re: Bama owns 10% of the nation's Top 100 with ten months to go.

Not to rain on your theory, but you have to remember that "blue-chip" classes are very different in football than in basketball. UK or Duke can sign an entire starting line-up of top 100 players. No football program, not even USC or Bama, does that. There's always an extremely generous allotment of "blue collar" in the mix. Granted, "blue collar" for those programs may be top-ranked recruits for, say, Vandy, but they're still hardly elite on a national scale.