Alabama Never Got To Show How Great They Could Be in the BCS Game

With the clock ticking down in the BCS title game, like many writers, I felt the 16 point margin was more than enough to convince even the smallest of minds that the best team had won the game.

Since there have been so many people with such outlandish comments, the record seems to need straightening out once and for all.

Alabama was not lucky. Luck would have been for a meteor to fall upon Colt McCoy.

Instead, the Texas quarterback was taken out with a clean hit that to all observers didn't really seem all that hard.

That is called football, not luck.

Secondly, what Texas apologists seem to forget is that Colt McCoy wouldn't have been there to attempt to tackle either of Alabama's running backs who both ran it down the Longhorns throat seemingly at will. And if he had been I doubt the results could have been handled less sloppily.

Thirdly, you did not get to see Alabama open it's play book, which judging for the fake punt deep in his own field, Saban and company seemed certainly willing to open.

After surmounting such an early lead, after halftime you only saw two pages of Alabama's play book—run left, run right.

You also saw Alabama's defense change to a basic man on man defensive scheme that Texas' young quarterback was able to make them pay for in not trusting his skill and grit after such a shaky start.

And with their starting quarterback sporting two cracked ribs, and two defense players taking I.V.s before the game for flu symptoms, Alabama fans will just have to wonder how bad the team could have beaten the Longhorn's had they not taken their foot off the gas in the second half.

If Texas fans watch that game and think that was the best performance that Alabama had in the bag, then they don't know this team very well.

It's a shame we'll never get to see what we all wanted to see, but I feel sure the inevitable outcome would have remained the same 10 out 10 times.