Sports Illustrated: Four teams that can beat Alabama

Flawless, no. But where we may be in need of a dermatologist, here and there, those teams be needing some plastic surgery.

 

I agree with this. We can laugh all we want at ND but they deserved their shot last year. OSU is a pretender and went undefeated with no pressure on them last year. Their QB is Terrelle Pryor version 2.0 and that's not a good thing.

Stanford does play a similar SEC style...except they don't have SEC athletes. They make up for it with brain power though.

 

playing at Ohio State is always playing under serious pressure, anytime you lose one game you'll have a whole section of the fanbase going berserk in hatred

As for their QB being like Pryor, Terrelle Pryor didn't have Urban Meyer and Pryor never received a vote for the Heisman, despite posting a 31-4 record (win pct of 88.6%) as a starter in three seasons and winning the MVP of both the Sugar Bowl and the Rose Bowl...and is in the NFL now

Braxton Miller, on the other hand, finished #5 in Heisman voting last year, the #3 QB behind Manziel and the Kansas State senior QB. Of the top 5 Heisman finalists last year, only 3 return: Manziel, Braxton Miller, and the WR Lee for USC that won the Biletnikoff last year. But without Barkley, he's got it tough this year

I'd rather have either Braxton Miller or Terrelle Pryor than Troy Smith (who won Ohio State's last Heisman) or Joe Germaine (who QBed Ohio State's last national championship team)

Of Ohio State's problems, QB is the last of their worries. It's the new starters on their front 7 on D that is their biggest concern. That and the weak schedule which means they'll have to go undefeated (even after going undefeated last year) for a shot at the national title game (unless everybody else has two losses)

 

Of the ten players that received Heisman votes last year, only 5 return:

Manziel, Braxton Miller, USC WR Lee, Jadeveon Clowney, and the QB for Northern Illinois who led them to a BCS Bowl last season

 

Notre dame's suckiness will be masked by their weak schedule
Ooh they have one hard game and one above average game, stanford and usc.

 

Sounds a lot like Bama.

 

Just make Saban adjust and he's as vulnerable as any other coach out there. When his gameplan doesn't work he a fish out of water.

 

That would be every opponent's game-plan, every Saturday, against every team.

 

No every team's game plan every week is to execute their own game plan.