Against FCS opponent, The Citadel, Alabama football is not expected to need an offensive explosion to win. Don’t make the mistake of suggesting that to Nick Saban. The response may be a ‘tinhorn’ story or something even more direct about the foolishness of such conjecture.
The Georgia Southern game, which led to the ‘tinhorn’ story, is Nick Saban’s classic example of how a superior team can flirt with a disaster, simply by taking an inferior opponent too lightly. Not since Georgia Southern ran through a Tide defense, full of future NFL players, like ____ through a tinhorn, has the Crimson Tide made such an error.