Nick Saban expresses that the No. There's less than a month left in the college football regular season, and the legitimate College Football Playoff contenders will begin to emerge over the next four weeks. Who will win the Big Ten East? Those questions will be answered between now and Dec. For now, college football's pulse will ebb and flow with the weekly CFP rankings. We'll get the second edition on Tuesday night. While they're not quite as explosive on offense as they were a year ago, the Crimson Tide still rank No.
Quarterback Bryce Young , in his first season as a starter, has thrown for 2, yards with 28 touchdowns and only three picks. There's only one problem: The Crimson Tide don't block very well.
The offensive line's woeful performance in Saturday night's victory over depleted LSU was further proof. Alabama had 6 net rushing yards, tying for its lowest rushing total in a game dating back to at least The Tide also ran for 6 yards in a loss to Penn State in We didn't run the ball very well on offense. We couldn't run it at the end of the game when we needed to.
We weren't as effective on third down. We had some protection issues. A lot of things that we can fix, and I think we need to fix them so we can be a little more consistent. Surprisingly, the offensive line has struggled for much of the season. The Tide's sack rate of 6. While left tackle Evan Neal has played well, right tackle Chris Owens has struggled in pass protection and left guard Javion Cohen hasn't been great on run plays.
Alabama has plenty to shore up before it closes the regular season at No. But that doesn't mean the Tide won't get it done.
The Ducks were No. But then it will get tricky for the Ducks. They play at Utah on Nov. There was plenty of outrage last week, at least on Twitter, that undefeated Cincinnati wasn't included in the top four in the initial CFP rankings. I wrote in this space last week that the Bearcats deserved to be about No. With the playoff rankings coming out, the Huskies would love nothing more than to play spoiler and derail everything Oregon has worked so hard for. And what better place to do it than at home in Seattle?
Led by veteran quarterback Anthony Brown , Oregon's offense looks like its taken a sizable step forward. The offensive line can get it done even regardless of who's out there. The wide receiver corps is getting production from multiple players and the running back group is full of playmakers.
Dye, Cardwell, Mcgee. Pick your poison. Sure the defense didn't look elite against Colorado, but I think they're going to show up in a big way against a subpar offense. The Huskies have been effective running the ball of late, and Oregon is battle tested in the trenches after games against Ohio State, Stanford and UCLA set the stage for a ground-and-pound attack.
With some rain expected, the Ducks will need to win the turnover battle, and they'll get it done. For the first time since , Oregon will play its largest rival. The two programs could not be in further away places. The Ducks' offense has been clicking as of late ever since Joe Moorhead returned after the Stanford game and I expect that to continue, even if the Washington defense could give Oregon fits.
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