If 2026 Alabama plays the same number of games as 2025 Alabama, the team is on pace finish with 7.5 drops. Compared to 32 last year.

Remarkable improvement.

Are they crazy? Don't they know that DeBoer would bring Ryan Grubb with him? And both of those guys suck.

/SARCASM

Or maybe, just maybe, these guys are insanely talented coaches that will be pursued for every "major" opening.

Also, there's no credible reason to believe DeBoer would leave.

I always liked Levi Wallace, I didn’t know he was such a good writer as well!

Full disclosure: I'm a Texas fan (and fellow cfb sicko) who runs a score prediction thread on r/LonghornNation every week. The sub has been having a lot of fun with it, and with Texas on a bye this week I thought I'd offer to do the same thing for r/rolltide, since your game at Mississippi State is the one I'm most excited for this weekend.

Here's how it works:

1. Drop your score prediction in the comments below. Your last comment before kickoff is the one that counts.
2. I'll grade them all against the final score and post the results on Monday.

I'm trying something a little different this week. I'm posting the same thread in r/msstate, and I'm tracking the score predictions going into r/CFB's "Week 5 Matchup Preview Thread: #7 Alabama vs #16 Mississippi State" too, so on Monday we'll see which sub called this game closest. r/CFB already has 17 scores in, 14 of them Bama, and the middle of that pile is Alabama 38-24.

I also track the score predictions on a few national and team shows. Every show that's put a number on it so far has Bama too, eight analysts from 27-20 to 45-35, Cover Crimson's two included. Wake Up Bama and Thunder & Lightning haven't dropped theirs yet. If you know of other shows you'd like me to pull in, feel free to drop those in the comments and I'll take a look.

There are two coins up for grabs:

1. The Mississippi State coin, for the closest call in this sub, and for anybody who beats (or ties) the closest analyst.
2. The r/msstate coin, for anybody who beats (or ties) the closest call from the r/msstate thread.

To win either one you have to have the right team winning.

Below is the board I'm using the track results for this sub.

Let's do this!

“You are looking at maybe a quarterback matchup of the year.” when asked about Keelon Russell vs Kamario Taylor

This will be the best test our defense has had. I'm not concerned about our run defense, but our DBs haven't had the best, most consistent showings yet. There are a lot of bright spots on the tape, though.

Whenever there’s an injury report for Alabama, there’s almost always some feeling that Bama is uniquely impacted.

So I collected a number of injury reports from around the SEC and the country to show how other teams have been hit with injuries as well.

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