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Coming out of Cowboys Stadium last week, no one looked at Alabama's glass as half-empty, or anything close to it. The general consensus was that the Crimson Tide was overflowing with talent, with experience, with all-around awesomeness. And no one put a cork in all the free-flowing champagne gushing all week long, no matter how many times Nick Saban said one should.

The predictable result of that imbibing? A slight touch of the dreaded hangover. It was not enough to incapacitate the nation's No. 1 team, just enough to make it intermittently look as wobbly as a new sailor on his first boat.

"I think there was, a little bit," UA center Barrett Jones responded when asked the hangover question. "Maybe we just didn't do a very good job of preparing. I don't think it was effort. I think it was execution, but maybe that comes from not preparing as well as we should.

"We learned that if we don't bring out best, we are pretty average."

First, a quick update on perspective: Alabama did not conquer the college football world in winning over Michigan, nor did that world implode in a fiery ball of doom because AJ McCarron was sacked six times in a 35-0 win over Western Kentucky. Alabama will remain No. 1 this week. Around the nation, where Alabama is followed but not scrutinized with the mighty microscopes utilized by Crimson Tide fans, the reaction will be "another shutout" with a few chuckles at all of Saban's midweek grousing. ...

Around the nation, where Alabama is followed but not scrutinized with the mighty microscopes utilized by Crimson Tide fans, the reaction will be "another shutout" with a few chuckles at all of Saban's midweek grousing.

Games such as WKU make me wonder which team CNS is coaching. If HSC says no I'll drop it but I'm not sure he isn't just running an extra practice session. "OK. Let's work on your pass blocking ALL day today" or "see if you can stop 'em with our base defense".

Games such as WKU make me wonder which team CNS is coaching. If HSC says no I'll drop it but I'm not sure he isn't just running an extra practice session. "OK. Let's work on your pass blocking ALL day today" or "see if you can stop 'em with our base defense".

Also, you never really see these WKU's carried off the field one after the other, like you do when we play Michigan or LSU.   ???

I could see it.  Why not!
I think Arkansas was trying it too.

I really think they do purposely call plays that will put some pressure on our players in games like this.  I'm fairly certain that we could run the ball against those guys if that is what we had chosen to do.

They were using Georgia's "playin possum" strategy.  They just forgot to turn it off once the game was in jeopardy.