Originally Posted by
jtoler
Saban gets too much credit imo, I give Saban credit for going out and hiring OC's with bigger passing attacks starting with Nussmeler and now Kiffin though. The Alabama of previous history doesnt win this game those teams played more smash mouth and didnt pass as much, wasnt as wide open, with all of that Bama still barely escaped and needed a ton of big plays to win last night. When the going gets tough Kiffin showed last year he gets a little panicky, but Bama was lucky enough that it paid off, he'd start going for deep bombs as soon as he had a little doubt about how the game was going and those would result into completions and tds.