re: Official In-Season Practice, Injury Reports and Press Conferences Thread: 12-0

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Can Alabama's well-oiled machine continue to impress this season?

If so, it won't be without navigating through massive roadblocks over its next three games.

Heather Dinich, ESPN's lead College Football Playoff insider, is calling the Crimson Tide's upcoming slate "college football's toughest stretch in over a decade", but she believes in Nick Saban's team, one of her preseason final four picks.

"Is there any team out there with the depth, talent, speed and ability to execute a better gameplan than big, bad Bama?"

Alabama travels to ninth-ranked Tennessee this weekend, hosts unbeaten and sixth-ranked Texas A&M after that, then gets a bye week to prepare for a pivotal showdown at LSU on Nov. 5.

And if Auburn's still inside the Top 25 in the regular-season finale, Alabama will have played seven nationally-ranked teams in its quest to reaching the SEC Championship Game for a third consecutive year.

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