Bama is not losing 3 games. I can give you more than 4 reasons:

1) Their QB play has been a question mark at the beginning of the season for like 3 years now and it hasn't stopped them. Blake Sims looked like dogshit in their spring game and won a title.

2) While their defense may take a slight step back, at Bama that just means they might be the #3 defense as opposed to #1. It's not getting any easier to score on them. In addition, I really wish they could stop getting good juniors to come back for their senior year. They have a veteran senior at every level of their defense (Allen at DL, Foster at LB, Jackson at DB).

3) They have had plug and play RB's for years now. When you recruit as well as they do on the offensive line, you could put me at RB and I'd still get some yards every now and then. I guess since I mentioned OL here, I'll count this as 3a and 3b.

4) Deep WR core.

5) Front seven is still loaded. Touched on the veteran bit above, but good depth coming back outside of Williams, Foster, Allen, etc.

6) Who the frick is going to beat them? There are only 4 teams that can compete with them: OM, LSU, Tenn., and Aub. OM is revenge so I would think a loss is unlikely. Aub. is a rivalry game but they're probably going to struggle a bit next year with the QB situation. Tenn. and LSU probably have the best shot but it's hard to see them losing to both of them. It's impossible for me to see them losing 3 out of these 4 considering recent trends.

7) Most importantly, they have the GOAT coach on the sidelines.

Look, I'm tired of Bama being awesome as an LSU fan and just as a regular CFB fan, but you have to be objectively reasonable. Saban has created the most well-oiled machine in CFB history. It sucks, but it is what it is. Additionally, I hate it for Miles because if he wasn't coaching against Saban the last decade, he probably has 2-3 more titles. He'll just be remembered as a great, title-winning coach who couldn't get over the Bama/Saban hump instead of being engraved into the CFB Mt. Rushmore.