2020 Citrus Bowl Alabama v. Michigan, January 1st, 1:00 PM EST, ABC

[AlabamAlum]

I am right. I have been right. I will be right.

[iam416]

Agree to disagree.

[UMStan White]

Linesman and Hannibal = France! We give up! Don't shoot us! We surrender! (Why do you Bozos even bother to follow the team?)

[AlabamAlum]

If we get DJ Dale, Miller Forristall, and we don't have a ton sitting (all very questionable), we have a decent chance to eke out a win.

Given up on Labryan Ray and Trey Sanders before the Spring.

Nightmare season. The Committee was wise to put 8 teams with the same number of (or more) losses ahead of us.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Y'all. I have been saying since October that Bama would lose two. That our front seven is decimated. That was before Tua was lost for the year. If Shea plays competently -not even great- and Pick Six Jones gets rattled (which is extremely possible because Brown will bring the heat) AND if one or more of our guaranteed lock first round WRs sit out, M will have a real chance. Don't be hypnotized by the uniforms. This is the weakest Bama team on D since Saban has been in Tuscaloosa.

Right now I wouldn't touch the game -even if sweetened to -6.5.

Insane? I agree .......

I posted the links to the depth charts for both teams. You can compare, one-on-one, the players that will face each other. So, DE, Raekwon Davis may not play. His back-up is a top 100, 4* RS So. DE, Phidarian Mathis. He weighs 312. M, RT, Jaylen Mayfield weighs 278. Weight is not the be-all-end-all but Mayfield was a boarderline 4* with most services ranking him as a 3*. Before RT Andrew Steuber, a decent but middling OT prospect when he came to M, was injured, Mayfield was playing behind him.

Look, you can down the two depth charts and find talent and size mismatches like this everywhere...... even for the back-ups filling in on your so called "decimated" defense. IOW and on paper, team by team, unit by unit and player by player, this is objectively an ugly match-up for Michigan.

Mismatched teams by talent can win football games. Harbaugh's record against such teams, though, is poor. IOW, he's not gaining advantages that might produce wins in such conditions by his coaching acumen nor the coaching acumen of his principal coordinators. I'll give Gattis a pass. It's possible he could have an edge here. But can Patterson execute?

Like I've said, for M to win this game, there has to be a minimum of errors by the players - that didn't happen against the talent mismatched ohio state and that seems to be a trend for Harbaugh coached M football teams. People complain that Harbaugh wins the games he should win but can't win games you'd hope he can get his staff and players to coach/ play beyond themselves and expectations. Two years running, his teams have been ham-blasted by osu - out coached, out played. Why should we expect something different this time around v. Alabama?

I don't expect Harbaugh and his staff will out-coach Saban and his. Maybe a draw. Then it gets down to execution on the field by the players. There's the rub when it comes to the eyeball checks.

[AlabamAlum]

Oh and Raekwon is still gimpy with a high ankle. He's been cleared, but not sure he'll play.

You chuckleheads need to make sure you win. LSU, Clemson, and OU would all piss me off winning the damned thing.

[AlabamAlum]

Phidarian Mathis is young. Not a lot of experience and he's been out most of the year with an injury. Meh. Jiminy. You guys are something else.

[iam416]

Re Alabama-M, if I were The Nick I would use the next 3 weeks as a "show me" camp for 2020. I would expect a lot of young guys to play -- moreso than already play. If their WRs play then Alabama will score 50+.

Re good against evil, Ohio State is proper fucked. They're going to have to beat Penn State, @M, Wisconsin, Clemson and LSU in succession. LOL.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Phidarian Mathis is young. Not a lot of experience and he's been out most of the year with an injury. Meh. Jiminy. You guys are something else.

BS ........

I get Mathis got injured v. Mississippi State but he played v. Auburn. I also get Bama's D has injured players and Mathis may be one of them that's playing injured. Every team is playing with banged up players this time of year. M and Alabama have a month of prep and rehab ahead of them to get people healthy.

You won't get by with your excuses and sandbagging here. I am a master of Google Search function.

https://rolltide.com/sports/football/roster/phidarian-mathis/5443

Sorry, you lose. Would you like to play again?

[lineygoblue]

Phidarian Mathis is young. Not a lot of experience and he's been out most of the year with an injury. Meh. Jiminy. You guys are something else.

Just support your team the way you'd expect from us.

Some of us refuse to drink the Kool-Aid of expecting Michigan to win. We know better now, after many, many years of experience.

[lineygoblue]

Linesman and Hannibal = France! We give up! Don't shoot us! We surrender! (Why do you Bozos even bother to follow the team?)

And yet the irony continues. You're the one who labeled me and Hanni and others as "pollyannas" when we defended Michigan over the years.

Now you got your shorts in a knot because we're facing reality?

Come on, Stan. I'm on your side now.

[AlabamAlum]

Phidarian was injured game game 1. Sat out game 2. Reinjured game 3. Limited game 4. Reinjured game 5. Limited games 6 and 7. Reinjured game 8. Missed game 9. Reinjured game 10. Missed game 11. Limited game 12.

[AlabamAlum]

Phidarian was injured game game 1. Sat out game 2. Reinjured game 3. Limited game 4. Reinjured game 5. Limited games 6 and 7. Reinjured game 8. Missed game 9. Reinjured game 10. Missed game 11. Limited game 12.

Now, YOU want to try again?

[Jeff Buchanan]

Now, YOU want to try again?

So what, both Davis and Mathis were gimpy through game 12. I assume they rotated at DE, maybe others filled in. That does not mitigate the facts .......

"I get Mathis got injured v. Mississippi State but he played v. Auburn. I also get Bama's D has injured players and Mathis may be one of them that's playing injured. Every team is playing with banged up players this time of year. M and Alabama have a month of prep and rehab ahead of them to get people healthy."

Nothing you offered above renders my excellent position that you are a slippery Scotsman who's been caught with his ass showing and nothing under his kilt to cover it.

You had a chance. No retries.

You're beat .... admit it..... I am virtuously right and you'll be celebrating Hogmany with a predictable Alabama win on January 1st, faux concerns about injuries to Saban's D or not.

[AlabamAlum]