The Alabama football team walks past fans at the Walk of Champions before the Mercer game at Bryant Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala. on Saturday November 18, 2017. (Mickey Welsh / Montgomery Advertiser) Mickey Welsh / Advertiser
TUSCALOOSA — Already comfortably ahead in a game that never had a remote chance to be competitive, Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts called for the football. Calvin Ridley ran a double move along the right sideline, a doomed Mercer cornerback falling to the turf.
Hurts gave a pump fake that flummoxed the sleepy crowd that gathered on this cloudy morning.