If you ask Bray Hubbard, matching Indiana's physicality wasn't the reason Alabama's postseason run came to a crashing end in Pasadena.
Despite what the final scoreboard read in Pasadena at the 2026 Rose Bowl, Alabama safety Bray Hubbard didn't walk away feeling like the Crimson Tide defense was outmatched from a physicality standpoint after being trounced 38-3 by No.1 Indiana on Thursday.
"I really think we matched their physicality really well," Hubbard said to reporters. "We played really physical; there were just some things like a misfit in gaps that opened up the seam, and that's what they hit.