Hey everybody. It’s Monday. Time for Immediate Recovery. (Note: To send questions for my Wednesday Mailbag, email Stewart.Mandel@fox.com) *** Alabama won last season’s national championship, beat USC 52-6 in its opener and has won all five games since. So it should come as no surprise that the Tide remain the undisputed No. 1 team in the country. But what if they’re not? The Tide (6-0, 3-0 SEC) went on the road and pummeled a ranked Arkansas team 49-30 on Saturday, and if you believed from watching its previous games that Alabama was the nation’s best team coming in, there was little about that contest to merit changing your mind. But if you’re one who believes as much, if not more, in stats and analytics, there’s mounting evidence that the best team in the country through six weeks is the one that handed Saban his most recent postseason loss — Ohio State. The Buckeyes (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) on Saturday beat visiting Indiana 38-17, after which Urban Meyer fielded mostly nitpicky questions in his postgame press conference. Why didn’t Curtis Samuel get more touches? Why did quarterback J.T. Barrett carry the ball 26 times? Why so many penalties? “We won by…
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