Games like last night are lauded as a way to build your playoff resume but what really came of it last night? As far as I can tell from my recliner is that we put two of the four or five most talented teams in the nation on the field and let them chew each other up. It didn't benefit either team to play this game.
It has likely ruined FSU's title chances in one fell swoop: they must win out and they must do it without their starting quarterback. Good luck with that. Congrats on having one of the best staffs and rosters in football, you just got railroaded in game one. Good luck next year, hopefully you won't be playing a game to make Disney a ton of money that does you no good at all.
Alabama has lost two key defensive players for the season and three others are dinged up in varying degrees that will limit availability for upwards a month in the worst cases. If we were going to TAMU in the next couple of weeks or playing LSU or Auburn then we may have been in a pretty dang precarious position. Even so, we may have put a serious dint into our ceiling as a defense.
In another topic I talked about joint practices as a way to mediate the need for a preseason without it being a real NFL-like preseason. I think this is absolutely necessary. We're fortunate that both starting QBs weren't knocked out last night given how inadequate pass protection was against those nasty defenses. There has got to be a way to sharpen the knives before we go to war against teams like Florida State if this is gonna be the norm in college football.
Am I off my rocker or just mad?
