Former Tide QB Greg McElroy questions Alabama's resume: 'Who have they beaten?'
Alabama is just about everyone’s unquestioned No. 1 team in America right now. But is the Crimson Tide as good as we all think?
SEC Network analyst Greg McElroy joined Birmingham’s WJOX 94.5 FM radio station for a segment on Monday and discussed Alabama’s lack of difficulty on the schedule eight weeks through the 2017 college football season.
The Crimson Tide is 8-0, and its best win came in Week 6 against a 5-2 Texas A&M team on the road. Other than in that game, though, it has hardly been tested.
“Alabama right now is decidedly better than just about everyone in the league,” McElroy said. “Even though we really don’t know what to make of them, guys. I mean, who have they beaten? You know, there’s a lot of people — I’m constantly defending Alabama around the office because they have Alabama fatigue.
“But they do bring up a very good point in saying, ‘We’re all sitting here saying Alabama is head and shoulders better than everybody, but their resume doesn’t necessarily indicate that.’ So, it’s not their fault,” McElroy added. “You can only control what you can control, and the schedule is not something that Alabama can control. We’ll probably find out more in two weeks when they play against LSU.”
Alabama will certainly have a chance to prove its worth in the coming weeks. The Crimson Tide faces LSU at home, as well as Mississippi State and Auburn on the road to close the season against the SEC West.
If the Tide makes it through that gauntlet, it will likely see No. 3 Georgia in Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game.
It’s not Bama’s fault that the SEC is a trash fire, or that FSU went back to the stone age. Anyone doubting Bama, step right up and let’s bang, bro.
Football fans are clueless. The reason FSU went back to the stone age is because Alabama hurt their quarterback and they replaced him with a 6-5, 160 true freshman that’s a long way from being ready to play. FSU was good with Francois, they are not with Blackman and that’s all there is to it.
Agreed. There are 4-5 “good” teams in the entire country. We’ll probably play a few in December.
Our best win is against A Different FSU team. Anybody not acknowledging that is just stupid.
It’s just the way it’s played out. Nothing can really.be done about it. We don’t know how.good FSU would have been with their starting QB so hypotheticals don’t really work.
Watch the games that FSU has played.
Refs screwed them in one.
They barely lost the others. Their starting WR are “nobodies” because their Best WR is injured, Injured QB, plus kicked off QB, plus transferred 2 QBs I think.
Blackmon was actually their 6th string QB coming in.
They still almost beat Miami. The team that we played in Atlanta is a totally different team than the one that has been playing and the one that has been playing has still been close to winning their games.
Also, imagine how different they would’ve been if they hadn’t had a 3-week break after losing the starting QB, including a cancelled game against a cupcake where they could’ve gotten precious reps for and with the new QB.
That’s what I’m talking about. It was a totally different FSU team with Francois and Alabama shut them down.
Another guy who is just looking for attention.
Ugh, they’ve beaten everyone they’ve faced and that’s about all you can do. Not only have they beaten them, they have embarrassed most of them.
Mississippi State May be down to one scholarship QB after the Bama game. Fitz will be forced to pass. And I believe Bama will be in his back pocket all night long.