TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It will forever be known as the tin-horn game because that’s the way the University of Alabama went through Charleston Southern on Saturday afternoon.
Four days after head coach Nick Saban made it clear that he wasn’t going to accept any sort of a letdown against a Football Championship Series opponent, the Crimson Tide lived up to his expectations and absolutely destroyed the Buccaneers 56-6 at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
“We heard it all right before you heard it,” senior linebacker Reggie Ragland said about the Saban rant during a press conference. “We couldn’t take anything for granted, we had to play hard.