AUBURN, Ala. — It took 10 years, but Alabama at last got its revenge. Auburn has the Kick Six, and now Alabama has Fourth-and-31.
Alabama escaped — and yes, that is the correct word — with a 27-24 victory that keeps its College Football Playoff hopes alive, if only barely. Style points matter in a race as tight as this year's playoff sprint, and the Alabama that beat Auburn was a far cry from the team that had thundered off nine straight wins since a September loss to Texas in Tuscaloosa.
Beaten to within an inch of submission, Alabama pulled a miracle from disaster, as Jalen Milroe found Isaiah Bond in the deepest corner of Auburn's end zone to reverse a game that had been going Auburn's way almost all night.