🏈 Bama ranked #5 in AP

[SpecThis]

Just like with the USA Today poll, we are in an excellent starting position.


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<table class="tablehead" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr class="stathead"><td colspan="1">AP Top 25</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td> 1. Florida (58) 0-0 1,498</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td> 2. Texas (2) 0-0 1,424</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td> 3. Oklahoma 0-0 1,370</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td> 4. USC 0-0 1,313</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td> 5. Alabama 0-0 1,156</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td> 6. Ohio State 0-0 1,113</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td> 7. Virginia Tech 0-0 1,054</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td> 8. Mississippi 0-0 1,047</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td> 9. Oklahoma State 0-0 989</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td> 9. Penn State 0-0 989</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>11. LSU 0-0 914</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>12. California 0-0 746</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>13. Georgia 0-0 714</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>14. Boise State 0-0 659</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>15. Georgia Tech 0-0 593</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>16. Oregon 0-0 587</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>17. TCU 0-0 521</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>18. Florida State 0-0 307</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>19. Utah 0-0 289</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>20. Brigham Young 0-0 267</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>21. North Carolina 0-0 261</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>22. Iowa 0-0 229</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>23. Notre Dame 0-0 225</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>24. Nebraska 0-0 207</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>25. Kansas 0-0 134</td></tr></tbody></table>

 

[TerryP]

Should we be surprised with Holtz picking Notre Dame for the BCS title game.

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[Argo]

Aside from watching actual games, Lou Holtz is a reason I haven't watched an actual program on ESPN in two years.

 

[joeman546]

We have somehow managed to be ranked #5 and recieve smaller national attention than certain teams with 6-11 rankings.

Jeez, well if the firsst game goes as planned, I am sure we will get alot of buzz again.

 

[vthokiefan195]

We have somehow managed to be ranked #5 and recieve smaller national attention than certain teams with 6-11 rankings.

Jeez, well if the firsst game goes as planned, I am sure we will get alot of buzz again.

and what is as planned brah???

 

[Millie]

and what is as planned brah???

I would assume that it means a win for Alabama. I am just going out on a limb on that one though, brah.

But you wouldn't come to an opponents board and begrudge them for hoping, no, expecting a win would you?

 

[Big_Fan]

and what is as planned brah???

A holy living beatdown of a Virginia Tech team that is almost as overrated as Clemson was last season...maybe more. Clemson had s better offense and the defenses were comparable with Clemson giving up about a half point per game more. Tech doesn't have quite as many question marks on the OL this year as Clemson did, but sometimes wholesale replacement is better than returning a crap line intact. With the problems Tech had on punt return coverage last year, Clemson would probably have beaten Tech last season 17-3-ish.

The VT offense will be shut down and Alabama will systematically pick apart the VT defense. The end result will be kinda ugly, but the score will not indicate how dominant Alabama really was - kind of like the Clemson game.

That is the plan. Surely you knew that?

 

[bama29fan]

It's been years since I've acutally heard someone use the word Brah...even longer since I've seen it used in a sentence. :rofl:

Do you have a mullet?