Look I'm not a horn bitter about yesterday. But in all honestly can anyone beat Bama? Not just OK but Clemson and the Golden Domers as well. I mean everytime it gets tough things go their way. And they make it look effortless.
Well that is the question. But consider this: Alabama smoked Louisville. Then everybody else did too. They played Arkansas State an The Citidel out of the conference. Other NC game, Louisiana Lafayette. The West is likely the best division in college football. And they played LSU there, a very tough place. But LSU has no offense, and a qb that completes less than 50% against everybody. They played at Ole Miss, who had a tough year. Bama swamped them. Arkansas lost 65-31 in Fayetteville after UNT beat them almost as badly. They beat UTenn there. Tennessee had a better year, but still has a ways to go. Really the two best other West teams went to Tuscaloosa.
If Bama plays their best game, and anybody else plays their best, the CT win's by at least two touchdowns. I'm pretty skeptical that we can beat them, especially if Hollywood can't play, or is slower than close to full speed. But I was skeptical about yesterday, and thought we played pretty well. I was really skeptical the last time we played Bama, and we beat them two touchdowns.
But I think they are absolutely beatable, if you get some breaks. We have a couple of things that make it possible. I personally think OUr OLine is a little overrated. I think OUr run yardage orgies are more about spacing and scheme, than awesome OLine play. If we were that great, I don't think we'd struggle as much in short yardage and red zone run play. The Horns showed some of that yesterday. But we are very good in the OLine. We've also had a ton of injuries, and more than a few will be healthy by the end of December. Trey Sermon, particularly, should be full speed in four weeks. He's a large factor. And a quarterback like Murray can be a wild card in any sort of elimination game. The fact that we can have the willingness and ability to go really fast sometimes, drives Saban crazy, or at least can. Throw in a little month to prepare junk that LR dreams up, we can do what few teams might. We can move the ball on Bama.
Now I have no clue about how we hold them under 60. But I thought Texas would easily surpass the October 48, yesterday and you fell short of that. We did some weirdness on defense, some of it a little unsound, but on balance, it worked better than it didn't.
On other thing about Bama. Several on their defensive staff is very likely to be headed elsewhere within a week of their elimination from the playoffs or trophy collection. That won't be good for them overall. Couldn't hurt us, I hope.
