Cocktails, Cajuns, and The Homecoming Queen: Road To an Alabama Championship

Homecoming game:  Arkansas State University

But surely we couldn't lose to this team, right?  Alabama's National Championship hopes couldn't dance on the string held by a 3 loss Sun Belt team.  Could it?

As an Alabama fan, you might be familiar with the Sun Belt Conference.  They are the conference that houses the team that you have undoubtedly been given more grief over than  a 6 year drought in the Iron bowl. 

Louisiana-Monroe.

A dismayed Alabama team was beaten 21-14 by the War Hawks a year ago.  The Red Wolves are much better than Louisiana-Monroe.  They are tied for 1st in the Sun Belt and have an opportunity this week to make a name for themselves the way their conference rival did. 

If Alabama is going to dream of playing for a National Championship they are going to have to walk away with victories from all of these things.

They are going to have to win the SEC. 

They are going to have to get there by finishing the season as strong as they started

They are going to have to beat LSU, Miss. State, Auburn, and force themselves to not play down to a team like Arkansas State, something they can certainly be accused of doing.

Alabama has given themselves an opportunity that nobody thought they could accomplish, at least not for another year.  Even today, as #2 in the country, ESPN talks about #1 and #3.  Nick Saban doesn't care and he says you shouldn't either.

Because the night of December 6th, if Alabama is 13-0, there isn't a thing that anybody can do about it.  The Tide would be heading to Miami, probably an underdog, just as they were in 1992. 

When nobody in America gave the Tide a chance, they decided the best thing they could do to shut the mouths of their critics was to not lose a single game and show America that if ESPN was a college football team, Alabama would schedule them for their homecoming game.

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