Alabama Fans: Know Your Opponent (Mississippi State)

Usually in these series, I show the Bama fans some things they may not know about the upcoming opponent, what they can expect the team to do against us and how we match up in key areas. 

However, this week all you need to know is this is Mississippi State and they're one of the three teams that Phillip Fulmer managed to beat this year.  Talk about a blind hog and an acorn...

This is not the Mississippi State team that defeated Alabama the last two years, this is team that allowed the worst Vol team in recent memory to beat it.  They are just pitiful in almost every area.

The MVP of this team is the team manager in charge of washing all the grass and soil stains from the uniforms that get so frequently trampled. 

With Nick Saban helping end the careers of some of his opposing coaches this year, you may as well put Sylvester Croom on the maybe list after this game. But in the spirit of fairness, let me tell you what fight they will put up.

With nothing to lose, State will try and do what others who have done well against us have done.  They will try and stop the run and make it a physical game on defense.  They will fail.

On offense, they tend toward favoring the pass slightly ahead of the run, but they suck at both, so it won't matter.  So far this year the only thing this team has done well is winning coin tosses just before the game.

The next two games will allow the coaches to spend extra time on the SEC Championship Game plan.  It will allow us to rest our starters and work the second and third team players in preparation for next year. 

Now that the others in the BCS hunt except Texas Tech has one loss, the Tide doesn't have to worry about "style points" and that suits me just fine. Just win it, and win it they will.