Yearly Archives: 2021

  1. Georgia Bulldogs (11-1, 8-0) Rankings (Ex, Vg, Av, Fr, Pr)Quarterbacks: VgRunning Backs: ExWide Receivers: AvOffensive Line: Vg–Defensive Line: VgLinebackers: VgDefensive Backs: VgSpecial Teams: Ex The...

1. Alabama In short, Alabama is one of three SEC teams that have the potential to be dominant in 2021, but only if the offense doesn't lose a step while transitioning from Mac Jones to Bryce Young at quarterback. This is the deepest team in the conference by far and should have one of the best defenses of Nick Saban's tenure. ... 2. Texas A&M The Aggies have felt they were ready to knock on Alabama's door for a while now already. In 2021, that dream may come true. Texas A&M has more holes that Alabama, but Jimbo Fisher is nothing if not an elite recruiter, and the Aggies have enough overall talent and depth to clearly separate themselves from the rest of the SEC West pack.

Alabama won't be retooling much of its offense, but with increased mobility from the projected starting quarterback – along with a handful of questions at offensive line and running back – look for a mixture of what Alabama did in 2019 and 2020 to take advantage of certain skill sets and hide potential problem spots, at least early on.

The U.S. Supreme Court – not a federal district court, not a state circuit court, not a municipal judge hearing traffic ticket cases in Russellville – ruled, by a 9-0 count, that the NCAA basically cannot maintain its stranglehold on eligibility and tie it to money received for the use of name, image or likeness (NIL for short).

A new feature here on TideFans.com, we take a look at the 2021 NFL Draft by team, covering all SEC schools' picks (with an emphasis on Alabama players taken, of course).

With some two dozen players held out or limited, the picture that A-Day painted will likely be more of an artist's rendering rather than an exact representation of what the 2021 season will hold. But that doesn't mean some truths weren't very clear and exceptionally apparent by the time the clock hit all zeroes Saturday. The next generation of Alabama football is here, and will be led by a much different quarterback than the one who preceded him.

If weirdness was an Olympic sport, Auburn and Tennessee would have to find a way to split a gold medal.

Alabama's 18th national championship is in the books, and with it, the depletion of talent across the Tide's depth chart. While Alabama certainly brings in more elite talent than most other schools, it also loses more, primarily to the NFL Draft but also to the NCAA transfer portal.

As football is often compared to wartime conflicts, and coaching strategy to military maneuvers, there needs to be some kind of martial terminology fit to describe what Alabama football did to the rest of the sport's landscape in 2020. Because when the fog of war finally cleared from its Miami battlefield, it only revealed the same blitzed terrain that had been present in Alabama's twelve other skirmishes. The Crimson Tide had buried Ohio State 52-24 much the same way tanks bury any detritus that is unlucky enough to find itself caught under their treads.

Over the same time frame in which Nick Saban has dominated Southeastern Conference football – and if not for Clemson, dominated the entirety of Southern football altogether – only two teams from other conferences have been able to keep pace.