News Article: Phil Steele grades Alabama’s 59-0 win as college football’s best performance in years

bamagradinATL · Oct 20, 2014

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/al...win-college-footballs-best-performance-years/

Interesting read....

PacadermaTideUs · Oct 20, 2014

Alabama’s dominating victory might have been college football’s equivalent of a perfect game in baseball

Except for that single kick return, it was.

bamagradinATL · Oct 20, 2014

PacadermaTideUs said:
Except for that single kick return, it was.

I would agree. I would also argue the fact that they came away with 0 points was huge.

TrueCrimson7 · Oct 20, 2014

PacadermaTideUs said:
Except for that single kick return, it was.

Thanks for the post. I certainly can't argue with it. And the interesting thing is that the single long kick return occurred against mostly second/third string Alabama players who hadn't seen much field action since high school. I still give the perfect game to the starters and am glad they got to rest and stay injury-free for a large part of the second half. I'll trade one long kick return against us for healthy starters any day. What a great game. Roll tide!.

TDBama78 · Oct 20, 2014

It was a good game but let's don't look back next week and say we peaked.

TNBama · Oct 20, 2014

I still don't understand A&M going for it on their last play. They had nothing to gain by it. I thought surely they would kick the field goal if for nothing else to avoid a shutout. A complete blow out is bad enough, but getting shutout at the same time is just plain humiliating.

92tide · Oct 20, 2014

bamagradinATL said:
I would agree. I would also argue the fact that they came away with 0 points was huge.

our guys needed a challenge

Relayer · Oct 20, 2014

TNBama said:
I still don't understand A&M going for it on their last play. They had nothing to gain by it. I thought surely they would kick the field goal if for nothing else to avoid a shutout. A complete blow out is bad enough, but getting shutout at the same time is just plain humiliating.

I was expecting A&M to go ahead and kick the FG and avoid the shutout, also. Nothing substantial to be gained by going for it there. I bet his players would rather have 3 on the board that trying maybe to prove their manhood. That train had already left the station.

DzynKingRTR · Oct 20, 2014

don't forget the almost interception that Danielson thinks would have flipped the game.

TideFan in AU · Oct 20, 2014

Relayer said:
I was expecting A&M to go ahead and kick the FG and avoid the shutout, also. Nothing substantial to be gained by going for it there. I bet his players would rather have 3 on the board that trying maybe to prove their manhood. That train had already left the station.

Sumlin said at halftime that they playing for pride. He said the guys that continued to play hard would play next week and the ones that didn't, wouldn't.

Alasippi · Oct 20, 2014

That was the best first half of football I've ever seen a Bama team play.
Had we left all the starters in and poured it on, it may have turned out to be the greatest performance in Bama, if not all of football history.(Please don't bring up Georgia Tech scoring 222 points).
With them deflated and just getting killed on defense, we may could have broke a hundred, or at least 90.
I'm glad we didn't do that.
But that was a jaw dropping Bama performance.
sip

crimsonaudio · Oct 20, 2014

That's awesome, thanks for sharing. it was certainly fun to watch!

DrollTide · Oct 20, 2014

I thank Sumlin for going for it instead of the FG. He basically said, y'all have played a heck of a game and if we score we'll do it the hard way, we won't spoil your perfect game with some field goal cheese.

bamaga · Oct 20, 2014

I have more respect for Sumlin for going for it on 4th. Finding the end zone would be a win on that drive. Kicking a field goal after a long return is giving up. Good job CKS.

cbi1972 · Oct 20, 2014

PacadermaTideUs said:
Except for that single kick return, it was.

Wouldn't have had the chance to get the ball turned over on downs without that

Padreruf · Oct 20, 2014

I don't even have a grading system and this made my number one performance.

day-day · Oct 20, 2014

The amazing part to me is all the points scored in the first half without a turnover to help provide quicker scores.

BamaFlum · Oct 20, 2014

But they didn't make them punt on 4th and goal...

TDBama78 · Oct 20, 2014

Sumlin kicking a field goal does not help his team get better, going for it on fourth down may have had some benefit,,,but I doubt it lol

theballguy · Oct 20, 2014

DzynKingRTR said:
don't forget the almost interception that Danielson thinks would have flipped the game.

... And this was one of Gary's worst called games. He needs to come up with new material and quit trying to sell the game so hard. It was over and over soon. Too bad they couldn't put the 2nd and 3rd stringers in for G&V.

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