All week we heard about the vaunted "blackout" at Sanford Stadium in Athens, GA Saturday night. When the game started it looked like the the # 3 Georgia Bulldogs had "blacked-out".
# 8 Alabama (5-0, 2-0) dominated from the first play and scored on its first five possessions to take a 31-0 lead into halftime, answering any lingering questions if this Crimson Tide team is legit.
Nick Saban had Alabama ready to play in a hostile environment for the second week in a row and completely out-coached Georgia's Mark Richt.
It was really the same ole story we have seen all year as the Tide just flat beat the other team up on both sides of the ball. Our offensive line dominated a Dawg defense that came into the match up # 1 in the country against the run, and our defense had Georgia QB Matthew Stafford running for his life all night and made Heisman contender Knowshon Moreno irrelevant in the outcome.
I will not bore you with stats or how it got a little hairy in the 2nd half (pun intended) after Georgia got within 14 points. The bottom line is Alabama answered the Georgia run, went on the road in the SEC against the # 3 team in America and beat the tar out of them...when is the last ti
me we can say that happened?After Alabama opened the season with a huge win against then # 9 Clemson the story was not how good Alabama looked, but how bad Clemson did, it will be the exact opposite this week. The story is not what happened to Georgia but how much better Alabama was then the 'Dawgs in their own backyard.
Alabama now will be in the national championship conversation, for at least a week. Alabama has another big test as undefeated Kentucky comes to Tuscaloosa this Saturday, but we can worry about that in a few days. Today is just about enjoying Alabama being one the premier teams in America again.
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