Trust me, it's rat poison (apropos of facing the iconic Nick Saban) to the core, and a military mind game by any rational account.

You'd better believe that bama overlooked the sips, and probably o.p., to pack in extra prep for this game. We will see a radically different bama team on Saturday...roughly along the lines of us in our last game of '22.

We might also see a radically different gameplan from the zebras, too. If there's enough "knives out" (apropos of the high drama in the lower house of our Congress) sentiment they might actually call a fair game vs. bama. In a game bound to be this close, you'd also better believe officiation is likely to determine the outcome.

The one comfort I take at this time is that year after year Jimbo has also had the A game on the field for bama. I am taking that as a given, and trusting Jimbo to keep the rat poison far away from the players.

Do you think your assertion that Bama overlooked the sips because they were so concerned about our game in October might be construed as slight wishful thinking?

I think JP said it best though.

"This is going to be a sledgehammer fight."

I sincerely doubt Bama overlooked the sips. I think their QB isn't good. He has several more games worth of reps now, so he will be better, but catching them game two was a benefit for Texas. Like the exact opposite of us catching a multi-year starter on a quality team while starting a QB with 5 starts in week 2 was bad timing for us.

Fatboy Thaddeus said:

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You'd better believe that bama overlooked the sips, and probably o.p., to pack in extra prep for this game. We will see a radically different bama team on Saturday...roughly along the lines of us in our last game of '22.

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Intentional MBG post