... Vanderbilt 25-8. and then one week later followed that up with a very lackluster game against Southern Miss, barely eeking out a 17-10 win.

Fans leaving that stadium had no idea that they had watched a chapter in history being made. In fact, many fans left grumbling that Alabama didn't look very sharp at all. They actually dropped from eighth place to ninth following that game.

The Tide picked it up a notch by beating Arkansas in the next game, 38-11. They regained the eighth place in the polls following that game and some thought maybe they had corrected all the problems.

But on an overcast Legion Field in Birmingham, the next game had few believing that this was a team that could win that 12th national championship. They play...

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