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Whine about oversigning if you want. Complain about how anesthetic Saban can assume if it makes you feel better. But don't altercation this: Alabama is the best aggregation in academy football appropriate now, and a aggregation that can about-face a band abounding of agile best recruits into mincemeat admitting all but apathy about the accelerator in the additional half.

Alabama ran for 170 yards, which is added or beneath an boilerplate night, anesthetized for just 73, and acquired just 54 yards in the additional half, 37 of them on the game's final drive. Its greatest weakness is still its secondary, which accustomed John Brantley to delving for and acquisition accessible men in the additional bisected as Florida racked up 222 yards afterwards halftime. Greg McElroy allegedly compared himself to Trent Dilfer in a chat with Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson. And none of that chock-full 'Bama from crushing a top-25 aggregation by 25 points.

Truth is, Florida could accept fabricated this actual close. Two turnovers at Alabama's 1 kept the account low, as did a brace of calls on ambition band runs that seemed like 50-50 plays. The Gators had to achieve in the red zone, but confused the brawl as able-bodied as they accept with Brantley at quarterback, and can yield affection that even on a bad day on the road, their breach and aegis looked acceptable for stretches adjoin the nation's actual best team.

Perhaps, should Florida abide convalescent and maturing, these two teams will accommodated in Atlanta for the SEC Championship to address a third affiliate in that saga. Perhaps, should aptitude and abeyant advance into authority and excellence, Florida will annular into the array of aggregation that can accord Alabama a scare. Perhaps, should the about-face allowance not be +4 in Alabama's favor, a rematch would be a abundant afterpiece affair.

But don't calculation on it. Alabama has a aegis that will age and grow, too, and a hasty advance that will alone get stronger as Mark Ingram's knee anaplasty becomes a added abroad memory. And beneath Saban, Alabama seems absorbed on convalescent every week.

The Crimson Tide is an odd moniker for this squad, one that just keeps rolling in, no ebb in sight.