Alabama-Virgina Tech: The Second Quarter Will Tell the Tale

Everybody picks winners and losers, it's just in our nature as sports fans. What's harder is picking the reasons they'll win or lose. Let me boldly proclaim that the team leading at halftime will win the game and I will explain why. By nature, these are both conservative coaches who believe you win with defense and great special teams. Neither has a history of being recklessly risky in the first quarter. The first quarter is going to be like a heavyweight brawl. They are going to to feel each other out, probe for weaknesses, and decide how to use their newfound strengths.  Both will see how the other is against the run. Both will test the right and left sides of the opposing lines, and both will see how the defensive backs react to the running game. Both press boxes will be watching which receiver seems a step faster than his defender. Both coaches are wary and neither may take any gambles early on in this game. Both want to get their teams 'feet under them,&#...