Quarterback Bryce Young, in his first season as a starter, has thrown for 2,755 yards with 28 touchdowns and only three picks.
Alabama had 6 net rushing yards, tying for its lowest rushing total in a game dating back to at least 1940.
“I think there are a lot of things in the game that we probably didn’t do well,” Tide coach Nick Saban said Saturday night.
Alabama has allowed 22 sacks in nine games, including four in a 41-38 loss at Texas A&M and four more against LSU.
While left tackle Evan Neal has played well, right tackle Chris Owens has struggled in pass protection and left guard Javion Cohen hasn’t been great on run plays.
4 in the CFP selection committee’s initial rankings last week, and they might be even higher on Tuesday after No.
ESPN’s FPI gives the Ducks only a 12% chance to win out, including the Pac-12 championship game, likely another meeting with Utah, and get to 12-1.
There was plenty of outrage last week, at least on Twitter, that undefeated Cincinnati wasn’t included in the top four in the initial CFP rankings.
Cincinnati struggled for the third week in a row against a lesser opponent, needing two goal-line stands in the final minutes to secure a 28-20 victory over Tulsa, which dropped to 3-6.
My guess is the selection committee will penalize the Bearcats for another ho-hum performance.
A day after Dan Mullen admitted he didn’t see the Gators’ humiliating 40-17 loss at South Carolina coming, he fired defensive coordinator Todd Grantham and offensive line coach John Hevesy on Sunday.
In the past three games, all losses, the Gators allowed 123 points, their second-most points allowed during a three-game span in the past 100 years, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.
“I looked at how we played Saturday and some things that built up to it, we weren’t where we needed to be,” Mullen said Monday.
They nearly knocked off Alabama in the SEC championship game in a 52-46 loss, then were run over by Oklahoma 55-20 in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic after many of their best players opted out.
Since then, the Gators fell at Kentucky for the first time since 1986, lost to an LSU team that had already fired its coach , looked thoroughly overmatched in a 27-point loss to Georgia, then suffered its worst loss in school history against South Carolina, a rebuilding Gamecocks team no less.
They’ve dropped eight of their past 10 games against Power 5 opponents, with the only wins against Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
Linebackers coach Christian Robinson will direct the Gators’ defense the rest of the season, while former Syracuse and UConn coach Paul Pasqualoni, previously a special assistant, will move into an on-field role.
The Gators’ current class for 2022 is ranked seventh in the SEC and 23rd in the country by ESPN.
Sure, Mullen’s comments last week about not wanting to talk about recruiting until after the season might have been taken out of context and blown out of proportion.
With games left against FCS opponent Samford, Missouri and Florida State, Mullen’s job seems safe for now.