here's another sportswriter in awe of Alabama, Chuck Culpepper.
he writes:
"A No. 1 ranking isn't even good enough. The evidence mounts that this Alabama football team is under-ranked, and what an injustice. The voters and computers will whine that they already have Alabama at No. 1, and...that it isn't their fault that they could not manage to locate a superior numeral -- but... Any country resourceful enough to invent the [he lists a long lis of things invented in the US], well …
That country ought to be able to concoct a ranking above No. 1 for a team this competent, this tough, this good and this steeped in the championship knowhow of recent legacy.
This would be no normal No. 1, this Alabama team that streams above college football like an impenetrable frigate, led by the mirthless cruise host Nick Saban
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it's football being played at a rarefied level ... "we're not working against other teams, we're working against ourselves," said Outland Trophy winning offensive lineman Barrett Jones. The aggregate first-quarter score is 104-3 ... Come Saturday is the annual big bout with LSU -- and in Baton Rouge -- but if Alabama plays as Alabama can … [and he just left it at that]
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Alabamians long since know...fabulous football when they see it. ... here, you do hear the phrase "second golden era." With two national championships in the last three seasons and another plausible, these frigate-riders revel that Saban and staff have restored Tuscaloosa as the national headquarters of tail-kicking. They probably should not obsess over their thoughtless slighting in the rankings."
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