Vanderbilt vs. Alabama Preview: High-Stakes SEC Clash

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00:00Alabama and Vanderbilt. This is a premier matchup. A couple of top 20 teams. Bama 10, Vandy at 16.

00:07And this is another one that has a total of 55.5, by the way. I'm still trying to figure out really

00:12what to make of Alabama because thinking about this team quite a bit going into the Georgia game

00:17last week, you know, I haven't really been sold on Bama. I certainly haven't been sold

00:21on the coach to bore. I haven't been sold on Ty Simpson, the quarterback, but it's hard to ignore

00:27what they just did. I thought Georgia was going to win that game and it wound up being the dog

00:32Alabama with the slight field goal victory. That just in and of itself has me tempted to take the

00:38points with, you know, Vandy just thinking, all right, you know, I think we're probably going to

00:43get a close game. I'm not expecting Vanderbilt to shock the world and win the thing necessarily,

00:48especially at Bama. But I also don't expect Bama to run away to the tune of, you know, again,

00:54a 10 and a half point spread, two touchdowns, whatever it winds up looking like. What about you?

00:59I'm kind of with you. I don't really know what to do. I know that if Nick Saban were on the

01:04sideline, there is no doubt I would take Alabama in the double digits in the revenge game situation

01:09and all of that. I know that Diego Pavia has a unique opportunity. There hasn't been a quarterback

01:15beat Alabama in back-to-back seasons since Brandon Cox was at Auburn. He beat them three times in the

01:22Iron Bowl. Think about that. That was, that split the Saban era. That was Saban's first year was the

01:27last year of that. I'm going to take Alabama to cover anyway. I just, I think they make enough

01:33big plays. It could, but this is a high possibility that if you take Alabama to cover, you're going to

01:38be sweating that backdoor cover in the end, because I do think Diego Pavia and his high efficiency with

01:44this offense, that they'll definitely have a chance to hang around.