College Football Week 6: 5 bold predictions

4. Alabama rolls through tough stretch and never gives up No. 1 ranking

Alabama has looked like one of the best, if not the best, teams in college football. The only team that I could possibly see beating them would be Ohio State. Alabama’s schedule hasn’t been all that hard up to this point. They have played the likes of Kent State, Western Kentucky, and Kentucky. They beat them by a combined score of 120-16. However, the next four weeks present more a challenge.

The toughest game they have played this year would have been against Ole Miss. A game that they only won by five points, but in all reality it was a solid victory. Ole Miss tried to make the comeback at the very end but ran out of time.

In the next four weeks, Alabama will have to play three games on the road. They will be playing at No. 16 Arkansas, No. 9 Tennessee and LSU along with a home game against No. 9 Texas A&M. These next four weeks will define what type of team Nick Saban has this year. Get through this, and you can get through anybody. It won’t be easy, but it also won’t be as hard as it seems. The hardest game to me is probably the road game at Tennessee. They are still undefeated and have had some luck thrown their way to stay unbeaten. Alabama doesn’t use or believe in luck for that matter. They come and they come and they beat you down because the nine times out of 10, they are way, way, way better than who they are playing.

Alabama may look like they are going to fall in the next four weeks, but I don’t see that happening. They are way too good of a football team to not stop trying. I don’t believe that they will give up the No. 1 ranking at all this year. It is theirs and they are going to keep it for as long as they possibly can. If they did lose, they would have to deal with a very angry Nick Saban. So that extra motivation right there. Come on coach, you’re winning 38-10 and there is only 46 seconds left. Can I get smile? No? okay.