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6th this year
I can go find some obscure stat that ranks Alabama really high in all sorts of things if I want to, that's certainly not a commonly accepted one.
Having said that, let's see...
Alabama has a 1.
Texas A&M has a .9
Iowa has a 1.01
Georgia has a 1.93
Georgia has a similar level of talent and a bunch of ex-Alabama coaches running Saban's scheme.
Golding by any measure, even that is under-performing significantly. Do we really think Iowa has better talent?
Edit: I posted based off 21 stats, if I go by the 22 stats Iowa is 1.22 and Georgia is 1.46 to Alabama's.99 in 2022. Either way, Alabama shouldn't be so far behind Georgia consistently, nor should they be behind an obviously far less talented Iowa team on a consistent basis either.
Alabama was
1.57 in 2015
1.88 in 2016
1.61 in 2017
1.39 in 2018 when Golding took over play calling at some point in the season.
.93 in 2019
.50 in 2020 (I would assume this is a bit skewed by the lack of out of conference games, but still 8 spots below Georgia and even further behind Iowa)
Then 1 and .99
It's just not where they should be, even going by that ranking.
In Golding's four full seasons calling plays on defense, he had the four worst Alabama defenses since the 2007 season! Even by that statistic!