Crimson Tide was placed at No. 4, behind No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Texas, and No. 3 Oregon. Crimson Tide fans did not bash ESPN's No. 4 ranking. After all, no one knows how good any team will be eight months in advance of a season.
On Tuesday ESPN updated its way to early Top 25. The top five spots went to the Georgia Bulldogs, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, and Notre Dame.
This change may be accurate. After all, OSU did inherit some of the Bama kids that left in the portal if I'm not mistaken. Adding ours to theirs was bound to bump them up significantly and ours to drop.
Two things immediately came to mind. Kalen DeBoer deserved the credit for his championship-building results at Washington, but he does not have to build a championship program in Tuscaloosa - he inherited one.
If they are trying to say that our drop was because KD inherited a championship team rather than building it from scratch then that is incredibly dumb. The top caliber team is still there and fully capable of producing wins in the fall. That shouldn't have an effect on ranking until the W's become L's...
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