Alabama football fell short of its expectations last season. The team won ten games and finished ranked eighth in the country, but it is not the Alabama standard. Below are three realistic expectations for the Crimson Tide this fall.
Alabama football is the gleaming, 24 karat gold standard of college football glory for the past decade. Rugged, hard-nosed, “make his ass quit” defense developed into its calling card. Since Jeremy Pruitt’s departure for the smoky mountains of Tennessee to become their head coach, the stone-cold defense has ceased to exist.
In Pete Golding’s first season, the defense displayed chinks in the armor, finishing sixteenth in total defense.