Legendary Alabama football coach Bear Bryant famously opined that “offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.” One has to wonder what old Bear would have made of Alabama’s 63-48 victory over Ole Miss on Saturday night, a game which generated an SEC record 1,370 yards of total offense and saw a 1-2 Ole Miss team shred Nick Saban’s defense for as many points as he has allowed in any game since arriving in Tuscaloosa. Saban’s former offensive coordinator and longtime frenemy Lane Kiffin called a phenomenal offensive game and made the highly-touted Crimson Tide defense look pedestrian, but the Rebels were utterly incapable of slowing down Bama’s offense themselves, forcing Kiffin to repeatedly go for it on 4th down and try onside/squib kicks in hopes of stealing a possession from the Alabama offense.
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