In probably the most foreseeing transfer I’ve ever seen, Josh was unable to look at this recreation in the present day, and I agreed to deal with the sport recap. Woe is me. Alabama, who hasn’t misplaced to a bottom-feeder crew since L.
A. Monroe again in 2007, was served a large slice of humble pie by the nerds of the SEC. Maybe it’s solely becoming that it’s by the identical QB, Diego Pavia, that broke Auburn on the finish of the season final 12 months.
The sport began with Alabama’s protection giving up a protracted scoring drive, and nothing a lot modified after that. The Commodores obtained a fast pick-6 off of a fortunate deflection, and abruptly had a 13 level lead that Alabama by no means recovered from. For what it was value, Jalen Milroe and the Tide’s WR group performed spectacularly for a lot of the recreation, selecting up big chunks of yards and gobbling up scores – however finally it didn’t matter, as each time Alabama scored, Vanderbilt responded with one other lengthy drive for their very own TD and the Alabama protection was rendered successfully ineffective.
The Tide did have an opportunity to take the lead within the 4th, however RT Elijah Pritchett selected a nasty second to completely whiff a block and Jalen Milroe obtained blasted within the pocket and fumbled the ball, giving Vanderbilt the benefit again on the scoring/clock back-and-forth, and the protection by no means obtained one other cease. It’s an enormous lesson for brand new h.