Jalen Milroe said Monday afternoon that he honestly can’t remember one particular moment in which the redshirt sophomore catapulted from a benched Alabama quarterback to one of college football’s most dynamic players.
Crimson Tide senior defensive back Malachi Moore remembers.
“It was the Texas A&M game,” Moore said. “I had been in the locker room for a little while after halftime, and when I came out, I saw where he was throwing the ball for like 250 yards. He was just bombing and bombing.
“That’s when I saw him get really comfortable with himself and trusting himself and his abilities.”
Milroe threw for 124 yards in the third quarter alone of his 321-yard performance as the Crimson Tide turned a 17-10 halftime deficit into a 24-17 advantage on their way to a 26-20 victory in College Station. Alabama kept winning from there and will take an 11-1 record and a No. 8 ranking into Saturday afternoon’s Southeastern Conference championship showdown (4 on CBS) versus 12-0 and top-ranked Georgia inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium.