With just over a week before kickoff, this is as good of a time as any to gaze into the future.
Late August in that time when anything is possible. It creates the ideal canvas for painting the picture of how we see things going in Alabama's 2018 season.
Of course, that opens the door to be a variation of wrong should things not work out exactly as expected.
That's just the risk worth taking. And there will be no hiding from any of these forecasts to come. They will be reexamined in the future to test for accuracy.