When the margin is only ten points, I don’t think anyone can be accused of running up the score. I didn’t think that much about it, but arguably the two most successful coaches in the history of my school (Vince Dooley and Mark Richt) between them could be accused of running it up perhaps twice in their careers, so at least I’d have some room to be critical; my team probably would have taken a knee. Tom Osborne ran it up regularly. Even if you’re right about Nick Saban, you’re being hypocritical and cognitively dissonant by claiming Osborne wouldn’t have done the same thing. Anyone who puts “Tom Osborne” and “class” in the same sentence needs to remember two words: Lawrence Phillips. Game over.

I believe Alabama would have won if Colt McCoy had not gotten injured. The Alabama defense overcame early miscues and held the Longhorns to a pair of field goals. McCoy’s backup performed admirably in the second half, demonstrating his talent. Texas’s lack of a running game was a large factor. More to the point, though, neither of us can know with certainty what would have occurred had circumstances been different. Anyone who says he knows for sure what the score would have been had this or that occurred is either a fool or a liar.

I do not believe that God intervened to alter the outcome of that football game. While it was a freak occurrence that produced McCoy’s injury, he took a hit because his offensive line wasn’t protecting him adequately. That is a testament to the superiority of Alabama’s defensive line. The Almighty had nothing to do with it, unless you believe (as some Alabamians doubtless do) that God wears a houndstooth check hat.

We like you Big 12 guys. We really do. We have a lot in common. We respect your conference; if you doubt that, look at what I wrote both before and after Georgia’s games against Oklahoma State and Texas A&M. However, the conference envy y’all regularly display is unbecoming. We already have the ACC; we don’t need any more leagues suffering from inferiority complexes with regard to the SEC.

Colt got hurt because he got hit. He got hit because a superior D Line overcame their O line and hit him. In the 4th quarter, Gilbert got clocked and fumbled, resulting in a TD for exactly the same reason.

When we lost to LSU with a horrible PF call at the end of the game, we said, “That was a horrible call. But we lost because we sucked.” I sure wish Texas and the Big 12 would say “We lost because Alabama outplayed us.” or something to that effect. Alabama won. Alabama is the NC. Period.

Texas wouldn’t shed a tear if Ingram got hurt in the first quarter and Texas won. You would argue Texas was the better. So suck it up.

I think the Big 12 fan base needs to simply accept the outcome and move on. The game hasn’t been over for 24 full hours and I’m already sick of the continual “Alabama only won because Colt got hurt.” Well folks, McElroy played the entire game with 2 cracked ribs – it’s football, it happens, deal with it.

As to the last “meaningless touchdown” – Alabama intercepts a Tx pass and takes over with 1:41 to play – considering the play clock is 25 seconds long and there are 4 plays that is exactly 100 seconds, so I guess with 101 seconds to play, it’s possible Bama could’ve let the clock run for 20 seconds, run a standard running play to eat up some more clock time and then taken the 3 knees and ended the game, yep. But there is no rule that requires them to do so and they didn’t. So stinking what? If you don’t want your opponent to score, either don’t turn the ball over, or get your defense to stop their offense – DUH. It really just isn’t that complicated.