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September 30, 2023
Alabama Football
Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs: Saturday, September 30, 2023, 8 p.m. CT; Davis Wade Stadium, Starkville, Mississippi; ESPN . . . CBS Sports
Three Alabama players to watch as Mississippi State football faces the Crimson Tide . . . Sports Illustrated
Jaylen Mbakwe completed 10 of his 13 passes for 100 yards along with rushing for 168 yards and 5 touchdowns . . . Saturday Down South
Mississippi State is still running Arnett's defensive philosophy - keep everything underneath and limit the big play . . . SB Nation
Alabama will face an annual SEC West opponent, Mississippi State, not knowing when they'll play again . . . Sports Illustrated
Predictions for Alabama vs. Mississippi State . . . USA Today
The Alabama defense has been good enough to keep a worrisome start from getting even worse while the offense shuffled quarterbacks and struggled to find its way. Jalen Milroe seems to have firmly established himself as the No. 1 quarterback . . . WVUA-TV (Tuscaloosa)
Alabama has won 15 straight games against Mississippi State and coach Nick Saban is 20-1 with the Tide and LSU . . . WAKA-TV (Montgomery)
Starting middle linebacker and signal-caller Deontae Lawson will be unavailable . . . Birmingham News
The Tide-Bulldogs meeting of two charter members of the conference who have played 107 times since the 20-0 Bama win in 1896, continuously since 1948, got the axe . . . Bama Online
Alabama and LSU will meet the first week of November for what could potentially be the SEC West championship for the second year in a row . . . WVUA-TV (Tuscaloosa)
Alabama is given an 87.6% chance to finish Week 5 with a 4-1 record . . . USA Today
With senior QB Will Rogers returning for his 4th year as a starter, many of the old Air Raid concepts still remain . . . SB Nation
Five things the Alabama offense needs to do to have success against the Bulldogs . . . USA Today
This is the last game in this longstanding rivalry, at least for a year . . . Bama Online
Alabama commit Jaylen Mbakwe punched in five touchdowns Friday night . . . Mobile Press-Register
Nick Saban feels the Crimson Tide will see a variety of different defenses this season because of Milroe's skill set . . . Touchdown Alabama
The only chance Lawson plays is in an "emergency situation . . . Sports Illustrated
Nick Saban updated the status of Deontae Lawson and Terrence Ferguson II stating that both players didn't practice on Wednesday and calling their status "very questionable . . . WVUA-TV (Tuscaloosa)
Saban and his Crimson Tide team are set to continue SEC play Saturday at Mississippi State . . . Huntsville Times
"This team, really to me, is better than all the teams that we've played so far except Texas . . . Bama Online
"Every play that happened in the first half, we actually have drawn up on a template that we can show the players and we can say 'OK, this is what they're trying to do, this is what we need to adjust to.' . . . Birmingham News
Wide receiver Jalen Hale was the highest-rated receiver in the Tide's 2023 class and has seen an increased role in the Alabama offense over the last two weeks . . . Sports Illustrated
Locksley revealed a valuable lesson he learned while "spending time at that rehab program down in Tuscaloosa . . . Saturday Down South
Can the Tide carry momentum across the state line into Starkville? . . . SB Nation
Everything Saban had to say on Wednesday . . . USA Today
Junior linebacker Nasir Wyatt put out a top eight of Alabama, Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and USC . . . Bama Online
Saban previewed the matchup in his final press conference of the week . . . Mobile Press-Register
The junior standout was named the Maxwell Football's Bednarik Player of the Week. Turner tallied 5 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and two sacks. Thus far, Turner has recorded 17 tackles, 4.5 sacks, and two forced fumbles on the season . . . USA Today
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