Paul Finebaum: Any impressions from Alabama’s close win vs. USF are ‘completely worthless’

Paul Finebaum is known for giving his opinion on pretty much any topic in college football. If a team or a coach doesn’t perform at a certain level, he will usually give a strong take.

One of the surprising games this weekend was Alabama against South Florida. While the final score ended up being 42-16, this was a 14-13 game entering the 4th quarter.

These two teams matched up last year, and it was a 3-3 game in the fourth quarter until the Crimson Tide pulled away. Last year, the college football world buried Alabama after that struggle, and the team ended up making the College Football Playoff.

Because of that performance, Finebaum said there isn’t a reason to take anything from this game being closer than the final score shows.

“I think Alabama ought to learn what we all learned a year ago,” Finebaum said on the McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning show.  “Any take, any hot take, any opinion on a game vs. South Florida is completely worthless. Because we got nothing out of that last year, and while I would hear from friends Saturday night, people in panic. It turned out that the score says Alabama won it looked like a comfortable win. We all know it wasn’t, and I frankly don’t think it makes a bit of difference.”

The Crimson Tide are still just 2 games into the Kalen DeBoer era, and Finebaum thinks how Alabama erupted in the final 15 minutes is a good sign.

“I know that sounds like I’m just wiping it away, but sometimes that happens,” Finebaum said.  “The fact that Alabama could win the 4th quarter in such a dominating fashion to me is good.”

The Crimson Tide will be back in action next week as they travel to take on Wisconsin. That matchup is set for FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff time slot in Week 3.