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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.
That's right, Texas, Cincinnati, Boise State, TCU, and Iowa are gaining ground and some of the media's talking heads are now saying that the Crimson Tide needs to be demoted in the rankings.
In fact, Texas has already been moved ahead of Alabama in the all major polls this weekend and Alabama dropped in the BCS standing down to third. Texas now holds the second spot.
Why? Because Alabama has not exactly looked like world beaters lately and have not exactly been blowing teams like Ole Miss, South Carolina, and Tennessee off the field in their past three games.
It doesn't matter that Alabama was at the end of a very difficult eight-game stretch or that the Tide lost one of their best defensive players in Dont'a Hightower. It doesn't matter that they lost their leading receiver Colin Peek either because they don't care.
It also doesn't seem to matter that Alabama’s offense just faced three of the top 25 defenses in the country, or that Alabama's starting quarterback was going through a slump much in the same way Colt McCoy and Tim Tebow did earlier in the season because that doesn't matter either.
Nope, according to the drum that ESPN, CBS, and ABC are beating, Alabama was all smoke and mirrors, and they may not have been what the talking heads thought they were just a few weeks ago.
Not so long ago the same media pinheads were saying things like, "Alabama is the most consistent team in college football" and "Alabama is the most complete team in college football along with several of the same people saying, Alabama should be No. 1. Now they are using terms like one dimensional and unimpressive.”
If the media is starting a campaign designed to influence the voters in hopes of dropping Alabama or raising teams like Texas, Cincinnati, Boise State, TCU, and Iowa, they have forgotten one very important thing.
Alabama still controls its own destiny.
Alabama will play No. 9 LSU this week in Tuscaloosa at 3:30 EST and if they win that game and keep winning they will play No. 1 Florida in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta on Dec 5.
Then if they beat No. 1 Florida in that game, it really won't matter what the talking heads were saying way back in the first part of November.
So what is it going to take to get Alabama back up to speed and playing like they were earlier in the year?
(1) The most important thing has already happened, Alabama has had a chance to rest.
Alabama played eight straight games without a break and even though they weren't the only team in the nation to do that, they were the only team ranked in the top five to have to do that and that wears on any team.
Nick Saban said this team was tired mentally and it has shown in Alabama's past two games.
(2) They have to get their swagger back and start having fun again.
Alabama has been playing like a team that is playing not to lose.
Instead they should be playing the way they were earlier in the year. In Alabama’s first five games they looked like they were having fun, knocking teams off the ball and running and passing at will.
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