Alabama won. And it covered a three-TD spread against a top-15 team.
The No. 1. Crimson Tide made easy work of No. 14 Miami on Saturday in Atlanta. Alabama won 44-13 as Miami was overmatched from the start. New Alabama QB Bryce Young was 27-of-38 passing for 344 yards and four touchdowns in his first career start. Not a bad debut for a guy who had signed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of endorsements before his first career college start.
Alabama scored the first 27 points of the game before Miami had to work exceptionally hard to get a field goal right before halftime to simply not get shut out in the first half.