[Dr Jkel]

Well finally made it back to check this thread after the weekend that was....

Hmmmmmmm........where to start.

My beloved Crimson Tide looked like a good Div II school against Tenn. Tenn was well coached and played hard and did suprisingly well with a back up QB and their best receiver hurt. I was not impressed at all with Alabama. The only thing that I took comfort in was that we held them to 6 points but they ran for 102 yds( 92 net). This is a trend I do not like, playing to their competition and I do not like 30 minute games.

If they play this way on Nov 5 it will not be a pretty site at Bryant-Denny.

LSU-Al is now upon us , albeit 2 weeks away, and it is either put up or shut up time for both of them. My heart wants to chose Bama but my head is thinking of LSU because of TWO factors.....experience at QB and LES MILES.......and he is subject to do anything. PLus CBS has decided to have the game played at 7:00 pm....LSU at night is a tough thing, but we get to play at home.


My prediction is fading fast with OU imploding this past weekend. I have always said the SEC is a better conference because of the defenses, and Defenses win championships. When Bama played Texas ( the Number 1 defensive team against the rush) I knew we had a good chance since most Big 12 schools do not play defense liek we do, especially since most Big 12 teams do not rush......they pass and pass alot.

I only saw the highlights because of the terrible traffic from Tuscaloosa, but it appeared that TT played well above their heads. Even still OU should have won....they missed what a 28 yrd field goal that would have tied it?????????

All I can say it that I am stunned that OU lost this game, their defense looked great versus Texas...............the thing that comes to my mind is that OU drank the cool aid and was only worrying about 1 game......OSU and it bit them. It appears that OU was just showing up and expecting to win....kinda like Alabama did last year. They have all the talent in the world but the defense didn't show up......PQ has said the secondary was suspect and TT exposed it. SEC schools would have had a hard time with OU's passing attack....The problem I have said all along with U is that they can not score if they are on the side line and Texas Tech put them their.....31-7 at half??????????? I really wanted a chance to play OU this year, really bad, especially after the last time we played them..............the loudest I have ever heard Bryant Denny is when #1 OU strolled into Tuscaloosa...we lost 20-13.

Wisconsin.......I said a couple of weeks ago I was not sold on Wisc.....and now it seems that I was proven right.....MSU has a GOOD defense...not an LSU or Bama defense.....Of course I could only listen to the game on the way home from Tenn/Al and don't really know how the game played out but we see what Bama did to MSU last year in the bowl game........

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Notes and observances....

Boise St.......I HOPE they somehow get to play either LSU or Bama....please let the football gods smile upon Boise St........We will end all this Boise St talk.

OSU has a chance in my opinion to play for the BCS as long as they stay focused.

Stanford- Not sold on them at ALL...sure they have Luck but I can guarantee they would not rush for over 400 yds on Bama or LSU.

Clemson...............hmmmmmmm.....this team is impressive to me. Sure their conference is not as strong as the Big 12 or SEC but they are smacking people down. They are doing it with passing and rushing plus playing pretty good defense.


But as always time will tell the tale.