"Old School" football, stop the run, run the ball, dominate the clock, wear out the other team, special teams pluses.
On occasion, somebody will beat you passing the ball. On rare occasion, someone lines up and simply knock you off the line and runs the ball anyway.
It ain't some mystery, but it's hard to do at Bama's level with consistency.
Any one who beats them is either just as deep and talented or has a QB who has an insane game or gets a 5-0 TO margin.
None of those things happen very often. OSU is really the only program I see that recruits at the same level as Bama.