TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — All week long, University of Alabama senior linebacker Reggie Ragland was talking to teammates. His message was simple and one the Crimson Tide obviously took to heart.
“Reggie Ragland kept saying, ‘No one’s scoring on us,’” safety Geno Matias-Smith said. “That’s kind of been our motto.”
Saturday afternoon, Alabama’s defense did exactly that. In the game the coaches have been looking for in terms of swarming to the ball, being relentless and affecting the quarterbacks, it did all that and more while shutting out Louisiana-Monroe 34-0.
Against a team that had been averaging 30.