Alabama Football: Crimson Tide vs. Miss. State Bold Predictions

Alabama Football Mississippi State Bold Prediction No. 4

Mike Leach’s offense gets the ball out of his quarterbacks’ hands quickly. For a team that throws the football a gazillion times per game, allowing an average of two sacks per game is impressive. The Alabama Football defense that could not sack Zach Calzada, will look to redeem itself and will sack Will Rogers at least three times. Dallas Turner will be involved in one of them.

Mississippi State Bold Prediction No. 5

Good offenses take advantage of the defensive weaknesses of opponents. The biggest weakness for the Bulldogs is pass defense. Mississippi State is a respectable No. 29 in the FBS allowing just 3.32 yards-per-rush. Given Mississippi State’s strength and weakness, Bryce Young should light up the Bulldogs through the air.

The Tide’s passing attack will be successful, but I predict the Alabama Football staff, the offensive line and the running backs want to work on the running game. On the season, the Crimson Tide has been almost equally balanced between runs (133) and passes (131), but that was not true against Texas A&M when 59 percent of the plays were passes.

There will not be a run-heavy repeat of the Ole Miss game, but this prediction is the Tide will return to more balance against the Bulldogs, in the range of 52 percent passing and 48 percent running.

Mississippi State Bold Prediction No. 6

According to WynnBET, the game’s over-under is 57 points. This ex-bettor predicts that being a bad bet on either side. The total points scored by the Alabama Crimson Tide and Mississippi State will be in the range of 52 to 62 points.

A streak continues and a new streak begins Saturday night in Starkville. The Crimson Tide win streak over the Bulldogs goes to 14 games, as Alabama Football starts a new team, win streak of one game.