It is unofficially college football season. I know this because the preview magazines are out, and that gives us all license to start wishing our way through the summer toward Aug. 29 – opening night of the 2013 season. To help get us from here to there, it’s time for my second annual 40 observations on schedules from coast to coast, from have to have-not, from soft to suicidal. < id="yui-tmp-18"> Alabama should be ready for Johnny Manziel this year. (Getty Images) 1. If you’re looking for the trap game on Alabama’s schedule, give up now. There isn’t one. At least not one like the Crimson Tide fell into last year, when it staggered out of a donnybrook in Tiger Stadium and into a home game seven days later against Johnny Football and Texas A&M. This year, ‘Bama has no consecutive killer weeks. The Tide opens with Virginia Tech in Atlanta, but then has a …
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