We can definitely lose this game if we do not play well. I don't think the 'talent' gap is so big that a mediocre performance gets us out with a win.

I do think, and this is irrational, that we are 'due' to play better early in a game. Maybe this is the one.

Well one of our biggest problems is showing up on D and O in the first half. For the last three or four games we have been extremely sluggish in the first half and then have come back to eventually beat the team usually late in the second half. If we show up 100% from the start and get the crowd out of the game that will set the mood for another W.

Yeah, except we beat them at Bama in 05. They were undefeated going in.

As long as wecall the "waterboy" out pattern, directly at Nick Saban, I'll be fine.

Weird thing is, I remember seeing Nick Saban auto delaership commercials like it was yesterday. That was a full three years ago.