re: Your prediction: Ole Miss @ Alabama

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Arky held Old Sis to 21 points last year and Indiana held them to 26. Arky had three down linemen and dropped 8. It confused the hell out of Corral and he threw 6 interceptions. Will CNS and Golding do something similar or will they give all the older Bama fans heart attacks?

The score will be determined by whether CNS uses the correct scheme against Lane and crew. CNS accused ole Miss of stealing Bama's signals. I bet he has been preparing for months to deal with the Lane train. Bama should win this one, but I don't have a clue what the score will be.

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It isn’t in Saban’s nature to sit in zone coverage. Even against an air raid MSU team last year, he preferred cover 2 man to zone. He does not even teach defenders to play area zone anyway. They run match up zone that ends up being an area+man hybrid in principles.

Barry Odom comes from the cover 2/quarters tradition and basically every Big Ten team is playing some version of cover 2, cover 3, quarters, or in Iowa’s case cover 6 (quarter-quarter-half). Alabama could probably stop a few teams better than they do if they changed schemes but nobody is going to tell a man with 7 rings how to run his defense…so here we are…