Alabama football's gauntlet continues. After reeling off back-to-back wins over ranked SEC opponents, the Crimson Tide's reward is... a third consecutive ranked SEC opponent.
No. 8 Alabama will battle No. 14 Missouri on Saturday in Columbia. The Tigers enter the game an unbeaten 5-0, and the schedule makers could not have set this up worse for Alabama or more favorably for Missouri.
Alabama has played Georgia and Vanderbilt the last two weeks. Missouri had a bye week last week and played UMass the week before that. How a team is playing its third straight conference opponent while one hasn't played a league game in three weeks is beyond me, but altogether unsurprising in Greg Sankey's SEC.