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Jumbo Package: QB still up in the air, NFL Notes, and Lane Kiffin looks for vindication.

In a perfect world, SC administrators will rue the day they left Lane Kiffin on that tarmac outside of Phoenix.

The great X-Factor

This had to happen for Blake Barnett to have any chance of being Alabama's starting quarterback. The former five-star recruit had to cut down on the interceptions, had to do a better job executing plays the way coaches wanted them and had to stop feeling like he needed to make a big play every time he was on the field.

He's improved in all three areas.