This is an opinion column.

You couldn’t have scripted it, a proud program and alleged contender looking so soft, so confused, so lost and so soon. No one would’ve believed it, one year and one game into Alabama football’s life after Nick Saban, the Crimson Tide looking so lifeless, so defenseless, so helpless, so utterly unlike the Bama Standard.

Dawn broke on a new season, and Florida State fractured Alabama’s facade.

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