Mark Schlabach and Chris Low offer up their early picks for the top teams in the 2013 season.
Mark Schlabach and Chris Low offer up their early picks for the top teams in the 2013 season.
Now that the bowl season is over, it's time to take a look back at what we learned in the SEC during the postseason:
Jon Johnson column: Titles becoming routine for Saban-Dothan Eagle AlabsmaThere he was again, sitting among a bunch of trophies to take back to Tuscaloosa with him.
The Alabama Crimson Tide is once again on top of the heap in college football, and this is a good thing. Critics be damned; it’s just simple economics. Since the beginning of the movie industry in the early 20th century, action movies have been a popular genre. Whether it was the Lone Ranger or Indiana Jones, when you went to a movie you knew…
Of all three national titles Alabama has won in the BCS era, Notre Dame was the toughest win
How the Crimson Tide's triumph fits into the annals of BCS history.
Nick Saban again addressed NFL coaching questions (he says he's not leaving) and talked up his quarterback — and soon-to-be senior leader AJ McCarron — before starting work on the next version of the Tide.
Alabama begins 2013 as a heavy favorite
After winning its seventh straight national championship, the SEC finished first in [FONT=verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]ESPN Stats & Information's conference power [/FONT][FONT=verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]rankings[/FONT]. And it wasn't even close. After going 6-3 in bowl games, including Alabama's 42-14 national championship win against Notre Dame, the SEC finished atop of the rankings with a rating of 98.7, which was a .4 percent increase for the league before the postseason. The SEC remained No. 1 in the AP rank and second in the computers.
Alabama defensive back Nick Perry posted this Youtube video of the Alabama football team singing the fight song in the locker room following the Crimson Tide's win over Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship.
It's time to take a look into our own crystal balls here on the SEC blog. Now that bowl season is over, we're taking a look at some potential breakout players for the 2013 season. We are looking for guys who made the jump like Alabama's Amari Cooper and T.J. Yeldon, or Georgia's Todd Gurley. Players like Florida's Mike Gillislee, South Carolina's Ace Sanders and LSU's Kevin Minter are also great examples of what we're looking for. Now will these candidates be as spectacular as the guys above? We'll have to wait to find out -- but we think they have the ability to make a difference next fall. Players who earned first- or second-team All-SEC honors from either the media or the league's coaches weren't eligible for our list. We're starting with the SEC East. We'll take a look at five offensive players to keep an eye on in 2013 and then move over to the defense later today.
BOL>comReliable sources close to the situation tell BOL that running backs coach Burton Burns is expected to turn down an offer from Florida State and stay with the Crimson Tide: