USA Today Sports' Nicole Auerbach on how Alabama’s ability to reload on the fly is an exception to the theory that the best teams are stocked with returning starters.
Alabama’s defense has allowed the fewest rushing yards per game of any team in the Football Bowl Subdivision. No team has allowed fewer rushing touchdowns.
It has the No. 1 scoring defense, averaging 13.4 points per game. It has allowed the second-fewest yards per game, the second fewest running plays of 10 or more yards and second fewest plays of any kind of 10 more yards.