🏈 Fox Sports/CFN Preview: Don't Dismiss Alabama

[TerryP]

Bama was tight as a drum throughout last season, seemingly answering every challenge with big scoring drives to quell uprisings game after game, while being ruthlessly business-like and unflappable on the way to a No. 1 ranking and the SEC West title. That Tim Tebow took the heart and soul out of the Tide in the fourth quarter of the SEC Championship — and with the subsequent lifeless performance against Utah in the Sugar Bowl — shouldn't diminish what happened for a team that no one had on the national title radar. For 51 quarters, this looked like a team and a program that was announcing it had arrived under head coach Nick Saban. Don't be shocked if this year's team is better.



So why, outside of the Utah embarrassment, is Alabama not being talked about among the preseason favorites to end up in Pasadena? Maybe it's because it's too easy, and too lazy, to assume the team will slip after losing a few key players.

An article by Pete Fuitak

 

[TerryP]

The first comment on this is hilarious...from a Va. Tech fan no less.

Anyone have a song for East Carolina, of Boston College, or Florida State, or...

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Report Abuse VTgtxfan 8/20/2009 4:07:35 PM
I am a Utah man, sir and I live across the green.
Our gang it is the jolliest that you have ever seen.
Our coeds are the fairest and each one's a shining star.
Our yell, you hear it ringing through the mountains near and far.

Chorus:
Who am I, sir, a Utah man am I:
A Utah man, sir, and will be till I die: Ki! Ki!
We're up to snuff: we never bluff.
We're game for any fuss.
No other gang of college men dare meet us in the muss.
So fill your lungs and sing it out shout it to the sky.
We'll fight for dear old crimson for.....

Chorus:

And when we prom the avenue, all lined up in a row.
And arm in arm and step in time as down the street we go.
No matter if a freshman green, or in a senior's gown,
The people all admit we are the warmest gang in town.

Chorus:

We may not live forever on this jolly good old sphere,
But while we do we'll live a life of merriment and cheer.
And when our college days are o'er and night is drawing nigh,
With parting breath we'll sing that song:

A Utah Man am I!


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[psychojoe]

The only reason I can see for us not getting some love for an NC run is that Florida is in the way. Ole Miss in Oxford will be tough, no doubt but Tebow and company have such an aura of invincibility about them that no other SEC teams will get much attention for the NC. It will likely come down to the SEC CG, and I know we'd love to get another shot at them.

 

[TerryP]

The only reason I can see for us not getting some love for an NC run is that Florida is in the way. Ole Miss in Oxford will be tough, no doubt but Tebow and company have such an aura of invincibility about them that no other SEC teams will get much attention for the NC. It will likely come down to the SEC CG, and I know we'd love to get another shot at them.

I see the chances being very good for this being a repeat of last years SECCG, but with the roles reversed on rankings. Interestingly enough, it might be a one loss Tide team vs an undefeated Florida team as well.

 

[firestorm]

If I remember well, that's the intro for his preview about The Tide at CFN.

Fiutak is a heck of an analyst. Out of crimson-glasses, I couldn't agree more with each of those paragraphs...

RTR,

 

[bamatommy]

The only reason I can see for us not getting some love for an NC run is that Florida is in the way. Ole Miss in Oxford will be tough, no doubt but Tebow and company have such an aura of invincibility about them that no other SEC teams will get much attention for the NC.

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