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How about Alabama going to Mississippi State? Any chance the cowbells get to the Tide and they're upset on the road?
Khan: Call me crazy, but I think there is a chance. Alabama is a little beat up on the injury front, and you don't necessarily want to be missing linebackers against a run game like Mississippi State's. I think the Bulldogs' defense is physical enough and tackles well enough to stand up to the test that Alabama will give them offensively. (No team in the SEC allows fewer yards after contact against Power 5 competition than Mississippi State.) And this is the time of year when things get a little cuckoo. Mississippi State rewarded me once this year when I picked them for an upset (in Week 3 vs. LSU), so I'm going back to the well. Clanga.
Scarborough: Wow. I like the guts to go for it, Sam. You're wrong, but still.
I keep looking for reasons to give State a chance, but I keep coming up empty. The Bulldogs' defense is going to have serious problems stopping the run against Alabama. And offensively, I just don't see the kind of playmakers to give even an injury-depleted Alabama defense trouble.
So while it might be a close game early, I think Jalen Hurts has his way and the Tide pull away in the second half.
How about Alabama going to Mississippi State? Any chance the cowbells get to the Tide and they're upset on the road?
Khan: Call me crazy, but I think there is a chance. Alabama is a little beat up on the injury front, and you don't necessarily want to be missing linebackers against a run game like Mississippi State's. I think the Bulldogs' defense is physical enough and tackles well enough to stand up to the test that Alabama will give them offensively. (No team in the SEC allows fewer yards after contact against Power 5 competition than Mississippi State.) And this is the time of year when things get a little cuckoo. Mississippi State rewarded me once this year when I picked them for an upset (in Week 3 vs. LSU), so I'm going back to the well. Clanga.
Scarborough: Wow. I like the guts to go for it, Sam. You're wrong, but still.
I keep looking for reasons to give State a chance, but I keep coming up empty. The Bulldogs' defense is going to have serious problems stopping the run against Alabama. And offensively, I just don't see the kind of playmakers to give even an injury-depleted Alabama defense trouble.
So while it might be a close game early, I think Jalen Hurts has his way and the Tide pull away in the second half.
