2020 Football

This information will piggyback on the previous post regarding whether P5 conferences NOWADAYS are one-team races sans the Big Ten and SEC. (In general, they are). Since I already compiled a lot of the data for Bo Schembechler and Paul Bryant on that thread, I will bring the data over here and add to it each day or so. If you have a P5 that you want me to run then let me know. I've already done the 1970s.

This information will piggyback on the previous thread regarding whether P5 conferences NOWADAYS are one-team races sans the Big Ten and SEC. (In general, they are).

Typically at this time of the year, you'd be reading a story either previewing or recapping Alabama's A-Day game, and getting you ready for TideFans.com's annual summer team previews prior to college football heading into fall camps. Things are different in 2020, though. Much different. They are different in Tuscaloosa, in Auburn, in Fayetteville, in Lexington – and very different in places like New York City and Seattle.

Analyses of sport-specific issues are difficult enough to write. How about one dealing with the entire umbrella of Alabama's decision-making process concerning the entire football program?

For a program accustomed to leading the recruiting rankings and setting records year after year for average class strength, the 2020 class for Alabama was about as ho-hum as top-three/top-four classes can get (TideFans.com/NARCAS ranked Alabama's class in a tie for third with Ohio State, behind No. 2 Clemson and No. 1 Georgia).

FIRST LAST POS HT WT 40 time NAR CAS rating CITY ST HS/JC Bryce Young QB 5'11" 180 4.5 10 Santa Ana CA Mater Dei Timothy Smith DL 6'4" 340 5.5 10 Sebastian FL Sebastian River Will Anderson DE 6'3" 240 4.6 10 Hampton GA Dutchtown Jase McClellan RB 5'10" 210 4.5 10 Aledo TX Aledo Demouy Kennedy LB 6'2" 205 4.6 10 Theodore AL Theodore Thaiu Jones-Bell WR 5'11" 180 4.4 10 Miami Gardens FL Carol City Javon Baker WR 6'1" 210 4.5 10 Powder Springs GA McEachern Brian Branch S 6'0" 180 4.5 9.9 Tyrone GA Sandy Creek Traeshon Holden WR 6'2" 190 4.6 9.9 Harbor City CA Narbonne Ronald Williams CB 6'2" 190 4.5 9.9 Ferriday LA Hutchinson CC (KS) Drew Sanders DE 6'4" 230 4.7 9.9 Denton TX Ryan Jamil Burroughs DL 6'3" 330 5.3 9.8 Powder Springs GA McEachern Damieon George OL 6'6" 350 5.8 9.8 Houston TX North Shore Kristian Story S 6'1" 205 4.6 9.8 Lanett AL Lanett Kyle Edwards RB 5'11" 205 4.6 9.8 Destrehan LA Destrehan Roydell Williams RB 5'11" 190 4.5 9.8 Hueytown AL Hueytown Jahquez Robinson CB 6'1" 180 4.5 9.7 Jacksonville FL Sandalwood Jah-Marien Latham DL 6'3" 285 5.0 9.7 Reform AL Pickens County Javion Cohen OL 6'4" 260 5.1 9.7 Phenix City AL Phenix City Chris Braswell DE 6'3" 220 4.7 9.6 Baltimore MD St. Francis Quandarrius Robinson DE 6'5" 220 4.8 9.6 Birmingham AL Jackson-Olin Jackson Bratton LB 6'3" 230 4.7 9.6 Muscle Shoals AL Muscle Shoals Malachi Moore CB 6'1" 175 4.5 9.5 Trussville AL Hewitt-Trussville Seth McLaughlin OL 6'4" 270 5.2 9.5 Buford GA Buford Caden Clark TE 6'5" 245 4.9 9.5 Akron OH Archbishop...

For many years, TideFans.com produced an annual feature called "Coaches to Watch," a discover-them-before-your-neighbors-do article identifying up-and-coming mid-major coaches who might one day be candidates at large schools like Alabama. The feature actually predates TideFans.com itself – the first one rolled off the presses following the 1996 season, when TideFans.com was still BamaNation.com and Dennis Franchione, who made the list, did so from his post not at TCU, but rather New Mexico.

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