Happy Friday, everyone. Bye weeks are never fun for the fans, but the team needed it this year more than any in recent memory. Hopefully they are getting healed up and ready to close strong.
Exactly none of the major publications is picking Alabama to make the playoff at this point.
USA TODAY: Sugar Bowl vs. TCU (Dec. 31)
247Sports: Sugar Bowl vs. TCU
Sporting News: Sugar Bowl vs. TCU
Bleacher Report: Sugar Bowl vs. TCU
That seems like just the kind of anti-rat poison Saban desires.