Bamagirl, please allow me to be the first one to break your pretty little bama heart. In your 30 short years of life, you have never seen the kind of beat down that your poor little crimson tide is going to have to endure on Saturday night. This game isn’t even going to be close. Florida 52, Bama 13, Uh oh, boom goes the Tide’s hopes and dreams in one game. Don’t worry though, New Orleans and the Sugar Bowl will be a good game in Jan.

How bout we call a truce, sp??? Now, go out and ya’ll kick some utah butts

is 7 points FL.

…but anyone picking Alabama to win this season has looked pretty good so far.

will just be providing the means for Rolando/Greenwood to tag him. Personally, I’d like to see us shut down their passing game. I’m a little worried about how our secondary matches up with their WR’s.

for our 9 seniors to be National Champions WITH a Perfect Season? we’ve gotta stand together and make as much noise as we can. i’m gonna be doing my part from the STL area (so don’t be surprised if ya hear yellin from the mid west too)

it’s impossible to do so in Overtime.

work together as the TEAM we are… all aspects have to be on their top game. besides, we’ve got Arenas on spec team and when he gets a good block, he’s up the field before the other team knows what’s hit them. As for UF’s speed, I’m fairly certain Saban is going to address that in practice this week… making sure the defenders are where they need to be to stuff UF at the line of scrimage.

you’ll see that Ole Miss’ defensive line was in Florida’s backfield at will, and for once, Tebow looked human. He slowly lost his confidence in his passing game and even in his one yard plunges for the first downs that he had like a 99% success rate in. I personally like Tebow a lot, I respect the man for what he stands for and the amazing athlete that he is, but this week he’s the enemy, and he needs to get popped in the mouth by the collective cocktail of McClain, Reamer, Hightower, and Anders. If he does get hit (and it will take multiple clean hits), he will once again lose a bit of his confidence. BLITZ ALL DAY, THEN BLITZ SOME MORE! One reason they killed FSU is that Tebow had ALL DAY. BLITZ!That’s the gameplan, make it happen.

it has been on CBS and therefore it’s had the 3:00 time slot. Before then it was 5:00 for a few years, but I do remember it being late (7:00 or so) for a few years in the early 2000s. I guess it’s just whomever pays the most to have it on their channel will get to choose the time.

USC? Down 24-0 to Clemson? The BEST defense you saw was Ole Miss, and that worked out pretty well for the visitors eh? That said, the best defense you’ve seen is going to smack you in the damned jaws for about 45 plays on saturday. And, as physical as that is, it’s NOTHING compared to how silly our O-Line is going to pimp you.

/feel free to quote that :)

but my main one was UGA’s back compared to ours…
ummmm…what games has he been watching???

Sure our backs may not be as good as Moreno, but our line is much better than UGA’s, and I’ll take a slightly less talented back and an awesome offensive line over what UGA’s got any day.

and I might agree about JPW before this season, but every time somebody has said that about him this year, they’ve been proven wrong.

Our front four can contain that off-left-guard stuff pretty well. And, the quick screens are no avail, just ask, I don’t know, anyone we’ve played against. Too fast for that. The spread is predicated on matchups and getting playmakers open in space…there won’t be much space, nor much time. I expect a lot of misdirection, draws, shovel passes, etc., but the screen and quick slants are off limits. If you want to win this one, guys, you’re going to have to do it the good ole’ fashioned way…take it from us.

And, yes, it WILL be one for the ages a la 1992 and 1994 (different results obviously, but hellacious games).

I think Ole Miss stayed in the game because they wanted to win, not because y’all let them. That’s arrogance.

I enjoy your posts. Feel free to hang out and you are a class example of what a rival poster should be. Thanks dude!

Blitz, make him run, and hit him in the mouth. This was Ole Miss’ gameplan. Tebow was not used to getting hit as much as he did that game, and as a result, he looked like a bobble head out there midway throught he third and all of the fourth quarter. He’s an amazing athlete, but he human. If he gets hit a couple of times, his confidence will be shaken. If he plays the way he capable of, Bama will have a very tough time. Bama’s D has to make Tebow doubt himself and doubt that his line can protect him, and if they can do that, he’ll fumble and make bad decisions, much like he did against Ole Miss. Two of those fumbles you speak of were his, and we all know that’s uncharacteristic.

I too, am looking forward to this game, should be one for the ages.

anyone? hook us up peeps!

