I’ll be honest and say that, over the last month, I worked myself up into a nervous wreck over this game. Shades of the 2014 matchup with the Sooners kept running through my head, mixed in with PTSD from the 2012 and 2013 point-fests against Johnny Manziel. I imagined Oklahoma sending a million blitzes off of left end and Tua not adjusting, while the Sooners repeated ran Heisman-winner Kyler Murray around right end to take advantage of Saivion Smith’s oft-criticized run defense.
Instead, we saw a Tide offense that shot out of a cannon to 28 straight points while the defense opened the game with 3 quick tackles on the Ewok masquerading as a Heisman winner.