that they are. alabama must make it through the SEC again this year. i don't care how good you are, the SEC is the hardest conference there is. how hard is the SEC? The University of Auburn and Tennessee both had decent years last year. Not great years, they were just an average SEC team. The hardest and closest games Alabama played all year was against their to rivals, Auburn and Tennessee. Alabama had an easier time at the nation championship game (University of Texas Long Horns) than they did against these two average SEC teams. There is a part of me that loves the fact that Heisman hopeful Colt McCoy had a wonderful year. He was one hell of a QB. That is until Colt had to face an SEC defense. What happened next? Colt Got HIS ASS HANDED TO HIM. It didn't take Alabama long to beat up Colt so badly he had to quite the national championship game. There is a reason that 3 out of 4 national champs are from the SEC. And in the SEC, or collage football(including Notre Dame)no college has more national championships than.... RAMA JAMA YELLOW HAMMA GIVE'EM HELL ALABAMA!