Nick Saban, Alabama Crimson Tide focused on SEC football three-peat

Alabama got out-of-sorts offensively for much of the first half against Auburn, turning the ball over and generally shooting itself in the foot. Getting up for a contest like this one against the number one team in the country is easy.

I think Florida is risky, in that everyone from our friends in the desert to the struggling ticket brokers don’t give the Gators a chance. That’s likely the best conference in college football this season. Saban will then present each player on both teams a small plaque that he had made that has a mirror on it, and inscribed above the mirror is the phrase “When Looking In This Mirror, You Are Looking At Someone Special”. Keep an eye on cornerbacks Teez Tabor and Quincy Wilson, who have combined for seven interceptions in ’16.

Butch Jones, Tennessee: Hired in December 2012 from Cincinnati; is 29-24, 14-22 in SEC play; team was picked to win the SEC East but finished 4-4 in league play with losses to SC and Vanderbilt; defense ranked 110th among FBS schools. Alabama has a 4-4 record against the Gators in the SEC championship game winning three out of the last four.

Known for his self-deprecating humor, Jim McElwain was in peak form Sunday while discussing his initial reaction to seeing Alabama’s nation’s-leading defense on film. This is the way it is supposed to be.

Said McElwain: “Look, I’ve got a heck of a job”. The team has clearly been on another mission to take the College Football Playoffs and win the championship.

“Which that’s a big body falling off a scooter so we’ll see where that goes”, McElwain said. This game will go a long way towards solidifying their spot as No. 1 when it comes to the playoff picture. I know, it sounds insane, but the Gators will find a way to get the ball in the end zone. So it should be fun.

Two years ago, Saban lobbied for rules changes to slow down up-tempo offenses, citing player safety (wink, wink).

Take out Ole Miss, and Alabama is 23-0 against conference teams for the past three seasons. Now all major conferences hold a championship game as the Big 12 will renew their title game next year.

You don’t have to go out of your way to score non-offensive TDs. It’s one of those games that you have to put everything into it. Florida was never a double-digit underdog in Meyer’s six years in Gainesville, and was not an underdog at any point between its visit to – eventual national champion, because this should be obvious at this point – LSU in 2007 to its trip to Florida State in 2010.

“Our defense played extremely well until they got worn down”.

“I was like, when we see these guys next in the Championship, make sure my preparation and my whole off-season is going to be just as good, if not better than theirs”.

“We’ve got to get the ball in our playmaker’s hands in space and allow them to be able to make plays”, McElwain said.

“It obviously is one of those things that you got to constantly evaluate and get better at”, he said.

“I think all of us as players and I think even the coaches in our minds were thinking ‘Gosh why this year?'” Barker said.

Together they have brought in 110 passes for for nearly 1,500 yards and 14 scores. Commissioner Roy Kramer of the SEC stepped out on a limb creating the SEC championship game and was rewarded when second ranked Alabama defeated Florida 28-21 in the SEC championship game to advance to a Sugar Bowl matchup against the #1 ranked Miami Hurricanes. Can the Gators upset the top team in the nation ahead of the College Football Playoffs, or will Bama continue to roll over their opposition?