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Pat Forde: Alabama makes Playoff, Lane Kiffin ‘will make us pay attention’ to FAU
By Paul Harvey
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The opening week of college football is here.
Thankfully, it is almost time to put predictions aside and find out which teams have what it takes to make it to the College Football Playoff.
Pat Forde of Yahoo! Sports released his four CFP teams Sunday, and he has Alabama leading the way.
You can’t have a playoff without houndstooth – the Crimson Tide has made all three editions to date. While there has been turnover and tumult on defense (six new starters, a high-profile arrest and a projected starter was shot in the leg), Nick Saban’s team is gifted offensively. Alabama has the best running backs in the nation (Bo Scarbrough, Damien Harris, and so on and so forth), an All-American wide receiver (Calvin Ridley) and a quarterback who should be significantly improved as a passer (Jalen Hurts).
Forde believes USC, Ohio State, and Oklahoma State will be joining Alabama in the CFP.
Forde also highlights former Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin with one of his bold predictions for the upcoming season. Unfortunately, his prediction is for all the wrong reasons.
Lane Kiffin will make us pay attention to Florida Atlantic football for the first time since the mid-Schnellenberger. Not because he’ll win a big game, or many games at all. Because he will do something so stupid or smarmy that America will not be able to avert its gaze.
Hopefully, Kiffin can find a way to be successful with the Owls while staying out of the spotlight for the wrong reasons.
Paul Harvey lives in Atlanta and covers SEC football.
