re: Is Alabama the best team in the country?

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They might have lost to us, but I'll be damned if Alabama isn't leaps and bounds better now than they were when they played us.

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You, my friend, get it.

If we had played Ohio State last year in the middle of the season, we'd have beaten the hell out of them. Teams improve as the season goes along, unless they are hit by injuries like Ole Miss last year, and/or lose some emotional games and then regress.

In college football, every team loses players and has to start inexperienced players in some positions. Some do this more than others in a given year, and if those players are blue chips who are completely green, then the difference between their play from the first to the last game of the season can be tremendous.

Good post.