a new thing they do this year....
when the team comes running out of the tunnel, they spell out ROLL TIDE.
they used to just line up in 2 blocks and the players would run through the middle "corridor". now, they spell out ROLL TIDE and the players run through the words.
ROLL is on the visitor's side of the field and TIDE is on the home side. it's pretty cool actually, and a nice touch.
and the coolest thing about the elephant formation, when they starting moving, they do it in a way that it looks like the elephant is walking. and when they play the elephant trumpet over the pa system, the members in the head section move so it looks like it's rearing its head up. another really cool thing.