re: Will Nick unleash Lane to exact his own personal revenge against USC?

Of course not. Same head coach and same process. If Bama is running on them(and I think they will) then Bama will start to run out the clock with a 2 td lead. Lane would love ot run up the score, he is petty like that frankly, but he answers to Saban. Saban will say "run clock and save our best stuff for conference play" If USC for some reason has the lead, Bama will start using their bad arse receivers. I believe Bama is quite capable of putting a beat down on USC. If Bama's dline is pushing them back into the backfield like Stanford and Wisky did last year, and if Bama's running game is working as well as Stanford's was, then it should be a pretty quick game. Bama by 21.