Oh, it has GOT to be the Tide, at THIS point, don't ya think? I'm thinking in terms of just OUR season now, and how it sets up. Of course if there ever was a schedule and a team that just HAS to "take it one game at a time" it's this one; that's our Head Coach's natural way of approaching things anyway, it seems, he's got the team thinking and planning that way (his "gimmick" is NO gimmicks--another change from the Meyer era, whose general success in such games can't be denied, but whose magic had begun to falter in both that and the Swamp "mystique...it was time for a change, and this is another one), and it might just be the right fit with the task at hand.
FSU comes later: a lot can and no doubt WILL happen between now and Thanksgiving, along with revealing more about themselves, either team could be better or worse in very real terms by then, thanks to experience and/or injuries. We'll worry about THAT game when we get to it. As Coach said in various ways and various times including today, "The most important game is the NEXT one...", and this time, that is literally true. Seldom has "coachspeak" been more welcome a mantra.
