"Also I'm not sure that Alabama isn't the best team right now" Without Tebow for Florida I might agree.....but thankfully we have the SECCG to help us find out. An erstwhile meaningless showboat of a scam game for some...... :wink:
Dave, I have no idea what the hell you are talking about, but I assume that is directed at me. Yes, how big of an asshole am I for actually wanting 2 teams from the same conference to actually play one another.. Yup, I'm a real revolutionary.. a downright anarchist. Terry, I agree with you and I thought so before Tebow went down. People thought Alabama would take a step backward this year, but if they did, they haven't been paying attention.. Alabama's soph and junior classes are loaded. Their freshman class isn't too bad either. I think Saban made the politically smooth road of starting JPW that kept one half the fan base firmly in Saban's pocket... but once JPW was gone, you'd start to see more of what Saban really wants to do there. Defensively, they are as stout as there is in the country.. Although the Hightower injury is important... they still just rolled along and shut down the nation's pass efficiency leader.
Florida owned the decisive 4th quarter last year vs. Bama and the Gators were without Percy ( 101 yard TD return today ) Harvin while Bama had their great OL lineman playing. UF is still the same basically except Louis Murphy is gone as well. I guess we have to see if Bama is better than they were last year and wrt to the Gators there are some young players back who may prove to be even better than last year like Demps and Rainey. But hey....until the two meet....which thankfully the SECCG game will help to promote....we can only have our respective opinions.