Alabama Article Archive

    Between October 30, 2009 and November 30, 2009
  1. Top Five Reasons The Close Iron Bowl Game Was Good For Alabama

    Ugly Win? Yes it was. Under achieving? Perhaps it was that too. But there are five good reasons why this game could actually help Alabama in it's quest for continuing wins this season and next...

    Larry Burton Written by Larry Burton about 2 days ago 1,822 reads 245 comments

  2. NCAA Football Top 25 Week Ten: TCU Remains No. 1, Alabama Is the New No. 2

    (Tyler Stimson votes in the ESPN-U poll and the Bleacher Report poll. ) (Previous rankings of top 10 teams in parentheses. ) 1. TCU —Beat San Diego State 55-12. This team keeps rolling towards a BCS bowl...

    Tyler Stimson Written by Tyler Stimson about 22 days ago 2,688 reads 187 comments

  3. LSU-Alabama: Why This Game Will Be QB Greg McElroy's Big Breakout

    Who's afraid of the big bad bad wolf, uh, I mean Tiger? Certainly not Greg McElroy. And why should he be? Are you familiar with LSU's pass rush? Guess what team rates near the bottom of the SEC in sacks this season? You guessed it...

    Larry Burton Written by Larry Burton about 26 days ago 5,055 reads 158 comments

  4. Alabama's Greg McElroy Came Through Like a Champion With Win Over LSU

    Quarterbacks don't dream of completing 19-of-34 pass attempts in a game during the offseason. Those dreams are reserved for some gaudy number like 34-of-35...

    Larry Burton Written by Larry Burton about 22 days ago 1,524 reads 135 comments

  5. College Football: Baby's Losers for Thanksgiving Week

    It is here again. Thanksgiving week and all that goes with the special Holiday. All picks must in by Thursday at Noon. Let us get right into it. Thanksgiving Day 1...

    BabyTate Written by BabyTate about 7 days ago 1,072 reads 118 comments

  6. College Football: Baby's Losers For November 14

    Last week was filled with upsets and runaway contests with the major beneficiaries being Alabama and Ohio State. With this in mind, let us dive into another list of great games for next Saturday...

    BabyTate Written by BabyTate about 21 days ago 797 reads 107 comments

  7. Baby's Losers: Will the Witch of November Raise Her Broom?

    She lays in wait on Lake Superior on the way to Whitefish Bay. Every year, from around October 12 to December 20, The Witch of November will lay waste to shipping and transportation in the Great Lakes area...

    BabyTate Written by BabyTate about 28 days ago 1,216 reads 99 comments

  8. SEC Championship Game Preview: Alabama vs Florida, Strength vs. Strength

    This is not one of those games that has two teams facing off pitting one's strengths against another team's weakness. These two teams are too much alike. These are two gladiators that will swap punches for four quarters, mano a mano...

    Larry Burton Written by Larry Burton about 1 day ago 2,329 reads 95 comments

  9. Alabama Faces Florida in the SEC Title Game For The BCS National Championship

    Yes, you read that right. It wasn't a poorly conceived headline and it wasn't a typo. Alabama and Florida are actually playing for the BCS National Championship on December 5, 2009 in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA...

    Franklin Crittenden Written by Franklin Crittenden about 2 days ago 2,729 reads 88 comments

  10. College Football's 11 Best 11s: TCU Makes Its Move

    The Horned Frogs of Texas Christian have not spent a great amount of time this season croaking up the wrong tree. They have gone out and put away the opposition, usually leaving no doubt who is the best team on the field that day...

    BabyTate Written by BabyTate about 15 days ago 1,861 reads 79 comments

  11. College Football's 11 Best 11s: Big Day For Ohio State and Alabama

    Saturday was a big day for the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Alabama Crimson Tide. Ohio State put their foot on the neck of rival Penn State in Happy Valley, 24-7, to lay claim as the eminent challenger for the Nittany Lions' Big 10 crown...

    BabyTate Written by BabyTate about 22 days ago 1,627 reads 67 comments

  12. BCS Bowl Predictions: Seperating the Contenders from the Pretenders

    What a season of college football! It has had its share of upsets, smackdowns, bitter rivalries, bias, and everything else that makes for an exciting season of action packed football. As we near the end, that crystal ball is coming into focus...

