Jumbo Package: Alabama can’t afford slow start vs No. 1 Indiana
Happy Monday, everyone. Alabama basketball won its game with Kennesaw State yesterday, though the second half wasn’t pretty. They now get a week off before facing Yale next Monday in the final tune-up for SEC play. After beating Oklahoma, the football team has a Rose Bowl date with Indiana. Prep your calendars and your travel […]
CFP Random Thoughts Bowled Over: Routs and Special Teams Gaffes Ruled the Day
[With Christmas rapidly approaching and travel plans for some, we bring you Random Thoughts a day early. Ho! Ho! Ho!] Alabama made a statement. Oregon got a little lazy. And Miami-FL and Texas A&M gave us a classic. A classic bore. Meanwhile, it was not good week for the AAC teams with Tulane, Memphis and […]
CFP Random Thoughts Bowled Over: Routs and Special Teams Gaffes Ruled the Day
[With Christmas rapidly approaching and travel plans for some, we bring you Random Thoughts a day early. Ho! Ho! Ho!] Alabama made a statement. Oregon got a little lazy. And Miami-FL and Texas A&M gave us a classic. A classic bore. Meanwhile, it was not good week for the AAC teams with Tulane, Memphis and […]
Alabama Wins 92-81 Over Kennesaw State
The 16th ranked Alabama Crimson Tide defeated Kennesaw State 92-81 on Sunday afternoon in the Rocket City Classic in Huntsville’s Von Braun Center. The game was a homecoming for KSU coach Antoine Pettway, a former Alabama player and long time assistant coach. It would been nice to have given him his flowers at home in […]
9 “mirror image?” charts from the Playoff win in Norman
Whew, what a game. I feel like I’ve written that coming out of several games this season, but I suppose that’s just the nature of this particular team and schedule. And by “what a game,” I mean that some mix of all of these emotions were experienced: Shock into disgust Frustrating into something like numbness […]
Bama Basketball Breakdown: Kennesaw State
First things first – I want to apologize for not having anything together for the USF game earlier this week – my oldest kid was home sick and between that and my actual job, it just wasn’t going to happen. Shoutout to Josh for covering for me from the Atlanta airport. He gets paid the […]
Initial Impressions from the Oklahoma Game
Well, that was something. Alabama opened last night’s game looking like the team we saw in Atlanta. Frankly, they looked like an unprepared team perhaps led by a coach who had been distracted at practice. Down 17-0 in the second quarter without so much as a single first down for the offense, rallying for 27 […]
Victory Thread: Tide Rolls in Norman
Things started out terribly but worked out in the end, as Alabama avenged their earlier loss to Oklahoma to advance in the College Football Playoff. Alabama won the toss and elected to defer, giving the ball first to Oklahoma QB John Mateer. The Sooners predictably tried to be aggressive on the first play with a […]
CFP Round 1: Alabama vs Oklahoma 2nd Half Discussion
Well then. Alabama was an abject disaster for the 1st quarter. Oklahoma got out to a 7 point lead after the Tide went 3 and out. Then they went three and out again, and Oklahoma scored again. And rinse-repeat, and suddenly the Sooners were up 17-0, and the game felt pretty well over. Until it […]
CFP Round 1: Alabama Crimson Tide vs Oklahoma Sooners Game Thread
Alabama Crimson Tide vs Oklahoma Sooners | Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images College Football Playoff: Friday, December 19, 2025 #9 Alabama Crimson Tide (10-3) at #8 Oklahoma Sooners (10-2) Norman, OK ~ 7:00/8:00 ABC Editorial: What can you say? It’s do or die. Alabama will have revenge on their mind. The Tide needs to cut down on […]
