Third Saturday In October Has Tennessee Visiting Alabama; Auburn Traveling To Arkansas; Uab Approaching Bowl Eligibility

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

It’s the third Saturday in October and the traditional meeting between Alabama and Tennessee is set for 2:30 p.m. on CBS. The No. 1 Crimson Tide is a prohibitive favorite, but that’s not the focus of coach Nick Saban and his squad.

“They compete hard, they play hard, they’ve put themselves in a position to win every game that they’ve played this year except one,” Saban said of the Volunteers. “Because they’re in the situation that they’re in, you could make a case that they’ll come in here and play great … try to prove something.

“It should be we just show up, flip the coin and I don’t know why we’d even play the game because of all the assumptions that get made,” the coach continued. “If our players think that way, how are they going to play? I think that’s the challenge.”Auburn saw a 20-point lead wither to a 27-23 loss at LSU last Saturday. Now, coach Gus Malzahn says, the Tigers must move on.

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