Alabama BARELY Avoids a Second Straight Loss After an Insane Finish Against South Carolina

Holy shit, what an ending to the South Carolina-Alabama game. If the Crimson Tide had found a way to lose, I think it would have been genuinely unsafe for Kalen DeBoer to be in public in Tuscaloosa this week.

It took a criminal amount of incompetence and poor execution for the Gamecocks to even have a chance at the end — which they then squandered with some horrific clock management of their own — and if it had come back to cost Alabama, I can't even imagine the conversations people would be having. DeBoer elected to not go for two to potentially make it a nine-point game with 1:54 left after a touchdown Bama shouldn't have even scored because if they had gone down inbounds, the game would have been over without any of this drama. Then Bama let South Carolina drive right down the field and score, left a guy wide open in the end zone for the tying two-point conversion that LaNorris Sellers just happened to comically overthrow and then couldn't field the onside kick. It's a borderline miracle they somehow hung on to win that game.

We were robbed of Bama losing two in a row and then heading on the road to play Tennessee. I'm not sure things are going to be rosy in Tuscaloosa the rest of the year, but we only narrowly avoided the wheels completely coming off and people demanding Nick Saban come out of retirement in the middle of this season to take over his old post.