Similar excitement surrounded Alabama’s football team as the Crimson Tide prepared for its fourth football game in 2007. Just like this season, Alabama had started out 3-0.
Only then, Arkansas had just put up 38 points on Nick Saban’s first defense as Alabama’s coach. So expectations were at least somewhat tamed for the Crimson Tide’s fourth game in 2007, an eventual 26-23 loss to Georgia.
Not the case this season. Entering its 11:30 a.m. contest at Arkansas on Saturday.
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Earl Alexander's first love as a football player will always be playing quarterback. But for the first time since he arrived from Phenix City as a highly touted quarterback, the Alabama sophomore is finally comfortable thinking of himself as a wide receiver.
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The paths of the two coaches are eerily similar: abundant success at the college level followed by brief and ineffective stints at the helm of an NFL team, which both ended with ignominious returns to college programs.
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There is a popular notion that what Arkansas does against Alabama is a good indicator of how the Razorbacks will fare the rest of the football season.
History has a lot to do with this idea. In its 16 previous seasons as a member of the SEC, Arkansas has opened league play against Alabama nine times.
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Ridgleand’s Michael Bowman, arguably the state’s top prospect at wide receiver, told the AJC he committed to Alabama on late Saturday night.
Bowman said that he met with Alabama’s coaches and told them of his decision after the win over Western Kentucky.
“I did it, it’s over” Bowman confirmed.
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One freshman majors in hurdling tacklers. Another stiff-arms all-conference safeties aside. Another has a spin move his friends like to call The Matrix.
For serious college-football fans, the Heisman Trophy race is increasingly passé. The new objects of their obsession are a rare crop of prized freshman recruits whose physical abilities have left the scouts stunned and, thanks to YouTube and the growing reach of high school recruiting services, have become so famous that fans sometimes chant their names during their first college games.
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The 11th-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide hope to compete with the best the SEC has to offer this year, and they will attempt to remain undefeated this weekend when they host the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers in non-conference action.
Western Kentucky opened the season against Indiana of the Big Ten, and the result of that clash was a 31-13 setback. Fortunately, the Hilltoppers were able to bounce back strong with a 37-13 romp over Eastern Kentucky. WKU has made the move from the FCS (Formerly Division I-AA), to the FBS and is one of four Independents along with Notre Dame, Army and Navy. Last season was the first as a member of the Football Bowl Subdivision, and the Hilltoppers fared rather well, with a 7-5 mark under sixth-year head coach David Elson.
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Another huge underdog, Western Kentucky, visits Saturday, but Alabama coach Nick Saban told his players that practice this week will determine starting positions. He has been frustrated with the team's inability to put away lesser opponents.
Players say they have heeded the warning.
It doesn't matter about your athletic ability, it doesn't matter what school you are at or what you have done, tailback Glen Coffee said. A Division III team can be more physical than any school — Alabama, USC, Florida — so it is something that we control.
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Without concern for redshirt years or Southeastern Conference seasoning, Alabama coach Nick Saban hasn't wavered from plans to lean heavily on the nation's top signing class.
Twelve true freshmen have participated in the Crimson Tide's opening two games. Only three Division I-A teams — Florida State (22), Arkansas (15) and SMU (13) — are thought to have used more at this point. And Saban insists, We might play some more.
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The mental intensity was good, the effort was good, right tackle Drew Davis said. I felt like today was a good day. I think it was very fortunate we got an eye opener like that without losing. I think it's something we have to learn from and I think we did learn from it.
I feel like we moved around pretty good today, better than last Tuesday, Crimson Tide nose tackle Josh Chapman said. We knew what we needed to get done. I feel like we got that done today.
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