staff photo | Michelle Lepianka Carter
For the second time in as many seasons, The University of Alabama football team is barreling into its first game week without a named starting quarterback.
Last season, the Crimson Tide was one of the few notable teams in the country facing this dilemma, only resolved when Blake Sims was named the starter hours before the season began. This made the fifth-year senior a newcomer to a crop of veteran quarterbacks nationwide, from Jameis Winston at Florida State to Marcus Mariota at Oregon to Bo Wallace and Dak Prescott at Ole Miss and Mississippi State in the SEC.