Now, the Gators should be able to start Davis alongside Alex Anzalone, who began the year as the starter before suffering a shoulder injury that’s kept him out since the East Carolina game on September 12.
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The committee’s job is to give the No. 1 seed as much of a “home-field advantage” as it can, but to not let that interfere with the rankings.
Sugar Bowl – Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi.
The No. 2 Crimson Tide had seen enough, scoring 27 unanswered points en route to a 29-15 rout for their second Southeastern Conference championship in a row. “At no point do we feel the game is out of reach or we can’t do something about it to change it”. Of that group, only Tennessee had the ability to, intermittently, press the Tide on both sides of the ball.
Watson ran for 16 times for 103 yards and a score in that 24-22 victory against the Irish in October, a win sealed when the Tigers defensive line stopped the Irish’s tying 2-point attempt with 7 seconds left.
Before you know it, Alabama has its opponent in a sleeper hold.
“I don’t think there were a lot of people around the country that thought we would be playing in this football game”, said McElwain, who was hired from Colorado State after the Gators won just 11 games in Will Muschamp’s final two seasons. “To be honest with you, I had some questions in my mind as to whether we’d wind up here”.
The Georgia Dome wasn’t one of them. Henry’s done it in 13 and has one, possibly two, games left to go, though he has fewer carries than Walker did in his record-setting season.
Alabama has been the most consistently great program in college football since Saban’s arrival in 2007 and the Tide show no signs of slowing down.
Henry for HeismanDerrick Henry extended his streak with a rushing touchdown to 18 games during a performance in which he rushed 44 times for 189 yards and a touchdown.
Henry tied the SEC record for touchdowns in a season (23) and eclipsed Herschel Walker’s 34-year-old conference mark for rushing yards in a year, pushing his total to 1,986 with at least one more game still to come. “I just tell them to keep running it and stay hungry”.
In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where the Tide is preparing for a second straight playoff appearance, it was just another Sunday. While it seems like a forgone conclusion now, Ohio State didn’t get back to the Big Ten championship.
J.K. Scott’s booming kick traveled 59 yards, but Antonio Callaway caught it on the move and sped up the middle 85 yards untouched through the Alabama coverage team.
Make no mistake, the Tide are terrific on defense stopping the run, forcing teams into predictable situations and thriving in them.
Alabama dominated Florida in the SEC Championship Game. What has happened down the stretch of this 10-win season, did happen again.
Often, these teams aren’t flashy except when a big play is needed.
Normally a Florida fan has an air of confidence about them.
The Crimson Tide dominated time of possession with a league-championship-game record 43:29. The Gators were held to 21 yards rushing. “That’s what big, strong highly recruited guys do”.
“We do the right things, taking their weaknesses and making them weaker”, linebacker Reggie Ragland said. Now, Florida will have about a month to regroup before its bowl game.
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Seven teams in one division going to a bowl game is pretty impressive. A first down! Florida had 81 yards of offense midway through the fourth quarter. Two plays later, Henry dove into the end zone to get the Tide really rolling.
