From the booth

The model favored ALA to win, and the call landed.

Alabama's got this one written all over it, folks. The Crimson Tide are favored by double digits in Vegas, and our model's got them at 77 percent to win, largely because they're a top-15 team in the country and Kentucky's knocking on the door from outside the poll rankings. The Tide's got the rating advantage and the betting markets are backing them in a big way. But hey, this is the SEC, it's rivalry week, and stranger things have happened than a 23-percent upset in Lexington.