Alabama Dominates Tennessee in High-Stakes Football Clash

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00:00It started late night in Tuscaloosa. We'll talk about that matchup. Alabama opened up as a huge

00:06favorite. Seven and a half, eight and a half points. We saw at the start of the kick, it got

00:12as high as ten and a half points. They didn't disappoint. A beatdown of Tennessee. Tennessee

00:18hadn't won in Tuscaloosa since 2003. They tied the game up at seven, but the rest of the way was

00:25Ty Simpson and the Alabama defense taking over. They win this ballgame in dominating fashion,

00:3237 to 20. Ty Simpson stepped up yet again and Kaelin DeBoer has that train rolling in Alabama.

00:41Yeah, you're right. I mean, Ty Simpson played another clean game. He just doesn't throw

00:45interceptions. He plays clean. They don't ask him to do too much. He makes sure he gets the ball to

00:50the right people and runs and manages their offense. But this is a game that an interception,

00:57what was an interception for 99 yards right for the half changed that football game. I was at Auburn

01:03the week before when a fumble on the one-inch line changed the entire game around, and this one

01:09changed around too. I think it would have been a 16-14 game at half. It ends up being 23-7 at half,

01:15Alabama's favor, and then Alabama just kept it on from there. So I don't know. It might have been

01:21a closer ballgame. That's kind of where I thought it would be. But Alabama is doing what they've got

01:26to do to win football games. And like I said, they're still on that upper trend. Tennessee really

01:31didn't do as well as I thought they'd do. But again, that 99-yard interception for seven points

01:37right before the half just deflated that football team. And so now you've got Alabama. Alabama's still on a

01:43role, undefeated in the conference. And Tennessee now has to, has got a loss in the conference,

01:49now has to get themselves back on the winning trend. Absolutely. I think when you look at that

01:53game play out last week, the biggest thing for me is Josh Heupel relied on Joey Aguilar, I believe,

02:01a little bit too much in the first half. And I understand trying to loosen up the front seven,

02:06throwing the football. But this was an offense in Tennessee that was averaging basically 220

02:11and 20 rushing yards per game entering that matchup. And we talked about how weak,

02:17at least we thought, the Alabama front seven was giving up about 157 rushing yards per game.

02:24They were exposed by dominant rushing attacks throughout the regular season,

02:28started week number one against Florida State. Why he waited till the second half to utilize the

02:34rushing attack is beyond me, because they did get junk yardage in the second half to put them back

02:40into that matchup. The problem was they were trailing by double digits. That's not the way

02:45to play it. You should have started the game that way and then utilize the play action pass. He did it

02:51the opposite. And that's why they never could close the gap against Alabama.

02:56Well, and again, it's, it's a little bit of this, a little bit of that. If they don't throw a 99 yard

03:01interception right before the half, it's a one or two point game at half. And no, they could have

03:07run more and maybe should have run more. But at the end of the day, although Tennessee was a hundred

03:13plus yards, less total offense. They're the number one total offense team in the country. They were

03:17held to about 150 yards less. They still had more rushing yards in Alabama, had more passing yards in

03:23Alabama, had more total yards in Alabama. They just had it inverted. They had to go catch up

03:28after a bad turnover. And so again, I think Alabama was the better football team. I had them

03:34winning the game. I think if, if, if Tennessee could have run the ball more, cause like you said,

03:39that keeps Alabama's offense off the field, it keeps them off the field. So their scoring goes down

03:45while you're scoring goes about the same. And now you've got a better ball game. So again,

03:50we'll see how that goes. But overall it was Alabama had a, at a, at a defensive touchdown

03:55and was a little better football team.