BATON ROUGE, La. -- Jalen Hurts had his freshman moments at LSU on Saturday night. Passes sailed on him, he missed a few open receivers and was careless with the football, turning the ball over once on an interception and once on a fumble.
But even in those mistakes, even as Death Valley shook around him after he failed to convert a fourth-and-goal run from the 1-yard line and the thought of Alabama losing its first game of the season looked as if it might become reality, there was never a time when the moment seemed too big for the Crimson Tide’s 18-year-old quarterback.