Stewart Mandel: Texas' dominant defense, Shoelace's Heisman odds; more mail
 

You'll have to excuse me if, over the next couple of weeks, I morph into a pseudo-Alabama beat writer. After Andy Staples and I drew straws (well, it was a little more involved than that), I ended up booking my flights to Fayetteville for 'Bama-Arkansas this weekend and to Tuscaloosa for Tide-Gators the next. My goal is to incorporate as many Nick Saban climbing-the-mountain metaphors as possible into my game columns.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/s...~4/IvO4xcEAi0I

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