14 Days of Champions: No. 11 1978

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Alabama's Sugar Bowl game against Penn State was one of the biggest in program history.

A proud BOL holiday tradition, at least when Alabama is playing for the national championship, continues with the Days of Champions countdown and 1978 coming in at No. 11:

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http://alabama.247sports.com/Article/BOLs-14-Days-of-Champions-countdown-continues-with-No-11-1978-106940
A proud BOL holiday tradition, at least when Alabama is playing for the national championship, continues with the Days of Champions countdown and 1978 coming in at No. 11:
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If this was a countdown of biggest plays, this would be much higher.

This post was edited by Chris Walsh on 12/15/2012 at 5:04 PM
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Being 8 at the time it's the 1st title I really remember & therefore has always been a favorite. I really thought it would be ranked higher.
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Nomad36 said...
Being 8 at the time it's the 1st title I really remember & therefore has always been a favorite. I really thought it would be ranked higher.

Honestly, it's one of those that I look at and think it has to be higher, but Alabama has had a number of teams that went undefeated. I think that has to count for something (and is what makes it an interesting discussion).
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It's one of my favorites, too. My recollection is USC beat us badly. Charles White pretty much ran wild.
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PJ Ward said...
It's one of my favorites, too. My recollection is USC beat us badly. Charles White pretty much ran wild.

I remember that well though i didn't see it. My dad almost always got our tix from scalpers at the stadium. That day we had no luck....all the scalpers had sold out. Listened to the game outside the stadium until he was pretty sure Bama wasn't coming back & went home mad.
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What team beat USC?
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PJ Ward said...
It's one of my favorites, too. My recollection is USC beat us badly. Charles White pretty much ran wild.

I was there. Very hot day and Charles White won the Heisman against us like JM did. Major broke a long run to close it to a 10 point deficit but you never had the impression we would win the game. We had a brutal schedule that year and the D picked a bad time to have their worst game of the year.
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NJTide said...
What team beat USC?

Arizona State.
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Redwoodforest said...
Arizona State.

Thanks.
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