Good morning! How are we feeling today? Confident? Exuberant? Pessimistic? Blase? It has been hard to get a read on the fan base’s general consensus following the Tide’s first lost in 22 months. I’m not even certain that there is a consensus following last week’s everything-went-to-hell implosion in College Station, where just about every position group (and more than a few coaches) heaped shame upon their ancestors.
No time to mope, however, as No. 5 Alabama travels to Starkville today for a 6:00 p.m. (ESPN) contest against a Mississippi State team that plays just the right sort football that can give this iteration of the Crimson Tide fits: Davis-Wade is loud.