Alabama football is assured of going into week three of the 2018 season ranked No. 1 in all the top polls. After two games and two lopsided wins, the most obvious signs point to another dominating season.
Don’t ask Nick Saban to make such an assumption. Saban’s leave nothing to chance philosophy allows no space for taking anything for granted. Last spring, throughout fall camp and continuing into the season, the term most used by Saban to describe the 2018 team has been a work-in-progress.
We had 10 guys on defense sign NFL contracts, and that’s hard to replace.