I know it sounds strange but MSU and possibly Georgia might take us. LSU didn’t beat us or Georgia, we beat us last year. Everything is riding on JPW and how well he has improved.

thats gutsy. Ill go with 8-4. A solid building year for our SEC West title run next year!

which games we’ll win and which we’ll lose, but I predict we’ll have a big season. I have a really good feeling about this year. I know that means next to nothing, since I’ve probably had a good feeling the last five years, but I just can’t see us losing until it actually happens. I know that’s illogical and biased, but I think we’ll win them all.

So sue me.

Roll Tide, Roll!

MARK MY WORDS, PEOPLE!!!
2 losses…LSU and either UGA or Clemson…that’s it…

thank me later…

Alabama is going to surprise a lot of people this year. Looking back at last season Alabama could have easily gone to a BCS bowl game if we could have had just a few plays go our way. Every lost last season was 7 points or less. I think if the players buy into the system and play hard all year I can see a 10-2 regular season record. Losses to Clemson, and LSU. Worst case 8-4. We have a couple teams that run spread offense that concerns me like WKU, Ark, AU. If we can beat all of them, I think we will be in good shape. I think Bama can beat UGA , and I think ASU will be reason why Bama will beat them. I think ASU is going to wear out UGA the week prior. Close wins against MSU, Ole Miss and Tenn. I think this year’s team will resemble the 1999 team for some reason, but remember in 1999 we had the lose to LA Tech at Legion Field which sucked and still ended up being SEC champs.

this year is kind of reminding me of the 99 and 05 seasons. in both cases we have good senior leadership on O, and caught the breaks we didn’t catch the season prior. If andre smith isn’t the second comming of chris samuels then no one could ever be. Now will coffee have alexander type success? i doubt it, but he, Ingram and Grant could form a real effective combo. I predict 10 wins, wouldn’t be shocked though if we only win 8. any thing less is a disappointment. we should beat Clemson and Tennessee, Georgia LSU and Auby are the tough ones, and the games vs the mississippi schools are the “trap” games we could lose but shouldn’t. By the time we play Ark st, the freshmen will have experence, there will be no repeat of the ULM nightmare.

Bama 24 Clemson 14
Bama 36 Tulane 10
Bama 49 W.Kentucky 6
Bama 17 Arkansas 14
Georgia 28 Bama 17
Bama 28 Kentucky 13
Bama 35 Ole Miss 14
Bama 21 Tenn 20
Bama 54 Ark St. 14
LSU 24 Bama 17
Bama 21 Miss St 10
Bama 21 Auburn 17

SEC Championship

Bama 28 UGA 24

Bowl Sugar

Virginia Tech 24 Bama 20

So there it is folks make all your plans accordingly I feel we can make a split on the road and chose Tenn and Arkansas as the two weakest we play on the road. Also feel we should win out at home. Auburn just does not impress me as in the past with their skill guys and our defensive backfield. So we should have advantage at home. Now i do believe that the truley only non winable game for us is Georgia thats because it is to early in the season. If this game came a little further down the road then maybe different. However I truley believe that if you look at our big games last year we were in them all. Realistically we can win this many games if all goes well with injuries and beating all teams we should.

…how optimistic you people are. I think we have as good a shot at the west as anyone else, but that’s only because the conference has truly become impossible to predict. Does anyone remember 2007? Who didn’t have a surprising win or loss?

And this year? 0-8 Ole Miss played almost everybody tough in 07 and now has a coach with a double-digit IQ. MSU will be a better team but won’t be able to sneak up on anybody. Does anybody want to guarantee that Arkansas won’t beat a single SEC team this year? Or that they will? Will Auburn be exposed or win it all? Will LSU need a QB who can do more than stay awake? Vandy has nothing…except heart and the most overlooked head coach in the conference. KY suddenly has no O but a nice D and the second-most overlooked head coach in the conference. SC has a nasty D and a nastier head coach. At UF, Jesus plays both QB and slot, but even they lost four last year and have had 74 knee injuries in fall camp. UGA lost their best OL-man on a still-young OL, and Mark Richt’s mini-butt cut has got to distract the team at some point. UT has a new QB, OC, and, apparently, lots and lots of doughnuts.

And us? Phil Steele points out that last season we could have just as easily been 13-0 as…3-10 (WTF, people?). Ergo, I will only make the following predictions for 08: (1) Bama will lose to somebody that will make us all very sad; (2) Bama will beat someone that will make us all very happy; (3) Ray Melick and Kevin Scarbinsky will still be trying to get Coach Saban to ask them to prom; (4) I will get very, very drunk due to either of the first two predictions, or both; (5) Terrence Cody will be both the irresistible force and the immovable object; (6) Julio Jones will save the world while simultaneously catching a game-winning TD, finishing his Math 109 homework, and texting his mom; (7) Rolando McClain will sack Neil Caudle after reattaching his own left index finger during a timeout; (8) John McCain will make water while making his acceptance speech, then go gentle into that good night to leave Alabama’s own Condi “I’ll say whatever you want” Rice the presidency; (9) gas prices and a worsening economy will have us all consuming wild turkey and Wild Turkey for Thanksgiving; (10) Tuberville will try to hold up seven fingers, but be blocked by his own ears and Nick Saban’s defense. RT, B!

They kind of scare me too. I think Ole Miss is going to be major surprise this year.

But i think we are getting big heads here guys. We all know this will not be THE year. Probably not even ‘09 (new QB). I belive in 2010 we will be ranked in the top 8 and if not play in the NC game win the SEC and finish in the top 5. BUT it won’t be this year. So here is my prediction. I already said we would go 8-4 but here is how i see it unfolding..

8-4 with loses to:
Clemson
Tennessee
LSU
UGA

Wins over:
Auburn
Ole Miss
Ark
UK
Ark State
W. Kentucky
Tulane
Miss State

We might pull out a win over LSU and UT. NO that doesn’t mean we go 10-2. I think this young D (linebackers) and our running game will lose us 2 game we should have won. So instead of losing to LSU or UT put the Barn, Ole Miss, or even a UK in there.

Regardless of who we loose to we will end up 8-4 in 08. 10-2 next year and 11-2 in 2010.

if we win in ATL in the spotlight over the #9 team in the country, we will spring board off that and roll. I just have a gut feeling about these boys, too many years of false hopes and let downs. I just dont see this year being an 8-4 record. I see us loosing to LSwho and UGA, but beating UT, Barn, and Clemson. Im sticking to my guns and saying a rematch with UGA in ATL and possibly a rematch with Clemson in the Peach Bowl if we loose the Champ game. Our D may be young, but they have a swagger, the entire team does. Julio Jones, Star Jackson, and many other true freshmen coming in and not to mention it is the top recruit class in the country. We will walk into every game with a chip on the shoulder attitude and a swagger and will be tough to beat. Just adding the top recruits to a program that 2 years ago sucked major donkey (you know what) and 4 coachs in one tenyear for a senior class and everything we have been through as fans, supporters. I truely think this team will surpass all expectations.

I think a lot of people are sleeping on UT. As much as i hate to say they have a chance to be really good. I still believe we win that game but im not going to count them out.

i see them betting both UCLA and the Barn.

UCLA will have a 3rd string QB starting
The Barn- still breaking in the spread

That puts them at 9-3….not bad

We will go 10-4 (Damn you, Bob Stoops!). Or 6-6 (Damn you, Casey Dick!). Yeah, one of those two.