re: Bama in a much stronger roster position to start 2016

Every year for a few years now we've all said "Bama will have three losses this year, they've lost too much."

Honestly Bama will stay dominant. Saban has pretty much proved that he's plugging and playing right now. The thing is Bama's schedule really does not favor them this year. Tennessee, LSU, and Arkansas will all be much improved, and they play all of them away (with the addition of Ole Miss away as well who seems to be finding a way to get it done against them recently). While I believe Alabama will stay just as dominant, will they be able to handle a tougher schedule than last year? I feel that if Ole Miss and Tenn can force Bama into a shootout they'll be able to win. The same goes for LSU but our ability to even gameplan to go for a shootout seems doubtful at the moment.

That being said the game has come down to the wire the past few times in Tiger Stadium. Even Miles's worst two teams ever took eventual Division winner Bama teams into OT (08 and 14). And the '12 team went down to the last minute.
So the question really isn't if Bama will be worse because I don't think they will. But can any of their four hardest opponents all take advantage of an improved team and home field advantage to rise to Bama's level?

We will see.