DALLAS -- Reggie Ragland distinctly remembers the locker room after the game. Everyone had their heads down and were stunned. He can’t shake the memory of the silence, the tears. Most of all, he said he recalls turning to his left and seeing senior quarterback Blake Sims crying.
The images of what followed in last season’s loss to Ohio State in the playoff come back to haunt Alabama’s starting middle linebacker often.
“I see it all the time,” Ragland said. “I could be lying in bed, and it just pops in my head like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe that really happened to us.