Roll 'Bama Roll · Sep 3, 2017
Initial Impressions from the Florida State Game
Stop me if you’ve heard this before.
Alabama played a football game against an elite opponent, the offense struggled to get anything going, but the defense was so good that it didn’t matter.
Sound familiar?
The Tide faced an offense that ranked #2 last season in S&P and rendered it virtually useless. Outside of one drive that included two jump balls thrown to 6’5” Auden Tate, the Seminoles managed only 160 total yards on the other 62 snaps, a paltry 2.58 yards per play. Indeed, the Tide defense reduced Florida State’s offense to something resembling a Sun Belt squad in the second half, allowing only 50 total yards on 25 snaps.
