BOL Round Table

That's the problem. Their line failed them, or rather our line felled theirs. Yes, Jefferson clearly was scared and practically begged Upshaw to just take out the pitch man and be done with it, but Lee would have been a sitting duck under those conditions. Alabama destroyed them in every phase of the game; one coaching decision here or there wouldn't have changed the outcome, particularly not the decision over which quarterback was going fo get his ass handed to him and leave the field crying.