Here we are on Final Four Friday with Nick Saban two wins away from another national championship when this was supposed to be a down year for the Crimson Tide.
I have no idea who’s on Covid protocol and who isn’t for these four teams at this point, but as long as Bryce Young is quarterbacking and Nick Saban is stalking the sidelines …I can’t not pick Alabama to win another Dr. Pepper National Championship.
This may seem odd coming from an OU fan, but I’ve kind of come to love Nick Saban. Maybe it’s envy to a certain degree, but you have to love the efficency of what he’s done at Alabama as his program has ascended to heights beyond the realm of historical reason.
He might be the one man in America I’d put on that debate stage with the four women I’m touting to be POTUS to debate the trust fund human junk bond pusssy grabber by the name of Donald Trump. If you put Elizabeth Warren on one side and Nick Saban on the other side of Trump in a presidential debate… I’m almost certain it would an evening of high level entertainment. I’d pay a close circuit televison fee to watch that debate.
The SEC is right now 1-5 so far this bowl season by my count with only Shane Beamer’s Gamecocks notching a bowl win. BTW…my final take on Joe C’s hire was that if Brent Venables had said no to OU…then Shane Beamer probably would have been the next name on Joe C’s list to replace Lincoln Riley.
But by my count the SEC still has its three best teams yet to play this bowl season in Alabama, Georgia, and Kentucky. Maybe Texas A&M should have that third spot… but they were nothing special. They beat Alabama and they pretty much looked like the same group OU used to throttle back when OU had some defenses who could tackle from play to play.
So amongst the fourteen SEC teams this football season I would say only Alabama and Georgia were special.
Mike Leach got blown out in his grudge game against Texas Tech. Auburn lost to the AAC’s Houston Cougars. Tennessee lot to Purdue. Texas A&M… I guess pulled out of their game. Florida lost to somebody I can’t name right now. Missouri got beat by somebody I can’t recall as well.
So when you really objectively evaluate the SEC this season beyond Alabama and Georgia the league was down as far as depth beyond those two. Yet as I write that the fact remains if Auburn hadn’t choked in the last minute of play in the Iron Bowl….then Alabama wouldn’t even be playing today.
I don’t know who’s out and who’s in today Covid-wise for any of these four teams, hence no College Game Day from me. But you know who I’m rooting for?
I’m rooting for Nick Saban even with my wife being an Auburn War Eagle.
Roll…Tide.