Alabama certainly has the regional field advantage. Yes, I know the days of the SEC being far and away the best conference in the nation are gone, but the SEC West still is the toughest division in the country and Bama destroyed it by an even larger margin than the Huskies impressive numbers, but against a schedule not as tough as Bama. This is a Washington team that lost at home to USC.

Massey has Bama about 14 points better, but that were if the field were purely neutral, which this is not. Add to that the Tide have all the been-there-won-that intangibles.