re: Alabama's chances to win the West

I was just curious to see how teams fared after beating Bama.

What was interesting is that most of them, except for Auburn, played the sisters of the poor the week afterward.

Auburn 2014: Won tSECCG
TAMU 2012: Won the next game against Sam Houston 47-28.
LSU 2011: Went on to win the rest of their games until, well, you know. Played against WKU the following week.
LSU 2010: Beat ULM the next week.
Auburn 2010: Beat USCe in SECCG
South Carolina: Lost to UK.

So it seems that most of the teams that beat us had a favorable week afterward to recover. Two teams didn't: Auburn and USCe. A team like Auburn is going to be used to success and beating Bama (unfortunately), whereas USCe went on to shite the bed against UK. UK that year finished 6-7.

I heard in an interview that an OM DB said they practiced Bama for four weeks. Obviously they aren't playing with that kind of time against TAMU. Will be interesting to see how they respond to success.