I dont care if we fall a spot or 2…The end product is what i care about…but the lack of respect from this guy…..damn…im just saying

…for making the point that things like fumbles are just part of the game. Champions find ways to win even when they suck. Style points count for nothing when you can’t win on an off day. Just ask Urban Meyer. If The Tide drops a notch or two in the polls, so be it. The Mark Mays of the world will be fawning all over us again when we empty Tiger Stadium.

As for now, let Chokelahoma keep the top spot. They are going to fall to Texas anyway.

If Alabama takes care of things in the SEC it is irrelevant. Also, we are talking about the AP poll, which compromises almost no part of the BCS.

Two missed field goals , one fumble on a likely TD drive , bone head defensive play on prevent , horrid officiating (can we say payback for Saban calling them out last week)and still won. Hey I was there this game was not that close. Defense was great and gettign better. Also hey guys we are two up on everyone in the west except LSU so we just need to take care of buisiness. The first goal is to win the west.

Bama 17 Southern Miss 10
Bama 13 La Tech 0
Bama 17 Tenn 10

Not pretty huh ……………………1992 close games imagine that we won them all that year. Running the ball great defense and special teams. Hey all those ESPN jokes didnt say how we shut down one of the best returners in the game last night huh. Roll Tide Roll 6-0

Coffee’s fumbles, Tiffin’s missed FGs, and POOR Officiating and we still won. This is the only game we have not dominated score-wise this year. Would rather this bad game come now, at the halfway point, right before a bye, and give Saban and co. the chance to correct it. The season starts anew in two weeks, and we need to go 6-0 to start out again.

also, as disappointed as i am with the offense performance yesterday – the fact is kentucky has a damned good D. this isn’t like the tulane game. we didn’t come out with our A game and got some serious competition from an underrated opponent. will we drop? probably. but i’m more interested in solving the consistency problem than poll standings to be honest. if this team can get its head straight and starts playing to it’s potential EVERY game… well, it’s pretty clear that the poll situation will solve itself.

say bring on the nay sayers. You can’t convince everybody nor should that be our goal. We got showered in cool aid last week by the national media and now reality sets in, the season is only half over. I’m not saying I’m satifsfied with #2 but right now thats pretty damn good. Just about every remaining game on the schedule could be loss if we don’t show up, start fast and finish each game. We get a chance to heal and get ready for the Rebs. I don’t care about blowing everybody out either but I still say if you go through this conference undefeated you will play for the BCS NC, unless you’re the Barn.

…he seems like a total douche, but he does have a point that Alabama isn’t playing the kind of consistently good football that a team like Oklahoma has, or even Mizzou, Texas, LSU, or Penn State has. When we are on and playing our best, I’d put us up against any one of those teams, but we’re still a long way from where we can actually dominate teams like those guys have every single game.

Congrats on your win.It is easy to look past UK,and I think that is part of what happened,and we have a decent defense,which allowed us to stay in game.Saben reminds me so much of what Pitino did at UK early on,being on proabation and turning it around fast,and putting us back back in the national spotlight.Good luck the rest of the season,and your fans are a class act,and enjoyed the posts over at a Sea of
Blue this week.

…UK/Zeppelin fan. I hope you make Tennessee cry like little children.

I don’t know about Mark May being worst at Tide disparagement…most all analysts seem to have a deep-seated anger towards the crimson and white, whatever the reason might be. I think that Kirk Herbstreit is the only one that doesn’t consistently give us down the road. I think the majority of the time he’s pretty objective. But, what about those 2 freaking communists that CBS hired to call the game. Lundquist?? Please. And that tool he had with him. They sounded like they were too upset that they didn’t get to call the Steelers game. I wouldn’t have been the slightest bit surprised if they would’ve whipped out tiger stripes and War Eagle foam fingers or something.

As for consistency…well, it is the nature of the beast that all teams will be off rhythm from time to time. Even top ranked teams pull out squeakers on their way to number 1, as lawbama1 noted. The biggest difference that most analysts have failed to note is that while last year’s squad (with primarily the same squad, a few notable differences) would’ve folded like a cheap suit, this year’s team has something new…and that’s confidence. They are learning to finish.

Besides, this IS Alabama football, after all. If we didn’t suffer at least one or two coronaries in the course of the season it wouldn’t be right. :)

the mark of a great team is overcoming miscues and penalties to hang on in a game that by all rights should have been lost. Think about how many time Tennessee in the past 5 years has so very nearly tanked only to hang on. Why? They have been a consistently good football team. Same with USC every year. They’ve ALMOST been beaten so many times it’s not funny. But is there any argument that USC has been a great team? (Granted not the team of immortal gods that ESPN seems to label them each year…)

Great football teams find a way to win. Lest we forget children, last year’s national champions had two games in which they couldn’t overcome those miscues. And still hoisted that crystal when all was said and done.

Mark May is my uncle…