![]() Alabama’s never dead, no matter how dead it seems - and no matter how badly Georgia hopes Alabama is dead, Alabama rises.Īlabama can’t die because Alabama’s not alive: It’s a machine. Even if you were able to check the body, and it didn’t have a pulse, and you saw the coffin go in the ground, and somebody gave you a notarized copy of the death certificate, and somebody built a housing complex on top of the graveyard, and eventually climate change buried the graveyard under 3 feet of water. He could still win the award, but Saturday was the greatest argument that Alabama is capable of winning regardless of who’s in the game. Instead, only one thing will change: the Heisman talk relating to Tua Tagovailoa. If both Georgia and Alabama were to have made the playoff, keeping three of the five power conferences on the outside looking in, there would have been pressure to change the entire system, as we wrote about the other day. This year’s playoff picture would’ve been drastically changed, with Alabama potentially missing out. Any talk of Alabama as the GOAT would’ve died. ![]() (Two important traits of bulldogs: They’re not good at adjusting to change, and they don’t have a ton of stamina.)Ī loss for Alabama would have changed college football - this year and for posterity. Now, twice in the same year, Georgia has blown a lead to Alabama in Atlanta in a championship game after a second-half quarterback change. Instead, he hung around at Bama, and will probably help the team to a national championship.īut he’s also representative of the ridiculous things Alabama is capable of. (The Olds are excited.) Surely, he could’ve been some team’s starter this year. Hurts is now a poster boy for the concept of staying instead of transferring. 5oLmCoAs3q- FOX College Football December 2, 2018 In came Hurts, against the same opponent in the same stadium where he lost his starting job earlier this year.Īlabama had trailed 28–14, but Hurts returned to the role that was stripped from him and guided the Tide to a 35–28 victory.īROTHERS GOTTA HUG. First his right ankle got injured then his left ankle got injured, and he needed to be carted off the field. He finished 10-for-25 with two interceptions - the first time he’d ever thrown multiple picks. The Tide were so good that they were favored over a great Georgia team in the SEC championship game by two touchdowns.īut Tagovailoa - who has battled a BuzzFeed listicle of leg injuries all season - was clearly hobbled, and had his worst game. Bama won every game by at least 22 points, entering the conversation for one of the greatest teams of all time. It was, at the time, the most ridiculous game I’ve ever seen, and a testament to Alabama’s football machine: When Plan A failed, Alabama had a perfect Plan B composed of superstars who hadn’t even needed to receive meaningful playing time in the team’s first 14 games.ĭuring the 2018 season, Tagovailoa turned into a dynamic superstar, a stunning talent capable of completing any pass to any player at any time. Tagovailoa (alongside multiple true freshmen at wide receiver and running back) rallied Bama back from the brink, turning a 10–0 deficit into a 26–23 overtime win. ![]() ![]() After sputtering to a brutal start in the national title game with Jalen Hurts at quarterback, Saban benched the passer who had guided his team to back-to-back national championship games in favor of Tua Tagovailoa, a true freshman. That was the first time this Alabama team ripped Georgia’s heart out in Atlanta. To understand how America’s preeminent football robot nearly wept, we need to go back to January. ![]() Nick Saban got emotional when speaking about the heroics of Jalen Hurts. “I’m so proud of this guy for what he’s done this year, I can’t even tell you.” ![]()
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