Bama loses bowl game

Stetson Bennett writes the final chapter of the best storybook tale in Georgia football history. It's the SEC's world. The rest of college football is just losing in it. Alabama exodus: 5 Crimson Tide players, including key TE and pass rusher, reportedly enter transfer portal.

View All. Caleb Williams meets with 2 programs about potential transfer, per report. I was wrong. Orgeron handed over control of his offense to coordinator Steve Ensminger and Joe Brady and great things happened.

As it turned out, LSU silenced the critics, went undefeated and won a national title, in part, by beating Alabama The Crimson Tide responded the next week by beating Mississippi State but stumbled again with a loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl. This is where it gets interesting. That used to be an incredible feat for most teams.

I was certain Alabama would be flat in that bowl game since it had relatively little to play for. Alabama used the extra practices to get better — much better. Unlike other programs, Bama took what was seemingly a game with nothing to win and got better from the top of its roster to the bottom.

No one was beating Alabama. During that streak, Florida pushed Alabama to the brink twice but that was about it. No other game was in doubt.

Some have questioned if Saban has gotten too offensive-minded. For decades, Alabama was known as the team that would pound the ball on offense and pound its opponent on defense. This picture is everything: pic. More shocking than the final score looks. The 9. The Utes leaped from AP 7 to final 2, with 16 first-place votes. These two amplify each other. And unlike most Bama losses, it slammed the door on any potential for a Zombie Tide championship later in the season.

And then Clemson won again , this time by the astounding score of I think it goes down as the most shocking 1 vs. With the fifth-year senior and first-year featured back running for a career-high yards and Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young throwing three touchdown passes, the Crimson Tide earned the chance to play for yet another national title with a victory over Cincinnati on Friday in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Cotton Bowl.

They were physically overwhelmed on the big stage. He was a constant. Alabama has missed the four-team playoff only once and will try to win its second national title in a row and fourth in the eight seasons of the CFP format. The Crimson Tide will play either No. I think they showed great competitive character out there," said Alabama coach Nick Saban, who in his 15th season at Alabama has six national titles overall. The Tide opened the game with 10 consecutive runs, the first four and six overall for 37 yards by Robinson, before putting three receivers opposite of Gardner, who hasn't given up a TD in coverage in his college career.

With Ridder, the dynamic quarterback and NFL prospect who returned for an extra season for just this chance, the Bearcats were the nation's only undefeated team until facing the playoff standard bearer. Ridder was sacked six times and outside of a 9-yard run on the opening play of the second half never got to hurt Bama with his feet.

He was of passing or yards. Young, a year-old sophomore, has a chance to become the fifth Alabama quarterback in 13 seasons to win a national title as a first-year starter. He completed 17 of 28 passes for yards in the playoff game, four weeks after setting an SEC championship game record with yards passing in a win over Georgia and three weeks after being the first Crimson Tide QB to win a Heisman Trophy. His only interception came late in the third quarter when he overthrew All-America receiver Jameson Williams in a crowd of defenders and the pass was picked off by Bryan Cook on the logo at midfield.