Alabama at Auburn

There is a lot of value on Alabama right now after an inexcusable loss to Louisiana Monroe. Sometimes you have to forget what just happened, realize this is an intense rivalry game, and evaluate what each team is capable of doing. Alabama is a much better team than that. They played LSU to within 7, lost in OT to Georgia, beat Tennessee by 24, and won vs. Arkansas. The capability is there, and in a rivalry game, we certainly think they are on a level playing field with Auburn. You have to take into account that five Alabama players were out do to suspension, and will all return to face Auburn. Auburn has taken care of the soft teams on its schedule, and their best wins (3 points vs. Florida and 2 vs. Arkansas) tell us that Alabama will at the very least hang around in this game. This has been an underdog based series. Alabama has covered four of the last five at Auburn as a dog, and Auburn has not beaten Bama by more than 10 points at home dating all the way back to 1983. We look for the Tide to play this one close, and we will take the points.