Alabama checks in at No. 3 in ESPN football power index

Despite all the noise around the Alabama football team this season, at least one ranking format still believes in Nick Saban and company. ESPN’s football power index ranks the Crimson Tide as third in the nation behind Ohio State (No. 4 in the AP Poll) and Oklahoma (14 in the AP Poll). Alabama checks in at No. 12 in the AP poll this week, moving up one spot after its win against Ole Miss. According to ESPN, FPI is meant to “measure team strength and project performance going forward. The ultimate goal of FPI is not to rank teams 1 through 128; rather, it is to correctly predict games and seaso