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For what I believe is our 8th straight year, Zach Junda from And The Valley Shook joins us once again to give his honest and often “negatiger” opinions about the LSU football team. And boy, with the Tigers firing Brian Kelly just a week ago and the whole program in turmoil, we had some great […]
Happy Friday, everyone. It’s LSU week, but this year doesn’t have quite the same buzz as usual after the firing of Brian Kelly. Your previews: Alabama might be fourth in the College Football Playoff rankings, but to keep hammering this home – Florida State, Georgia, South Carolina, Missouri. Obviously, the FSU game was a loss, […]
Two years ago, LSU sported one of the worst defenses that I’ve seen in my lifetime, and the Tigers axed their defensive coordinator and brought in Blake Baker from Missouri, who helped stabilize things a bit. They improved to a middle-of-the-road average as a unit that had some decent pass defense chops while struggling against […]
Happy Thursday, everyone. Alabama released the initial injury report for LSU. In Alabama football’s first SEC availability report ahead of its meeting against LSU, wide receiver Ryan Williams is back on the list. The Crimson Tide sophomore wide receiver is listed as probable. He missed Alabama‘s win against Louisiana Monroe in Week 2 with a concussion. Alabama tight […]
Happy Gump Day, one and all. It’s a very big weekend for the Crimson Tide: The No. 4 Alabama football team hosts the 5-3 LSU Tigers. Don’t sleep on them either. Despite the trio of SEC losses, they were all to teams ranked inside the Top 10, and LSU even held the halftime lead against […]
The LSU offense is an interesting one to preview this year. To this point, they’re only scoring 25.5 points per game, and that ultimately got Brian Kelly fired (and OC Joe Sloan was given the can a couple hours later). It’s not been good by any stretch, and there’s been a lot of issues… but […]
#Ranking season is finally upon us, and Alabama placed 4th in the first CFP bracket of the year. The top 4 were about as chalk as you could possibly expect. Ohio State was the easy #1 team, as they’ve obliterated everyone they’ve played. Indiana and Texas A&M were fairly interchangeable at 2 and 3. The […]
Conventional wisdom has it that after a coach is fired, the team goes into doldrums, plays worse, begins looking for their next destination; you face a dispirited lot. Like so much conventional wisdom, it happens to be wrong. I analyze every game, for every team, every week, and have done so for 13 years now. […]
With the bye week over, Alabama is headed right into LSU week, and we have our regular programming with the coaching staff press conferences back. Ryan Grubb On issues with the running game: “It’s all. It’s not one thing. Whatever it is, whether it’s pass protection, run blocking, all those things work together. For us, […]
With some of the top teams off (Alabama, Texas A&M, Oregon) and others playing conference doormats (Penn State-Ohio State, Indiana-Maryland) as per usual, the SEC took center stage. It was much better entertainment than watching the Dodgers’ “bought” World Series win. One shlock-fest in particular caught some eyes for the car crash that it was: […]
The Alabama Crimson Tide basketball team opened their season with a 92-61 victory over North Dakota on Monday night. The Tide was playing short handed with four players that will be looked on to play big minutes out with injuries. Aden Holloway was held out with a wrist injury, Latrell Wrightsell had a bad finger, […]
Alabama hosted the North Dakota Fighting Hawks at Coleman Coliseum tonight and took care of business, blowing out the visitors by a score of 91-62. In general, the Tide did what they were supposed to do against an overmatched foe. The game was never in doubt past the first few minutes of action, and the […]
Last year, in a Patrick Murphy-esque move to get Grant Nelson a game in front of his family and friends, the No. 6 Alabama Crimson Tide traveled to Bismarck to face the lightly regarded North Dakota Fighting Hawks (“Sioux” was always a better mascot, but unlike many tribes and states who collaborated to borrow tribal […]
Happy Monday, everyone. The most important news of the day: It’s officially basketball season! Nate Oats and company will tip off the season tonight against North Dakota. When is Alabama basketball vs North Dakota? Date: Monday, Nov. 3 Start time: 7 p.m. CT Alabama and North Dakota will tip off at 7 p.m. CT on Monday, marking […]
The SEC is front and center today when it comes to ranked matchups, which one might expect since the league has nine of the top 2o including five of the top 10. The highlights: No. 9 Vanderbilt @ No. 20 Texas (11am, ABC) Arch Manning cleared concussion protocol and will start against the Commodores according to head coach Steve […]
Happy Friday, everyone. Not a ton of news out there on this bye week Friday, but we’ll bring you what we have. The LSU coaching search is going to be a spectacular dumpster fire, led by a yet to be named Athletic Director who will apparently be hired by the governor, who is currently acting […]
Week 9: 5-12025: 33-14Mortal Lock: 7-2 Weekly Post-Mortem Time for receipts from last week, which was quite awesome in what has been a great year excepting two weeks (and, if you got in late on Boise State at -21, you at least salvaged a push. I did not, however. Womp Womp): Told ya’: …you can’t […]
Happy Thursday, everyone. Kalen DeBoer has been panned to a degree for his “coach-speak” in public interviews. He got pretty candid this week though, offering some insight into how he has motivated this group. “I don’t think until it’s all said and done, I’m not gonna let our guys think that we’re back,” DeBoer said. […]
With the bye week upon us, it seems like a good time to catch up on Alabama football recruiting for the Class of 2026. While the Crimson Tide already has 23 hard commits, there is still potential to pick up a few more in the coming days leading up to December’s Signing Day. NOV 8 […]
It’s very light on news today, so this will be a panoply of discussion topics. And, let’s begin with a 2025 Alabama Crimson Tide that is beginning to resemble some of those vintage Saban teams. Hear me out, before you register your disagreements. College football’s premier scholar-athlete award that annually recognizes an individual as the […]
There were not a lot of upsets, but there were plenty of nailbiters decided in the final seconds of games – including two that ended at the one inch line. Alabama 29 South Carolina 22 – The Gamecocks came out of the locker room fired up and rejuvenated. SC kicked a field goal on the […]
With Alabama blessedly entering a much-needed bye week, the coaching staff is breaking from their usual Monday press conferences. With that, news around the Tide is sparse. We did get our game time scheduled for LSU week, though. Alabama football’s matchup with LSU, the Tigers’ first game since firing former head coach Brian Kelly, will […]
Happy Monday, everyone. Alabama remains 4th in the polls following their win over South Carolina as all three teams ranked above them held serve. One of those teams is Texas A&M, which somehow blew out LSU in Baton Rouge despite the game being played at night. LSU coach Brian Kelly’s tenure did not survive. Kelly’s […]
With Alabama’s second bye week upon us, it’s time to take stock nationally. We have more than enough data at this point in the season. Conference standings are shaking out. And there is a queue beginning to form for the national title. We seem to say this every year, but in 2025, it really is […]
Yeeesh. Listen, I’ll gladly take the W and nod along with the “found a way to win it” crowd. But this game did very little to assuage the nerves I wrote about after the Mizzou win. These close games feel unsustainable (though, I also said that a few weeks, and a few wins, ago). I’ll […]