The Iron Bowl was quite interesting this year. It's always a fun game for me because whoever loses, I'm happy.
I thought as soon as the AU back ran out of bounds that was it. I was certain Alabama was going to come back and tie it up, and I also figured OT favored Alabama for several reasons. It played out exactly like I thought it would. Gritty comeback for Alabama, no doubt, but to me it more or less wasn't in question. Alabama has been really good in two minute drills, and they preserved a time out with that dumb play.
It was bad on the back's part to run out of bounds--you NEVER want to trade the yards for stopping the clock in that situation unless you know for sure you're getting the first down. And he had plenty of time to see he may very well not make it. Get down, punt. Make them either burn the last TO or run 40 seconds off the clock. Either one would've done Alabama in. But the real goat there is Bobo who I guess called that play. I wouldn't ever call a wide run like that one that even puts your player in a position to go out of bounds. Run him up the middle and don't worry about the first down. Alabama was likely cooked if anything BUT that run out of bounds happened.
AU played a hard fought game against the Tide, but for that part at the end they absolutely deserved to lose imo.
