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Paschall’s Picks: Bama’s 2008 class left a mark

LAST WEEKWinners: 16Joe Adams moves: 9Pasquali is 217-58 overall (78.9 percent) this season.

OTHER PICKSFlorida 31, Furman 12Va. Tech 26, N. Carolina 9Georgia Tech 24, Duke 23Wake Forest 17, Maryland 15Miami 13, South Florida 10Clemson 30, N.C. State 24Notre Dame 35, Boston Coll. 6Florida State 28, Virginia 21Oklahoma 42, Baylor 17Houston 39, SMU 28Wisconsin 27, Illinois 20Michigan State 45, Indiana 14Arkansas State 38, MTSU 13Ohio State 20, Penn State 19Oregon 34, Southern Cal 30Stanford 41, California 25Michigan 23, Nebraska 22

One way to detect a stout college football recruiting class is when those players move on to the NFL in waves.

Many members of Alabama’s 2008 bumper crop will play at Bryant-Denny Stadium for a final time Saturday when the Crimson Tide host Georgia Southern. Among them are senior tackle Barrett Jones, senior safeties Mark Barron and Robert Lester, senior linebacker Courtney Upshaw and redshirt junior linebacker Dont’a Hightower, who is expected to forgo his final year of eligibility.

Already gone from the ’08 class are nose tackle Terrence Cody, a second-round pick in the 2010 NFL draft, and three first-round picks this past April: defensive tackle Marcell Dareus, receiver Julio Jones and tailback Mark Ingram.