Alabama vs. Tennessee: Bama's Strategy and Heupel's Challenges

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00:00Alabama and Tennessee and Knoxville at 3.30 on ABC.

00:10The M is laying three, and they have owned the Vols through the years.

00:15Well, they're going to own them again if the Vols don't know who they are or what they're doing.

00:19Josh Hypo got that job by throwing the ball vertically down the field and throwing the bubble screens on the outside,

00:24which opened up the running game.

00:26He now tries to run the football without the passing game to get people backing off, and he's getting killed.

00:31Thank goodness he has a great defense, but that's not the style he wants to play.

00:35So I think Alabama, when things like this, Alabama's defense has struggled to be sharp every week.

00:40Tennessee doesn't have a strong offense right now.

00:43When I see that, I go, who's got the best quarterback, the most experienced quarterback, the veteran quarterback,

00:49and that's Milrow and Alabama.

00:51Yeah, I'm with you there, Coach.

00:53A good one tomorrow in Bloomington at Memorial Stadium at Indiana is the Hoosiers, undefeated, ranked 16th, 6-0 for Kurt Cignetti.

01:03He's been incredible.

01:05They're laying 6-1 to a 5-1 rule-led Nebraska-Oscar team with Dylan Raiola.

01:12I think this is going to be a wild game.

01:13It's on Fox.

01:15It's their noon game.

01:17Can you imagine before the year that we were going to see a 5-1 Nebraska play in a 6-0 Indiana?

01:23But let me tell you about Kurt Cignetti.

01:25His dad, Frank Cignetti, was my dad's offensive coordinator at West Virginia, and he was my head coach.

01:31I grew up with Kurt.

01:32Kurt was a quarterback.

01:33He was a quarterback coach for Nick Saban in Alabama before he went into his head coaching period.

01:37They're brilliant on offense, and Kurt is brilliant.

01:41He's won, I think, every game by 14 points or more, and he's going to keep it going

01:46because he sees what's going on here, and he's not just a new coach.

01:49He's been a veteran head coach for a long time, and like myself, he's the son of an outstanding football coach.

01:55His father was really a brilliant offensive line, Frank Cignetti Sr.,

01:59and, of course, his brother, Frankie, is a coach in the NFL,

02:03but I think Kurt Cignetti has got something special going on down in Indiana.