    Caleb M. Written by Caleb M. about 5 days ago 2,119 reads 59 comments

  13. Alabama—Auburn: The Iron Bowl is Not Just a Game, It's in Our Blood

    My first recollections of just how important the Iron Bowl really was to me was the day that Alabama lost to Auburn in 1972 in the famous "Punt Bama Punt " game. In that game, Alabama held a 16-3 lead with only six or seven minutes left on the clock...

    Franklin Crittenden Written by Franklin Crittenden about 7 days ago 2,783 reads 47 comments

  14. Alabama and Florida: Shocking Statistics and How They Will Change

    As you may know, statistics can be very helpful in illustrating a point you want to prove or even proving either side of a heated argument in some cases. Such is the case with Alabama and Florida...

    Larry Burton Written by Larry Burton about 18 days ago 2,877 reads 46 comments

  15. Alabama's Mark Ingram Takes High Road, Laughs Off Jab by Auburn's Ben Tate

    Although I wasn't watching the Auburn-Georgia game very closely on Saturday night (there was a slightly more pressing matter going on at the time), I happened to catch a quote from Auburn running back Ben Tate that was featured on the ESPN2 broadcast...

    Ingram Worley Written by Ingram Worley about 10 days ago 1,936 reads 45 comments

  16. Alabama Must Win Out Or They Could End Up On The Outside Looking In

    For Alabama fans and players there was, of course, a great sense of accomplishment when Alabama defeated LSU and won the SEC's Western Division on Nov. 7 in Tuscaloosa, AL...

    Franklin Crittenden Written by Franklin Crittenden about 18 days ago 1,271 reads 44 comments

  17. SEC Bowl Projections

    With one week remaining in an up-and-down season, the SEC bowl picture is still as muddy as ever. Even after all the games are completed we still won't know anything for sure until the Sunday following the SEC Championship game...

    Joel Barker Written by Joel Barker about 8 days ago 7,017 reads 40 comments

  18. Alabama Fans Should Have Expected the Media To Turn on the Tide

    Get ready for it Alabama fans, the media has turned on the Tide. Listening to the pundits this week the one theme that is being replayed over and over again is that Alabama has lost their mojo...

    Franklin Crittenden Written by Franklin Crittenden about 28 days ago 3,705 reads 40 comments

  19. For Alabama; It Is Not The Red Zone; It Is Becoming The Dread Zone

    Alabama has become a team that nobody wants to play. They play tough, consistent, football and always finish strong. Another thing they are becoming known for, however, is struggling in the Red Zone...

    Franklin Crittenden Written by Franklin Crittenden about 21 days ago 831 reads 37 comments

  20. Evil Genius Mike Slive and the Great SEC Conspiracy Theory (Humor)

    On Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama fought off a battered LSU team to claim the Western Division crown in the SEC for the second consecutive year, setting up a rematch with top-ranked Florida in the championship game...

    Ingram Worley Written by Ingram Worley about 20 days ago 922 reads 36 comments

  21. Larry's Losers in the SEC, Final Week of the Regular Season

    Last week saw this humble enterprise beginning to peak with my second week of perfect picks including the "upset" of LSU. I chose Les Miles' picture this week to represent the losers as he was the biggest loser of the week...

    Larry Burton Written by Larry Burton about 7 days ago 1,550 reads 35 comments

  22. Nick Saban Brings Tide Team and Recruiting Crop Both Up To No. 2

    Just when you thought Nick Saban had his hands full guiding this year's Crimson Tide team team to a second place ranking and coaching so hard to stop the silly miscues they've been making, he's ...

    Larry Burton Written by Larry Burton about 20 days ago 3,875 reads 34 comments

  23. College Football's 11 Best 11s: Texas, Alabama Stalk BCS Title

    The storyline may vary, the locations differ, but rising to the occasion will be the theme as one reviews the college football activity of this past weekend...

    BabyTate Written by BabyTate about 8 days ago 1,505 reads 33 comments

  24. Top Things Rival SEC Coaches Should Say About Tennessee Arrests

    How can anyone outside of Knoxville not be relishing in the debacle going on in Kiffinville. It is too sweet an opportunity not to shove in the face of the boys in Orange and Black...

    Jonathan Kelley Written by Jonathan Kelley about 17 days ago 5,494 reads 32 comments

  25. Are All the Stars Aligning for Alabama As a Team of Destiny in 2009?

    In what is unveiling to be a season of firsts and lasts, this Tide team appears to be peaking at the right time to finish the season...

    Larry Burton Written by Larry Burton about 15 days ago 1,601 reads 31 comments

 


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