It’s still October, far too early to evaluate where this Alabama football team will eventually end up in the hearts of its hard-to-please fan base.
This team isn’t as pretty as some of Nick Saban’s recent teams. It does some frustrating things, the most frustrating being a home loss to an Ole Miss team that has been exposed badly in recent weeks. That loss put this team on the brink of elimination in the SEC, to say nothing of the playoff picture. Alabama may or may not find its way back from that precipice. That’s a week-by-week proposition.