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Alabama Football Film Room: The Tide defense forced the stops they needed to make

No one seriously expected Alabama’s offense to have much trouble scoring and scoring often against Ohio State, and that certainly turned out to be the case. There was a little question over how Alabama’s interior offensive line would hold up; but, especially with the Buckeyes’ defensive line ravaged by COVID-19 protocols, that wasn’t going to be a huge impediment.

The bigger question was how many stops the Alabama defense could get against one of the nation’s best offenses, even with a less than 100% Justin Fields. And the defense had a resounding answer: on 11 drives (excluding the kneel down before half), Alabama kept Ohio State out of the endzone on 8 of them.