I get the points made in the overreacting to Bama vs. Texas post on the scoreboard, but.

(Disclaimer: Bama is very much a player for the NCship, SECship, West etc. This is not some prediction saying they are not a formidable team.)

..... that whole beating you when they get off the bus thing is disappearing. There was a complete fear before that you were gonna get embarrassed. Last year they lost two games (once to an unranked team) and then had three close games with teams that weren't even very good (two fired their coaches, and the other one appears to be on life support now). They were also challenged by Arkansas, a good team.

We'll see what Texas ends up being, but where we used to assume if they had a game like this, the other team must be much better than we thought, that wasn't always the case last year.

Their A game is still elite, but the consistency of bringing at least B game every time out is not there now.

While the usual Bama defense is "that three year run of elite WR talent doesn't happen all the time", Bama still didn't struggle like this very often before those years.

All taht said, the team last year had the lead in the fourth quarter of the NCG. I expect them to be right in the thick of it until the end, like always.