- December 22, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Following Alabama football’s 41-24 win over top-ranked Georgia at the 2021 SEC Championship Game, it was very evident what the Crimson Tide’s mentality had been heading into that game.
Head coach Nick Saban said that his players wanted to gain more respect. After losing by a last-second field goal to Texas A&M earlier in the season and a month of November filled with tight games that saw Alabama narrowly squeak by in the winner’s column, the team had grown tired of not being taken seriously by the media or college football fans.
Outside linebacker Will Anderson Jr. made it abundantly clear that he and his teammates knew of their underdog status. After the game, he went as far as to say that it had been what fueled him heading into the game against the Bulldogs. Throughout Saban’s tenure, the Crimson Tide hasn’t been the underdog heading into a game on more than a handful of occasions since the 2000s, and Alabama responded in kind.
So now that Alabama is…
