Whew. Look, a lot of us didn’t see the game playing out this way — plenty of Gumps (and others) were convinced that this would be an easy one against a very different offense than we saw out of Florida last year in the SEC Championship Game. But this is what we got!
Team Success Rates over time (cumulative)
I was halfway convinced that I’d run these charts and see the Tide actually lose out on efficiency — one of those Clemson-y, Auburn-y games where you manage to pull out the win despite putting together an iffy performance — so was relieved to see that the efficiencies do map roughly to the final score.