STARKVILLE, Miss. | The day was perfect, the Mississippi sky as blue as a B.B. King guitar solo.
Lightning struck anyway.
It came in different forms, from the thunder of Derrick Henry to the speed of Calvin Ridley and Cyrus Jones. It came with the all-day low rumble of a defense that sacked Dak Prescott nine times and never allowed entry into the end zone. It all added up a to a 31-6 win for No. 2 Alabama against a game Mississippi State team, a victory that keeps the Crimson Tide (9-1, 6-1 SEC) on course atop the SEC’s Western Division.