The Alabama Crimson Tide are racking up statement football victories these days with the same relative ease as their ability to continually compile five-star recruits.
Ole Miss is just the latest to feel the wrath.
A week after accumulating 677 yards while holding Vanderbilt to 78 in a 59-0 crushing of the Commodores in Nashville, the top-ranked Tide returned to Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday night and promptly massacred Ole Miss 66-3. The 63-point margin of victory was Alabama’s largest under Nick Saban and the program’s largest since a 1979 drubbing of Vanderbilt by the identical score.
“Watching them on film, I knew they were really good,” Rebels quarterback Shea Patterson said in a news conference afterward. “They are the No. 1 team in the country for a reason, and they made a statement tonight. They came out ready to play, and we didn’t in most of the phases of the game.”
The Tide’s 125-3 combined thrashing of the Commodores and Rebels represents the most dominating 2-0 start Alabama ever has achieved in Southeastern Conference play. Alabama had not scored 50-plus points in consecutive SEC games since 1945, and Saturday night marked the most points the Tide have racked up on the Rebels.