When we add the 13th one from this year, who would we name it after…

i’m 26 and my first bama memory was winning a huge game oven penn st in like 88 and the iron bowls of the late 80s and early 90’s. i distinctly remember getting our asses kicked by florida to start the year one season(91) and being very upset, we didn’t lose a game for another 2 calendar years. i remember meeting gene stallings with my brother and dad, BAMA was playing louisville in the fiesta bowl and they were practicing at a local CC. we watched practice, got some autographs, and eventually coach stallings came over to chat w/ my dad. it was awesome. my dad eventually asked asked him, not expecting an honest answer i’m sure, if he thought we’d win the upcoming game. “not if we keep on practicin’ like this” he said, my bro and i were stunned, we spoke up, “you’re kidding right?” “no sirs” he replied, “we havent got one good practice in since we been here. the boys are about to find out somethin” and sure enough we got our asses kicked….

it all came to an end though. in 92, we made our way through a tough regular schedule, only to wind up in the title game with the dreaded gators (the same team beat us the year prior, and the only team to do so since), we were surely in for a battle. but in the end, florida couldn’t match up with us, and we prevailed. next, they pitted us against some flashy media darling team that everyone said would destroy us, and of course we destroyed them instead.

i think we’re about to see history repeat itself

But, we do have a better linebacking corps, a senior quarterback, better depth and skill at the RB and WR slots, and (blasphemy) a better coaching staff. I’ll take our chances.

Spikes doesn’t have Mt. Cody in front of him.

Brandon Spikes is a punk, with no conditioning, and feasts on the Citadels of the world late in the fourth Q, up by 50 points?

Or not…Spikes is a damned good linebacker…he could pimp Tebow.

I really don’t mind leaving Reamer, Hall, Hightower, and Arenas (in the star) to stay back and cover anyone in the country, including Demps and Rainey. They can hold their own back there.

That being said, I think it’s a little hasty to limit Florida to 7 points in the first half. I’d give them at least 14. I don’t think Florida is going to score nearly the points they have in recent weeks, but we don’t need to fool ourselves into thinking they are just another Tennessee, LSU, or Georgia. They are far better than that, so we’d better be prepared for it to be close (though I would like nothing better than a 35-3 massacre).

The other side of that coin, though, is not thinking that BAMA is another Tennessee, LSU, or Georgia. We’re not, and we can hit hard. Butkus awards aside, this is not about individual players when it comes to Alabama football. It’s about teamwork, and we don’t need stars at every position to shut someone down. We simply need to have people at every position who know exactly what their role is. We do, and I have a ton of trouble seeing Florida hanging more than 30 points on us.

Bottom line: both teams are facing a challenge they have not yet faced in this game. Each side needs to respect the other greatly. When all is said and done, however, my money is on Alabama’s defense.

people spamming on here lately?

We are.

we ARE playing the same team that lost to Ole Miss…and you’re playing the same team that BEAT Ole Miss…we’re undeafeted in the SEC…you are not…
it’ll be a great game…the one person who can stop and/or slow down the UF offense is Nick Saban…

…your QB cried like a little girl!

then go to Teams → Florida →Roster.

No one new has been added to your roster since Ole Miss. Do you know what that means? That means that the Florida Gators ARE THE SAME EFFING TEAM!

YOU ARE STILL PRONE TO THE MISTAKES YOU MADE IN THAT GAME! No argument you give about the Gators “change” can supersede that fact!

If you guys don’t put us away with your offense VERY QUICKLY, you are in for a long night. Make no mistake about it, we ARE going to run all over your D LINE and we WILL eat up the time of possession. You simply will not be able stop our run.

All that established, the issue is whether the Gators will get key turnovers and take advantage of what our defense gives them. How Bama reacts/handles that will be the key to the game.

Skigator you have been respectful here, but distastefully arrogant. Bama will quickly slap that arrogance off the face of Florida Saturday afternoon.

  yeah but he hasn’t had Saban on the sideline with his timeout to ice the kicker. Just imagine the pressure.

If you’re going to call me out for 2 tenths of a second, I’m going to do the same for 2.8 percentage points: Tiffin is 17/24 for 70.8% on the year. However, he’s 100% on PAT’s, which may be a factor. You never know about those pesky PATs, sometimes they come into play.

Believe me, I DO NOT want this game to come down to a field goal. That is not one of our strengths and ya’ll know it. I’d rather go down to a Tebow TD than a Tiffin missed field goal.

That did not happen.

It truly was a stellar battle and I think one of the best games of the year, even if we lost. I truly think that this game decided the National Champ. I hope you guys wipe the floor with OK. Good luck and thank you for being a class fan.

Roll Tide Roll!!

Florida’s speed exposed our lack of another receiver and our lack of shut down corners. I think Alonzo Lawrence will be that guy once he gets off his redshirt.

But yeah dude, congrats. I thought we had ya’ll but you won by a Tebow! You are a class act even though we have ragged and argued all week. Hope to talk shit to you next year and wish you all the best in the NCG – represent!

Saban will have his guys soooooo pissed off and pumped.

I just put it up here to inform a few people of an ESPN article and to update Florida’s injury status, but it kinda took off due to the “rec’s”. I just figured it would have it’s day to be commented on and we’d be done with it…