CWRollTide

I correctly guessed the writer of this article before I actually looked for the name...he got lucky with Texas A&M last year. He's basically calling for lighting striking the same place twice.

On Alabama's section for the "floor" part: "There are still issues on the offensive line" Uh, where is this coming from? Saban was giving the first-team offensive line good reviews in camp so far, with his only reservations going toward the second-team line. If the writer is using the spring game for reference, that won't work as many starters weren't even available to participate in it.

Penn St in there too? LMAO

This list is suspect...I don't see how Georgia has better receivers than Bama or LSU. Also, Michigan is pretty weak as well.

Enjoy it while it lasts dumb troll...you're about to find out what happens when you win a natty.

Hmm...I guess the writer failed to realize that Georgia's NC win was the first time an SEC East team has beaten Bama in at least 11 years. It's way too early to claim things have turned simply from that.

Yes...totally. They play in the SEC Least after all.

"The Georgia Tech transfer has an incredibly high floor" Uh, don't you mean, "high ceiling"?

It seems unreasonable to try to grade the offensive line's quality at this time as many of the projected starters weren't even available to participate in it. Also, Tyler Steen will likely become part of the starting lineup when he joins the program. Obviously a patchwork group won't have enough sync between them to block effectively on a consistent basis, so let's pump the brakes until fall camp to see whether or not this group is actually better than last year's.

Deep threats are needed to stretch the defense. I felt that UGA was getting more aggressive after Jameson went down.

I figured that Bama was in trouble as Jameson was their only true deep threat, and you need those to attack a defense like Georgia's. Without a reliable source of first-down catches by the likes of Metchie, their pass offense was doomed.

I guess that the NCAA constitution is like an hourglass...when the page count reaches zero, time to govern is up.

Ryan Tannehill technically doesn't count as an SEC QB since he left Texas A&M before they actually became an SEC member.

Yes, I can totally believe what Golding is saying here.

Congrats to Bryce for becoming the first Bama QB to win this award. With that said, I do think it strange that Aiden Hutchinson got more votes than any of the other non-winners, but Will Anderson got more first-place votes and only finished 5th.

How in the hell did Evan Neal not make first team at tackle?

This one is definitely Bryce's to lose.

Bryce will be fine, but as always, guys replacing injured players need to step up and play. They've been trained to do that anyway, so the system will keep rolling.

3-3-5 is basically used for spread offenses. That will not stop Bama from running the ball on Cincinnati, and that will be a problem for them by itself.

In describing the Alabama/Auburn rivarly, Bama has had the worst struggles when they face a ranked Auburn team at Jordan Hare. That's when things tend to start gettting interesting. Also, I'd rank this rivarly #1 as it is likely the only conference rivalry that has ever had anything like a 4-year stretch where the eventual national champion was playing in it (2009 to 2012).

I agree, and the most recent history of both rivalries you mentioned in the first sentence should have provided clear context on which one has been better. Auburn has scored victories over Alabama even when Alabama was pretty strong (and there was even a few consecutive years in there where the game even had the eventual national champion playing it!). Contrast this with OSU/Michigan over the last 20+ years - Michigan used to have a really big series lead over OSU (I think at one point it was around a 20-game difference in wins between the schools), but as of today it's within 10 games for Michigan. If this continues for about another decade, OSU will likely gain the all-time lead, and they probably will as they have been quite dominant relative to Michigan over this period of time.

Tim, they're not just undefeated, they're undefeated against a schedule still ranked in the 100s in overall strength. Practically everyone around them has a schedule orders of magnitude better then Cincy's.

That was hardly dirty anything

Ball State is MAC, so that's FBS (group of 5)

Wait, is this criticism actually coming from a coach that actually won a game over an FCS team (Villanova) earlier this season?

LOL...Mich St didn't play as tough a schedule as Bama has. There isn't much debate over common opponents between Bama and UGA here as UGA is still undefeated.

I doubt that...two losses would put them behind most of the contenders in the loss column

Yep...ESPN has already reported that this was a DUI crash that killed a person.

"The Nittany Lions had at least 3 opportunities to make game-winning plays in overtime and botched all 3." To be honest, they had a chance to end the whole thing at the end of regulation, but they didn't even try to drive for a game-winning field goal. That game shouldn't have even gone into OT at all. Their game management was suspect at best in this one.

Michigan struggled with Northwestern for more than half their game before they broke it open.