For an Alabama offense that has sputtered since the second half of January’s national championship game, the closing seconds of the first quarter Saturday might have been rock bottom.
Through three offensive possessions against Ole Miss, Alabama was averaging less than two yards per play. It had 22 total yards, one first down and was surprisingly lining up to try for another on a fourth-and-1 from its own 36-yard line.
People are also reading… “Sometimes you just got to do simple things better,” Saban said. “That was the message that I gave to the team before the game, and they obviously got it right then [at the end of the first quarter], when we were not doing simple things very well.” Alabama recovered from a 17-7 deficit to score 23 of the game’s final 30 points and win in Oxford, 30-24. Of its 317 total yards, 198 came in the second half — including 82 of its 108 total rushing yards, which include sacks.
An Alabama offense that has searched for a physical presence at running back found one in the second half in Jase McClellan, whose playing time increased significantly as Jahmyr Gibbs dealt with a twisted ankle and did not play in the second half. McClellan finished with 84 yards on 19 carries, including a 12-yard bulldozing of the Rebels defense late in the third quarter that put the Tide in position to score the game-tying touchdown five plays later.
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