“I don’t really think ― I can’t tell”, Nick Saban said before Alabama’s Cotton Bowl semifinal with Michigan State approaching at 7 p.m. CT Thursday.
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The Tide had seven players drafted last season, two from a defense that was gouged in the last two games of the season by Auburn and Ohio State.
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The second semifinal of the College Football Playoff will be between Michigan State and the heavily favored Alabama in the Cotton Bowl, played at AT&T Stadium.
“I always joke with Riley (Bullough) and Jon (Reschke), we work in the weight room to get the bodies we have, we weren’t just born with them”, said linebacker Darien Harris, a three-star recruit. Michigan State has yielded big plays in the passing game, allowing nearly 230 yards on average, but has been much tougher since suffering its lone loss – 39-38 at Nebraska in early November – giving up just 12.5 points on average in its last four games. MSU senior quarterback Connor Cook also dealt with a nagging shoulder injury during that span but has had almost a month to let it heal and has said he is good to go against Alabama.
Maybe. But that’s why they play the game.
And ESPN’s College GameDay thinks the Crimson Tide will advance to the national championship game on January 11. “I think that there’s an edge that you’d like for them to have that is going to give them the best opportunity to go out there and play for 60 minutes in the game the way that I’m sure they’d like to play and we’d like for them to play”. The Crimson Tide are the standard program in college football and perhaps all of the major sports.
“I definitely think it takes a certain type of person”.
Saban, 64 and five years Dantonio’s elder, is two wins shy of tying Bear Bryant for the most national championships in the sport’s history, two wins away from winning his fourth crown in nine years at Alabama.
Barnett joked Michigan State has an advantage over Alabama’s other opponents because he and Dantonio both speak “Sabanese”. “They have great balance on offense…You go to the other side, their system of defense is very sound and solid”. “A lot of different aspects”, said Dantonio, who was defensive backs coach at Michigan State when Saban was head coach from 1995-99.
Mark Dantonio once toiled as one of Nick Saban’s many defensive assistants.
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With apologies to Heisman Trophy-winning running back Derrick Henry and his 1,986 rushing yards, the dominant defensive line is key to Alabama’s success. “And you’ve got to know what you’re up against when you play against people like that”. So five years and five good years. “It’s not guaranteed that every guy is going to start as a freshman or come in and have an impact as a freshman”, Cam Robinson said. They defeated Stanford 24-21 in the Rose Bowl two years ago and Beat Baylor 42-41 in a shoot out in last year’s Cotton Bowl. Kelly was the Remington Award victor as the best center in the nation and a second-team AP All-American. Oklahoma on the other hand, is the only team in the mix that didn’t have to win a conference championship game to get to the playoffs. Scott is the team leader with 691 yards and 11 touchdowns.
