vs I plan on covering the game. Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron offers a primer for what it takes to fit in with the top-ranked Crimson Tide football team. For starters, don't fixate on the shot at a historic three-peat, BCS-or-bust expectations or the anointment by pollsters as the team to beat. It's all about Virginia Tech, taking it one game at a time, staying focused and all the other cliches that get trotted out in the football building each year about this time. In short, ignore what coach Nick Saban puts under the "external factors" umbrella. "I feel like if you don't think that way, you're kind of irrelevant a little to the team," McCarron said Monday. "Everybody needs to have the same mindset. We can't worry about what everybody thinks, what everybody's predicting. Just go out and play the game and take one play at a time, one game at a time and we'll be all right." That starts Saturday in Atlanta with the Hokies, who are coming off a 7-6 season. But hard as the coaches and players try to ignore it, the Tide are aiming to make history. Major college football has had repeat national champs 10 times since the first AP poll in 1936. None, however, has made it three in a row and none has gone wire-to-wire at No. 1 since USC in 2004. But Alabama has the expectations born of winning 49 games and three national titles the last four seasons. The exception was a 2010 team that opened at No. 1 and lost a whopping -- by the Tide's current standards -- three times. Read more http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/preview?gameId=332430259
3 plays no yards! Tech has to punt. kicked to the 26,Christion Jones ran back for the TD. EPA good 7-0
