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Alabama's potential playoff weakness: Tide so good, they have no experience in close games

USA TODAY Sports' Paul Myerberg on the biggest risers, fallers and surprises from Week 6 in the top 25 of the Amway Coaches Poll. USA TODAY Sports

Halfway through the college football season, Alabama has looked unstoppable to a degree we’ve never seen in the modern era.

Pick whatever team you want as the gold standard — 1995 Nebraska, 2004 USC, 2001 Miami, 2005 Texas — and none of them destroyed opponents like this, so quickly and overwhelmingly that the games are non-competitive by the second quarter.