Concerns over Alabama’s defense have never flared up more than in its historic loss to Vanderbilt on Saturday.
Instead of learning from its second half issues against Georgia, or its uninspired showing against USF, the Crimson Tide looked right past a Commodores team that was sick of living at the bottom of the conference.
When the No. 1 team in the nation is able to put up nearly 400 yards of offense and 35 points on the road against a .500, unranked historically abysmal program, there aren’t usually fans rushing the field afterwards.
Instead the Alabama defense failed the assignment.