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The last few years, my Six From Saturday notes have been included at the bottom of my MMQB column on Monday mornings. This year, they’ll be published as a separate post each week. Here are my thoughts on this week in the college world, geared mostly toward what should be of interest to NFL fans.
1) I was talking to someone a few weeks ago about bowl opt-outs, and Alabama LB Will Anderson Jr.’s name came up. And this scout, who knows the program well, said this to me: “He’ll play in the bowl game. You can mark it down.” I was surprised, to say the least, that he felt so strongly that a surefire top-five pick playing in a program where any bowl outside the College Football Playoff represents failure would give it a go in what would amount to an exhibition game that most coaches use to prepare for the year to follow.
