Tide buzz A look at key matchups, factors for Alabama Mississippi State

Tide buzz A look at key matchups, factors for Alabama Mississippi State Tide buzz: A glance at key matchups, components for Alabama-Mississippi State ith four more wins, Alabama will be SEC champions and in the College Football Playoff for a third straight year. This is one of only two staying normal season amusements against a FBS adversary. All that is left on the customary season plan for the Tide is this diversion against Mississippi State and amusements against Chattanooga and Auburn. Three things to search for: 1. Quarterback running: Both quarterbacks in this diversion are double danger players. Mississippi State's Nick Fitzgerald has keep running for 100 or more yards each of the last three diversions, including 182 yards and two touchdowns amid the Bulldogs' win over then-No. 4 Texas A&M a week ago. Alabama's Jalen Hurts has keep running for a normal of 113 yards amid the Tide's last three diversions. He kept running for 114 yards and a score in helping Alabama beat LSU a week ago. Damages is tied for first in the SEC with 10 surging touchdowns. Fitzgerald is tied for fifth with eight. 2. Alabama's hostile line: Right watch Alphonse Taylor hasn't played since torment a blackout against Arkansas Oct. 8 and wasn't available amid any of the media work on survey periods this week. What's more, Lester Cotton, who has been beginning at right protect with Taylor out, has apparently been restricted amid segments of practice open to the media this week. Reinforcements Joshua Casher and Korren Kirven both got reps as the main group right watch amid media seeing periods this week. It's misty whether Cotton will be accessible to play against Mississippi State. 3. A potential headache from the win over LSU: Last week, Alabama got a major, enthusiastic win more than one of its greatest adversaries, LSU, in Baton Rouge. Presently, the Tide is confronting a Mississippi State group that is only 4-5 and has lost to groups like South Alabama, BYU and Kentucky. Will Alabama players have an indistinguishable vitality from they had against LSU? Furthermore, did Tide players get ready as hard for this amusement as they arranged for LSU? We'll discover that come Saturday morning.