After Alabama’s win over USC on Saturday, Nick Saban said simply: We have to get more push from our interior offensive linemen in the running game. Quarterback Mike White led the way with 517 passing yards and three touchdowns. Notre Dame’s 51-0 romp in 1966 is preserved. Kiffin had a few head coaching jobs but never stuck at any of them, with his most notable stop coming at USC. Obviously, judging by Saban’s comments, he didn’t think they played well as a whole.
Advertisement
It all fell apart after USC was gifted a golden opportunity to seize the early part of the game. He was hired in January 2014 after spending some of his post-firing 2013 helping Saban evaluate Bama’s offense, according to Saban at the time. Southern Cal was held without a touchdown for the first time since 2007 in its most lopsided loss in a half-century.
Georgia’s Nick Chubb rushed for 222 yards in his return from a gruesome knee injury, including a 55-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter that clinched the Bulldogs’ 33-24 victory over North Carolina.
“If you would’ve said this would be the outcome of the game midway through the second quarter, I would’ve said, ‘You’re absolutely insane, ‘” Browne said. Start fast and finish strong is something that we talk about. Alabama’s expanded coaching staff could play a 12-deep, full-court basketball game amongst itself and still have enough coach-like people left over to coach each team, assistant coach each team, run a two-man announce crew, and run a three-man officiating crew.
Sarkisian will work with Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin, who was also fired from USC in less-then-amicable fashion.
Barnett finished 5-of-6 for 100 yards. “And, again, you know, if you look at your internal scoreboard rather than the external scoreboard and you say, ‘What do we need to do to improve?” “It changes a bunch of little things”. “Hopefully it’s a statement we’re still going to fight, still going to play”. We’re talking a 52-6 drubbing of USC on Saturday.
Where do the Trojans go from here? While it probably felt really good for everyone on Alabama’s sideline, considering how his tenure in Southern California ended, it probably felt especially great for Kiffin.
Beat No. 1 Alabama but lose to lesser opponents, and a win wouldn’t have meant much anyways.
Advertisement
Speight threw an interception on his first snap but bounced back with TD passes to Grant Perry, Jake Butt and Amara Darboh to put MI up 21-0 early in the second quarter. “We had guys come in and fill big shoes”, Stewart said about the team’s opening performance.
