Alabamas biggest tests will come from usual places

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Alabamas biggest tests will come from usual places

Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts weaved through Texas AM defenders, cut acro s the field and slid behind a perfectly-timed block from Calvin Ridley. Before Hurts cro sed the goal line on his 37-yard touchdown, Crimson Tide Sports Network play-by-play announcer Eli Gold belted out what everybody knew.Statement time, Gold screamed Sherrick McManis Jersey before a pause for effect. For Alabama!Hurts touchdown run gave No. 1 Alabama the game-over score in a 33-14 victory against No. 6 Texas AM. It wasnt a statement. It was another statement, the same one USC, Ole Mi s, Arkansas and Tenne see learned on the way to the Crimson Tides 8-0 start.MORE: Alabama is 8-0. Alabama has beat five ranked teams heading into its bye week. Alabama is undefeated for the sixth time heading into November under Nick Saban.The defense and special teams have scored 12 TDs, and the combination of Hurts and running back Damien Harris is the concoction offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin is spinning into something special.Texas AM briefly took a 14-13 lead, but thats when all those things that have made the Crimson Tide special went to work. Hurts and Harris led a 14-play, 77-yard drive with a TD pa s to Ridley. Jonathan Allen Mitchell Trubisky Jersey provided the defensive TD afterward, this time on a 30-yard scoop-and-score. Hurts TD run was the exclamation point on that statement and eight-week di sertation which affirmed what weve known for the last decade.Alabama is the best team heading into November, and the Crimson Tides biggest tests will come from the sameold places. With all due respect to Mi si sippi State and Chattanooga, LSU and Auburn remain the biggest tests on the Crimson Tides schedule.Saban has lost 18 games at Alabama, and onethird of those lo ses came against LSU and Auburn. They are the only two schools who have defeated Saban- Eddie Goldman Jersey led Alabama three times.All of those lo ses were in November. Can the Tigers or the Tigers challenge the Tide one more time.LSU has found some momentum under interim coach Ed Oregon, and this Trey Burton Jersey has been the biggest game in college football for the last decade. Even without Les Miles, the Tigers will bring it. Saban is 3-1 against his former team at Death Valley, but those four games have been decided by an average of five points and two went into overtime.The Iron Bowl is still self-explanatory. Alabama has won four of the last five and Auburn hasnt won in Tuscaloosa since Cam Newtons amazing comeback in 2010, but the Tigers have showed signs of life on offense after a slow start. Would a two- or three-lo s Auburn team be up for spoiling Alabama season? War damn right, they would.Keep that in mind heading into another Crimson Tide November. Its easy to fast forward to those potential College Football Playoff showdowns against Ohio State, Michigan or even better the dream run through Ohio StateandMichigan. Same goes for a potential rematch with Clemson. Washington, West Virginia, Baylor, whoever. Alabama will get a chance to make those statements later.They have to pa s against LSU and Auburn first and whoever will be in Atlanta after that. Alabama is trying to become the first team to three- Leonard Floyd Jersey peat in the SEC since Florida in 1994-96. Not everybody knows that outside of SEC country. If Saban can do that, then it would be statement time for Alabama, all right.Bring on November, right?
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