We had a bad schedule this season. Ole Miss, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Tennessee, and South Carolina are average at best. Our OOC schedule is one of the worst in the country. Of 4 teams, 7-5 Southern Miss was the best team we played OOC. That's unacceptable for a team successful as Alabama has been. The fact is we played 2 difficult games and lost both. Sure we could've won both, but you shouldn't get rewarded for what ifs.
I'd like to see some big changes to how the SEC schedules games. 9 conference games is a great start. Of the 13 other teams in the conference, we only play 8 teams every season and 7 of those games are locked in. So we only play 6 SEC teams (Missouri, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Kentucky) once every 6 years.