Slightly more than a month from today, the University of Alabama will take the field against the Virginia Tech Hokies. The previous two years have seen the Tide offer playing time to true freshman early and often.

It has always been Nick Saban's policy to play his best players and that includes freshman. In 2008 Saban said, "We're going to play the best players, and if they're freshman and the freshman can go out there and play with consistency and performance and do their job better than someone else, we have no issues with those guy's being the performers that will give us the best opportunity to be a successful team."

With the talented recruiting classes brought in the last two years it is getting much tougher to...

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