C is for Cro-mag’d. Humiliating Georgia is one thing, but doing it in a manner that has the fanbase giddily waxing their pickups on a sunny Sunday morning is quite another. It’s not just that Alabama packed the brass knuckles and blackjack for their trip to Athens and, yes, turned the Blackout into "a motherf---ing funeral," as Alabama strength and conditioning coach Scott Cochran would call it.

It’s that Saban’s team, while indelibly his own -- the Cover 2 noose on display should have given you frightening flashbacks of Saban’s LSU teams -- still looked so much like the great Tide teams of the past. The lines were tree-shredder nasty; Coffee, Upchurch, and Ingram pounded north/south runs all night long with obstinate cruelty; John Parker Wilson deserved an Emmy for playing the role of Jay Barker with a better haircut for most of the night.

Your spread foolishness be damned: Bama’s beatdown was pure cromag football in all its brutal, pounding glory.