There are times when the Alabama-Auburn game live up to expectations, with unforeseen games and twists and, if the game unfolds in the laughing atmosphere of the Jordan-Hare Stadium carnival, Auburn earns its fair percentage and more.
However, there is a facet of the medal, it is the games where the hammer collides with the nail with forceful force and predictable results, no one wants to send a search team to the hedges to locate the missing fans, no fines are imposed through the SEC. for the assaulted box. The greatest emotion, as it is, comes from guessing when the replacement quarterback will enter the game.
When it’s one of those games, Alabama wins.
Fans return to the house happy, some photos are taken from the board and Crimson Tide inevitably continues to climb towards their targets at higher altitudes. Nobody’s going to talk about it for the next decade.
Saturday, one of those games.
The final score 42-13. The game is not “closer to the indicated score”. The descriptive margin. The game, in Sabanais, which ArrayAuburn had no more chance of winning than involving DeVonta Smith, perhaps not a Heisman winner still as deserving as any other quarterback in the United States.
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Auburn had a viable chance of landing while the game was still a game, and fell into the hands of Seth Williams. When he lost that possibility, Auburn had little chance of generating another.
Bo Nix didn’t do his best productivity. The Bigsby Tank runner probably wouldn’t have been 100%. Allowed to play, Alabama’s defense interrupted the Tigers all afternoon. If it’s not the most productive game in defense, in fact the most disruptive.
Give Auburn credit for a landing in the fourth quarter that may have been indexed as smoothly as more than 100 yards, as Nix has almost moved away from protection at the start of the trip. At the time, however, Alabama probably wasn’t entirely disappointed because the Tigers organized a six-minute march.
Saturday’s only exclusive feature was the absence of Nick Saban, trapped at home in quarantine because of a coronavirus. His physical presence was not necessary. Alabama was the device he built, running without challenge even with someone else pressing the buttons.
His 40th birthday is expected to end in time for a comeback when Crimson Tide plays in Baton Rouge next weekend. Will things be different? Probably not, it would probably be a more emotional match than Saturday’s.
The intriguing question that is beginning to arise in the Alabama-Auburn cycle is: why does Auburn seem so out of the blue in a year, just to pull a rabbit, chicken and occasional rhinos out of his hat next year?The first is that Alabama recruits at such a dominant point that its talent list rarely fluctuates. Auburn recruits well, but not at the national elite point every year, so perhaps some mistakes are inevitable.
Another theory is that Auburn “cares more” because the game is “all season,” while Alabama targets school football playoffs. If that’s true, why doesn’t it look more than 50% of the time?Does Alabama care more about those years?
Either way, all the symptoms imply that Alabama is on its way to a three-game playoff. Beating Florida in Atlanta will be an arduous task, but Crimson Tide has shown that he is more than willing to win well if that’s what it takes.