Back to the Alabama Crimson Tide Newsfeed

Charting the Tide, Defense and Special Teams | Charleston Southern Buccaneers

Bill Connelly invented all of this; check out his college football analytics blog, Football Study Hall.

But first, let’s marvel at #5 for a minute.

Last week, after coming oh-so-close to breaking out for about a month, Cyrus Jones returned a punt for a touchdown against the Bulldogs. It was an outstanding individual effort that was in no way aided by a block-in-the-back on the play, because that block officially never happened, and only appears as such on replays due to rare optical illusion known as an REC Intervention.