Yearly Archives: 2021

If close calls counted, last week would have been a pretty good week for the Predictions Dept., as only the Texas-Arkansas game went way off the rails. Included in that was a 62-0 pick in the Auburn game that ended up matching the eventual final score. This week, the slate of games is relatively boring – only Alabama-Florida and Auburn-Penn State are truly interesting, although Tulane-Ole Miss and Mississippi State-Memphis could get interesting for reasons the SEC schools don't want.

There's a sequence in the beloved baseball movie “Bull Durham” where Trey Wilson as Skip and Robert Wuhl as Larry discuss the concept of “lollygaggers.” So classic a scene it was, that ESPN reshot it with the cast of Baseball Tonight, getting a memorable performance out of Harold Reynolds in the Skip role and the well-aged Peter Gammons wearing nothing but a towel and a guilty look on his face.

We often get asked here at TideFans.com how we can do in-depth previews of teams like Mercer, an FBS program, especially early in the season, and in particular before Mercer has had a chance to put together a body of work. In this particular case, we likely cannot. Point University had no business being on the field against Mercer, and Mercer probably suffers from that same relationship vis-a-vis Alabama.

Because Alabama operates from multiple alignments on both offense and defense, 12 positions are listed on both sides of the ball to account for those specific alignments.

This week's slate of games is weaker than Week 1's was, although one intraconference matchup (Missouri against Kentucky) and a couple of mildly interesting out-of-conference games (Arkansas-Texas for one) mean fans can't just sleep through their Saturday.

Alabama faced off against a Hurricane on Saturday, yet found it mostly to be just an area of low pressure.

  In any recent preseason for Nick Saban's Alabama, there is always that point when analysts – especially those suffering from extreme Bama Fatigue –...

This is not an official University of Alabama document. The depth chart is taken from individual practice and game observations, and is color-coded.

  Last year's record: 54-16 (77.1%) Although the world isn't quite back to normal yet from the effects of Covid-19, at least the SEC football schedule...

  After a year in which we were not able to produce our regular preseason guides due to the abbreviated and accelerated schedule, it's nice...