With the additional conference game, I'm interested to see how the SOS for each team moves from this year to next. For Bama, the East Carolina game helps us, and surprisingly ESPN has FSU at 33 currently on its power index. ECU is in at 52. Chattanooga is FCS. Two losses in that regular season gets us in the playoff every time.
If I'm seeing this correctly, only LSU has a bye ahead of us, but like I mentioned in another post, Citadel tests aTm ahead of our game, and KY has a patsy ahead of getting us in week two, not surprising.