For those who believe that the Tide's high ranking has effected their performance can feel a sense of releif with our dropping in the AP poll. It's ironic that after week 5 Alabama was ranked #3 and we were getting national attention. The following three weeks Bama enjoyed a rise in the AP to #1 and back to # 2. Like a delayed reaction to the Tide's performance on the field, the last three weeks have seen a regression in performance. Granted our strength of competion has increase, one cannot deny a sense of "letting our success go to our heads".

Hopefully this will ground the Tide and return the hunger that they possessed at the beginning of the season. I don't mind allowing 21 points to LSU as long as we score 50. Regained focus and rest is all we can hope for and going foward, I don't care if the Gameday crew shows up at all our remaining games, we must remain hungry and keenly focused on the prize.

I would love to see Timmy crying on the field in Atlanta, as he did after the Ole Miss game last year.

ROLL TIDE !!!