat since 1957, when Alabama lost 0-40 to Auburn in the final game before Bear Bryant was hired. At the time, things looked bleak - Stallings fell to 8-6 as Alabama head coach, Alabama suffered its second blowout loss in its last three outings, and Bama's starting quarterback had gone down with an elbow injury. No one would have predicted that the Crimson Tide would not lose again in its next 31 games, the longest unbeaten streak in school history.
I remember Bama won the next game against a very good Georgia team 10-0. That game went scoreless into the 3rd quarter, and all of us Bama fans were wondering if we'd ever score another point! Bama finally came alive, and as you alluded to, went on a remarkable run over the next 2 1/2 seasons. If Bama had lost that Georgia game, it could have gone off the rails really quickly for Stallings.
@@richardpierce4908 I think that Georgia game was Stallings' best coaching job. It was his most important game of his career at Bama. As Bama Rewind mentioned, at this point Stallings was 8-6. Bama had been shut out three times (the 7 vs Louisville was a pick 6, otherwise the offense had nothing). They had been blown out twice. Had they lost that Georgia game, perhaps they don't beat Tennessee later on that year, and then lose 2-3 of the close games they had at the end of 1991.
1995, the NCAA found Antonio Langham guilty of receiving improper benefits after signing with an agent following the 1992 season, forcing Alabama to forfeit all games in which Langham competed. Officially, Alabama finished the season with a 1-12 record, only winning their bowl game. The streak is 23, not 31.
@@ncgater You are wrong, Bama won 28 in a row after this game and was unbeaten in 31 games in a row, with a tie against Tennessee in the 29th game, followed by 2 more wins against Ole Miss and Southern Mississippi. The loss to LSU the following week ended Bama's unbeaten streak at 31 games.
Our last trip to Gainsville in 2021 was wild. We were running them out of their own stadium, up by 3 scores and we let them back in it. Florida was a two point conversion away from sending it to overtime. Ahh..gotta love a Pete Golding "defense"
It's crazy it took 8 for these two to meet in the regular again. Forget all the meetings in championship games. Their conference opponents and didn't play each other eight straight seasons! Insane.
I was there with my dad! We went to 5 home games that season and we were there the night they beat Kentucky to win their first SEC title. Some of my best memories as a kid.
Florida was always a different team at home under Spurrier. Most of the road games they played were either close wins or inexplicable losses. They would lose the next game on the road to a good Syracuse team, otherwise this team might have played for the National Championship. However, Spurrier only lost five games in 12 seasons at home, and only two of those came in his first nine seasons. Alabama played a tough first half but with zero offense to go along with the great defensive effort, everything just snowballed in the second half.
This 0-35 loss was Alabama's largest margin of defeat since 1957, when Alabama lost 0-40 to Auburn in the final game before Bear Bryant was hired. At the time, things looked bleak - Stallings fell to 8-6 as Alabama head coach, Alabama suffered its second blowout loss in its last three outings, and Bama's starting quarterback had gone down with an elbow injury. No one would have predicted that the Crimson Tide would not lose again in its next 31 games, the longest unbeaten streak in school history.
Bama Rewind 31-0-1. How we lost to LSU I will never know.
I remember Bama won the next game against a very good Georgia team 10-0. That game went scoreless into the 3rd quarter, and all of us Bama fans were wondering if we'd ever score another point! Bama finally came alive, and as you alluded to, went on a remarkable run over the next 2 1/2 seasons. If Bama had lost that Georgia game, it could have gone off the rails really quickly for Stallings.
@@richardpierce4908 I think that Georgia game was Stallings' best coaching job. It was his most important game of his career at Bama. As Bama Rewind mentioned, at this point Stallings was 8-6. Bama had been shut out three times (the 7 vs Louisville was a pick 6, otherwise the offense had nothing). They had been blown out twice. Had they lost that Georgia game, perhaps they don't beat Tennessee later on that year, and then lose 2-3 of the close games they had at the end of 1991.
1995, the NCAA found Antonio Langham guilty of receiving improper benefits after signing with an agent following the 1992 season, forcing Alabama to forfeit all games in which Langham competed. Officially, Alabama finished the season with a 1-12 record, only winning their bowl game.
The streak is 23, not 31.
@@ncgater You are wrong, Bama won 28 in a row after this game and was unbeaten in 31 games in a row, with a tie against Tennessee in the 29th game, followed by 2 more wins against Ole Miss and Southern Mississippi. The loss to LSU the following week ended Bama's unbeaten streak at 31 games.
Our last trip to Gainsville in 2021 was wild. We were running them out of their own stadium, up by 3 scores and we let them back in it. Florida was a two point conversion away from sending it to overtime. Ahh..gotta love a Pete Golding "defense"
It's crazy it took 8 for these two to meet in the regular again. Forget all the meetings in championship games. Their conference opponents and didn't play each other eight straight seasons! Insane.
I was there with my dad! We went to 5 home games that season and we were there the night they beat Kentucky to win their first SEC title. Some of my best memories as a kid.
First half was close, then it just went south. Alabama wouldn't lose again till 1993
Florida was always a different team at home under Spurrier. Most of the road games they played were either close wins or inexplicable losses. They would lose the next game on the road to a good Syracuse team, otherwise this team might have played for the National Championship. However, Spurrier only lost five games in 12 seasons at home, and only two of those came in his first nine seasons. Alabama played a tough first half but with zero offense to go along with the great defensive effort, everything just snowballed in the second half.
Spurrier didn't lose a single game at the swamp until AU beat him in 1994.
@@Wowzersdude-k5c FSU beat FL 33-21 in the Swamp in 1993. AU was the first SEC loss at home in 1994.
Danny Woodson was looking like Jalen Milroe out there LOL
I love these old refs. "We've got some clipping on the white team."
We get our revenge the next year in the first ever SEC Conference Championship game
For sure.
Rough night for sure, but we pulled through !
RTR
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Terrible camera man