Happy Monday, everyone. It was a really good weekend for Alabama football, clinching the SEC West and all. Still, it has come to our attention that we here at RBR don't do enough to encourage readers to expand their cultural horizons. Therefore, please take a moment to enjoy a smidge of tragic opera, courtesy of AL.com:

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1. Jalen Hurts is going to become a good passer – and that’s scary.
There were some indications before Alabama’s game with Mississippi State that if things went well, coach Nick Saban and offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin wanted to work on the passing game. Mission accomplished. Freshman quarterback Jalen Hurts became the first Alabama quarterback in history to throw for 300 yards and rush for 100 yards in the same game as the Crimson Tide rolled 51-3.
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Hurts’ 447 total yards was the third highest single-game total in school history, trailing only Blake Sims (484 vs. Florida in 2014) and Scott Hunter (457 vs. Auburn in 1969). His five total touchdowns were a career high, and his four passing touchdowns were one short of an Alabama record set by Gary Hollingsworth at Ole Miss in 1969. Here is a look at what went right for the for Hurts in his historic game Saturday:
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rbr opMost importantly, he completed passes over the middle of the field, from the pocket. With defenses concerned about stopping the interior run game and the horizontal passing game, the two stress points caused by RPOs, those intermediate yards between the hashes are there for the taking. If those routes click the way they did on Saturday, this team won't be challenged on the way to 15-0.

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Tide QB Jalen Hurts shows progress in career day vs. Mississippi State-espn

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For a while, we thought Alabama was head and shoulders above the rest of the Southeastern Conference teams. But now it appears the Crimson Tide also are head and shoulders above the rest of college football. They’ve not come close to suffering a surprising upset (except for falling behind by three TDs against Ole Miss). The team that played them best — LSU — never scored a single point. Alabama will be heavily favored in every single one of its remaining games — even now-three-loss Auburn seems to be far less challenging than we thought — including, theoretically, the national semifinal and championship games.
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rber opAlabama is understandably getting all the respect after the chaos that ensued Saturday evening. Funny enough, it appears that Ohio State actually controls its own destiny for a playoff spot despite the fact that it does not control its own destiny for a division title:

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