It looked so promising at the half, didn’t it?
Look, the box score doesn’t really match the scoreboard for this one. Alabama really did dominate the action, gaining 6.6 yards per play vs only 4.2 for Arkansas. Total yards were 415 to 250 in favor of the Tide, and while the Alabama offense wasn’t terribly good on third down at 42% conversion, the defense held Arkansas to only 28%. Penalties were key in the game but there were only 7 total accepted flags, 5 on Alabama. Honestly, it’s tough to look at the box score itself and figure how the game was so close.