The 2009 University of Alabama football team is composed of some of the finest athletes in the country.

Nick Saban and his staff have taken the raw talent possessed by high school recruits in classes that date from 2004 to 2008 and refined them into some of the best football players on the landscape of the college gridiron.

Getting the Alabama football program back to a position of relevance since the 1992 season has been nothing short of a painful process and near death encounter with the NCAA. Recounting this journey is material for another article at some other time.

Before we take a look at the Alabama Dream Team of 2009, we need to review a few significant facts about the cross-state rival Auburn Tigers.