Alabama's soft schedule..

[57stratdawg]

Is starting to firm up some...

VT (6-1)
@ TAM (5-1)
OM, (3-3 ehh..)
LSU (6-1)
@ MSU (3-3)
@ Auburn (5-1)
SECCG (Missouri(?) 6-0)

 

[RocketDawg]

Their schedule is a bit softer than ours, for one reason, we play them and they play us. Otherwise, they have one tough OOC and three patsies, just like us. Perhaps OkState is a bit tougher than Va Tech, but it's hard to say. They play the West, as we do, and have two Eastern opponents, as we do. We both play Kentucky (supposedly easy) and one other Eastern team. Tennessee isn't as hard as SC, so ours is a bit tougher.

 

[57stratdawg]

I dont disagree, they're basically the same. Bama catches a break avoiding the big boys of the SECE. UGA is too beat up to put up much of a fight, and Muschamp can't score points.

SECE at this point is a collection of flawed teams. Should make for exciting football coming down the stretch though. Loser of the UGA/UF game is out.

 

[RocketDawg]

Missouri may well be the best team in the East. But I think Alabama would run them out of Atlanta. And probably do the same thing to Georgia if their players haven't recovered by that time, and as you say, Florida isn't all that great.

 

[Angelo Pappas]

What makes AL's schedule such a joke isn't just who they play....... it's where those games fall on the schedule. AL plays 2 teams ranked in the preseason top 25..... A&M and LSU. AL just happens to have a bye week before both of those games. VT is decent to pretty good, but AL had all of fall camp to prepare for them. AL played a nonconference patsy before playing OM (Colorado St) and KY (Georgia St) and plays a nonconference patsy before playing AU (UT Chattanooga). So AL pretty much had a minimum of 2 weeks to prepare for VT, A&M, OM, KY, LSU, and AU. History has shown that giving Saban 2 or more weeks to prepare is almost a guaranteed win.

That leaves 3 games where AL doesn't have 2 weeks to prepare...... Ark, TN, and MSU. Both the Ark and TN games are in Ttown. Ark and TN will also in all likelihood finish the season with 1 or 2 SEC wins each. AL having to travel to Starkville a week after playing LSU is the only thing on the schedule that resembles anything close to a trap game. But AL will obviously have a big talent advantage in that one.

AL's schedule is a complete joke. I've honestly never seen another one like it in the SEC. It doesn't hurt that Mark Womack, who is in charge of SEC scheduling, is from Ttown, graduated from AL, and used to work in the AL athletics dept. And as long as I'm pointing out blatant AL favoritism...... SEC coordinator of officials Steve Shaw graduated from AL as well. The sooner the SEC office is forced to leave Birmingham the better off the rest of the SEC will be...... but it'll never happen.

 

[was21]

Glad you put the caveat on Kentucky ( supposedly easy). They have an off week just like us. They will come into Scott Field believing that they can win the game and will not be a pushover. I don't even know what kind of team they have but make that assessment without qualification.

 

[RocketDawg]

Well, they're 1-5 with the only win vs Miami (Oh), who is 0-6. That doesn't sound very good.

They played pretty good games against SC, Florida, and Louisville but got blown out by Alabama and got beat by Western Kentucky, who is pretty good in the Sunbelt but shouldn't be a problem for an SEC team.

I'd say they're pretty weak, but with our team anything can happen. If we don't play with any energy in the second half, like we've done for the most part up until now, we could get beat.

 

[RocketDawg]

If you'll recall, either last year or the year before, Saban was crying crocodile tears about other teams having a week off before they played Alabama, and he didn't. Apparently the whining did some good. You made some good points.

I wish/hope we could/will play the spoiler for them this year.

 

[Topgundawg]

The one big difference is they can basically kick just about any body's *** and the rest of the NCAA except for maybe one or two (LSU / Oregon) just get to sit by and watch. They thumped Kentucky by a **** full at their place last week and we are hoping for a 17ing win next week. Year in and Year out they have proved they are who they are....Schedule doesn't mean **** when its Bama....They didn't get that number 1 because they can't role when they need to...I hate them as much as anyone but crying about schedule when it comes to them is about us crying about folks leaving at half time...

 

[dogfan96]

VT has a good D-Line.. other than that, they're terrible. They're gonna have a much better record than their team is, just bc their schedule is so soft. Us, Auburn, and the bears are all about the same.. mediocre. Missouri is very good on offense IF Franklin is playing.